dougmwne

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by dougmwne 3y ago
These devices need to fit in a very specific power and heat envelope. Is the performance per watt 2x better at the TDP they both run at? We’ll need benchmarks to find out.
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My personal killer app was enjoying the LiDAR imagery in Google Earth VR. Wish that it was actively developed and released for standalone.
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They have discussed working on it for years. The problem is that very few people are close enough to a data center with rock solid internet and Wi-Fi to be able to hit the very narrow latency constraints. I played HL Alyx for a few hours by
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The Quest Pro had eye tracking, but it was likely excluded for cost reason here. The performance increase from Foveated Rendering was minor on the Quest Pro because of the overhead needed to do high accuracy, low latency eye tracking. Eye t
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Could be? If Quest 3 can deliver a nausea free experience then it may hit the same use cases as the Vision Pro. The controllers are also extremely precise, so Apple would need to pull off a nice trick to get hand tracking to that same level
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Device with focus on mixed reality and productivity sporting the latest in mobile chips and hand tracking. It also does VR but MR is the new feature being brought to the table.
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The Quest works in both standalone and PC connected modes. A gaming PC will give you a different game library and way more rendering power, but PCVR is nearly an abandoned platform these days. Most VR money goes into standalone and PlayStat
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This seems like on paper it is quite close to the Apple Vision Pro. The performance per watt of the chips is probably not far off and both devices deal with the same basic design constraints of needing to fit comfortably on your head. The m
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This reminds of of a passage from Neal Stephenson's Anathem, some of which is quoted here: https://mastodon.cloud/@root2702/109894483520616284 I expect the Internet will be hopelessly poisoned with nearly human qu
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by dougmwne 3y ago
ChatGPT can generate an infinite amount of average sounding content on any topic. The world doesn’t need any more content. I have no idea what you need 1000 blog posts to say. If you can write something with original ideas that’s worth read
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Not sure why downvoted. You are right. Nearly 100 people have been killed by this train since 2019. This is an incredibly dangerous transportation mode for the number of passengers it handles.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
They also wanted to buy Valve. Obviously the Microsoft execs are living in a fantasy land.
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I really dislike the comparison. The printing press democratized knowledge. The LLM destroys it. LLM output is perfect white noise. Enough of it will drown out all signal. And the worst part is that it’s impossible to distinguish it from r
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by dougmwne 3y ago
SteamOS 3.5 fixed a major SMT bug in the Linux kernel. Basically, certain CPU heavy workloads would get hit with major stuttering unless you disabled multithreading. Lots of emulators and older games were affected. Now SMT works as intended
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by dougmwne 3y ago
A new version isn’t coming any time soon. Valve already said it will be quite some time. Valve also has a terrible track record for developing new versions of their devices. It’s more likely that they were trying to kickstart the form facto
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I can understand some very niche use cases, so it totally makes sense on the Pro. Like if you are using an iPhone for professional video work (sounds suspicious, but let’s go with that) then you can shoot in 4k raw directly onto a SSD. Or i
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I actually think that’s a terrible take. Maybe they are just salty about the USB speeds, a feature that is irrelevant for the vast majority of people. The A17 in the Pro is an extremely marginal improvement over the A16 of about 10%. The iP
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yes. Get a motorized one than can go from a low lap height to standing height. Not all the desks have a large enough range so make sure you measure. Your elbows should be at about a 90 deg angle while sitting and standing. Get yourself a cu
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Oh dear, not healthy! First of all, you are getting a brain chemical boost from the eating, but it’s probably the least effective way to nudge your brain into a different state. You are eating a lot of high sugar and high carb foods so that
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Hiring is way less tight than it was a year ago. Even if Google had continued to hire at their previous pace, the number of positions each recruiter can hire likely increased.
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It does seem useful. On the Pro, you can plug in a USB flash drive and back up pictures and video in the field. It also appears there will be 4k display support on the pro which would give you an instant Apple TV while traveling and could e
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This star is 124 LY away. If we launched our fastest ever probe in that direction, which was New Horizons, it would take 2.2 million years for it to reach the system. Assuming the probe could then be still operational to transmit back data,
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This approach has an actual name in my industry. “The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.” The basic premise is that in a very resource constrained environment, there’s never enough money to invest in infrastructure and the continuous improvement o
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It’s not even a city, more like 2/3 of the urban core of a large city. DC’c population is about 700k, but the metro population is over 5 million.
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Rich countries will just keep importing labor. The large aged population will throw out any government that threatens their quality of life in retirement. Middle income and poor countries with low birth rates may suffer greatly from having
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I really don’t see why you should have a moral obligation to continue the unsustainable overpopulation of the planet. Every single scrap of science tells us that we have overshot the planet’s carrying capacity along every dimension we care
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This is a rather simplistic and politically motivated perspective. Europe is not the liberal promised land it’s perceived to be by US Democrats. Politics, like humor, is lost in translation. Fascism is on the rise. Domination by the ethno-r
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Do you actually run a fever at night? How many degrees? Have you talked with a doctor about a sleep study? There’s also this product if it’s just a matter of having the bed feel cooler: https://bedjet.com/
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It doesn’t have to be this way! Any year can be the most memorable of your life. Think about what you want, then go get it.
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Possible water which would be a giant resource for a permanent presence.

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