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by caslon 5y ago
It's probably the right move financially. People love to pay more for less. Prebuilt desktop, server and cloud companies have built businesses around that concept. The average person is undereducated and easily parted from their money.
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I do, personally, but that might just be because I'm used to xedit, and have a monitor with a reasonably high refresh rate, a keyboard I purchased largely to lower input latency (which I find annoying), and a typing speed that's
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by caslon 5y ago
I'm going to get ahead of the curve and warn everyone: Yes, Electron web application. Yes, noticeable input delay. Yes, memory consumption is how you might expect it to be. They distribute on Linux with an AppImage, though, which at le
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by caslon 5y ago
I only listed things that I actually do with the headset. I do all of my daily programming with it on, there are a bunch of applications to watch movies with IMAX-size screens with it on in multiplayer-synced virtual theaters, there are a s
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by caslon 5y ago
With that in mind, you just might have posted this comment on the wrong account.
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Dry eyes happen without LCDs, and CVS isn't actually bad for your health or the health of your eyes. Not to mention that most people don't get it, even if they're staring at a screen for most hours of the day. As someone wh
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by caslon 5y ago
It's not a terrible workaround; it's a beautiful demonstration of how flexible the standard shell is.
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POSIX sh. Pass it as a string, use standard programs to turn it into what you want. Voila. Not that hard. Just like you do everything else in UNIX.
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That's a terrible idea. A shell scripting language doesn't need to do everything in the world. It just needs to tape together tools that can do everything. POSIX sh can pass arrays around just fine, and that's all it need
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by caslon 5y ago
Actually, there's no evidence that LCDs are bad for eyes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-tv-eye... Sure, if you have a CRT strapped to your face, there might be a little risk. But an LCD scr
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by caslon 5y ago
Shell scripts are nicer than Python, though. There was a brief moment in time where Python nearly rivaled shell scripts in convenience and straightforwardness, but November of 2008 was many years ago, now. We should probably deprecate Bash,
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by caslon 5y ago
The second to last part actually does give me a few ideas, thanks.
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Counterpoint: No. VR is great. You don't have to spike your risk of skin cancer, you don't have to deal with allergies, you don't have to run along a road that constantly has drunken teenagers crashing into mailboxes, there a
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by caslon 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love video games! Half of my posts on Hacker News are about video games! It's just funny to me to think about how one of the most esteemed members of the FP community is working one step removed from the leas
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by caslon 5y ago
You're probably correct. I've been very lucky to have mostly been around smart people, and so it's likely that the average middling person I come across is, well, just that. Middling status-climbers are still dangerous, thoug
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by caslon 5y ago
Every time I see an SPJ quote I always remember that he's working one step removed from video games now and start laughing.
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by caslon 5y ago
Haskell has a reputation because a subset of the community chooses to push a reputation. This is how it works with almost every language. It actually, to an extent, works to its disadvantage. If a metric becomes a target, it stops being a u
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by caslon 5y ago
No one knows which app you're contacting them on. Send them a text message and suddenly your activity is cloaked. This isn't that hard.
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That's true of any medium-small language, though. I'd argue it isn't true for the smallest of languages, because there's a genre of small languages that are made largely to trap nontechnical people into bad decisions
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If that happens, that's not a disastrous thing. That means one person reveals who they're talking to in general, not just on Signal. It doesn't mean that the millions of Signal users all lose that privacy. But no, I don&#
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by caslon 5y ago
Discord keeps your friend information on their servers. This is, like tptacek said, exactly what Signal is trying to prevent. If servers get seized by the Feds, they don't want to needlessly reveal who's contacting who for everyon
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by caslon 5y ago
Getting motion sick with the original Vive is actually a little bit more common; there are some people who really don't respond well to lower framerates mixed with the screen door effect. It's a bit of a generational shift, yeah,
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A market done correctly can cannibalize another market, and that's very much a bad thing when you own both markets. You want to attempt ventures that can get new customers, rather than moving a subset of customers onto a platform whe
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by caslon 5y ago
They already have. I played a fast-paced 6DoF game for six hours yesterday alongside friends who had also been playing for just that long, for example. I get motion sickness incredibly easy, but it doesn't happen with any headset o
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by caslon 5y ago
That would only be true if votes were a limited resource. There's no real "competition" here. Something good getting upvoted doesn't stop absolute trash from getting upvoted. donio posting something incredible wouldn&#x2
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It was pretty obvious what was happening; naming your fictional debate partner after the most famous pseudonym of all time is as transparent as you can get. There's a long history of people doing exactly this in a variety of fields; it
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by caslon 5y ago
Paying people to complain about things has never made much sense to me. Roger Egbert was the laziest form of entertainment. Reviews are pointless in an era of ubiquitous communication, and public critique never truly leads to better art as
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I don't think the article is good, either; in fact, I think it's pretty lazy, but telling a woman to go read romance novels and complain about them instead feels... reductive. A person will feel the urge to criticize something i
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It surprises me that people find the battery life here especially impressive. Battery life is the one thing that has almost constantly been declining for decades now. Much simpler chips, much simpler displays, and significantly fewer radios
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by caslon 5y ago
Obvious warning to all reading: The catch is "net profit." This is used to harm actors all of the time. Basically, the company is heavily incentivized to get really creative with their accounting, so even on lucrative projects the

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