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I think Quest 2 will be extremely influential device and this decision will shape the market for years to come. The Quest 2 is important because it's being mass-produced at very affordable retail price. It will be the first and most impactfull VR experience for huge amount of people. I only have experience with Quest 1, but it's already apparent that Q2 is improvement in every way while being noticeably cheaper. Q1 was out of stock for most of it's product lifetime. BTW I'm enjoying Q1 quite a lot. It is an open Android platform with no DRM and good support for independent developers.

The VR is merely a playground for AR. A really tiny market that's brewing technology for the post-smartphone revolution. The AR hardware might be some years from now but there are already huge investments in software platform and social features. There are only two relevant competitors: FB with cheap and excellent consumer headset you can buy today, and Apple working on next big thing in shroud of mystery. FB vision is obvious. They want to collect more of your data and also control what you constantly see in AR. Part of this is forcing you to use the FB account that was verified to belong to you, forcing you to give up on your privacy right from start. This translates to enormous amount of marketing money, but also to shaping opinions and controlling emotions. Next generation will likely have eye tracking which will make privacy invasion so much worse, as our eye movement is mostly subconscious and reveals our interests and affinities.

Many of us are sceptical of our smartphones working against us, tracking location and actions. Imagine a device mere centimetres from your brain doing the same, but having also access to eye movements and maybe EEG readings. If FB manages to convince general population that lack of privacy is in best of their interest, we'll have some dire times ahead of us.
I was with you until the mobo cost. Wtf, $280 for a mobo?? A totally decent B550 mobo with ECC support can be had for less than half that price.

The only advantage of Intel Xeon at this point is RDIMM/LR-DIMM support on their Xeon-W platform. AMD supports that only on Epyc and Threadripper Pro.
Maybe a good idea. Because most technical debt is bullshit.

https://louwrentius.com/most-technical-debt-is-just-bullshit...
Authority rests on information control. High status roles generally depend on access to and control over the dominant communication channels of the time.

[...]

Of all social roles, those of hierarchy are affected most by new patterns of information flow. The loss of information control undermines traditional authority figures. Further, because information control is an implicit rather than an explicit aspect of high status, the changes in hierarchy are surrounded by confusion and despair.

[...]

Many Americans are still hoping for the emergence of an old-style, dynamic "great leader." Yet electronic media of communication are making it almost impossible to find one. There is no lack of potential leaders, but rather an overabundance of information about them. The great leader image depends on mystification and careful management of public impressions. Through television, we see too much of our politicians, and they are losing control over their images and performances. As a result, our political leaders are being stripped of their aura and are being brought closer to the level of the average person.

– From Joshua Meyrowitz's No Sense of Place, 1989
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Everyone knows flashlights are used by bank robbers. But if you can think of a legitimate use of a flashlight, then you can think of a legitimate use for this tool.
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When did that start?

The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded to an institution in 1904 - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1904/summary/ - so, to answer your question, 116 years ago.
Probably a reference to Jesus.
I think that it's unfair of you just to assert this without giving some specific criticism of this book.

I am pretty interested actually as I am currently trying to write a similar book of my own! I can see a lot of difference between this and what I am trying to do, and may differences to "Hands on" but what in particular are you disappointed with here?
It's not (just) my argument, it's a century old concept in copyright law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea–expression_distinction#Me...
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I stopped handing out jdebp.eu. URLs some while ago. 51.89% of voters decided to take that domain away from me. (-:

Please change your bookmarks wherever you have them to jdebp.uk. or jdebp.info. .
I don't buy it. Even in North Korea, I'm pretty sure people know quite a lot.

Hitchens did interviews in the eastern block during the 80s. Everyone knew Kafka, it turned out, once they felt safe letting you know they knew it. Vice news did a tour of Assad's territory at the height of the civil war. Propaganda at the highest levels, with people expected to believe a fiction in extreme contrast to reality. A policeman said to the journalist: "this is 1984 and I am Winston Smith."

It's not easy to put people into Plato's cave.

Reality is more complex than this. When people learn the truth, get woke, take the red pill (note these are all modern references to the cave)... it almost always involves shaking or adopting a complex worldview. Facts play a part, but narrative plays a bigger part. So does emphasis, etc.

Or maybe we're all still in that cave, and the internet just projects some new shapes we haven't seen before. New shapes, new shadows, new wisemen telling us what they mean.
I don't think it's a numerical bias. Rather the extreme left are just hyper-aggressive in ways other parts of the spectrum aren't, especially libertarians are not aggressive and they were traditionally a big bloc inside tech firms.

As for the belief that the left are intellectually superior, that's not specific to tech firms. You get empty slogans about being "reality-based" from the left in all walks of life. It's why the left are struggling so much with COVID and lockdown: it's been chaos and incoherence from scientists/academics from day one so people who define themselves as superior due to their higher faith in "the science" have been taking a self-image beating. Or simply have gone into denial about it.
> Scanning for open ports on other peoples networks? How is that different from casing a house for entrances?

It's more like looking through other people's windows as you walk by the street. May be creepy if you always stare at the same window, but formally there's nothing wrong with that. If you do not want people to see through your public-facing windows in your home, it's your responsibility to install blinds or shades.
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I also very much like this idea, as I find writing CUI/GUI code kind of boilerplate, annoying, and often feels like this is sth which could be automated.

In fact, I also implemented a similar idea to automatic GUI generation for my music player: https://github.com/albertz/music-player

I tried to summarize the idea here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/automatic-user-i...

Maybe you have some further good references?
> Surely the formal standardization process precludes an Oracle-style attack on implementors...?

Surely is a strong word. Who knows where this train is going to end up once it derails? They surely offered up permissive patent licensing, and all of those patents have expired by now anyway, but would they have bothered to sign away copyrights that they didn't think they had? Copyright lasts 70 years from the death of the author, so while the patents are all ancient history, the copyright, if such a thing exists, would certainly still be active and there would be decades of infringement to pursue.
It would only be comparable to the satanic panics if those included satan ascending from the depths of the earth and admitting his demons do enjoy people
Playing D&D.

I mean, you do realize that FB itself has admitted that it’s network was used and misused in the genocide of the Rohingya for example? Or that widespread fake news on its platforms in India has led to many a false murder? Or that malignant agencies used its network to manipulate people with false news in both US and UK elections?

The list is long, but the point is that unlike the satanic scare of the 80s there have been very real and negative effects.

Also, no “old media” outlet ever had billions of users, of which it was able to build detailed individual psychological profiles which they could then use to target for misinformation.

The idea that old media’s access is simply passing onto Facebook is beyond ridiculous. FB and the like have created an information and manipulation monster the likes of which the world has never seen.
I don't think that genetic diversity will necessarily slow under those conditions. Genetic differences between people are already dominated by individual genetic differences over group genetic differences. Our diversity is more about us as individuals than as a collection of groups. Why, then, would the mixing of groups decrease diversity? I would think it would increase it.
Look at your quote: it restricts it to "big tech" companies, and as nebulous as it sounds at-present I'd say it's quite easy to say which companies are "big".
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His brother, Roger Eno, is a frequent collaborator and has composed some very interesting takes on classical forms like the sonata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYX86SW9rcg

The whole In A Room album (with Harmonia Ensemble) is very good, one of my favourites.
ARM uses patents to prevent other implementations, not copyright law.
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It depends on if your use of BLM means "lives of those of African-decent matter" or "the Black Lives Matter movement/group".

Personally i would expect the former to have more widespread support in America. The latter stands for many things that could be more controversial in the states. A DuckDuckGo for "blm demands"[0] returns the following NPR piece[1] from DC-based interviews. It lists BLM demands as:

- Defund Police
- No New Jails
- Decriminalize Sex Work
- Police-Free Schools
- Drop Charges Against Protesters
- End Cash Bail In Maryland
- Ban Stop And Frisk

0: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blm+demands

1: https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/06/09/872859084/here-s-wh...
Yikes to Tinder enforced celibacy!
I sold a few shares when they were at 20 or some dollars a share thinking AMD would stay second fiddle to Intel for the rest of time. Turns out I am a terrible value investor.
>>The internet is, OTOH, obviously structurally inclined to being an agent of chaos.

Decentralization != chaos. On the contrary, it can be far more stable for the forces of coordination, allowing for greater production of knowledge and intelligent action.

See Wikipedia.
If you don't like macOS or Macs, that's ok, but this seems like very poor reasoning...

> Xcode

You either need it and can't switch to a non-Mac, or you don't need it. What's the argument here?

> the omnipresent ‘Dock’ (never used it once)

I hide mine. In 12 years on a Mac this hasn't been an issue for me since I turned Dock hiding on 5 minutes in.

> the omnipresent ‘Finder’

Finder isn't great, but I wouldn't say that the graphical file managers on Linux are particularly stellar either.

> black magic in the ‘Terminal.app’

What "black magic" is this? Also iTerm2 is a wonderful piece of software.

> Notifications (and its omnipresent menu hamburger icon)

Users do typically need to be notified about things. Is the problem that you want these somewhere else? Is it that you want to disable notifications? Because you do have full control over which apps can notify.

> App store

What's the problem here? Since they moved system updates back out of the AppStore, it's very easy to just ignore it entirely.

> start-up chord

If this is making it to your list of things you hate about macOS, you're really scraping the barrel.

Come on. Let's make better arguments than this. Let's be clear about our requirements, our biases, our specific likes and dislikes. This article has no substance to it, it's essentially clickbait.

There are many reasons to dislike macOS, there are many legitimate reasons to move to another OS on other hardware.

We make better decisions when we are more honest like this.
This is a weird comment to read. I think misinformation is a big problem, and I don't blame it on fake news, which is a niche problem.

From what I've seen misinformation is usually just lies, not pretending to be news.
According to Google statistics, bit flips are encountered at a rate of 8% per DIMM per year. https://research.google/pubs/pub35162/

You want ECC in your desktop if you cannot afford your data to become (silently) corrupted. A single bit-flip in a JPEG image can totally ruin it. And you won't notice without opening it, because the thumbnail is unaffected. When you finally notice, the corruption has possibly spread to backups already.

For servers that is especially important, because data will reside cached in memory for days or even weeks. Also ECC is often the last line of defense against Rowhammer.
Did you do the floppy-disk-full-of-icons thing in elementary school too?

I was envious of my friends who had collected so many Calvin & Hobbes and Simpsons icons.

It's like punk rockers wearing badges, but nerdier.
I'd argue that those people may be better

https://ctftime.org/
No.

Unlike patents, which may confer proprietary rights in relation to general ideas and concepts per se when construed as methods, copyrights cannot confer such rights. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea–expression_distinction
The words on paper (or any other medium) are protected under copyright. The story isn't. Otherwise someone could just make a theoretical book that contains all possible English sentences and thereby make it illegal to speak English.

People don't seem to grasp that there is a distinction between semantics and representation. You can represent the number 85 in many different ways. In binary, in decimal, in hexadecimal. People can copyright a representation of a number but not the number itself. If you were the first human to invent numbers as a concept, you could indeed patent numbers.

Maybe it helps if we compare this to hardware instead. You can design a CPU. The design digital files are under copyright and if you want they can also be a trade secret. However the physical hardware (i.e. the thing whose representation is your digital design files) is not protected by copyright. If you give someone access to design files e.g. via GPL (or in this case by providing the Java standard library). Then any reader of the design files is allowed to look at the arrangement of transistors and then create their own proprietary design files even though your chip design is under GPL. Copyright doesn't protect semantics. It only prevents 1:1 copies of media. When you look at the min function and see a description of its behavior that is semantics. As it stands right now you are allowed to replicate those semantics. There is no monopoly on finding the smallest of two numbers. With the existence of software patents you could in theory patent these semantics.

Now lets get to the actual problem in question. Oracle is providing users with a representation of its java API via javadoc and the standard library deliverables at least under GPL (I am merely assuming this). What does this mean in practice? Well, first of all everyone has access to the representation of the API even if they don't intend to copy it. But as we already established, Google did not copy the java libraries (unless they did which is obviously a copyright violation and they should lose the trial because of that). They merely took the semantics of the java API and built their own independent implementation of the Java standard libraries. APIs cannot be protected under copyright because the semantics of the API can be copied without triggering copyright protections the same way copyrighting your hardware design files does not prevent someone making a copy of the physical manifestation of your hardware. In the hardware world this is solved by patents which do indeed grant a monopoly on semantics. In the software world this should be solved by patents as well.

TL;DR it is possible to create identical hardware without violating copyright of the design files, it is possible to create an identical API without violating copyright of the original source files
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FYI: My neighbor smokes cigars. After I made my post above... I saw ads for cigars.

They're probably tracking you via IP.
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> With internet, you have much higher chance of knowing stuff is misinformation, though.

Not really though? Remember that people still fall for the most hilariously badly made phishing mails etc. Not everyone is capable of determining whether they’re currently viewing the truth or maybe some skewed part of it or outright lies. And then there’s just so much information on the net. Do _you_ know the agenda of all the sites you visit?

I believe this isn’t something that can be fully taught either. (As in teaching a mathematical method or algorithm or whatever.) You can only try to make people aware as much as possible and hope for the best.
"Elzin" is a romanisation of Ельцин. It's not the usual one, as it leads to a different pronunciation. baybal2 appears to be (from this and previous comments) a native Russian speaker who remembers the Soviet Union.
The anticompetitive part refers to social VR. Today we have multiple social VR apps (Rec Room, Altspace, Bigscreen and more). While Facebook aims to be a big player in social VR they're not there yet; their Facebook Horizons app is still in closed beta.

Requiring a Facebook login to use the Quest puts the competition at an immediate disadvantage, as they'll have to use their own login or submit to Facebook login as well, often at the cost of cross-platform compatibility. Onboarding friction will always be less with the app where you already have an account.

Facebook told Bigscreen developers to join Facebook or "be crushed": https://twitter.com/DShankar/status/1295825809496629248
Today it's "expedient technical hacking" that you're proud of.

Tomorrow it's tech debt that's causing you problems.
Founder of SecretHub here, big kudos on the GUI Doppler made, looks amazing.

Aside from a feature-by-feature comparison, I feel that both SecretHub and Doppler do a great job of:

1) making secrets management simple enough so any engineer can use it with limited overhead.

2) making secrets management work throughout your entire stack – from development to production – and not just inside one ecosystem.

Finally, we see a trade-off between usability and security being made. At SecretHub, we feel end-to-end encryption is a must for any managed service handling passwords, API keys and other secrets.
Im not sure why this is but I'm always happier about the prize going to an organization rather than an individual person. I think literally placing the entire weight of world peace on one person is too much, and it places that person under incredible scrutiny for the rest of their life (or conversely anything bad they personally did in the past gets dragged up). handing it to an org recognizes that it takes much more than a single person to effect change and puts the cause above identity or personal flaws.

Malala does seem to be handling it well, so what do I know.
> Either way, stability and predictability of the value of a currency are much more important for the long term

I think Bitcoin has the long-term edge here, as the issuance rate is 99.9% predictable and known (unless the community decides to change it, which seems unlikely) and the price volatility would decrease massively if adoption increased.
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Oh you can bet they will. I still don't know what Obama got it for. It is a joke!
I like to code this way. You just include "foo.c" instead of "foo.h", which does not exist at all. The compilation is really simple, and there's half of the files!
I fully agree. The Nobel Peace Price had its reputation badly damaged when they gave it to Obama for "becoming president while being black and not George W. Bush".
VR has been a nice toy but the acceptance and content was underwhelming. I own a quest 1 since I impulse bought it in retail. After finding out what it was I ordered a rift s which I use more frequently. The software package is actually decent, but the lock-in is repulsive.

With facebooks decision both devices will certainly be scraped soon.

I probably need to make sure my oculus account isn't automatically migrated...

To be honest I think the current VR trend died like the last ones, maybe it was a bit more successful. The devices and the experience are nice at first, but not suitable for prolonged use.

I think AR is a complete separate technology that has some overlapping problems, but are still too different to make a prediction.

I think VR would have been more successful if we had a common base for different devices. My believe in tech dystopia is severely dampened if it relies on VR.