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devnullbrainon The metaverse was never alive in the first place

I'm not saying that all eyesight issues stop you from using VR, I'm saying theirs do. This is not theoretical, they have tested it.

Did you miss that I said one of them is blind in one eye? What glasses fix this?

devnullbrainon The metaverse was never alive in the first place

>about 5% - 15% of the population becomes nauseated.

That's just those who can use VR at all. Three members of my immediate family can't because of eyesight issues, including one who's blind in one eye. According to the Quest manual, I have a condition that means I should contact a doctor before using it.

If I worked for a company pushing this, I'd have a hard time believing any claims they made about supporting diversity in the workplace. Masses of people won't be able to take part in a society that depends on VR for communication and collaboration.

devnullbrainon Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond

Only a small number of very large companies.

devnullbrainon Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

We listen to music with a lot of unconscious preconceived notions depending on our upbringing. Our brains enjoy grouping, repetition, structure. Also tension in the form of expectations and surprises. We can make music in free time without these patterns but to most of us it sounds less 'normal'. It's like if we make music with pitches in between the 12 notes of western tradition.

A lot of those preconceptions are to do with the stresses in a bar/measure. Things like when drums are hit or when melodies begin and progress. Misusing this leads to the same effect as stressing the wrong syllables in speech. Something like a waltz (which is 3/4) depends on stresses in a pattern of 3 beats, matching the dance. If you write a waltz as the same notes in 4/4 the patterns that should align on 3rd notes will not relate to the written form. Stresses are also why 3/4 and 6/8 are distinct - they are identical in values but the grouping of notes is not. They can also differ because the actual rhythm as played can differ from how it is written i.e. swing.

If you imagine the melody along with 'twinkle twinkle little star' and stop, it should feel unresolved because of the note it ends on. You need 'how I wonder what you are' to feel comfortable again. These two phrases should have a relation and similar grouping. It's harder to notice but within each of these phrases there's a pair of bars that have a similar relation.

devnullbrainon Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

This reminds me of how the timing of a pipe organ sounds distinct from the timing of piano. Presumably from the inductor-like effect of air in various volume pipes.

devnullbrainon Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

I can easily imagine that 'wrong' timing sneaking in from the time needed to position the hands ready to slide up the neck.

devnullbrainon Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

Jonny Greenwood has always been a huge music theory nerd.

devnullbrainon Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

Radiohead have a live piano version of Like Spinning Plates that you can recognise side-by-side but probably wouldn't be able to tell is the same otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzIksH67hA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnIHVvEwbLk

It's impressive how much a song can shift from its underlying chords and retain the same vibe.

devnullbrainon Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

Terrific demonstration of Cunningham's Law. Good job.

devnullbrainon Why your team doesn't need to use pull requests

Yes, (competent) code review is constructive, not gladiatorial.

devnullbrainon Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

Code is easy, people are hard.

devnullbrainon Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it

It's chilling to think about. Back when Windows updates were particularly obnoxious, I went to work and had a forced update from 9 to 10:30 despite setting up acceptable update times and shutting down the laptop regularly.

An hour and a half of lost productivity because of poor UX! If everyone else who uses Windows for work experiences a similar time loss, it's costing humanity billions. Plus all the stories of updates prior to important meetings and presentations.

Microsoft intentionally monopolised work computing and now the whims they use to extract more revenue from paying customers have absurd negative externalities.

devnullbrainon FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs

I'd suspect kernel devs know about function pointers.

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

  int class;

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

People do use Modern C++ for exactly that distinction.

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

Edge-case.

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

If you write C++ as C with classes, you write crap C++.

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

Internal recruiters often change what they're given. Changing C++ to C/C++ is a real thing that happened to a job my team was hiring for.

I also said 'or'.

devnullbrainon Stop Saying C/C++

Any job spec that asks for C/C++ is indicative of a recruiter or company that doesn't know what they're talking about.

devnullbrainon Windows XP Activation: Game Over

Price discrimination

devnullbrainon Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job

Only if the level of happiness is constant, which it isn't.

devnullbrainon Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job

They're already hiring again

devnullbrainon Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job

>and probably stealing stuff

This is needless and makes me value the rest of the insight less.

devnullbrainon Google Pixel Fold

i.e. the diagonal?

devnullbrainon The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

I've worked on 2 just this calendar year

devnullbrainon The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

> Greenfield projects are 1% of a SE job.

That very much depends on the person, industry and company.

devnullbrainon Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

Ambiguity in conversation leads to problems every day. Leisurely reading is another world entirely.

devnullbrainon Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

Too late to choose whether or not to be disdainful, you've already excluded them from understanding you.

devnullbrainon Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

Except for if someone hasn't been educated what 'ironical' means, in which case you'd like to dunk on them.

devnullbrainon How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam?

>Some sports, for example, have "one major competition" once in 4 years (Olympic Games).

Even more so for gymnastics, where it's effectively one competition a lifetime.

On the other hand, Goodhart's law is the reason we have the Fosbury flop, clean & jerk and - formerly the greatest Olympic sport of all - racewalking.