janoc

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by janoc 4y ago
Sorry, as someone who has worked in VR and including with eye tracking for over 20 years, no. Eye or gaze tracking is definitely *not* an input device and should never be used as one. At least not in the sense of using it as some sort of co
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by janoc 4y ago
So you didn't have to provide a proof of health insurance, your national ID number, bank account number for salary, postal address, phone number, etc.? Not because the company really cares about those things but because the government
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by janoc 4y ago
Not everything can be done online, it depends on jurisdiction, etc. Don't assume that because in your field this is possible it is the case everywhere else.
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by janoc 4y ago
So you don't research the company you are applying to for a job before you make the application?? I think you have a much bigger problem then.
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by janoc 4y ago
You do realize that at some point you will actually need to go to the company your are interviewing with in person and to provide a lot more personal information than just a blurry mugshot from a Zoom call in order to be able to be employed
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by janoc 4y ago
You can't have cost effective when the code doesn't work because it has been generated by a monkey that doesn't understand neither the logic nor the requirements. That the monkey is actually a computer and not an actual banan
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by janoc 4y ago
Why would you need a bad actor introducing a bug when Copilot already generates code that is indistinguishable from buggy (and possible backdoored) stuff? It scraped random stuff on Github and was trained on it, nobody knows what the qualit
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by janoc 4y ago
>I question this premise. Do people demand the production values of AAA games, or are they just used to expecting it? Well, look at what sells most e.g. on Steam or Epic's store, etc. No, those aren't indies with "Minecraf
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by janoc 4y ago
>He throws this in as well, and I think it's if anything a more important quote. I think anyone working in a creative industry would like for there to be a process whereby you can 'fail fast' and realise that you aren&#x27
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by janoc 4y ago
I think the problem is that we have to have $100M games - or bust. There is very little funding available for those "less than blockbuster" titles. Even with predatory monetization it is extremely hard to recoup costs caused by su
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by janoc 4y ago
The problem is that those AAA games people demand are not possible to make without those big bucks. People demand to be paid and that work does cost a ton of money. So careful what you ask for. Even an indie developer needs to pay bills and
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by janoc 4y ago
I think the reason is more prosaic. Oculus Quest is a complete nonstarter in business for many companies because Facebook-anything is simply a no-go. And they need to penetrate into this market because that's where the money is, not in
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by janoc 4y ago
More like he realized he doesn't really have the money, only big mouth. See also the recent news about how he pushes for 10% layoffs at Tesla.
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by janoc 4y ago
I happened to be hit by the Github incident. The worst is not the guy who made the mistake (happens) but the fools who hit Reply-All to first complain about spam and then to yell at each other to stop hitting Reply-All, making the problem e
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by janoc 4y ago
And there were actual phones shipping Android on Atom (i.e. x86) CPUs.
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by janoc 4y ago
Ehm, nope. Unless your complaint is a very obvious one (i.e. seller didn't send anything at all or the item has visibly not been delivered from the tracking info), good luck. E.g. I had obviously fake EEPROM chips delivered, they weren
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by janoc 4y ago
I think the problem are not the fads and hype trains (those have always existed and will exist - remember "network computing", "netpc", "thin client", "i-anything", ".com", etc?). The proble
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by janoc 4y ago
The problem with Fritzing is that it is so much "dumbed down" that it is mostly useless. It doesn't even enforce basic design constraints such as having the PCB traces horizontal/vertical/45deg angle or clearances.
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by janoc 4y ago
Friends don't let friends use Fritzing for electronic design. It is only good for making simple newbie-friendly connection diagrams, nothing else.
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by janoc 5y ago
Then just record a video. Presenting an interactive experience and then taking away all control from the user and replacing it with an extremely frustrating navigation mode (hint, not everyone is using a phone/tablet or laptop touchp
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by janoc 5y ago
Eternal forced scrolling "powerpoint" HTML slide-show? No, thank you. I have stopped after 3 pages. What is the point of doing this? Designers, who think that this is a good idea to waste people's time like this, shouldn&#x27
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by janoc 5y ago
Uhm, sorry but Yandex of all things? Given that this is a Russian company with Kremlin having a "golden veto" power in? No, thanks. Google may be evil but moving my data from Google to the Russian government spooks is really not a
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by janoc 5y ago
That is a minority and mostly only US-centric sites that are otherwise chock full of advertising/tracking technology - exactly what was GDPR meant to deal with. However, GDPR and this type of ruling has EU-wide impact because of the si
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by janoc 5y ago
>Seems like laws don't understand how tech works... That's pretty much the definition of a law. Laws are written for people, by people. Not for computers. This is sadly an unintended consequence of a very broad interpretation o
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by janoc 5y ago
That's true but the mitigation to that is that it would have been OK if the user has consented to this "data processing". The court isn't ruling this sort of technology en bloc but says in its ruling that it is a problem
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by janoc 5y ago
There is even more link. Anduril is founded by Palmer Luckey, of Oculus and funding the Trump trolls fame. And guess who invested in it - Peter Thiel, of Palantir (among others) fame.
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by janoc 5y ago
You don't know what the OP has left out of their post. I am pretty sure Stripe didn't terminate a major customer like that overnight because some admin or bot got bored.
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by janoc 5y ago
But Renault and Dacia are not on the same level of tech. Dacia literally uses stripped "hand-me-downs" from old Renault models, i.e. everything where any R&D is long paid of. So of course they are cheap. Dacia certainly didn&#
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by janoc 5y ago
Well, that it is poorly enforced doesn't make it any less illegal. If you get an audit from the social security or tax office there, good luck.
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by janoc 5y ago
Simply - if you are working only for a single customer within a certain time period/receiving the majority of your income from a single source, you are considered to be an undeclared employee and not really a freelancer (= business) -

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