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VR is never going to gain the traction FB is betting on. Absolutely no one wants to spend their day inside a headset cut off from the outside world. It's uncomfortable, antisocial, expensive (for now), and just clunky overall.

If anything is going to come of this it's going to be AR, without a doubt. People want to be able to see the world they are in, they don't want to walk into tables, have to disrobe to answer the door, tend to children and so on.

AR adds value everywhere in the real world. AR can blend meetings, add meta information to day-to-day tasks. Think driving, you can now have your maps, speed, collision warnings, and so on in a virtual heads up display.

Even if Meta knocks it out of the park with early AR it's going to be a long time coming and they will still have a trust issue that younger, faster AR startups won't have.

I imagine poor people wore rags, discarded material crudely sewn together.

I am honestly confused by this comment. I am struggling to understand how anyone could miss the point of sailing around the world for no other reason than the experience. The journey is the destination is an idiom for a reason.

I'd happily pay 10c a year for extended support on my phone that I don't want to replace.

Do you think that Beethoven would feel the same way about rock and roll, or 1900s folk feel the same way about vinyl killing sheet music and so on through the history of music.

> Forget any stats about "cases" you can come up with for a moment: how are normal peoples' actual lives going in places where masks and most preventative measures are less common?

Forget stats about cases in order to understand stats on cases in areas with fewer preventative measures? What kind of crazy is that?

If you do care to look at stats on the Amish community there is this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117598/

And I think we all know how Florida is doing: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25729082...

I don't know how else to understand COVID impact without data and factual, meaningful statistics.

Here is the thing, if COVID is like the flu even with heavy measures to prevent the spread, what would it be like it we just didn't bother with restrictions? Seasonal influenza is not as lethal as COVID and hospitals stress to accommodate it. COVID is being controlled world-wide and still hospitals face the potential of being rapidly overwhelmed. The deeds you are looking for are all around you, from vaccines to masks, limited capacity venues, rapid tests, and so on.

None of your sources talk about hospitals being "designed" to run at full capacity for profit. Canadian, UK, and most other EU hospitals don't run for profit, so that leaves the US. I doubt you'll find a medical director that claims the way to maximize profit is to design a hospital that is on the edge of meltdown every flu season.

"they would be screaming daily begging for more health care workers"

Ahem:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210812/hospitals-struggle-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-07/hospitals...

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/hospitals-innovate-amid-d...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/staff-shortages-hospit...

There are many more sources citing hospitals struggling to find nurses, your last two citations demonstrate how desperate hospitals are by re-hiring folk who refuse to get vaccinated or are asymptomatic. How desperate do you have to be to put patients at risk of getting infected from their health care worker? I mean talk about rock and a hard place, that's a fucked up position to have to be in and shows that there are very few other avenues to go down.

Can't wait for my next code pair interview.

Company: write an efficient sorting algorithm for this large data set

Me: sure! Types "# sort large data method..." Me: Done! I think.

Point #2; Your only source is a screen shot and exclusively focusing on the NHS, which is notoriously underfunded anyway. COVID certainly isn't helping the NHS which as you have observed struggles in regular flu seasons.

Point #1 government is doing everything they can to prevent that collapse scenario. I'd need to understand more about the machinations of the hospital policies you mentioned. No link to your sources, but I imagine it's not as black and white as you are suggesting.

I find it interesting that some people are like "it's not that bad, why do we need these restrictions? Everything is functioning, what's the problem?"

The thing is "it's not that bad" because of all the restrictions and vaccines. If we did nothing hospitals would absolutely be fucked and people would be dying in the halls.

Model me a world where we didn't bother with masks and other measures, then let's talk.

We have grown to depend on automobiles for modern life and the economy to function. People can function with kids in masks and home learning, just about. Their quality of life compared to my childhood/teen years is trash though. Additionally society cannot live with hospitals operating at reduced capacity because of COVID overflow. I mean, that alone is reason for managing the risk aggressively.

I think for him pausing and perhaps just having a career is the best of a bad situation. His education doesn't work for him as is.

In addition there is COVID which means a lot of online learning and none of the college social experience. I know of a coop on my team is considering pausing finishing his degree because he hates online learning and does not feel like he's getting the education he paid for.

Plus, as I found out, a $20k pay raise can equate to ~$8k extra in your pocket per year as the upper band tax rate is brutal here.

Wider shots would require so much more CGI work.

Many movies these days are simply a formula that as a middle aged person I've seen so many times I just can't watch action or superhero movies, I have zero interest. I am not the target audience though. Even movies aimed at my demographic are laden with tropes, little interesting or creative storyline.

Long form TV is generally much more creative story based and does not reboot old TV so much (Bell Air is more of an exception than a rule).

Did this in a startup, turned out to be the CEO's code and he was not happy. Not everyone understands the traditions.

Makes me realize how much I hate Jira. GitHub now covers a lot of Jira's functionality, Confluence to an extent also.

This article is utter BS. Just read her other posts and you'll see she's been raking it in over COVID, her business is doing better than ever and she opened a Vegas restaurant.

I think she's looking for publicity more than anything, seems to me she's as manipulative and cynical as she is wealthy and successful.

I'd say the major advantage was you had an IDE that had a canvas to draw on, a visual timeline to aide your animation, tweening, powerful scripting - much like Swift, and compilation (ship a self contained SWF binary).

For me the canvas was powerful, I could use a wacom to draw, tween motion between frames and visualize the whole thing quickly with playhead scrubbing, and keyframe tweaking etc.

I don't miss Flash but it would be really interesting to see how it would be used in today's mature webscape.

I think it's possible to respect the software their developers create and dislike the business goals and cynical approach to making money.

Facebook has made some wonderful software, and it has fundamentally degraded humanity.

If, say toilet roll, is smaller quantities wouldn't you end up buying more of it which will also reflect in your monthly budget?

$144/year sounds about right to me. A little higher than SquareSpace and being the new cat in town I'd suggest undercutting them to get traction, but overall I don't think it's far out.

Any headline I see with a question in that manner I don't click on. I know they will conclude with either "we don't know" or "no". It's just not worth reading unless you are interested in two sides of an argument but generally these articles are cheap fluff.

I don't think YT or Reddit are any where near as insidious as FB, Twitter, and TikTok.

YouTube's feed basically shows me what I am subscribed to which is interesting shit I am legit interested in. I don't see any of my friends talking about their amazing lives, or any political BS, at all. The comments section is a 3rd class citizen in much of their UI and less toxic than friends all piling in and arguing about crap.

Reddit is global conversations, the topics and comments can be toxic but it's not an echochamber by design. I will say though, Reddit does make me sad sometimes so I have to work at it to use it in a healthy way.

Twitter, Tiktok, and unfortunately more and more Instagram are also sludge pools IMO.

That's what spell checkers are for. There is a point at which poor spelling will begin to undermine the legitimacy of your thoughts as the reader becomes dubious as to the care you put into writing it. I do not think this is necessarily the case with this article, but just wanted to illustrate that correct spelling is valuable.

My point is, the service simply hosts HTML, ostensibly this is the same as any consumer web host. So whatever attack vector you can think of exists on Dreamhost or Godaddy pages, for instance.

Really? I don't know many authors who are motivated to write interesting content and then hide it / have zero idea if anyone is reading it.

I don't actually see a problem. It goes against my gut reaction but given the pages that are published are entirely isolated there is no more of a threat than someone publishing whatever they want on another web host. There is no user information to hijack, no cookies, no login buttons, no local storage, no auth etc.

Yes, the pages can publish illegal information, be set up as phishing hubs, but none of that is as a result of JS being executable. Web hosts all have exactly the same risks to deal with, their users can also host anything they wish.

The owner's challenge is with the content they are opening up to hosting, and it will become an overhead to police that. If they decide to add buttons like "report content" then those will be able to be hijacked by the publisher and become useless.

But a service cart and flight attendant seems like an entirely ineffective obstacle so what's the point? I think I don't know enough about how this "dance" works to comment, so maybe I'll just shut up :)

My point is that if a pilot is determined to murder suicide a whole plane because he's suicidal there is little you can do realistically.

It doesn't take 'most' passengers to overpower some people. All it takes is one hero to move and others will pile on, just one person to break the bystander effect. This is scientifically proven with crowd modelling.