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by veidr 3y ago
I'm not a huge gamer, aside from fitness games like Thrill of the Fight, but I've tried a bunch of VR games just to see. And there is just no way that a lightsaber game could be good without haptic feedback, in a world where hapti
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, I am just really interested in the idea of taking a spatial computer headset device around with me, and doing work (writing software, so think VS Code/JetBrains/Xcode) in a large spatial environment instead of a laptop with
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by veidr 3y ago
True, although that might be where my analogy breaks down. Controllers are today the primary input device for pretty much all VR headsets out there. So, maybe the better analogy would be the Blackberry's keyboard. And we know who won t
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by veidr 3y ago
Totally true, and I suspect that the same will hold true for Vision OS — controllers will always be optional (even when Apple has "the world's most advanced spatial controller" to sell us for $999/pair).
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by veidr 3y ago
I believe OP is referring to how most Android phone vendors make no profits.
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by veidr 3y ago
Absolutely. Also Meta would be foolish not to copy the innovative/popular things introduced by Vision OS. The iPhone massively benefited almost every phone user in the world -- even those who never used an iPhone. Same dynamic will app
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by veidr 3y ago
They didn't invent the mouse either, they just popularized it. Personally I like this term much better, so I hope we all start using it. VR, AR, XR, mixed reality... these are too specific and fussy. "Spatial computing" encom
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by veidr 3y ago
I use the Quest Pro right now, because my interest in spatial computing (I like Apple's new term so trying to use it, haha) is greater than my misgivings about Meta (even though those are significant). I will buy the Apple thing, too.
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by veidr 3y ago
Some day, yes, some one will make a VR headset that outclasses the laptop for many computing roles. I'm one of those people who wants that day to arrive while I am still working, so I follow this space with interest and buy some of the
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, I've paid something like $200/year for a fitness app in VR. So I can easily imagine a small number of rich Apple users paying $500/year. If you can get a few thousand users paying $500/year, pretty soon you're
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by veidr 3y ago
I use 4 monitors arranged on arms to form a shape roughly like a curved 15360x 4320 display. I also don't see how VR will come close to replicating the productivity I have in my home office, on any foreseeable timeline. But when I go s
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by veidr 3y ago
I share some of your skepticism, but I do indeed watch movies in my VR headset (while running on my elliptical trainer). I use the Meta Quest Pro right now, so it's not plugged into anything, but I would not be averse to plugging it in
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by veidr 3y ago
Unsurprising, but as with twitter, the idea of a corporation running these kinds of sites always eventually fails. People "don't want to deal with" the messy world of open standards, of different web forums for different thin
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, yeah, it does say a lot about both Hacker News and "Rust the... community, or whatever". But one of the cool (IMHO), but possibly unexciting, things about Rust the programming language, is that it comes out with a highly reg
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by veidr 3y ago
I thought this was a very good and informative post for those of us who saw the basic problem (keynote cancellation handled badly due to miscommunication and/or organizational management problems, so... unfortunate, but happens all the
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by veidr 3y ago
Not only is this pricing nucking futs (like what, 10x the cost of buying a decent tower and setting up tailscale), but in my experience (which admittedly includes only GitHub CodeSpaces, GitPod, Azure's thing, and Amazon Workspaces...
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by veidr 3y ago
Literally just that RetroArch doesn't support any Nintendo system from the last 20 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists whoops wrong link but fuck it, serendipity
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by veidr 3y ago
This looks to me like a shitty situation, handled badly, but ... having read this thread backwards, starting with the HN comments, then JeanHeyd Meneide's own blog post about it, and finally the "Why I Left Rust" post being
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by veidr 3y ago
Maybe, but as an(other) aficionado of Deno for smallish projects where Node is irrelevant, I don't feel like these panders to the mainstream hurt anything . To the contrary, they make every conversation about using Deno easier, even w
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by veidr 3y ago
JSON is trash and should never be used in any human-interfacing context, so I'm super skeptical that there's any utility in trying to fix it; that would just delay its demise, to the detriment of humankind. But if you did want t
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by veidr 3y ago
There is actually a way to remove the writing, if you want to bad enough to spend a couple minutes on it.
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by veidr 3y ago
True, but I was basically just looking for a good mouse. I've never had any other mouse die or wear out, except for those Logitech ones.
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by veidr 3y ago
No, but I typically write the delivery date on the bottom with a permanent marker (Sharpie). I also do this with e.g. camera batteries, vacuum batteries... basically anything that costs more than $50.
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by veidr 3y ago
I used to buy MX Master or whatever every year. We have several people and a bunch of computers in our house, so I bought around 20 or 25 of these "high end" mice. But about half of them died within 15-16 months. And by "died
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by veidr 3y ago
nope; just checked, there are none (and even the ones that are pretending to not be here said they don't give a shit)
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by veidr 3y ago
Indeed. We moved off of JIRA years ago, but not that many years ago that this isn't still funny every time I think of it: veidr 2016-08-22 Haha, JIRA is very "enterprisey": > Unable to find source-code form
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by veidr 3y ago
Sorry, but you're just repeating the same misunderstanding as the post I was replying to. The terms "gender" and "gender identity" simply don't mean what you think they mean. You want them to, I get it. But it&
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by veidr 3y ago
Sure. One is so idiotic that it is akin to saying "my head is fireproof!". One could simply light their hair on fire to test it. Or, in the specific flat-earth case under discussion here, climb a reasonably tall hill see the earth
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by veidr 3y ago
It's actually substantially different. Your own mental model of the world might lack the resolution to let you perceive that difference, though.
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by veidr 3y ago
I do regular web dev (whatever that means lol), but I also do a little bit of that "full build takes 45 minutes... if it doesn't fail because you only have 32GB RAM" dev. But for that, any laptop sucks, so I've been usin

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