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by agar 3y ago
Congratulations on the Oscar!
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by agar 3y ago
> There's a reason they gave a hard pass to a Google partnership. AIUI, Google required Meta to basically cede control of a partnered OS to them: "After years of not focusing on VR or doing anything to support our work in the s
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by agar 3y ago
As this change mostly affects filmmakers, it's interesting timing that Unreal Engine got a shout-out during an Oscar thank you speech. According to Epic, this is the first time that a film made in Unreal Engine 5 won an Oscar for Best
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by agar 3y ago
Apologies for the misunderstanding, I thought I was clear but apparently not. Most of my comment was a reaction to the overall comment thread and not to you specifically. > "people keep replying with factually inaccurate information
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by agar 3y ago
As I said in my OP, I'm not well versed in this market - so I don't know what it's worth. But people keep replying with factually inaccurate information and that's frustrating. Do I personally think it's worth $2,97
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by agar 3y ago
@dang, the linked article appears to be close to a clickbait blogspam post trying to capitalize on Cybertruck/Tesla hate. From the title to the opening meme/image (which is all most will see) to the selective editing of the source
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by agar 3y ago
According to the far better original review (found here [1]), this appears to have (1) a soft shell case; (2) easy setup (inflatable no-pole upper, hard bottom frame, fold-out design), but fussy tear down; and (3) can remain mounted during
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by agar 3y ago
The original poster specifically compares it to a roof tent. Obviously since the Cybertruck has no normal roof, the definition is strained here. However, from what I've seen "bed tents" have you sleeping on the bed. This prod
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by agar 3y ago
While $3000 sounds like a lot, quickly googling for "F150 rooftop tent" returned many results for over $3K. That a first-party product on a high-end vehicle with a tiny market share costs around the same as aftermarket products fo
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by agar 3y ago
I don't know if you'll ever see this, but thought I'd reply. First, the original Rift headsets were as you describe: lightweight, passing through the PC VR image. However, Meta did not miss out on an opportunity. In what was
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by agar 3y ago
Agree, many posts I read seem like classic "I don't like Meta/VR/big companies/social media so let me use this specific incident to confirm my biases." As you say, there's valid criticism to be made but it
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by agar 3y ago
> I view VR headsets and their peripherals as no different than a mouse, keyboard, and display That could be valid when VR headsets were tethered to a PC via a DisplayPort or HDMI connection and essentially mirrored the display. The Ques
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by agar 3y ago
That's a matter of some debate. Somewhere between 6 and 12, I believe, is the range. SpaceX plans to stretch the second stage to increase fuel carrying capacity for tanker flights, so the actual number is TBD until both the revised Sta
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by agar 3y ago
I admit to being guilty of the "YT?" or "Hi" type messages, but it's for a reason: the person may be presenting to a client and shared their screen instead of their window. I've been on too many Zooms where the
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by agar 3y ago
Nice video. I have an Amiga 2000, Amiga 1200, and an old Mac SE in my garage that all worked 30 years ago, but probably need refurbishing at this point (I shudder to think of the damage from battery leakage). Maybe someday I'll have ti
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by agar 3y ago
Thanks for the laugh.
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by agar 3y ago
I see. The important distinction that was a bit ambiguous in your post is that the Starship /program/ is better suited to LEO constellation delivery, not that the Starship rocket itself has some flaw that makes it ill-suited for M
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by agar 3y ago
Other than its height, what is the concern? No other ship can launch 150+ tons in a 9m-diameter payload bay, use propellant that can be created on Mars, and can vertically land and take off again. It seems all of these are required optimiza
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by agar 3y ago
If only there was some multi-year programmatic environmental assessment that could be performed by experts in the field to determine whether this would occur or what mitigations would ameliorate the concern...[1] Nah, that's crazy talk
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by agar 3y ago
You can think of LIGO as being the first new way to directly see the universe since the invention of radar telescopes. Our ability to measure the otherwise unmeasurable, such as black hole and neutron star collisions, could lead to a better
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by agar 3y ago
This has famously already been raised in court during the Rittenhouse trial: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/blog/vi... And discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by agar 3y ago
I've read many of your replies, and while I /think/ I understand your point, I am not sure what you're proposing. Is this a reasonable summary? > AI = easy, so it should be regulated. It has passed the "threshold
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by agar 3y ago
Hard disagree. Many security "breaches" are really the discovery of customer data in an S3 bucket "that no one is using in an out of the way data store that otherwise wouldn't need to be touched." Forcing companies
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by agar 3y ago
As a California resident who regularly opts out of data collection (and also, incidentally, works in tech), as a consumer I don't really care what you or your clients think. I just want you to comply with the law. A remarkably high per
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by agar 3y ago
An under-discussed aspect of this pricing structure is the number of older games that will simply be pulled from the (virtual) shelves. I've already seen a few and I fear more devs will follow suit. The ripples and unintended consequen
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by agar 3y ago
Lonesome Dove was a revelation. A book I started reading twice before finally finishing it on the third go. Somehow that time the characters stuck, the landscape was seared into my brain, and the story drew me in deep. No fan of Westerns, I
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by agar 3y ago
CSVi is quite clever. It immediately conjures the idea that its an editor for CSVs. I assumed from the HN headline that Modern CSV version 2 was an iteration on some new CSV specification.
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by agar 3y ago
Yeah, I totally get it's a high quality problem. And, I feel you. Not to be "back in my day..." but I had to work 40 hours a week and live with 3 other people off campus to put myself through school. I understand sacrifice an
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by agar 3y ago
This is exactly right. It also forces 18 year-olds to commit to a high $ major on day 1, then stick with it no matter what. What if you're undecided, but still want to be in a good university while you figure it out? What if you realiz
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by agar 3y ago
Of course there are options; there's community college, transferring, less prestigious schools, etc. However, it sucks to tell your kid that worked their ass off their whole life that they can't go to their first choice schools be

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