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Anyone who has ever tried out HoloLens (which I have) would know just how insane a waste of taxpayer money this is. I got mine for free, and I still couldn't fi

by m0zg 5y ago

Anyone who has ever tried out HoloLens (which I have) would know just how insane a waste of taxpayer money this is. I got mine for free, and I still couldn't find any good uses for it. And I'm a techie. This is the prime example of why taxpayers in the United States do not trust the government to spend their taxes wisely _at all_.

ripley12 5y ago
I also get the impression that HoloLens is in a particularly awkward spot right now. It was built on/for a tech stack (Windows Core OS and UWP) that is more-or-less dead now, so there is a great deal of uncertainty about its future.
- m0zg 5y ago
  And that's how you get this: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234 https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234 It's just basically a game of buzzword bingo in straight corporatese. I doubt even his underlings understand what he was trying to say, let alone the public. Anyone contemplating an MSFT offer should watch this and turn it down just on the basis of this cringe alone.
  - ripley12 5y ago
    Yeah, there are certain divisions/teams/products within Microsoft where I have to work really hard to read between the lines of their PR gobbledygook. Basically the further away from Developer Division, the harder they are to understand.
ahepp 5y ago
I've briefly tried the IVAS system on, and it seemed pretty obviously useful. I mean, HUDs are basically just assumed to already exist in hollywood movies. It doesn't seem like that complex or arcane a product to me.
- m0zg 5y ago
  We couldn't defeat a handful of semi-literate mujahedeen with little more than Kalashnikovs after paying several trillion dollars, laying down several thousand lives, and spending 20 years on the ground. Just on this basis alone, we don't need "IVAS" or whatever, and we especially don't need it for 22 billion dollars, and _especially_ when we're already nearly 30 trillion dollars in debt. This is insane and pointless boondoggle and nobody will be using this shit in any kind of an actual combat scenario. I'd like the heads of those who approved this to be propped up on pikes outside The Pentagon (in Minecraft).

by m0zg 5y ago

ripley12 5y ago

I also get the impression that HoloLens is in a particularly awkward spot right now. It was built on/for a tech stack (Windows Core OS and UWP) that is more-or-less dead now, so there is a great deal of uncertainty about its future.

m0zg 5y ago
And that's how you get this: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234 https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234 It's just basically a game of buzzword bingo in straight corporatese. I doubt even his underlings understand what he was trying to say, let alone the public. Anyone contemplating an MSFT offer should watch this and turn it down just on the basis of this cringe alone.
- ripley12 5y ago
  Yeah, there are certain divisions/teams/products within Microsoft where I have to work really hard to read between the lines of their PR gobbledygook. Basically the further away from Developer Division, the harder they are to understand.

ahepp 5y ago

I've briefly tried the IVAS system on, and it seemed pretty obviously useful. I mean, HUDs are basically just assumed to already exist in hollywood movies. It doesn't seem like that complex or arcane a product to me.

m0zg 5y ago
We couldn't defeat a handful of semi-literate mujahedeen with little more than Kalashnikovs after paying several trillion dollars, laying down several thousand lives, and spending 20 years on the ground. Just on this basis alone, we don't need "IVAS" or whatever, and we especially don't need it for 22 billion dollars, and _especially_ when we're already nearly 30 trillion dollars in debt. This is insane and pointless boondoggle and nobody will be using this shit in any kind of an actual combat scenario. I'd like the heads of those who approved this to be propped up on pikes outside The Pentagon (in Minecraft).