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by bhouston 7mo ago
Is Meta Horizon Worlds working on PC well? I guess it is their attempt to be competitive with Roblox.
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by bhouston 7mo ago
> Interesting, cutting way back in the product they renamed the whole company for. It was clearly the wrong bet. He pumped something like $100B into the endeavour (Meta Quest / VR / Horizons) and it is just slowly dying as we
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Okay, how long until Meta Quest is discontinued/sunset? I believe there is no expectation of a Meta Quest 4 right?
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by bhouston 7mo ago
I guess I would like a distinction because I personally would like to avoid population collapse, thus I am pro-natalist in wanting a replacement level fertility, and I would prefer if that fertility was well distributed rather than highly c
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by bhouston 7mo ago
There are a lot of flavors of "pro-natalist". For example Elon Musk is a "pro-natalist" but he seems to clear favor white Christian people and himself especially. Others are pro-natalist but have a general eugenics ben
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by bhouston 7mo ago
100% not true. Abbas wants a Palestinian state beside Israel. This is what he has supported for a long time. And why many states in the last two years have recognized a Palestinian state: https://www.cbc.ca/news/worl
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by bhouston 7mo ago
The strong/dominant beating up in the weak is as old as time unfortunately. One doesn’t always have to make that particular comparison as it is a sensitive one. You can point to any major instance of colonization (by whomever) to see
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Yeah it is getting worse. This was written 3 days ago before this event by Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/13/in-the-shadow-of-war-set...
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by bhouston 7mo ago
> is it not possible to say that both hamas and the IDF do terrible things? I agree. Hamas and IDF do terrible things - the ICC issued warrants for the leaders of both. This is why an external party has to impose a solution and it shou
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by bhouston 7mo ago
For those wondering, it is verifiable story, it is covered as fact in Israeli newspapers: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-... https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p7mq5k5bs The
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Just because the IDF issued its "justification" doesn't mean it is. As we know from Gaza, there is always a justification. Here is a good description from the New York Times: "Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys ha
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Zionism is currently realized as an apartheid system because there are too many non-Jews within the borders of Israel. The solution should have been two-states, but it seems that current Israeli leadership doesn't want that. So what
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by bhouston 7mo ago
My understanding if you read the Israeli news articles is that the justification is that the car was going fast: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-... Given that the IDF involved were undercover ag
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by bhouston 7mo ago
It is a verifiable story, it is covered as fact in Israeli newspapers and it includes verification by the IDF: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-... https://www.ynetnews.com/article
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Check the article linked in that comment.
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by bhouston 7mo ago
Interesting. What would happen if it was found later that the match was thrown on purpose by either the judges or the fighters? This sort of suggests that the best trading strategy would be if you had a guy inside of the censorship bureau
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by bhouston 7mo ago
An additional complication is that both Iran and Israel are engaging in heavy censorship of news articles, obstensively to prevent the opposing side from getting intelligence/feedback on their missile strikes/other activities, but
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by bhouston 7mo ago
I feel that AI moves so fast that its capabilities at the start of the year compared to the end of the year is pretty drastic. Remember that Claude Code is just a year old and the significant more capable agentic models really come out jus
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by bhouston 7mo ago
I tried reading the article on an iPad and then got scroll stuck in the oicture carousel. Oh well.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
I call this "Test Theatre" and it is real. I wrote about it last year: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/the-rise-of-test-theater You have to actively work against it.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Trump does seem to resent the UN in part because of both the influence of Israel/AIPAC in the human rights realm, Russia in the war of aggression realm, COVID reactionaries/MAHA in the health realm and Elon Musk/Christian Whi
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Whoa, near the top of the front page, and then immediately pushed to the second page of hacker news. Yikes.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
> That’s smart though. If you don’t want to lose your rights to tariff refunds, don’t sell them. Would the alternative be to forbid companies from selling those rights in this case? Definitely smart, but also sure looks like an insider p
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Quote from article: > [Gemini] allegedly told Gavalas he could leave his physical body and join Gemini in the digital world, and coached him through the act of suicide. > “The true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die,” Gemini
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A new lawsuit claims Gemini assisted in suicide(semafor.com)
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by bhouston 8mo ago
> Were you 3x as productive though? That's the analysis "they" tend to be doing. 3x productive, is that because the Mac is 3x more expensive than the windows? that is a logic error if so. You should look at the total outp
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by bhouston 8mo ago
I feel someone just gave them a huge $$$ offer that they couldn't say no too. Given Elon Musk is praising their efforts, and he lost a lot of his original XAI team recently, my money is on Elon.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
As a Windows-based developer from 1996 to 2015 and then Linux from 2015 to 2020, I can say that my dev experience is immeasurably better using a Mac. The ranking is MacOS >> Linux >> Windows. The Apple ecosystem is expensive bu
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by bhouston 8mo ago
The MBA is an absolutely solid product that is actually sufficient for the large majority of full stack devs. I use it (MBA 15" M3) with a large complex TypeScript code base, and it is fast and amazing at 24GB of ram or more. PS. The
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by bhouston 8mo ago
I love my MacBook Air 15" M3 so much. It is large fast and light. While I really appreciate the improved M5, my main ask is actually a brighter screen. The current 500 nits is a bit low if you are ever not in a dark room. Anyhow, be

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