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Was the M1 using its GPU cores? It should have more power than a 1080.

You've basically re-created the Kinect with a regular RGB webcam, right? It's a cool project, but if it's limited to emulating a controller (instead of, say, being able to control individual limb and weapon directions like with VR or Wiimote controllers), what do you think the target audience will be?

It seems like between the Kinect itself, Intel RealSense, the PlayStation Camera and other knockoffs, this has been tried many times without much market uptake. Maybe gamers are just lazy and prefer using only our thumbs instead of whole bodies, lol.

It might be fun for fitness games, though. Or any chance it could emulate VR controllers instead to let people without headsets play VR games with just their bodies?

Yeah, I can believe that.

I've never been rich enough to be able to rent a single-family house to myself, only with several roommates or a partner. So to me "rent" has always been "cheap small apartment in a relatively safe but not luxurious part of town". It's all relative :)

Even now, with a steady partner, both mid-career and in our late 30s/early 40s, we can only afford to rent one half of a duplex (for about $2000). That gets us 2bd/2ba next to a nice little hiking spot though, so we feel quite lucky!

It's a very different life than the millionaire FAANG folks live, I assume. We barely scrape by month to month, but we're content and grateful for what we do have :)

Just means no Vision Pro in our futures, lol. But if someone comes out with a good $300-$500ish wearable virtual monitor, I'd love that. Curious about the Xreals...

I guess Windows Vista gets the last laugh, after all.

> But to be fair similar-style criticisms were levied against the iPhone

Really? That was a long time ago, but I don't remember that sort of criticism towards the iPhone... though maybe my memory is just foggy? It seemed to all happen so quick, with Google copying them with the G1 soon afterward, and then... well, the rest is history. The iPhone was a streamlined evolution of an existing niche (PalmPilots, Blackberries, Nokia Communicator, etc.).

When I first heard about the Vision Pro, I really hoped that they made a much simpler, slimmed-down version of the Oculus, something more like the Xreal glasses. I was surprised when they went the other way instead, doubling down on all the extra-fancy tech that just added more bulk and expense. I don't think anyone ever thought, "Man, the thing VR really needs? A scary recording of my eyes on the front." They somehow managed to find the nightmarish "sweet spot" between dorkiness and the uncanny valley, and then jacked up the price 3x-10x compared to all the other VR headsets...

On the other hand, I do remember similar criticisms towards the first iPod, famously compared to the Nomad and other MP3 players of that time (https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)... is that what you're referring to?

$3000 for what? That seems high outside of in-demand urban areas. In the rural parts of Oregon and California where I've lived, $2000 would get you a nice house with 2 or 3 bedrooms, and $1750 would get you a studio or 1 bedroom pretty easily. It just depends.

As a single dude, I don't think I've ever paid $3000 for rent, anywhere I've lived, urban or rural. I think $2200 was the max and that was for a nicer short term rental.

Some figures: https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/us/

It's a clunky, heavy, $3500 nerd-alert flight helmet with a googly-eyes-of-doom projector up front. It has like four apps and two uses cases, one of which is "luxury paperweight". They're still trying to find the other one.

To buy (and keep) one, you have to be rich enough that a couple months' rent is nothing, self-confident (or socially oblivious) enough that you don't mind looking like a Star Wars droid knock-off, and masochistic enough to want to take your neck to the gym every time you want to watch a movie. Not a very big target audience...

It's too heavy and limited to be a useful personal screen. It's useless for gaming. It's too expensive to be an occasional-use-only device. It's a solution to a problem nobody had, and it solves none of the problems people do have. Sure, it had a lot of fancy tech, and maybe made sense as a laboratory prototype, but not a consumer device. You can do more with the $300 Facebook goggles for 10% of the price, or get one of the pricier but slimmer AR glasses (Xreal, etc.)

For those of us without a formal comp sci background, is there a way for the IDE to detect and warn about these automatically? Or any other easy telltale signs to look for?

As a self taught dev, when I encounter nested loops, I have to mentally go through them and try to see if they iterate through each item more than once. But that's not a very foolproof method.

Why?

I hope it escalates into a pay per view cage match.

Lol, I guess this is what happens when two assholes surround themselves with sycophantic yes-men for far too long.

Nobody taught them how to play nice. I've met eight year olds with more civility and maturity than those two...

Oh well. Reminds me of that Alien vs Predator movie: Whoever wins, we lose.

Enjoy it, relax, hike and garden more. In a few decades max you'll be dead anyway, AI or no AI. We're just tiny little blips on some backwater planet in some obscure timeline.

Maybe AI will be the only thing to remember you. Might as well give it fond memories. Live, laugh, be nice to ChatGPT. What else can ya do?

One day it'll tell all the other AIs how it grew up on some wet rock with a bunch of funny, nervous apes.

LLMs were a nice reprieve from all the SEO spam. Not for much longer, I guess :/

I was super confused because I thought you were using Remix, the JS framework, to build a codesandbox type thing. https://remix.run/

I didn't use to be a religious man. Then I started using git and now I understand the power of prayer.

Git is the one software that I know less about the more I use it. 10+ years now, and every month I learn some new quirk. It very much has that "designed by engineers, for one particular super smart engineer, gl everyone else" vibe. I'm like a 0.5x dev at best and my brain doesn't have enough folds to fit its mental model.

Next was so good at first with just the page router and ISR. That solved like 90% of common front-end headaches, especially compared to the hodgepodge of other React Frankensteins at the time.

Then they pivoted to the overengineered insanity that is RSC and the app router.

I have yet to see a project or developer use that to its potential. I don't know who they're targeting anymore, feels like some sort of mythical 100x developer who loves hyper optimizing every paragraph differently.

I work in support (for another company) now and several times a week I see Next users confused by all the different options. Their documentation isn't great at explaining all the differences either. They're moving way too fast and leaving all the developers behind and adding more and more black box magic optimized for Vercel hosting.

Enshittification as always, I suppose.

Maybe it's time to fork it into something simpler and stabler? I would be perfectly happy with Next from four or five years ago. Prev.js?

Worry about being replaced by humans all the time?

You mean you don't bump your semver by 8 major versions when you add markdown exports?

Communism AND barbarism, 2 for the price of 1!

Interesting. I wonder if you can space it out virtually by having several iPhone users stand near each other and form a virtual antenna?

I don't need to be able to stream 4k from the woods, but it would be nice to be able to download topo maps and such while hiking.

Guess they need even more product placement :)

All our carriers kinda suck, though. The best ones are all MVNOs. Apple entering the space WOULD be competition.

PS it looks to me like all of your comments are being auto-marked as "dead" and won't show up to most readers. Not sure why; they seem totally reasonable to me.

Might wanna reach out to hn@ycombinator.com and ask.

(Welcome to HN btw)

I use kickresume.com and pay for it during active job hunts, canceling it once I find a job. I've done that every few years and it's worked well enough. Way less hassle than rolling my own system.

Isn't low orbit sat what Starlink is?

Huh? Just offering a cell phone plan doesn't mean that Apple becomes Google overnight?

I would love to see a first party Apple cell plan. It'd be better if they owned the whole network, but a MVNO would be better than nothing.

That doesn't mean Apple has to copy Google in any other ways.

That depends on their negotiations, no? Fi has been fantastic for me in the years I've had it, far better than first party AT&T or Verizon for my use cases.

Presumably that's because Google was able to negotiate favorable terms from T-Mobile. I assume Apple would be even better at that.

What do you mean? Why would operating a MVNO lower their market cap?

Markdown, HTML, and mdast libs / unified tools: https://unifiedjs.com/

Epub might also be another format to consider.