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Hmm, I can't with a Macbook Air M1. I lose maybe up to 10% a day.

When suspended, I see it appearing on the network a few times each hour. I can leave a process running in the background and see that it's getting a few seconds of cpu time each time this "suspended" mac wakes up to do whatever it is doing. There are no settings I can see for a deeper sleep and to stop it doing whatever it is doing. I think they check for updates and such.

I imagine if the works of only one contemporary cliche ridden author survived in 500 years time, they would appear to be a literary genius without the context that shows them to be mediocre.

I find there is a similar acclimitisation effect to 3DTVs. Do a repetitive task in VR and it doesn't take long for VR to not matter. If you use VR everyday the wow disappears and desktop gaming can be a refreshing change. Only after a decent refractory period might you put on a headset and get some sense of magic again.

> takes 5 minutes ... no way to do what we do with a phone app or even a 3DTV, it requires VR.

Oh, you are snakeoil salesman. I regret responding.

I was feeling guilty for besmirching Johann Hari's reputation in my own mind until looking at his wiki page and finding the HE TOO was involved in both plagiarism and fabrication scandals like Jonah Lehrer.

Weird. Explains the mental merger I guess.

My experiments using straws in VR just led me to stabbing myself in the gum, lip, nose and cheek in various painful ways. The perfect vessel is a long neck beer bottle. Easy to get into your face-hole and won't bang against your goggles. The downside is how easy it is to knock over.

> Dan Ariely was the only author to have had access to the data prior to transmitting it in its fraudulent form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ariely

What comments do you want to share from 2007 that will be relevant? The iPhone was released without an App Store and no intention to support 3rd party native apps until developers demanded it. The App Store was released after millions of units had already shipped. A speculative platform of uncertain consumer interest, shipping a tenth of the units in the first year compared to iPhone cannot be compared to a once in a generation phenomenon where the dev platform was pulled out of the vendor by demand.

It will be interesting to see how it turns out but the use cases Apple showed so far are kind of laughable: photos, movies, meditation apps, facetime, 2d games etc. The only tangible benefit was "a big screen". There is more chance these goggles end up in a drawer than an iPhone which was already used compulsively through out the day.

> and the Apple Watch

It's a popular product but are there many developer success stories on the Watch? AFAIK a handful of fitness/media apps are popular but doesn't it otherwise suck as an app platform?

That shows the absurdity of trademark infringement and confusion if a company deliberately licenses their trademark to an independent company. I'm surprised they can be said to be using a mark if all they are doing is licensing it to someone else. IMHO it should be used in a court as a self-admission that there are no confusion concerns and it's just legally wrapped asset fuckery.

Genericism is within the user/audience/market rather than other businesses. The cause of genericism is total cultural domination - such widespread success that it becomes the noun. I wonder how close "iPhone" and "iPad" might be to genericide.

Is there a test for it? If you put an Android Tablet on a table and asked a test subject to pass you the iPad, I think we can predict the overwhelming outcome.

Why? Apple isn't going to brand products with that surely? Sounds like there is yet more back story i.e. trademark trolling - Apple only applied for that mark to go after other people.

Well, the reason I bought a number of headsets was for developing productivity applications. I just found that it was a bit of a deadend and that the only meaningful value was in existing 3d experiences (games, modelling, visualisation). I couldn't find the value in spatialising 2d productivity experiences. Hence the heuristic, if there was any value, we would already be wasd-ing our way around a 3d view in our 2d tools. There have always been a stream of 3d experiments like debuggers or knowledgement management tools but they just don't offer value compared to 2d text-oriented experiences.

Some of the talk about Spatial, feels like a pendullum swing back to Hacker's "Gibson" or Jurrasic Park's "Unix, I know this" 3d interfaces that were assumptions of what would be useful in 3D, and we have made real versions of these, but they just suck. Classic case of imagination / reality mismatch that often comes with tech.

> allowing developers to progressively adopt the entire gamut

That is just the "how", not the "why".

Maybe it is a regional thing?

2. I just don't rate them. The magic of 3d headsets that differentiates them from 2D for me has been "presence". To stand in front of a massive temple in Skyrim or something and feel like you are there, it's special and can't be replicated in 2D to the same extent. As soon as you get into a focussed state e.g. a game loop churning out iron daggers to level a skill, presence doesn't matter. Your area of attention is quite small and having a headset on is just a pain in ass. 2d apps are in the latter category for me.

My basic rule of thumb is that if you don't already render the content in 3d on a 2d screen, "spatial" doesn't have much to offer besides gimmickery.

I quite enjoyed browsing the web in various VR headsets, it's a fun novelty experience, but it's not sticky as a tool because it's not adding anything to the experience yet adds the irritation of goggles.

People sound like they are over-rating how good interacting with 2d apps with goggles can be. It is "really neat", a really wow experience the first few times but it quickly gets old and things like "scratching your nose" or "drinking coffee" become far more valuable features than anything the goggles can provide.

I think we are in for a frustrating few years where the faithful go absolutely bananas over this because of the Apple brand until people quietly admit that they don't actually like having their peripheral vision filled with fake scenary or app windows or whatever. It's much nicer to see your real cat snoozing on your desk instead.

It may have a real function in other situations (milk production) but I believe the proximal cause for her nightly kneading is simply how good it feels which puts her straight to sleep afterwards. I expect it releases a lot of oxytocin/opoid type neurotransmitters. It makes me feel a little.... used. Not to mention the pain!

Hmm. Marketing horse-puckey.

A 2018 Dell XPS that has a Wacom digitiser and OneNote gives me lower latency and better inking experience than an iPad and pencil 2. I used them side by side for long-form writing for a while and the iPad was left in the dust.

IMHO ideal computer use is to move things in front of your eyes instead of moving your eyes/head. Your area of focus is quite small with almost no value to filling your peripheral vision.

The more appropriate study is the one where rewarding children for drawing leads to a decrease in drawing compared to groups that were not promised rewards. What they did for fun and intrinsic rewards becomes less appealing when it becomes about extrinsic rewards.

I'm not sure what the theory is behind the mechanism i.e. why are intrinsic/extrinsic rewards not additive? Why does the extrinsic reward dominate and why is it less effective and less sustainable than intrinsic rewards?

After looking at a bunch of these behavioural experiments that often use money as an easy to implement reward or punishment - I suspect there is something just straight up "funny" about money. It contains some type of hidden resentment and pain. It's bribery to do something distasteful. It's compensation for damage. There is something unfair and insufficient about exchanging it for non-fungible life. There is something about it that poisons the exchanges it is involved in.

Fascism visibly pulsates under the skin of these dehumanising HN discussions.

> Two wrongs do not make a right.

Punishments without cause is called a wrong, punishment with cause is called justice... or karma in the casual sense.

The US is what happens when you cream off the religious nutcases from the British Empire, put the greediest in charge and found a new Empire based on conquest, genocide and chattel slavery. Plenty of justice waiting for America.

Peloton would likely be out of business by the time my gym costs would pay off the initial price but given the subscription, it never would.

- damaged more than half of the residences and destroyed a quarter of them (air strikes)

- shot and killed unarmed protestors

- used cluster bombs

- used white phosphorous

- used depleted uranium

- left the area with increased cancer, birth defects and infant mortality

He may be advocating for highly dysfunctional irrational thinking patterns that leads to suicide. They might be convincing, seductive and dangerous and should only be responsibly presented with clear context and challenge.

The fear is that by removing symptoms, we no longer find it important to address the root cause. The symptoms should be treated as a warning signal. It sounds dystopian to make poor psychology and poor life-fulfilment a consequence free norm.