As an Australian: this is about as true as the idea that we all ride kangaroos to work and live in constant fear of dropbears.
That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the misconception that it's fine.
It's certainly not "part of our culture" or "just a normal word", and it's a little ironic that you would call out GP for "forcing cultural norms onto foreign countries" while in the same comment spreading falsehoods about Australian cultural norms.
Hard though it may be to believe, we're generally fairly civil down here.
>That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the misconception that it's fine.
That is completely untrue. You may not like it, plenty of Australians don't especially upper class people, but it is nowhere near as offensive here as it is in America. In America it's a full on slur that is never socially acceptable in any context. Here at worst it's a vulgar way to say something unless it's specifically directed at a woman (if it's directed at a woman in anger it is generally treated the same as Americans treat it), and at best it is actually just a normal thing to say to your friends. "Are you cunts ready or not?" is a very normal thing for working class Australians to say to their friends, same as "This cunts not like that, leave him alone" or "Are you serious cunt? You were gonna eat them all?" or "What are you cunts up to?". It can also be said in a non-endearing way even to people who aren't women, it has a pretty similar word distribution to "mate" (not completely identical, "My cunts and me wanna buy a ticket please" makes zero sense). Mate can be a very offensive word to use in context, or a completely benign word. Cunt is similar, it just has more offensive use cases than mate does.
The first paragraph of the linked Wikipedia says “In Australia and New Zealand, it can also be a neutral or positive term when used with a positive qualifier (e.g., "He's a good cunt").”
It's a neutral or endearing term pretty much anywhere in the country outside of places with too many gated communities and golf courses. You'll find more people (maybe enough to count on one hand) feigning offence than people actually being offended.
I call my friends cunts, they call me cunt, strangers call me cunt. It's vulgar, but vulgar and offensive are two different things.
Is this really a good argument for casual sexism for the sake of shock value? If we're going down that road, there are plenty of racial and homophobic slurs that are culturally acceptable (and encouraged!) in other cultures.
The key here is that in a lot of Australian culture, "cunt" is on par with "fucker" or "asshole" - there's nothing gendered about it as an insult. It's acceptable to use precisely because it's NOT sexist, racist, or otherwise any sort of slur.
Equally, we're not going to ban Spanish posters from using their word for "black", are we?
Ireland, from a cursory check of their profile. But it doesn't invalidate your point, I don't think it's gendered their either.
> ban
Words in my mouth. I'm not advocating a ban, we're discussing whether a word is appropriate on this forum.
> their word for "black"
A bit of a stretch, considering _that_ word isn't on par with "fucker" in Spanish. So ironically, yeah, I think we would ban a Spanish poster for using it in this context?
But I concede your point that if it's not gendered, the intent isn't sexist.
I strongly disagree it's sexist, casual or otherwise. Is "dickhead" sexist? These types of insults are based on taboo (sex, blasphemy, diseases, things like that). It's completely different than some racial epithet.
You can perceive it to be sexist, but I'm fairly confident that's a minority opinion.
I concede that it's regional, and I apologize for moralizing. However, I contend that in North America it's a majority opinion. "Cunt" is much more strongly gendered here.
> "dickhead"
Would you consider "whore", "slut" or "tart" sexist?
"Slut" and "whore" describe behaviour, so I'd say that's rather different. I don't know about "tart" – I can't recall ever using or encountering it, except for one film (where a guy calls guy bloke a "tart").
Look, I don't want to tell you how to perceive words because that's always a personal thing, but in huge parts of the world it's just a strong but generic insult. And in the end context and intent always matters, not words. "You dirty person of colour" is of course profoundly racists in spite of not using any racial epitaphs. It's not the words themselves that are problematic, it's the intent with which they're used. It seems pretty clear the intent of my comment was not sexist.
So far Meta has published a whole bunch of spatial APIs including scene detection, spatial anchors, plane detection etc. [0] They are far ahead of Apple in many of these respects, but what they haven't had is a device that made this attractive to actually develop for in any meaningful way. Quest Pro lacks a depth sensor and has too small a market presence to attract a lot of developers, while Quest 2 has ugly, black and white low resolution pass through.
So Quest 3 will be the first spatial computing device the world has ever had access to that is available at mass market price (<$500) with depth sensor and high quality pass through. It will finally be worthwhile for developers to build mixed reality apps targeted to regular consumers.
Based on what you mentioned all of those are also available in ARKit or Vision API: plane detection (vertical and horizontal), anchors (both local and geolocated), 3d scene reconstruction, 3d object reconstruction, custom planar markers, qrcode & barcodes, 3d human pose skeleton, 3d hand skeleton, face landmarks mesh, world tracking (SLAM), text detection. Haven't checked Meta APIs but it doesn't look for me as far ahead of Apple.
I want automations that help individuals reduce the time used on home maintenance tasks.
For example, emptying the dishwasher. I'd give up most of today's Internet in favor of automatically putting away the clean dishes, cutlery, pans, etc.
Don't put stuff away that you use regularly, just use it from the clean dishwasher. When the dirty dishwasher is full, run it, put the remaining items from the clean dishwasher away (there should only be a few left) and change it's status to dirty.
Sure, but you might not like the OSTs as much if you haven't played the games they accompany. I usually listen either on Spotify or Youtube. Here are some I've been listening to recently
Fingers crossed that we bring back Target Display mode.
I've been using an iMac Pro at home for over a year now and my only grievance is that I can't use it as a monitor for my laptop and/or a Windows gaming rig.
Not OP, but I've done some work in the space. The market is just saturated now. It takes such little effort to start a dropshipping "business" that unless you have a really unique angle or spend absurd amounts on marketing, you'll probably make somewhere in the range of peanuts to beer money.
Even if you do find a successful niche market, it won't take long for a low budget clone to jump in, which invalidates a lot of the up front work in marketing and product validation.
It's coming from Google Fit on Android Wear. I assume using accelerometer and possibly heartrate data, so should be available on most devices.
Fair warning though... It's brilliant in some ways and alpha in others. I can't seem to edit a set if I tap too fast and log it incorrectly. It guesses one rep too many in about 30% of sets.
On the other hand it knows when I'm doing pull ups (ie, without moving my wrist) and accurately counts them, which seems like magic.
It calculates an extrapolated one rep max for all your sets.
On the other hand the web interface is not exactly feature rich for data junkies. And I'm not sure there's an easy way to export your data to a more useful spreadsheet.
It's ripe for someone to make a great lifting app. But you know, watches are niche, so don't expect any customers.
Worth refraining for using it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt