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I mean, I want both. Or rather, there's a cutoff point where I am okay with one, or the other. Right now the state of things are in a worst of both worlds scenario. I think cars are:

Too expensive and complex now in the name of "safety". Most additions to required car safety features beyond airbags has been minimal in actual gains compared to the added cost and long term repair complexity induced.

I think entry level cars should be able to be much cheaper and barebones. The recent requirement for backup cameras is one example of too much for too little. I just want a car that gets me from A to B reliably. I don't even care if it has good radio/speakers, power windows, etc.

On the flipside, I hate driving in general. I'll happily pay for a self-driving (or nearly self driving, at least) car with all the gizmos needed to make it work. However I will only "buy" such a car (in the sense of legal ownership) if it has a lifetime warranty or reasonable trade-in guarantees. Otherwise it'd be lease or long term rent only as the repair and upkeep costs on so much proprietary tech would be insane past X years, if its even possible.

Cars are a tool, not a fashion / status symbol for me.

> There’s no bar or restaurant to get together with friends, no club/rec level sports to play, etc.

Not having these kinds of things available for long periods of time can cause people who relied upon them for an outlet to become depressed, which almost always hurts productivity

Even in windows, nvidia drivers have been bad. One particularly nasty example is the SteamVR frame drop bug they introduced last... May? Still isn't fixed, though they finally posted they found the cause and the next patch will supposedly have a fix.

Congrats (seriously)!

However, many of the interview tests themselves seem to discriminate for age (or at least, distance from college graduation as a function of time). Like another commenter here noted, its a collection of typically smaller, indirect biases against age that add up on a scale.

Also, being mid-forties isn't too bad as long as you aren't applying to a SV startup. I'd be curious what the result would have been if you were say, 57. Note: 57 is still 10 whole years from social security retirement age.

This is interesting.. is the M1 chip's GPU a tile-based chip similar to other mobile/ARM SoCs? If so, that could be a problem for truly higher end graphics work as certain operations such as real time shadows, fullscreen shaders, etc are less efficient when applied on such a GPU

Oof, so true. Dealer software is stuck in the 90s.

Thats quite an achievement! Personally, I prefer Krita these days though. Seems much more usable and has better pen integration and touchscreen usability

Anyone know if linux can be installed on these or has apple gone full lockdown? I'm guessing custom graphics drivers will need to be made...

If all COVID19 related treatments and on-going care were covered under a form of universal health care in the US, I'd be willing to participate in the larger economy and pick up my daily routines again. Those who are high risk or older would need to exercise caution to limit exposure of course and universal masks would still be a good idea, but I do feel like things could largely get chugging again. At some point the isolated living just isn't viable or worth living anymore.

However the risk of financial ruin to any given individual or family from a 3 week COVID stay in the hospital, even if you survive without complications, is just too great a risk to "go back to normal". In the US such a stay likely means you end up unemployed and facing massive surprise bills from out of network "contractor" doctors, coinsurance, etc. It was already bad before, but the economy (the "real" economy) really wouldn't survive the obscene amounts of medical bill bankruptcies.

The fact that high quality simultaneous audio input/output isn't possible is a big negative for BT that I just can't believe hasn't been addressed yet.

I don't mind the UI itself, per-se. However demoting bookmarks to such an inconventient level boggles my mind. Instead we have "collections" which are basically... bookmark folders? Except they don't sync to desktop like bookmarks. Just let me load up my bookmarks list on the start page like before and I have very few issues with the new Android FF.

The limited selection of addons is also frustrating.

> I do like that caster is open source where talon isn't, but preferences like that are pretty low priority when say your career is on the line.

For sure if its on the line right now you use what is available and works best right now, but the reality of niche software is the companies/people backing it tend to close down or move on as they realize the market is too small to sustain them. Or Microsoft updates its OS in a way that forces them to expend considerable time making it functional again and they just don't have the bandwidth for it so you're stuck for some amount of time or indefinitely.

If you have no other choice, its definitely better than nothing and you want to use what enables you to do your job the best. But in terms of where I'd be willing to throw my financial support? It'd need to be something for the better of the coding community as whole. For me, this means an open source tool or set of tools, not a proprietary system.

Do you know of any workflows like this using entirely open source software?

EDIT: Seems like caster itself has instructions for an open source recognition engine to pair with it. Not sure how accurate it'll be but I'm going to give it a shot!

I hate the idea of relying on closed source software to be able to continue in my profession. If this works I'm definitely going to be donating to the FOSS options

Also, if you really want to dive into the crazyhouse idea you can try learning Shogi which is effectively the Japanese version of western chess and has the drop rule and interesting promotion mechanics.

Just tried nightly and haven't updated my main version yet. The lack of addons is sad and I'm not confident they'll be adding them back with any haste. However the biggest issue I see is that the default page is empty, theres no one-tap button to add a bookmark in the url bar, and getting to my bookmarks now requires using a small context menu. They really need home page customization, because the whole flow of open tab > click bookmark is just completely gone

Why make using bookmarks, a core piece of any browsing experience, so much harder?

What's the functional difference for a typical user between a 'collection' and a folder of bookmarks? Collections aren't on desktop, so now I need to bookmark and add to a collection.

The menu containing 'open all links' in a collection is hidden until you expand said collection, then click on the newly revealed menu button. This whole update reeks of "UX" department needing to justify their jobs by making unnecessary changes.

Thanks, patents! I think they just expired, finally. FF steering wheels were still being made, but the lower volume stuff like flight joysticks hadn't been willing to pay the licensing cost

> The general lack of multi core use on the sim is definitely quite disappointing though for a 2020 release that's doing lots of general calculations and other tasks that benefit from threading.

Ugh, yeah as a VR flight sim enthusiast this is just sad. Essentially every semi-realistic flight sim on the market is main-thread bound even on high-end on modern CPUs. I was really, really hoping that MSFS2020 would finally be the modern engine sim we've been waiting for so smooth VR flight could be enjoyed.

There's definitely a magic number there for people who are used to being productive/creative at work. Finding the proper length for a hiatus where you feel refreshed and ready to work again without the burnout, but not so long that you become depressed/lazy/restless is tough. Especially so if it takes a while to find the next job after said hiatus the restlessness and depression can set despite the planning.

Lack of benefits, job security/confidence you will find 6 out of 12 months of contracts on a regular schedule. You'd need to be pretty sure you could average out 50% of your pay (more like 60-70% to cover benefits and the extra taxes) over 12 month periods and have enough buffer to cover unexpected gaps. You also have to account for the unpaid time 'working' to find those contracts and the contracts may not be the same pay rate each time. Its doable, but its certainly not as straightforward as it seems on paper.

In a corporate network full of critical systems, absolutely! On a home PC used to check email or play games... no way should updates be forced upon an end user who specifically opts out. Note this update applies to Win10 "Pro" versions, not just enterprise or volume licensing, so developers who need to test/support older versions will also have problems.

Agreed. If they do pass something like this it had better include net neutrality provisions for any ISP taking the money, too.

Yeah anything from them should be taken with a healthy grain of salt at this point, but I'm cautiously optimistic. My game was on Go/Rift but reject from Quest with a "Why don't you try releasing on the Rift first!" message. This despite my game already being on Rift with 10,000+ downloads and a 4.5 star rating average. I said it when they announced the approval process for Quest, and I'll say it again, it was too early in VR's life to pull an Apple.

> Antitrust law (at least in the US) is conducted on the basis of harm to consumers.

This is far from a consensus view amongst lawmakers and economists.

Antitrust is not purely about consumers, but about protecting a competitive and open market. However I will admit that this has been widely debated and is not actually consensus in US history. A counter-argument is that antitrust action should be purely focused on consumer prices and do nothing unless consumer pricing is negatively affected. I would argue that the former is still being consumer-pricing focused, just with a long term view instead of a short term view

Thats why its called anti-trust. If we are in a position where society needs to trust a company to not abuse their power, then they should be a candidate for anti-trust actions.

I think this actually lines up with what the various stats being posted say though. Once people hit their 30s, the situation tends to reverse. Men tend to have more solid careers by their 30s and are more attractive because they are more stable, women realize they are on a timer if they want to even consider having a child.

40% in ecommerce would definitely be able to have monopoly power which would often be enough to trigger an anti-trust response, historically.

What producer of a consumer good sold through Amazon could afford to lose 40% of their retail presence/revenue overnight? Well in the current environment, Amazon has that power. Its extremely unbalanced and lets them really crush any rising opposition unless you trust they won't unfairly wield that power.

I think a huge part of it is the move from desktop apps as a sold product, to disposable web/web-wrapped apps. This happened mostly over the past 10-15 years and while I'm older than OP, I noticed a similar drop in quality of life for programmers with certain values and motivations during this time. Scrum-style and "agile-in-name" processes really hammer it home and are practically designed to create burnout.

I would suggest getting into development for embedded systems. The jobs don't seem as numerous as in VC-fueled web/app start-up style development, but when your product is expected to function without the ability to update its firmware/software near-instantaneously as modern webapps do, I think it changes the style of development cycle pretty dramatically.

Don't forget the classic abstracts, too! Chess, go, etc. You may have a prodigy and never know it otherwise!

Most people have to pay for ACA plans out of pocket, and those plans still have massive coinsurance. 20-30% typically, which when your total hospital bill is $50k-100k, still adds up to enough to wreck most US family finances.