My experience was sadly quite the opposite. When I moved to my current city two decades ago, I started attending a run club because I wanted to train for my first marathon and figured it would be a great opportunity to meet new people. Unfortunately, the group was extremely insular and eventually realized I was wasting my time expecting the group to engage with me in any meaningful way.
Imagine Sisyphus happy seems like the appropriate response.
I don't think it's a matter of setting goals based on what you can do alone, life is lonely enough as it it. I think it's more a matter of accepting that life is a sequence of unpredictable events, and you have to just embrace the absurdity of it all.
Agreed. Tariffs should be used like a scalpel, precise and targeting very specific things to encourage development or even the playing field. The tariffs that have been implemented so far are more like a sledge hammer, used to extort and intimidate.
Sure there are a number of Democratic Socialists and other progressives winning elections and driving changes but everything I’ve seen policy-wise has been directly targeted areas where unchecked capitalism has clearly failed their constituents. Even in those cases, there’s no dramatic shift towards government ownership.
> there’s no dramatic shift towards government ownership
Interesting that you mention this. It's not exactly the same thing, but someone in another thread here on HN pointed out that the feds have been acquiring non-trivial stakes in a number of companies. More than just the one or two that I had seen in headlines.
It's funny, because it's a bigger overt push in the direction of actual socialism than the dems have ever tried, by the group of people who most love to use socialism as a boogeyman.
But the argument in favor of it seemed compelling on it's face, at least worthy of debate.
Authenticity is in your heart. Putting stickers onto your laptop, which is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do, makes you just look ridiculous.
Authenticity is behaving in a way that is true to yourself. In this case, putting stickers on a laptop or otherwise decorating it is a form of art and self expression. It’s not complicated or controversial.
I do it because it can be creative and fun. It adds color to an otherwise gray and boring surface and provides a practical way of identifying my laptop from everyone else’s.
When I was in school, we used to cover out textbooks with brown paper bags and then drawn on them. How is this any different?
You seem to have you entire identity tied to the notion of what you think a software developer is and that everyone should conform to that idea. I’d rather have people be creative, embrace fun, and add color and self expression to the world. We could all use more color in our lives.
I'll be honest I think that dying on the hill of "putting stickers on your laptop [...] is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do" makes you look pretty ridiculous.
And yet here you are, signaling to others your uniqueness by saying how much you hate the way that they signal theirs. It's not that deep, man. This sounds like a really tough way to live and I genuinely wish you the best of luck with your vendetta against *checks notes* people expressing themselves with stickers on their laptops.
Vision Pro has been out for almost 2 years now, so I'm not surprised. It's also worth noting that the lenses and engineering decisions around the optics can have way more influence on perceived image quality than just the specs would imply. Here's just one discussion around the challenges and decisions made around optics: https://kguttag.com/2024/03/01/apple-vision-pros-optics-blur...
I'm actually more surprised that Apple's update to Vision Pro was just a CPU bump that failed to address the criticisms people had - namely weight, price, and content/lack of a killer app. The Vision Pro's M5 is roughly 4-7 times faster in Geek Bench than the Galaxy XR's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 so it'll be interesting to see whether the Galaxy XR will be hindered in any way.
Yeah I had a Quest 2 and now have a Quest 3 for gaming - while the Q3 got a very modest resolution bump, the optics changes where night and day better - pancake lenses where worth upgrading alone over fresnels, reduction in glare and the sweetspot been massive by comparison.
I'm torn on the quest. I don't own any VR. The cost of a lot of these systems is much higher than the quests. However, I feel like I'd use it tethered to my PC a lot. Do you notice loss in quality for that? I haven't been able to find out if it's actually sending a high bit rate or even uncompressed video stream or what
It supports h264/h265 at high bit rates via oculus link (their software), I only use mine for PCVR, never on device.
You can also if you are a bit technical (and given where we are I’m gonna assume you are) use virtual desktop, which is designed to work over high speed WiFi but you can reverse tether it with https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet then you can do high bitrate AV1 (which it supports in 10bit) with much lower latency than even good Wi-Fi and much less jitter, it’s a little fiddly to set up but has been robust for me that way.
I can’t really see much difference between h264 via usb-c and reverse tether via AV1 though.
With an aftermarket charge while use cable you can run it indefinitely, on quiet weekends I’ve spent as much as 6-7 hours in a go in IL2, it’s quantitatively different to playing the same game on a monitor.
Be aware though it will crush GPU’s, I have a 7900XTX and if I crank the sliders in IL2 I have to be careful to keep 90fps.
You can tell that Meta doesn’t much care about PCVR side of their software though, it all works and it’s serviceable enough but it’s not their focus.
In terms of quality loss, not really, there is no direct mode in any case, it’s all encoded/decode but it’s hardware encoded PC end (all GPU’s that are powerful enough to handle it have had the hardware encoding for quite a few years) and the decoder on the Quest 3 is more than powerful enough to do it within the frame time limit.
No worries, if you do use gnirehtet start with the java version, there is (iirc) a rust version but I had sporadic crashes with it where the java one has been bullet proof over at least 100 hours.
Not everyone has that luxury due to commitments and priorities and not everyone enjoys or even thrives living in the city so I'm not sure what value this adds.
I always find it interesting how smug people who live in the city and/or have little experience in rural America can be about these kinds of topics.
>I always find it interesting how smug people who live in the city and/or have little experience in rural America can be about these kinds of topics.
Allow me to be extra smug then. I live in a small town with an Amtrak station. It was hard work finding this place, but well worth it to me. It means I never have to drive an automobile again. That makes me happy.
This. I was fortunate to be able to have the choice to leave, but it wasn’t always this way. I often reflect on what it was like to have constant dread of the next auto repair I would have to pay for.
Billionaires are out of touch because their money, their power, and their social circle insulates them from the challenges everyday people experience. Their goals are to find ways to protect and expand their wealth and their power. You don’t become a billionaire by looking out for other people.
Their goals and their perspectives should mean that they have absolutely no business making policy decisions for society but unfortunately people are naive and easily influenced.
It is pretty clear that Ellison seeks to shape the society he lives in and since he has the means to do so, that clearly makes him more in touch than every single ordinary person.
>Their goals and their perspectives should mean that they have absolutely no business making policy decisions
He doesn't make policy decisions and claiming he does completely undermines how corporations and their leaders wield their influence.
I largely stopped buying from Amazon after receiving three counterfeit or defective products in one month. The only reason I buy from them now is due to a particularly low sale price or things I can’t easily source elsewhere. Otherwise, if ai can buy local or buy elsewhere I do.
