vonwoodson

You, sir, are an idiot. Keep playing victim, though; I'm sure that'll work out for you.

No. The Tiktok ban is because the PRC is using it to track US (and other country's') citizens. This is fundamentally no different than what Facebook has been doing for years, but China doesn't have a free market, so every piece of data is available to the PRC intelligence.

This should not be a surprise, but you folks are idiots who think only The Big Bad United States are (somehow) the only ones interested in spying.

They speak French in Louisiana, German in Amish Country, Gullah in North Carolina... Your ignorance doesn't make you correct.

YES! "just" means hours and hours and hours [...] and hours of work!

Aww! Cute picture! Look at those Cargo pants/shorts... wait...

Why does home-boy have a f-ing machete?!

"""people think problems are easy to solve from the outside because they just don't understand the problem"""

This is called [The Dunning–Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect).

The difference between California, Texas, South Dakota, Maine, Ohio are as different as Turkey, France, Australia, Ireland, Japan... It's a really foolish opinion or disregard the immense diversity of 350,000,000 people, and (unfortunately) it's made all over the internet.

"Why don't you just do X", totally papers over the extent of what just needs to happen.

"Everyone should just do Y" is always bad policy. Just look at what happened with something as simple as wearing masks.

Yeah, the TikTok ban isn't about restricting content for US users, it's about restricting the data vacuum that is the PRC. TikTok has already been banned for Govmnt employees for years. And, for good reason.

Sometimes, we have to remind ourselves that our government is not the bad guy. The bad guys are the bad guys; and those bad guys aren't often bad to their own kind.

I remember when Facebook released an "OS" for the phone (it was really just a skin for Android). While I'm really happy to see that FB is making another stab into the field with the Quest, and I'm very happy that we're finally getting some real development in VR, I'm even more skeptical of them now as I was then: I just don't trust FB with my data.

Part of what makes me so skeptical is how "cheap" the Quest 3 is. There's no way they're not loosing [literally billions](https://fortune.com/2023/10/27/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-met...) of dollars developing VR tech and, given their track record, only have one way they know to make that money back.

You have to squint pretty hard to think that I'm "trash talking" anything in my post.

While The White House (and actual Rust and Go enjoyers) are advocating for these safe memory-safe languages; what is really going on is that the warts these languages have are just not as well known yet. In a few years time Go will be just as hated as C++, and there'll be some new darling programming language that'll "solve all out problems".

To be fair, I do look forward to when logic programming languages get their time in The Sun.

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Thinking about the programming language DOT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag...

This may be an effective way to express these graphs.

I'll go ahead and say that neovim is bad. Any reason to use neovim has long since past.

I didn't start the editor wars, but the neovim team jumped in with both feet. They deserve the ire of those of us who never wanted to see vim forked in the first place, let alone a half-assed broken "neo" version.

The scariest difference between OpenAI and Google right now is: Ask Gemini who owns the code it writes, and it'll confidently say that Google does. Ask OpenAI, and it'll say that you do. It's that easy to choose which one is the better decision.

This is exactly my problem. For some things it's great, but it quickly forgets things that are critical for extended work. When trying to put together and sort of complex work: it does not remember things until I remind it which can make prompts that must contain all of the conversation up to that point and create non-repeatable responses that also tend to bring in the options of it's own programming or rules that corrupt my messaging. It's very frustrating, to the point where anything beyond a simple outline is more work than it's worth.

I thought we already solved this problem [ONCE AND FOR ALL!](https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?si=9Oodfb1SgHvTZWLa)

Like, it's super weird to have an external battery but not the rest of the non-visual hardware, right?

"Meta doesn't have that good will to draw on" this is literally what drove my purchase. I just don't trust FB to respect me as a human, let alone as a paying customer. I think, "Yeah, Apple is over-priced. But, I'm paying to be a customer and not a product"

Of course, I'm not confident that is actually true. At all.

At best, and most forgiving, the AVP is trying to not be a VR headset. I guess it's pretty "resolutionary" to not be the thing that you obviously are.

Here's my complaints, while we're complaining:

+ Apple appears to have worked *VERY* hard to make sure that there is no VR capability in it's VR headset. Most obvious is that it cannot play SBS video, as far as I can tell, at all. Though I'm sure that content providers will make an AVP app that will play them, in short order, what a weird thing to have left out. WebXR VR video does not play either. You may be in the know, but for the sake of stating it clearly: I will not play adult content from any of the websites you'd expect it to. Beyond that there are absolutely zero immersive experiences to be had with those fantastic 4k-per-eye OLED displays... so high-rez windows on a blurry re-displayed image of my crappy office.

+ The controls suck. "suck" meaning "fails to meet expectations". Seriously, eye/tap-controls (combined with the buttons on the headset itself) are identical to the amount of control the Oculus Go controller had, with less precision. The eye-tracking rarely looks exactly where you want it to, and the taps often don't register or release correctly. This is absolutely infuriating when you're trying to do anything. Furthermore, it's a 3DOF control scheme on a machine that is supposed to be "spatial". Watching my wife try to operate the thing, she is waiving her hands and trying to grab things... NOPE! only look-and-tap controls for everything. Want to position that window on the wall? You've got to physically stand up in front of where you want it and 3DOF control it into place, then go sit back down at your desk. In fact...

+ The whole thing really feels like you're supposed to be sitting at a desk the whole time you're using it. Everything is a floating window, and is expected to stay that way. When you walk around, all your windows stay where you placed them in space, but in front of the "pass through" at all times. And, if you try to layer your windows on top or "too close" to each other, then you get a "gradient of passthrough" in all of your surrounding windows that are not in focus. So, you can't read the news on the built-in Safari and work on your 80-inch virtual laptop screen next to each other without one-or-the-other half-disappearing (unless you put them far enough apart that you'd have to swivel in your office chair to look from one to the other. Walk a few feet and all your windows are back where you left them. Still, you'd think that the multiple windows would be great for multitasking but...

+ Not a multi-tasking device. It's very difficult to switch between active windows. If you grab the bar to move the window (easiest way to focus a window, and most obvious) it'll move that window away from where you put it. Also, because your eyes move faster than your hand, you'll often look somewhere before you tap... often the little "close window" circle. Anyway, then you're back up and moving your windows back where you want them. So, I want my 300-inch TV on that wall over there... and my laptop screen on my desk... and my chess board floating off to the right... and my YouTube music playing... but, The virtual desktop hijacks almost all of my input and all of my Siri commands, the Apple TV stops playing if my music website is playing music and vice versa, but the chessboard's background music plays just fine without interruption somehow.

+ AirPod Pro Gen 2 version 2 or GFYS. The Max's don't fit right and don't seal well enough for noise canceling, and the AirPod Pro Gen 2 version 1 don't have the low latency Bluetooth. Great, that's $700 of equipment that "Just [kinda] works."

+ Ok, there's the weight, but what *REALLY* sucks, is that there's no overhead strap. The included over-the-head strap still attaches at the back of the device. Fully resting the entire weight of the AVP on your cheekbones and nose. I eagerly await a 3rd party solution to this problem, but, where are they going to attach it? I suppose a halo-strap is ideal, but it'll need to put something onto that sleek design. I'm about ready to glue a strap over the worthless and invisible EyeSight display so I can get this thing off my nose already.

+ Oh, yeah, and this morning I tried to snooze my alarm clock by looking at it and tapping my fingers together... so it's also breaking my mind.

I'm not going to be returning my headset. I bought a first-gen product and I knew that things wouldn't be great. But, I remember getting that Virtual Boy/Google Cardboard/Oculus Go/Quest1&2 and being blown away by them each a bit more than the one before it. The AVP did not even remotely impress me.

My favorite git commit is "Bug fixes"

As a dyslexic person, I can assure you that reading is not a universally enjoyable activity. You should enjoy your gifts, though. I do enjoy a good walk.

Now, I'm certain that this article is about frustration at self-improvement/fitness buzz-feed "listicles" and the author may have had a passing glance about Deming's Management Cycle and connected these two ideas. Good for him, it's this kind of creative thinking that I want to talk about.

Though there are several reasons to agree and disagree with the author, the thing that's been left out of the comments so far is that: making connections between ideas is absolutely essential. It's not that I strictly need to know the things I know, but the ability to draw on a variety of mental resources from a variety of fields is what makes me useful and exceptional at my job. Given that the author readily admits to only having interned at a major company once and is now looking to start their own business is the big giveaway that they lack the life experience to be able to apricate the difference between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This is not shocking, most young folks are eager to rise up in the world and are sick of school, but, if I could give some unsolicited advice: keep learning. When you stop moving, you'll notice that the world stops moving around you too. It's the ability to draw connections between unrelated ideas that makes creativity and innovation possible. If you only have a few ideas in your head, then you are absolutely impairing your ability to think. Similarly, if you become too fixated on, well, anything... than you're going to miss the big picture. Outsourcing your mind to Teh Internets reduces your mind to only that which can be google'd, and even if that's acceptable to you than you still have to know what to put into that search-box.

This discussion always drives my mind back to what it's like to be a "Corporate Citizen" Like, when the free market has completely taken over: What is it actually going to be like. I think Apple is the closest to serving many of the "essential government functions" of my life: Health Records, Credit Card and currency (in Apple Cash), Identification Card/Drivers License... I don't see this trend going away as time moves on, either.

In this light, I see what Apple is doing to Epic as totally legit: It's like any other government taxing a business within it's borders. Apple needs to take a cut to make sure that the infrastructure for all these services it provides to us citizens is funded. I'd be happy with a 95% income tax on The 1%: why wouldn't I be happy with a 20-something% tax on Epic? Epic going to the Supreme Court is similar to them asking to not have to pay taxes in my 'Nation of Apple' and I'm not sure that I want that.

Of course, this is from a certain frame of thought, and may not actually be how I genuinely feel about this. More of a thought experiment.

So, the problem isn’t that people are toxic, it’s that people point it out?

Classic.

This article praises the game community too much. A very good reason to avoid gave development is to avoid the gamers themselves. You really are taking a chance when you dump millions of dollars into a AAA title, just to have it shat-on by everyone, and forever tarnish your brand. Think, Cyberpunk 2077, Stadia, No Man’s Sky; now you may say, “but those all sucked, especially at release!” satisfied Mmm-Hmm

Meanwhile, tools like Jira or SAP may be equally hated or “suck”, but, there are not online magazines dedicated to rating, ranking, and criticizing tools like them… or at least not popular ones. And, Jira is going to be in use for years, where even a praised game, say Stray, isn’t nearly as long lived or profitable.

Also, it’s no secret that Horizons, Roblox, Fortnite is full of screaming 8-year-olds, CoD is a recruiting tool for Neo-Nazis, and online communities are generally awful. What reasonable adult wants to get into that cesspool?

I appreciate the point of the article, but I feel like it focuses too much on Productivity VS Fun… ignoring that video games may not actually be fun. That computers may be for productivity and that fun should happen outside of Big Tech corporate production software.

Flying is a truly horrible experience. All the victim-blaming in the world won’t help either.

I say: time to cut federal spending on keeping airlines in business. If United, et. al., can’t cut it as a business… so be it. Maybe, if we let The Market steer for a while these issues will resolve.

I remember the first time I saw a declarative language, I also immediately saw it as an AST. It’s so validating to see it being explored by other people too.

“Tax-Industrial Conplex”?! If you had something to say, it’s now lost behind your rhetoric. "Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation" does not commute to H&R Block. This is a foolish misquote that absolutely reeks of an appeal to (false) authority. I also disagree that a new government tax program would be more efficient than the established market-rate tax preparation businesses. Let alone vastly more efficient. Magical thinking doesn’t help anyone solve anything.

On what planet is it better to give money back to The Government rather than back into the economy?!