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by ericflo 6y ago
You're saying to literally wrap your face in plastic wrap and leave a little hole to breathe? I think someone's going to try this advice and suffocate.
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by ericflo 7y ago
One difference is the large amounts of GDDR6 on the APUs in these upcoming consoles, which is not something PC CPUs typically have access to. (It'll have to share that memory for both graphics and compute though, so not a pure win.) I
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by ericflo 7y ago
From the meeting notes [1]: MS: Apple is not comfortable working under Khronos IP framework, because of dispute between Apple Legal & Khronos which is private. Can’t talk about the substance of this dispute. Can’t make any statement for
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by ericflo 7y ago
Yes, but if you follow the discussions, the clear consensus was to use SPIR-V. Except Apple, who came up with all kinds of technical reasons not to use it, before eventually admitting they have a legal dispute with Khronos group. Now we get
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by ericflo 7y ago
It's driven by Apple hating Khronos, so we all have to come up with a new, non-Khronos thing if it's to be used in browsers made by Apple.
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by ericflo 7y ago
> I could certainly install MinIO (a S3 compatible object store) on a home NAS and charge people for it But how would that work? You'd probably make a website or app that had users sign up for an account, and then with that account
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by ericflo 7y ago
> but it cannot be true, right? It's just what they promise in the hypothetical future, not current price-tag? Here's the live pricing, right now: https://siastats.info/storage_pricing > Is it cheaper to imp
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by ericflo 7y ago
It's live right now though, the community has deployed the infrastructure [1] and the pricing is approximately what they claim [2]. 1. https://siastats.info/hosts_network 2. https://siastats.info/storag
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by ericflo 7y ago
Users of Sia are the customers. So your question reduces to: who uses Sia? It used to mostly be interesting for customers interested in reliable large-file data backup on the cheap, but now it has expanded to customers looking to do content
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by ericflo 7y ago
They don't have the money to do that, in part because Bloomberg and Steyer are buying up all the inventory and driving up prices in the marketplace.
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Announcing Skynet Beta(siasky.net)
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by ericflo 7y ago
There's definitely a happy medium. One setting may indeed be too few, but JVM's many options ends in mass cargo-cult copypasta, often leading to really bad configurations.
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by ericflo 7y ago
It comes from a desire to run in the exact opposite direction as the JVM, which has options for every conceivable parameter. Go has gone through a lot of effort to keep the number of configurable GC parameters to 1.
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by ericflo 7y ago
You can always fork. People forget this when talking about blockchains, but it is one of the fundamental innovations of the model.
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by ericflo 7y ago
This is the first thing Dropbox has done in a long while that makes sense to me as an external observer. Great product idea and totally reinforces the prime Dropbox use cases.
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by ericflo 7y ago
Heads up, the Index controllers can't be easily made to work with Oculus headsets. They can easily be added to Vive or Pimax headsets though.
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by ericflo 7y ago
That actually doesn't work as well as you would think - there's still the mismatch between your inner ear and your eyes, which is what causes discomfort.
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by ericflo 7y ago
It's like the difference between a static website and a JavaScript web application. RSS is straightforward, ubiquitous, and thus maybe superior for one-way publishing. But if your content needs a more stateful interaction with its cons
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by ericflo 7y ago
No, in the many discussions I've had with Oculus, they've not given me a solid reason. If you talk to other developers, it is apparently their policy not to give feedback. My game embeds a full browser, and can navigate to YouTube
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by ericflo 7y ago
I would actually love to put it up for sale through itch.io, but what happens when someone actually buys the game? They have to lie to Oculus and say they're a developer, and we all have to hope that Facebook doesn't Alter The Dea
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by ericflo 7y ago
"Whatabout these other worse ecosystems" isn't the strongest argument. At least those other ecosystems are in competition with each other, whereas the standalone VR market only has Quest. I invested years of my life developin
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by ericflo 7y ago
Now we just need an open alternative to the Oculus Quest.
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by ericflo 7y ago
Facebook has outlasted everyone else working on VR, so now they get to own that platform. They were sad they didn't get an app store monopoly like Google and Apple, and now they have one. Better luck with AR I guess, where our best hop
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by ericflo 7y ago
Because Apple hates Khronos
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by ericflo 7y ago
AFAIK Github actions are still in beta. I had some time set aside today to set up some build actions for a project I'm working on, but was roadblocked by a "request access to the beta" page. Do agree with your main point re:
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by ericflo 7y ago
Apple's taking another crack at it, and so far nothing looks likely to stop them.
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by ericflo 7y ago
Hacker News seems to really hate cryptocurrencies, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Despite whatever properties you don't like about them, those tokens are being used today and have real value. You can close your eyes
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by ericflo 7y ago
I have a bunch of data backed up on the Sia file storage marketplace. Works fine for that purpose for me today.
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by ericflo 8y ago
You asked HN about the blockchain in 2019. The answer will reflexively be that you are doing something wrong. I think LBRY is exploring one of the more promising use-cases for blockchains, which is users selling their original content to ea
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by ericflo 8y ago
I haven't been able to really figure it out, to be honest.

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