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by zmmmmm 3y ago
A pre-Llama3 race for everyone to get their best small models on the table?
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I don't think it's right to recommend that new users move away from the package because of licensing issues I was going to chime in to agree but then I saw how this was done - a completely innocuous looking commit: https:&#x
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
The way python's run time literally executes code when you import a module makes it seem pretty easy to taint things from afar. You only need to control a single import anywhere in the dependency hierarchy and you can reach over and ov
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
the "lambda" keyword is a problem. Compare to say, groovy: sorted_by_name = people.sort { it.name }
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I refuse to use lambda functions on ethical grounds, all my functions are named This is embarrassingly more literal than I would like, but I in large part refuse to use Python on something similar to "ethical" grounds because
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I am a living example of this principle! They should use me as an example in the textbook.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
HN has always seemed ambivalent to me. There's a crowd of enthusiasts for it but a surprisingly strong contingent of sceptics (about VR in general, but also specifically this device). My take is however that yes at this point, Vision O
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Meta does have standardized utilities for translating movement to touch/drag/etc. interactions The page you linked to is full of links to Unity APIs / SDKs. So meta doesn't have them, Unity does.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
We really do spend half our time chiding everyone for anthropomorphising the AI and then the other half giving them human names and trying to make them explicitly emulate human behaviours that they aren't intrinsically good at.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Honestly I don't know. But if was to guess, I would say that Android users fall into two camps primarily. One is high end tech-savvy users who want it because it's more open, powerful and flexible. These people don't buy apps
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
People seem to miss the concept of "market power" vs sales numbers. Apple loyalists love to brag about the fact that Apple users spend something like 7x more on Apps and other services than Android users. They don't brag abou
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
You seem to totally misunderstand the whole concept of what the competition law is about. It's not about whether people can choose not to buy an iPhone, really at all. It's about once they do choose iPhone, is Apple unfairly usi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
You don't think losing access to ~50% of the market is a disadvantage for a business?
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
This is a really interesting point and plenty of products have died on the hill of not realising that "content is king". What makes it particularly interesting is that the VisionOS app store so far seems to have had quite an anemi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
completely agree! I keep seeing people trying to shove this into the narrative of "Apple coming late but doing it better and solving real problems". But it doesn't fit that narrative well. Apple here is early to something els
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It's kind of fascinating, because as you say, many of the capabilities are barely surfaced in the user layer yet. But the fundamentals are there. Take a look at this Reddit post for example: https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
effectively though, they've created their own mini-innovator's dilemma. They can't do anything to alienate those users but they might have to if they want to stay competitive in the long run. Innovator's dilemma is a g
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Coming from a senior Oculus lead, the most interesting thing about this write up for me, is what it lacks: it says almost nothing about the software stack / operating system. Still 100% talking about hardware at the bottom and end user
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Like so much else with VR, it's a real challenge of perception. Because nearly everyone who actually tries it finds that those cartoon avatars are actually surprisingly good in giving you a real sense of co-presence with someone else.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
You seem to have missed the entire 30-50% of the article that systematically breaks down its use for productivity including as a virtual display.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It's so easy there are probably a dozen apps that do it on Quest and other platforms. I sat in a theatre with 15 other people the other day and watched Jurassic Park in 3D the other day on my Quest 3. It was cool. So why isn't it
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I thought this was one of the most interesting insights because there is a lot of discussion around why Meta isn't / hasn't gone after media viewing as a primary use case. Understanding now that they really tried and it faile
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I find it weird that people who are clearly interested will vacillate on buying a headset these days. Quest 3 is mind bogglingly cheap for what it is. It's selling in the millions and the Quest platform already has tens of millions of
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I think that you are vastly overestimating the amount of people who want to spend a large portion of their daily life with large googles strapped to their head For some reason this illogical phrasing that totally excludes the value pro
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It might sound trite, but then don't consider it to "have it" if it's gated from general use on the basis that it doesn't work properly yet. After all, they released EyeSight and Personas as marquee features even th
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Hey - don't know what part you contribute to, but thanks for the work whatever you are doing. Eclipse has been my mainstay for ~20 years now, and while I know lots of people probably more authoritative than me will vehemently disagree,
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Unfortunately I pretty much have only ever seen negative comments about Eclipse on HN. It seems immensely unpopular and often the minute you mention it you'll get a bunch of often derisive replies. At this point I've had to come t
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It's straighforward - it doesn't have the Eclipse Marketplace installed so you have to use direct installation, which just means you have to find the plugin site yourself, which is usually on the web site or github page for the pl
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I know probably 95% of HN will see it as a downside but one of my favorite things about DBeaver is that because it is implemented on Eclipse you can install nearly any Eclipse plugin and they work. So I installed Vrapper to edit in Vi-mode,
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I like that you can graphically edit rows and it will start those changes as a transaction, so you can hit ctrl+s to commit the changes One of my favorite features too. I don't doubt this has saved me from some bad mistakes since

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