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I remain skeptical of the long term viability of VR; I’m old enough to remember when 3D TVs and monitors were going to change the face of both TV and video games, and yet here we are.

I priced out VR recently and I was unimpressed with the price per value available, with most systems adding $500-$1,000 to my gaming system’s cost, and some requiring that I modify my room to work properly. And that’s not even accounting for the high cost of a VR capable gaming rig, if you don’t own one. This is a pretty steep financial and logistical hill to climb given the current set of titles available.
Apples to oranges. Janet is like Python or Lua, it is a scripted interpreted language. It does not compile to JavaScript.
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I've done both programming and systems work, but I'm probably a lot stronger on the systems side of things. So I'd be a really good fit in a devops role I think. I wouldn't mind breaking in to network administration more though too.

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Actually AFAIK the main usecase is single user client systems (say a laptop). Homed makes it easier to encrypt the home directory at any time (without the need to reformat with LUKS) and handles stuff like suspend better (can drop encryption keys before going to suspend and then requesting them on resume).
> only way to use Nvidia is intentionally either as an addon to a Mac Pro or as an eGPU, which they don’t see a large market for it

Not quite. From Nvidia: "Apple fully control drivers for Mac OS. But if Apple allows, our engineers are ready and eager to help Apple deliver great drivers for Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave)...Unfortunately, Nvidia currently cannot release a driver unless it is approved by Apple." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Apple/Nvidia_web_driver...

Apple is preventing Nvidia from releasing Mac Pro and eGPU driver support.
I know a couple but they are operating at the (my) local market which is harder to penetrate (Arabic language) and they are not really making that much. Just enough to get by. Also need to be here most of the time to get in touch with customers.
Huh? Google, Facebook and Twitter are engaging in mass censorship!
MacOS Vm's on any other platform other than Macs are disallowed by the EULA. And while you might or might not believe in EULA's, Apple's legal department certainly does and will prosecute commercial entities (for example, if you are trying to build and sell a game)

Re Steve Jobs on games, you can believe in your own skepticism, or you can hear it directly from John Carmack, the creator of DOOM, who tried to work with Steve Jobs to get a proper foundation for gaming on the Mac. He did not succeed.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/john-carmack-talks-stev...
Think of something that sucks. If you feel that way, others likely do as well. If you can find a way to fix it, some percentage of those like you will pay for it.

The levers to pull on are 1) how many people are impacted by the problem, 2) how expensive it is to solve the problem and 3) people's propensity to pay for a solution.

Hailing a cab in SF on a major holiday sucks; enter Uber/Lyft.

Staying in hotels with your family sucked, people wanted to stay in a home; enter AirBnB.

As a sales rep, tracking deals always sucked; enter Salesforce.

Going to the grocery store sucks(a lot of times); enter Instacart

There are no shortage of things that suck, just people willing/able to solve a given problem.
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Unfortunately due to the mobile architecture you can’t sync frames. This is true on the windows side too but there you can get a “gamer” laptop which has a desktop cpu and video architecture. We could only demo castar for example On a gamer laptop or a desktop. Even a cheap desktop worked great.

I’m a Mac user and develop on the Mac so you might think I’d bend over backwards to make an excuse, but...not possible in this area. Those gpus do render beautiful pictures and can do some cool gpgpu crunching, but aren’t appropriate for gaming.
The install base of your buyer matters, not the install base of Apple. I doubt that the average MacBook Air buyer is the average Mac video gamer, and I bet that MBPs are over represented in Mac video game uses.
Average Joe has to say something dramatic to get attention. Elon Musk can say literally anything and have 10s of millions of people paying attention.
I think there is a distinction to be made between information in the ontological sense and information in the pragmatic sense. The former does not have any purchase on "meaning" or "use", only a metric of informational entropy or degrees of freedom, irrespective of observation. However, the sense in which you speak of information is the pragmatic dimension, where an observer receives a datum of semantic content against a given backdrop of pre-established "meaning". This sense is problematic as an objective metric.
Thanks for wish - appreciate it!
with accessories.
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> just run macOS on a VM

As far as I know it is against the terms of service to run Mac OS on non-Apple hardware, so you can't just run a macOS VM.

> Hardware isn't horrible from Apple. It's just more expensive for macOS.

Is that not the same thing, effectively? For a given buying power, a player that chooses mac will have objectively poorer hardware.

Yes, there are a few capable rigs for Apple systems, but they are ludicrously expensive and thus provide a minuscule install base for your game, so it's basically not worth the effort for a triple-A studio. Less demanding games might be more viable, but it's still a lot of costs in porting, build infrastructure and publishing for very little return.
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Yes. Check out the differences between `&&` vs. `and`, along with `or` vs. `||`, which can lead to similar surprises.

Though you can skip this lesson if you've worked with Perl (any others?) in the past.
Thanks so much for the encouragement and support - it means a lot to me!
It's a neat little scripting language. Useful in the same places you'd find Lua useful.
That's all you got? Developer should just be sophisticated and experienced in every new thing immediately?

We can all get by and pick up anything well enough to do a functional job, and we can all apply some bits of general experience in any language or other domain.

But you confuse that with an actually good job?

I submit that you just outed youself as never having done an actually good job.
But "decent" isn't really good enough for VR, where high refresh rates matter quite a bit.

Another factor in play might be that, if rumors are to be believed, future Macbooks will be shipping with ARM chips, with yet-to-be-determined CPU and Graphics performance. That might be a bridge too far for crossplatform projects who are already frustrated about having to maintain a Metal backend just for Mac.
"You’re ignoring information that you disagree with"

You're the one saying information is "meaningless", and at the same time I don't see any alternative data that you've provided. You're just making general statements that sound to me like the fallacy that imprecision means no information.

In your first reponse to me, you wrote:
"It requires a very large decline to average out to ‘just’ 1%"

So, "very large" is subjective, but I don't think 10% is "very large" in the context of people talking about 100% of the economy being down.
Tesla does things like offering inflated values for trade-ins rather than outright discounting the new car.
Shoot. Thanks a million for the heads up!
> it's hilarious, not because musk shot himself in the foot (in the long-run he likely didn't), but because he tweaked the whole gambling industry otherwise known as the stock market, day traders and algorithms alike, in 7 words (9 actually, but whatevs) on a popularity contest, aka social, network. he's too cool for school.

I hope he burned a bunch of the WSB troll's positions they paid with their stimulus money with that tweet. I'm going to go check the subreddit now to see the dismay and Robinhood screen caps in all red now [1] [2].

I also find it amusing, but then again I also found the 'Bankwapt' tweet funny, too. Anyone who bought that dip and rode it to 9XX did also.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/gbod91/too_...

2 https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/gbsjhe/didn...
But it's not deadly enough to reverse the climate change. Humans are smart animals: they will adopt to the virus real quick, restart the dirty economy machine, get their previous life expectancy back and suffocate in dirty air, water and unbearable weather. But they will die on their terms, with pride and dignity.
But it's expandable :)
It's rarely the adult in the room who calls other people names, for example, "children"?

Or,

Unlike children, who call other people names, the adult in the room rarely does?
Genuinely surprising. I’ve switched over from gaming on my older PC (very old CPU but a 1050ti) to my MBP for cable logistical reasons, and the MBP performs admirably. Admittedly I’m no hardcore gamer, but I’m satisfied with what my MBP can do.
AAPL is within 10% of it’s all time high, why pay massive annual hedging costs when it bounced back so quickly?
hehe, I hit that bump in the road too, but maybe I was too stubborn.

FWIW, you can get around it. I just took a peek because I couldn't remember how to do it off the top of my head.

It looks like I had to use

gawk -F ',' -v FPAT='([^,]+)|("[^"/]+")'

to get the behavior you're looking for. Seems like I nabbed it from https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting...

Agreed that this is the sane point at which to pull out python.
Gladly! You can try carrd.co, too. It's a pretty nice alternative!
> You can grasp the meaning of pv=nrt without memorizing the value of r.

Do you actually think that memorizing physical constant values is solving problems?And ,yes, anybody can grasp what PV= nRT means,but what about stuff like: "The average speed of the molecules doubled, what is the temperature now"."Derive the relation between pressure and height for an ideal gas and use it to estimate at which height the atmospheric pressure halves".Interesting stuff like that and not plugging numbers in a formula.

> you can understand that electrons exist in probability shells without remembering what atomic number the d orbital starts at

The d orbital "starts" at n=1. Hydrogen has d orbitals.You are confusing orbital existence with the occupation of them by electrons.

> You can understand that e=mv^2 is only an approximation that works at low velocities without being able to do a Lorentz transform.

The e = mv^2 you propose here is not an actual formula in physics. It is either Ek = (1/2)mv^2 in classical physics, so just kinetic energy, or E =mc^2+mv^2/(1-gamma^2)^(1/2) in special relativity. Which of course at low velocities is approximated by E= mc^2 + 0.5mv^2 the second term being the Ek as calculated in the classical theory.

I think your comment shows beautifully what I meant with my original assertion.
Totally fair. VR has much higher requirements than regular gaming.
I’ve used your software before. Pretty useful stuff. Refrains from being SUPER opinionated about the Product lifecycle but still provides a good framework for my product managers to work within.
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When I use the word, the point is to call out the fact that I think it's obvious, so if others don't, they can explain why. Not to forestall any discussion.

Anyone who uses the word differently is doing it wrong.
I have worse. Never presented a problem. I've had every background check that didn't end with a security clearance and some that, had we been doing more gov work, might have. Never once had a problem, even at a FAANG. I wouldn't worry.
Even the super rich get duped into paying for dumb strategies.
I think a lot of companies used covid as an excuse for cutting under-performers without needing to go through the complicated PIP process.
I was wondering the same.

I was still seeing a lot of logistics activity... until just recently.
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It’s not necessarily about the hardware, but (for me at least) more to do with the OpenGL hacks I have to do to get reasonable cross platform support rolling.

Took about 2 days to take a win project to linux, that same win project took about 3 weeks to port to mac.

That was the first time I’d done it of course (to either mac or linux), but I just found the mac documentation to be severely lacking.

Also all macs are now stuck on OpenGL 4.1 forever, it may not matter much now, but it will show in future.

And yes I know Vulkan is a thing but I think that’ll take a while to fully be adopted by the games community.
Yeah but have you played beat saber?

I'm dead serious though the experience you get in a good immersive VR rig is completely unrivaled. Well worth the hassle and overhead. This will get better as costs come down and developers continue to innovate.
You can do the same thing with text as well, or any message that contains any entropy whatsoever.

There isn't one type of message where this is possible and another where it isn't. If you allow two parties to communicate at all, they could really be communicating about anything.
It really depends on finding out if you can get a deal for what you want now or not.
Any serious analysis would find that the fate of Elon Musk has nothing to do with your likelihood of dying on Mars.
Introduction to Mutation Testing
its awesome, although at first i thought i was going to see it as it used to be. that would be a neat project
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That's true, there's a lot lacking here, including looking at TSLA's volatility. But, it's much better than providing zero evidence imo.
I can't speak for the parent, but I think what he's saying is that these are phenomena that start to become apparent at extremely high aggregate throughput rates with extremely high device density - i.e., Google scale.

By saying it's "inappropriate for datacenters," I think he painted too broad a brush - obviously not all are the same, and not all run at Google scale. Depends on the datacenter and the workload.
Why not just take your money and buy lottery tickets? None of their clients made this return on more than a tiny fraction of their portfolio, and odds are it won’t happen again for decades.
This has to run so deep though, if it is a cover-up. I am a small-fry attorney working for the Dept. of Justice in a small state, in tiny counties, on cases that are of minuscule magnitude compared to the Epstein case(s)... but if I tried to cover up even a tiny legal misstep: multiple attorneys, judges, coworkers, and clients would report me (appropriately) to my state bar, the state’s newspaper, local officials, etc... and everyone would know about my errors in no-time at all.

But we know nothing but vague allusions to the scope of Epstein’s misdeeds after years (decades?) of investigations?? I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
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An increasing number of millennials are over 35, since 1982 seems to be the accepted beginning of the generation.
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>It’s about an ever expanding take-over of userspace by a single module, which is not the Unix way.

You confuse Systemd the init system with Systemd the project.

The Systemd project can be described as "GNU coreutils but for low-level system components". People hear about all the tools that the Systemd project maintains and think that all that functionality is built into the init system, when the reality it's >50 separate binaries, the majority of which (like systemd-boot or systemd-resolved) are completely optional and aren't even installed by most distributions.

And while I understand that some parts, like journald, are not so independent - it's still not "a single module" in a way that prevents it from being unix-y. The Unix philosophy is about separation of concerns, not having a bunch of interchangable options for low-level system components.
First you have to understand the virus. This is usually done either with sequencing the virus (finding its structure) or finding how it is related to past virus studies.

Once you know about the structure you try to find how it gets into a cell. This may involve things like "mouse models" where you create a special kind of mouse and study what happens.

Once you know how it gets into the cell you need to figure out how it replicates. Viruses use different parts of the cell to replicate and sometimes bring their own machinery.

You also have to know how the body responds. Can the immune system recognize the virus? If it does, can it mark the virus (antibodies)? Can the immune cells disable the virus or does the virus disable the immune cells?

Can you figure out a chemical to attack the virus with something that stops it from entering the cell or reproducing in the cell?

Does this chemical kill mice? If not, does this chemical which works in a test tube also work in the body? If it works, does it work well enough to matter?

Assuming it works in mice, does it kill humanes (Phase 1 study with volunteers)

Assuming it doesn't kill people, does it do anything? (Phase 2 study)

Assuming it does something will it work for most people (Phas 3 study)

Assuming it works for most people can we manufacture it in quantity (7 billion doses)?

The whole process takes about 5 years.
This is looking great, I'm wondering if you folks can support webflow.com exports?
Obviously I have not tried beat saber. If it’s that amazing, I wouldn’t be posting cynical takes on VR.

I think one of the problems of VR is one of cost and credibility. Even if I knew you personally and trusted you, there is no way in hell I’m going to float thousands of dollars getting a new gaming PC, VR headset, and customizing my room for the full setup just because someone said it’s amazing. The risk/reward ratio for that is just insane, and not in a good way.

Heck, even $500 for an entry level setup is a pretty dicey proposition, assuming my PC can lift it. $500 can buy me a lot of non-VR gaming satisfaction with effectively 0 risk.

If it was $200, I’d consider it.
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I wish there was some extension that blocked any non-focused tabs from performing any javascript execution unless I whitelist the domain.
> Also all macs are now stuck on OpenGL 4.1 forever, it may not matter much now, but it will show in future.

Not forever: OpenGL is deprecated on macOS and will be removed in the future. I will be very surprised if OpenGL survives the ARM transition.
Ask HN: What are the best articles on career advice you've read?
I'm searching for articles like Don't call yourself a programmer by patio11.

Do you have any recommendations that changed your career path/life for the better?
Hoping you laughed in his face and told him to drop the agreed upon price by another $2k or you walk.
The Office You Left Is Not Going to Be the Office You Return To
I hope that at some point someone would have had the same idea.

You always think this is going to be the last fix, so rewriting and enumerating the whole thing seems like a wasted effort, until you do it once too often and it becomes clear you need to rethink your approach.
After taxes, rent, bills and food that's 3000. And 4800 turns into 500. That's like a coffee budget.
I would love an ARM based MacBook Air but for the Mac book pro's I would like to prefer the Intel one.
>I absolutely _don't_ think that my init system should also be my bootloader.

Good thing it's not?

systemd-boot is an entirely different binary, it's not even installed by default by any large distro I know of. The only commonality between them is that they are developed under the same broad project umbrella, just like "cp" and "ls" and "cat" are all part of the GNU coreutils umbrella.

This is a theme for an entire class of incorrect complaints about systemd -- the misconception that just because a tool is called systemd-$thing means it's part of the systemd init system, rather than "a tool developed by the systemd project".
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> In the West everything is for the self. We're happy to tear each other apart for the chance at getting some individual gains.

If that were the case, we wouldn't have the concept of "the West". The West is a collectivist idea.

As a matter of fact, "the West" is even more of a collectivist idea than china since china is a nation but "the West" is a collection of nations centered around race/culture.

For china to be "collectivistic" on our level, they'd have to build up an idea of "the East" or "East Asia" Or "Asia" to counter "the West". They, being too shortsighted or individualistic, haven't created such an idea/institution.

The "individualistic" west and "collectivist" east is nonsense. People are people and it's the same all around. Was the US, british empire or nazi germany any less collectivistic than china today? Is white supremacy or german nationalism any less collectivistic than chinese nationalism or japanese nationalism?

I don't see the difference.
Thanks, Vlasev, helpful ... easy to scale down to my hometown's measly 2,000 gallon AM station. I guess I'll need to go back to the radio physics math and puzzle it out more (directional arrays, groundwaves, and the like.) The idea of a photon with such a miniscule energy yet a wavelength of a thousand meters is a tad non-intuitive to me.
I believe the poster meant to link to this:

https://www.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/articles/how-to...
Why do we want to test every commit? Does it matter if you broke something if you end up fixing it later?
I agree with this.

The only good way to negotiate is to find a similar car at another dealer and work back and forth. Without another dealer willing to sell you a car for a better price, you have no leverage.