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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I routinely use Quest 3 with Immersed to do "focused" work by switching to specific environments that I associate with that. I can also co-work in a room of 5 - 10 other people who are also doing that which generates a little bit
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
it's exactly what Zuckerberg said right at the start - they want more engineers and less managers / other support roles. There are fewer engineers but they cost more.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Revenue was $40.11 billion and $134.90 billion, an increase of 25% and 16% year-over-year for the fourth quarter and full year 2023, respectively > Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 2.11 billion on average for December
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
they are paying the price for their obsession with super high resolution. I think it's a mistake, from my perception Quest 3 at 25ppd is nearly good enough, and its panels are nearly half the resolution. They should have traded 20% res
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yep this is it one reviewer said they kept hitting "No" and "cancel" when they meant "Yes" because their natural progression was to look at the buttons in order, pick out the one they want to press but actually
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
do you really watch that many movies all by yourself? that's the problem for me .... if I'm carving out 2.5 hours to watch a good movie I am wanting to spend that quality time and share the experience with someone else as well.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It is interesting, I do regularly use Immersed in which I have total freedom to place windows any size anywhere I want in 3d space. Do you know what I end up doing mostly? Snapping them into the fixed 3 monitor layout in front of me just li
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I'm just glad Apple took a chance on launching such a crazy device Probably a dozen other companies launched similar devices already. Apple is hardly going out on a crazy limb here. This is their classic iterative refinement of wh
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yeah ... i regularly do Workrooms meetings with avatars and i have to say it looks and feels much less creepy - safely outside the uncanny valley but still conveying all our natural expressions. It's actually quite weird when I think a
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think the "overstimulation" thing is a bit of a sleeper issue. At first people think "wow it's so awesome I can be sitting on the moon while I browse the web". But after a bit of time you just get tired, and I thi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yep ... i'm generally downplaying Apple's "innovations" but I will say, there was huge scepticism that you could have a phone without a physical keyboard and Apple overnight turned that around. That was a real contributi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yes true - a lot depends on the integration in that scenario though. Can I seamlessly copy and paste rich content between the, drag and drop, does the mouse seamlessly move from my Mac desktop to the safari window next to it, etc. At a deep
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> It’s the first new product category made under his leadership and he’s eyeing retirement, as context I've been wondering how much this is part of the context here. He may feel some pressure that he hasn't really launched a ne
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Lots of surprises on the downside from all the reviews. Pass through much more limited in quality with motion blur, pixelation, distortions, limited color and dynamic range. The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It feels like there is an almost unprofessional level of snark in the way this is written. I assume Apple is banking on consumers siding with them on it but I have to wonder about the wisdom of doing that. The EU seems to be very unafraid t
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Not sure what you use google for but I use it to find web sites on the internet. It's not a problem an LLM is even trying to solve. (I'll acknowledge that LLMs might eat a layer off the top of that where people are seeking knowle
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> All the podcasts I've been listening to recommend RAG over fine-tuning I'm always suspicious that is just because RAG is so much more accessible (both compute wise and in terms of expertise required). There's far more pr
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Loyalty needs to go two ways This is one of the more perplexing elements of both working as an IC and a manager. I'm constantly battling the line between treating the relationship as purely transactional and one where work is more
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I try all these tools, but somehow always end up with some key feature missing or not working how I want. I guess it must be extremely personal. But somehow I always end up back at tig. With GitUI I couldn't find a good display of bran
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I spent a bit of time playing with h2ogpt, which is a popular RAG framework. I gave it all our architectural documentation for our software and then tried asking it questions that transcended basic search (so the answer is not directly in t
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
This fits into the category of plausible but entirely evidence free conjecture as far as I'm concerned. I don't need more explanation for why Zuckerberg started Threads than opportunism over Twitter's demise and their desire
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
definitely potential for nightmare scenarios - employers would love using this type of thing to fully surveil staff. Plug it in to AI and you have real time monitoring of everything everyone is doing with alerts.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Well of course they do, they have 0% of the cloud hardware market and a gigantic percentage of the phone market. They like money, after all.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I have the opposite problem. We are beseiged by vendors promising the earth from their amazing AI tools and we peel back 1 surface layer and they are just shoving things wholesale into GPT-4. When I ask "can we please deploy this on a
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
the classic quote from Jobs comes to mind: > "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this" And they did (try), although by proxy through Samsung.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It undermines any argument that the technology was so obvious it didn't deserve a patent when you are going to the company that owns the patent to poach the staff to implement your own. If it is that obvious, why aren't you just h
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Live by the sword, die by the sword I guess. Apple has been busy patenting obvious VR/AR features and I have no doubt we will see them attempting to aggressively exercise these in future years to shut down alternatives to Vision Pro in
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> If there are any, I'm curious what they are The EU is well established now in setting penalties as a percentage of revenue. These really do scare big tech because their revenues are huge. But I think your whole point post-trust
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
This is a great piece. I often observe that this really applies at a high level in general as one of the key elements that demarcates successful / advanced economies from lesser ones : how much is trust a limiting factor on what you ca
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yep absolutely - have seen a few of those. And how well they work is what inspires me to want the next parts, which are (a) send the surrounding lines and output as context - notice above I can ask it about "these files" (b) autom

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