Cushman

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by Cushman 11y ago
I dunno, do you remember first learning to touch type? For all we talk about typing in keystrokes at a time, that's an exercise in frustration if you don't confidently know where each key is. 99.9% of your typing will be "rea
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by Cushman 11y ago
Very good point. I think my argument still holds for brainstem-layer errors, where I know as I'm pressing the key that it's not what I meant-- it's hard for me to not correct those, anyway. For the kind of typos that you woul
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by Cushman 11y ago
I agree for skilled typists, but if you were just trying to learn the keys at first I could see wrangling backspace being more distraction than learning.
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by Cushman 11y ago
Maybe for typewriters, no way that math works out for fast typists though. This exercise indicates my time-cost-per-error is roughly equivalent to typing a word; the cognitive cost of leaving the site of the error can't possibly be low
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by Cushman 11y ago
I had the same complaint, but there's actually a setting for that. Uncheck "stop cursor on error" under Miscellaneous.
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by Cushman 11y ago
> Also most of these people would go see their doctor if there was a million dollars in gold waiting there for them. I'll caution you against this thinking, in general. If you have a depression so severe it keeps you from seeking he
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by Cushman 11y ago
Yeah, it's a separate technology stack, with its own dev team, not directly comparable to the Rift SDK. But that's a bit of a red herring, since the Galaxy S6 at 1440p is actually pushing more pixels to the display than the Rift,
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by Cushman 11y ago
To be clear, that was a rhetorical question :) My point is just that "underpowered GPUs" is not the reason OS X is getting dropped[], focus on a single platform is. [] If you're still not convinced, let me point out that Ocul
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by Cushman 11y ago
Then why not support Linux? Apple devs are used to working around esoteric hardware requirements, they're upset about not getting software support. Regardless of Oculus's sensible reasons for pursuing a one-platform strategy, you&
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by Cushman 11y ago
Do you have the 2GB or 4GB card? In general, you can get by fine just turning down some effects. But VRAM usage tends to scale with resolution, and the Rift's >HD render target will probably put the squeeze on a 2GB card. Even with
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by Cushman 11y ago
It's the recommended spec, not a requirement. And they're just following the industry. The bang-for-buck point for gaming PCs has been 8GB for a while now: The price difference is not great, and while some modern games won't
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by Cushman 11y ago
It might "work" in the sense that it might not make you ill, but it's very unlikely that Oculus will support it any time soon. They're focusing on pushing the boundary for rendering latency, which current multi-GPU solut
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by Cushman 11y ago
That does seem sensible. I'll agree to a weaker, more specific claim like: HTML5 + CSS can simulate a Turing machine in Rule 110, but browsers aren't set up to do that without user input. Turing completeness level: eh.
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by Cushman 11y ago
Can you explain why you feel that disqualifies it? The required input doesn't make any decisions, or hold any state as in your example; it's just "turning the crank" so to speak. Even a CPU needs a clock, right?
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by Cushman 11y ago
This could be more charitable. The very first sentence of the linked article says "less likely to play with boys' toys like cars or to join in rough and tumble games", so it would be reasonable to assume they're talking
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by Cushman 11y ago
Heh, love it. "Can you call that function next door and find out if it's ever going to halt?"
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by Cushman 11y ago
Weren't they made at the same time, in fact? Edit: Mind you, I only know this because I looked it up after having that exact thought reading the book :) Yeah, according to this wiki citation[0], the tie-ins were a bit ad-hoc but the ga
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by Cushman 11y ago
That's a good point, though I don't think it's such an uncommon thing; think of the beginning programmer who has to be laboriously convinced that the first definition they learned for "type" or "function"
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by Cushman 11y ago
Yes! Probably my biggest workflow pipe dream since getting some fluency in vim is to be able to drop into an "outside mode". I've cobbled something vaguely modal together for bspwm with abuse of shkd, so a lot of the binds ma
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by Cushman 11y ago
I apologize! I did in fact not mean to be curt, and I felt so bad about that that I edited in a more complete response that you will hopefully prefer :) Great, and now you've edited so that I look like the crazy one...
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by Cushman 11y ago
> I don't mean to be curt I'll repay the same courtesy: Your argument is predicted and refuted by your sibling thread of twenty minutes ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501084 Microaggression is a ter
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by Cushman 11y ago
It's definitely a crappy word out of context, and the defensiveness is probably to be expected. Who are you calling aggressive!... On the other hand, it's routinely frustrating when especially technical communities, full to bursti
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by Cushman 11y ago
Huh, I don't get it. I'm being really sincere here; I want you to think seriously about what it means, to you, to be kind to others, and then change your use of language -- or not -- however you see fit. But that message didn&#x27
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by Cushman 11y ago
To elaborate a bit on why it's considered controversial, I recommend this article by Douglas Hofstadter, from Metamagical Themas: https://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&pg=PA152#v=on... . It's a pret
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by Cushman 11y ago
You're literally describing what microaggressions are: Small interactions, any one of which is harmless and without ill intent, which accumulate over the course of the day, week, or lifetime as an atmosphere of pervasive discrimination
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by Cushman 11y ago
> Is it that I'd have to account for the fact that they might irrationally believe in the machine, and adjust my performance to fit that irrational belief? Well, yeah, wouldn't you? I mean, the fact that you're being give
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by Cushman 12y ago
Or an even simpler solution you can implement today : text your uncle "hey, is now a good time to call?"
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by Cushman 12y ago
I do this with trackpad swipes and a grid of desktops (using TotalSpaces2 currently). Each app or task has its "place". I've tried other stuff, but the spatial metaphor really works for me.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Sorry, I don't know a lot about these things but it's clear to me now I know more than you do. Its really unkind to speak with presumed expertise about things you're not expert in, and accordingly I'm not interested in
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by Cushman 12y ago
Have you written software for motion controls before? Like not gestures, but actual physical motion? I expect they quickly found out that Wiimote+[0] is not good enough for swordfighting the way they wanted it. Nothing on the consumer marke

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