atchoo

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by atchoo 3y ago
> I can throw my macbook into a bag and pull out a week later with just a small battery draw down Hmm, I can't with a Macbook Air M1. I lose maybe up to 10% a day. When suspended, I see it appearing on the network a few times each
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by atchoo 3y ago
I wonder how many of the classic Shakespeare lines were actually popular idioms of the time rather than novel creations. I imagine if the works of only one contemporary cliche ridden author survived in 500 years time, they would appear to b
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by atchoo 3y ago
> On the other hand, because VR is so immersive... tricks your brain completely I find there is a similar acclimitisation effect to 3DTVs. Do a repetitive task in VR and it doesn't take long for VR to not matter. If you use VR every
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by atchoo 3y ago
This is kind of surreal. I have just realised that I have merged the authors Johann Hari and Jonah Lehrer into one person. I had always assumed Johann Hari had made a fortunate recovery from the Imagine/How We decide scandals to write
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by atchoo 3y ago
You do use your face though and goggles can make drinking from a mug tricky. Hot drinks can also mist up your lenses if you linger near your nose hole. My experiments using straws in VR just led me to stabbing myself in the gum, lip, nose a
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by atchoo 3y ago
Sounds like it. Take a look at his wikipedia page. The Gino/Ariely paper that was retracted in 2021 has this to say: > Dan Ariely was the only author to have had access to the data prior to transmitting it in its fraudulent form ht
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by atchoo 3y ago
> You might want to read similar comments that were made about the iPhone What comments do you want to share from 2007 that will be relevant? The iPhone was released without an App Store and no intention to support 3rd party native apps
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by atchoo 3y ago
Ugh, thanks. That shows the absurdity of trademark infringement and confusion if a company deliberately licenses their trademark to an independent company. I'm surprised they can be said to be using a mark if all they are doing is lice
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by atchoo 3y ago
I can't recall seeing trademark aggression that had anything to do with genericism though. Some marketing copy maybe but not as challenges to other company's marks. Genericism is within the user/audience/market rather th
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by atchoo 3y ago
> without bite mark Why? Apple isn't going to brand products with that surely? Sounds like there is yet more back story i.e. trademark trolling - Apple only applied for that mark to go after other people.
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by atchoo 3y ago
Or they are reward for it...
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by atchoo 3y ago
> oddly fixated on games Well, the reason I bought a number of headsets was for developing productivity applications. I just found that it was a bit of a deadend and that the only meaningful value was in existing 3d experiences (games, m
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by atchoo 3y ago
It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN". Maybe it is a regional thing?
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by atchoo 3y ago
1. That would be relevant if talking about mass adoption but for the enthusiast market, when people want something e.g. custom songs in beat sabre or to play quake, we are delighted to use Sidequest. I'd happily sideload any app that
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by atchoo 3y ago
Interaction has not been the sticking point for me (keyboard aside), it's the lack of a "why". I quite enjoyed browsing the web in various VR headsets, it's a fun novelty experience, but it's not sticky as a tool be
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by atchoo 3y ago
You can run android apps on the quest and I'm not sure people care that much. People sound like they are over-rating how good interacting with 2d apps with goggles can be. It is "really neat", a really wow experience the firs
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by atchoo 3y ago
I notice that my cat really enjoys doing it. She gets into a euphoric/hypnotic state purring more loudly than she does when stroked. Just totally lost in bliss. It may have a real function in other situations (milk production) but I
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by atchoo 3y ago
Every cat I have formed a close bond with likes to do it so I don't believe that much repeated factoid.
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by atchoo 3y ago
> best in class latency for iPad + pencil Hmm. Marketing horse-puckey. A 2018 Dell XPS that has a Wacom digitiser and OneNote gives me lower latency and better inking experience than an iPad and pencil 2. I used them side by side for lo
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by atchoo 3y ago
With creepy rendered avatars? No thanks.
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by atchoo 3y ago
Like the OP, I found I was more efficient/comfortable on a single screen compared to the 3 or 4 I have had at one point. Now in my 40s, I find myself more comfortable on a 13" laptop compared to a 34" screen. It's just e
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by atchoo 3y ago
Yup, "Operant Conditioning". The more appropriate study is the one where rewarding children for drawing leads to a decrease in drawing compared to groups that were not promised rewards. What they did for fun and intrinsic rewards
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by atchoo 3y ago
Use the proper term, concentration camps. Y'all need some fences less they make their way back to civilisation. Some guards too. Once you've seen the costs y'all start debating attrition vs. euthanasia for these lost causes.
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by atchoo 3y ago
We know what you think you are doing but it's as dumb as a criminal believing that changing their name exculpates them from their past crimes. New name, different person right? > Two wrongs do not make a right. Punishments without c
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by atchoo 3y ago
£23/mo. for a 24 hour gym and free spin/yoga classes here. Free weights, olympic platform, cardio machines, showers etc. Peloton would likely be out of business by the time my gym costs would pay off the initial price but given th
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by atchoo 3y ago
My XPS ran hot with Ubuntu 18.04 despite lots of attempts to under clock and such. However it runs like a dream under 22.04. I don't know what changed but it's a totally different machine. It's so slick and responsive it make
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by atchoo 3y ago
In Fallujah, the US: - damaged more than half of the residences and destroyed a quarter of them (air strikes) - shot and killed unarmed protestors - used cluster bombs - used white phosphorous - used depleted uranium - left the area with in
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by atchoo 3y ago
I saw an amusing post a while back along the lines of: "I was a libertarian until I tried MDMA and realised other people had feelings too".
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by atchoo 3y ago
He might only teach as a counter-example. He may be advocating for highly dysfunctional irrational thinking patterns that leads to suicide. They might be convincing, seductive and dangerous and should only be responsibly presented with clea
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by atchoo 3y ago
This is not an argument that suffering is valuable, it's that drug-seeking behaviours are a symptom of poor psychology / life-fulfilment. The fear is that by removing symptoms, we no longer find it important to address the root ca

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