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Facebook may have momentum, but the VR side of things has little momentum at all.

For people to really start using this, they need two things: trust and goodwill. People trusted that Facebook would rectify its privacy issues at the start. Remember the promise of a global council for Facebook? That got killed pretty quickly, along with apps you could plug into Facebook and other innovative things for creators. But enough scandals and there is no more trust, so if Facebook launches something truly different then no one feels they can trust it.

And goodwill. There is no more of it left. For people to try something new from an existing company, it really takes a reasonable amount of goodwill before they will give it a try. Like the reasons for a lack of trust, there is a lack of goodwill.

So Facebook has momentum. This Meta VR or whatever it is called has none. And it’s unlikely to gather much at this point.

Frankly, as one of the people who distrust Facebook, I hope they die and wither on the vine.
I carefully eviscerated windows from my life. It’s better that way if you can do it.
To the author: you're doing a great job.
I did the same, unfortunately there is no way to disable a small “ding” noise when a message is written by someone, and then I’m too curious not to check the hidden msg in console.

It also feels so unreal when chat is off, its almost like playing against bots.
I mean any server application needs compute. Not sure how many clock cycles are needed to run a mail server, but since the Ethereum world computer is like a 10000 times slower than a single laptop, I figured it wasn't enough for really any kind of compute?
Thats generally what I do, I skip to the last paragraph, read it, and if I've missed any important context (that I care about of course), I go up one, rinse and repeat until I get the point they're making, or until I get bored and decide I can quite happily live my life without knowing the busted myths
No.

If you want this to change, change the source, don't patch cargo cult on top.
You can totally loose weight by exercising, it's just regular people don't exercise hard enough. If you do pro athlete levels of exercise it will start affecting your weight a lot.
I guess it comes down to comparing the risk of poor quality housing vs the risks of homelessness. Kind of like that saying "the real minimum wage is zero"
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The article says pretty explicitly that, while you do burn more calories while exercising, your body finds other ways to compensate and generally keeps about the same total energy expenditure in a day.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply to extreme cases like modern athletes, who explicitly push their bodies in many ways that normal fit people don't, and who have teams of doctors and coaches that can force them to keep up with exercise and diet even when their bodies are telling them to stop.
An organization could indeed buy their way out of an decline, if it is flexible and fast enough and if the managment is able to spend the money on sane decisions.

An organisation could spend infinite funds wrongly and still fall, if not a single deciding person in your organisation is willing to not lie to themselves and act on it.
> Now you want to actually trace something. There is at least three ways to it:

> * write all intersection and BVH code by yourself;

> * build and use open-source third-party library;

> * use something like Intel Embree.

How many more useful ways are there? Pretty much the only better thing that comes to my mind is "study something like Embree and then write a shader compiler that produces tracing code on-the-fly", and even that perhaps might not be actually better (although it's my understanding that OSL may actually be doing something like this).
It doesn't matter that you forgot to read the twitter thread (or anything else about the situation apparently) before commenting, and as a result your commentary is pure nonsequitor? Is that right?
I could always tell what’s the weather there without looking at a forecast. :)
As a rule I generally keep most in the app layer after some annoying runins with too much logic at the database layer.

Simple validation, like describing that a price cannot be below 0, I keep in the database. Email validation I keep on the app level.

It allows for easier deployments, easier debugging and it is easier to migrate to a different database should the need arise.

However both works.
I think ssh has been scrutinized by hackers already. Vulnerabilities I know about have to do with servers using deprecated encryption algorithms.

Firewall rules in front of ssh are a good idea but I don’t think that adds security to ssh itself. It does block apps opening ports, as you point out.
I dont have issue that much with your larger point. But, you could have picked part time job in supermarket and you would get "be on time", "work well individually", "take direction" or "communicate with people". You could have take any sport (whether collective or individual) and got those too.
This version lacks the Johnny Weir / Tara Lipinski commentary and ends rather abruptly. The YouTube version was several minutes longer and showed Kamila being berated by her coach, screaming backstage that she hated the sport, etc.

Even the little that is shown from the end of the skate in this version appears to have been edited to minimize Kamila's reaction. For example, at the end of the skate, Kamila does a throw gesture in despair. The YouTube version made it obvious with a front and center closeup while this one sticks with a distant overhead camera. And around the time she started to really break down, they abruptly cut to scoring.

I'd really like to know why this was removed too. Was it pressure from Russia? The IOC? Hmmmm.
Completely disagree. I agree that the _delivery_ is important, but the interval between when discovering a problem and announcing it should be minimal.

There's a huge difference between maintaining the social etiquette of allowing your conversationalist to explain themselves fully, and waiting a little while before announcing a problem. Announcing right away in a respectful manner also let's you get a correction right away.
I’m not who you replied to but Discord has this terrible behavior in channels with a lot of content where scrolling up loads historical messages, but often sends you to a random location in history instead of smoothly scrolling through them in reverse chronological order.
In that case it opens up the opportunity for synthetic gasoline which could be carbon neutral.
That would require a demurrage currency to eliminate liquidity preference.
I wonder when it would be that I or my family elders would be online in a metaverse. Do you hop on during lunch time at work? Would you need the VR helmet thing? Or would there be some sort of text timeline showing what metamates are up to? Would people without powerful enough phones be outright excluded? If I'm setting up an ad campaign on the metaverse, do I have to "virtually physically" walk my avatar to some office in the metaverse to talk to an ad rep? If I have neck problems will this make it worse? Will it affect my eyesight?

I can imagine a Discord-type of world, basically Second Life without the game mechanics. Could I have my Pikachu follow me around? What about an avatar of my real dog?

This stuff exists already though. So the value add is that I feel more immersed, while simultaneously being more disconnected from the flow of my everyday life? It's already rude to get on your phone when you have company, how much worse is it if you have to don a headset or something to take a call?

Anyways, I'm 30 and it all sounds lame to me. I don't play video games. I didn't even get the Pokemon Go thing when everyone my age got obsessed. Maybe I'm just too literal minded. I guess I'll focus on buying real stuff with the real money I make by making virtual stuff for the metaverse.
In the context of nutrition the word calories always means dietary calories, so the kilo- prefix is redundant unless discussing physics, or commenting on HN...Ooooh, ok.
> Even in the US

The US is the exception, not the rule. Most countries have a mandatory minimum of around 24 paid vacation days / year. Also usually a bunch of national holidays to plan your vacation around.
Replying to “only slides,” not presentations in general, which may need video.
Seems like a lot of work (and a lot of time to get working reliably) for a relatively minor issue that can be mostly fixed by skim reading
You can't think of any military use for 100 tons of cargo delivered anywhere in the world in 45min? Lats a pretty acute lack of imagination. DoD is already funding it too:

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-signs-a-deal-to-rocket-mili...
There are a lot of comments here about how the author should've used ZFS, or how well now they know about ZFS, but the post addresses this:

> The other big elephant in the room, of course, is “why weren’t you using ZFS in the first place”. While it is true that Alpine has supported ZFS for years, I’ve been hesitant to use it due to the CDDL licensing. In other words, I chose the mantra instilled in me about GPL compatibility since the days when I was using GNU/Linux over pragmatism.

It's not as if the author wasn't aware of ZFS, but had issues with the license.
They don't have warheads designed for surface strike. Do you mind elaborating on what you mean by this?
300 USD? That is incredibly expensive! In Germany, the general public can order a Libre 2/3 from their website for 60 EUR. That's 150 USD per month (assuming 26 devices per year). Though that's a purely theoretical price: As with insulin, the mandatory health insurance seems to pay for it anyway.

Even with import taxes/tariffs applied, I could imagine a vacation to Europe being massively subsidized by just bringing back one or two years of GCM supplies (obviously Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness[1] applies).

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
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Ah my bad, looks like I had the wrong numbers
This seems silly for another reason: these fish are genetically engineered to be fluorescent, which means that if you shine light on them at one frequency (typically UV-A light), they emit light at another frequency (red, green or blue). They are not luminescent, which is the spontaneous emission of light, like in fireflies. Lacking any UV light in the wild of nature, surely, they would hardly look any different from any ordinary fish.
Free Open Source GPU Powered Procedural Terrain Generator Update
Reading this, I would recommend to listen to the analogy about the "card deck" (in the video in the link) maybe it will help you to put 2 and 2 together in the Russia context, and perhaps motivate you to get real knowledge about world affairs, or at least, familiarize yourself with the principles of nation-state interactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixOyiR8B-8
Some applications really need to be stateless. What if you don't have wear leveling because you're on some bizzare embedded thing?

You could have a one-time written random seed though, which would be enough when combined with an RTC, and would probably still be enough when combined with the almost universally present HWRNGs built into everything now.

RTCs themselves nearly always seem to have about 56 bytes of memory, but I'd hate to see half of that used just for RTC, I'd rather it be exposed to applications via the FS somehow.

But, it could be enough for a 64 bit counter, which would be combined with a one time written secret.
Feels to me like pushing your body to extremes is akin to a metabolic shock and your system rebooting in another operating mode. Probably needs another reboot to go into regular mode, so your apetite will also vary in the meantime
Not offline, but more secure (maybe?) than a random WebApp, is the Transcription option in the online version of Microsoft Word.

If you have Microsoft 365 via your employer, you can transcribe up to 300 minutes a month. I use it a lot for recorded work calls, as my memory is awful.

I just wish they'd roll it out to the Desktop version of Word, as the online version struggles with transcripts longer than 50 pages.
Seems like the same amount of characters that are each wider would be wider? So you would see less characters on a line with the same amount of characters
some days ago when i was trying to copy some icons from ytb i found this tool. Really good job!
I can't imagine not being able to take a single extra day off for two years straight.

I think the only realistic options for most people are to (1) quit and take extended time off between jobs, or (2) get approval for unpaid leave. Unfortunately most jobs don't have an option for the latter. And even if your job does offer unpaid leave, I don't think I could truly "disconnect" knowing that work is potentially piling up in the background and waiting for me when I get back.
When compared with the SAD standard american diet, any diet intervention (short of eating double portions of the SAD) is going yield positive results.
Thanks for posting this! It's an absolute godsend for creating small vector icons.

As an example, I was looking at various popular sites for how they implement the "hamburger menu" icon, and it turns out that YouTube has a really compact one:

M21,6H3V5h18V6z M21,11H3v1h18V11z M21,17H3v1h18V17z

When I tried implementing my own in something like Inkscape, it always uses floats for coordinates, no matter how hard I tried to coax it into a fixed grid or using integer values. With that problem alone, you will never be able to get a compact path.

This editor is perfect for doing this.
> Catastrophic failure of a plane causes a fire, catastrophic failure of a rocket causes a detonation the size of a small nuke.

Rockets do not detonate. They cause rapid burning. The fuel and oxidizer are not well mixed so cannot detonate.
The Apple App Store likes to show reviews that are tied to a country, but at least for the ones I see Xcode sits at a proud 2.6 stars, with hundreds of 1 star reviews complaining about bugs and crashes.

Certainly reflects my experience as well. When the text editor of a development environment doesn't work right, I mean, shouldn't that be job number 1? Search google for "Xcode bugs", you'll see thread after thread of complaints.

I can find major complaints of bugs and crashes going all the way from 9 years ago to the latest Xcode release, no other development environment has this many complaints. It is by far the most buggy and crash prone development environment available today. People _happily_ pay for AppCode for a reason.
Big landlords already incorporated in the UK. Small landlords (the majority), who haven't yet, just move in that direction and get screwed with legal and accounting costs, but otherwise nothing changes.

Most limited company buy to let mortgages in the UK are underwritten by a directors personal guarantee. It's just a technicality compared to a personal mortgage and so only shakes out the laziest of landlords
In principle there is nothing wrong with loans. The problem is that people can simply hold cash for free. They demand +x% (liquidity preference) on top of the guaranteed 0% so the market interest rate never actually falls to zero. Central banks have to simulate negative interest rates via quantitative easing it is completely backwards.
Why do swimmers eat 8 meals a day without gaining weight ?
Well you can, but only if the exercise is putting your calories under your TDEE. Sure there are slight body changes ongoing if you exercise enough (recomp) while staying on your normal intake, but basically

- Calories over TDEE: You gain weight

- Calories under TDEE: You lose weight

It's that simple
out of context, that quote is really funny; what happens once you reach 4650 calories? you start violating the rules of thermodynamics?

(i know your body starts compensating for it and burning less calories, but still)
Tor is banned (or rather, tar-pitted in endless CAPTCHAs) because the amount of legit users is massively dwarfed by the abuse

If everyone running scrapers and attack probes start showing up as Firefox, then they'll end up in the same situation.
TLDR: They got an error from the RAID1 array, but they re-added the broken drive to the array.

Also, they did’t have backups.

Then, they did fsck -y on the filesystems on the array incorporating the broken drive. What they probably should have done first is remove the broken drive from the array again.
Or a green card holder.
I wonder who they consider "Apple employees". After doing the math, they are claiming that the average Apple employee makes 68K a year. I don't know if I buy that.
Yes, sorry. kcal not cal.
What the heck kind of "snack" is 1000 kcal?
Oh wow, I didn't know freelancers have a higher tax burden, thanks for the heads up!
This Reddit post offers an explanation,

"From what I understand (second-hand info), personality not productivity drove this decision. He ran an unhappy lab, and he was arrogant even for MIT. I can definitely see that in the way he presents himself, so I can give credence to that explanation. Don’t know personally so he could be a great guy and I’m wrong, but there are valid reasons someone can be denied tenure even with research that goes above and beyond, and it isn’t hard to imagine that being the case here."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/sv34ez/tenure_d...
Both are unnecessary and confusing to see when set against the massive success of their creators.
As I understand it, a QR code is just a URL.

If we were to have standardized font that had distinct characters (there are plenty), it would be no harder for a computer to scan and understand than a qr code, and would take less space on the packaging or app.

The only reason that QR codes are a thing is that, by virtue of them not being human readable, you can put in minutae for tracking, the user doesn't realize what they are getting into, and the user can't modify it to remove offensive parts (like stripping out all the gook in a nGoogle search result URL).

All complaints about tinyURLs in their time are vaid for QR, and then some.

If there was some way to push at least the "good" companies, (like, um... ) to use a url instead of a code... but I fear that boat has sailed.
>There are stupid investors out there, but they won't be investors for long.

Softbank seemingly hasn't ran out of money, despite making about the worst investments anyone can have done. The people who don't last long are you or I, people who can put 10k max. The large investors have more money than sense, and can afford to do so.

> The company tricks the consumer - not the investor.

If I give you the money to commit a crime, I am partly responsible for the crime. I don't know why, in your mind, investors should be treated differently, aside from hoping that you'll one day be the one that invests into a company and make loads of money tricking people.
It makes way more sense to launch the whole space station in one piece. ISS is how it is because they couldn't.
Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
My advise: (as someone who does a lot of working out and calorie control)

Write down what you eat for a while and its calories. Weigh yourself daily as well and write that down too. If after a week your weight went up: Your calories are above your TDEE. If it went down: Your calories are under your TDEE.

And that's basically it, once you know what your TDEE is, eat under it to create a caloric deficit and you will lose weight. Even if you don't exercise at all and just sit at home.

Sure exercise will help putting your caloric deficit lower by burning some, but in the end it's always calories vs TDEE. Understanding that makes it very easy to go in either direction (gain weight vs lose weight), no matter what your metabolism is

(The easy solution is of course to just eat less, like skipping a meal or reducing the amount. Since your average daily food is already what dictates your current weight, reducing it means you will lose weight)
The TED talk referred to in the article is quite interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4
Without the space shuttle, ISS has lost its reason to exist. Without ISS, the shuttle would have had no reason to exist.
then stock markets should be banned as well :)

sick mentality... he gonna die soon
It could be argued that doing all of that despite being a member of an oppressed group would be more meritorious than not. Swimming a mile is one thing, swimming a mile upstream is another.
"You don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin. He's broke and he don't do shit." ~Lawrence, Office Space (1999)
Ancient egypt had grain banks. Grains tend to spoil at a rate of 2-4%. A loan with 0% interest is actually profitable because you get fresh grain with no loss at the end. You don't have to worry how to store your physical wealth.

Money lets us pretend that society must pay the cost of spoiled grains by replacing them with fresh grains free of charge. So people must constantly raise prices or stop working.
You seem to conflate backups with off-site backups, and concluding that off-site backups are hard. However, nothing in this story would require off-site backups. A separate backup server on-site would have been fine here.

Of course, off-site backups are good, but would not have been actually needed in this case.
AMD Ryzen 6000 Mobile CPU Benchmarked: The Bronze Medal Ain't Bad
I’m glad you’re not revolting.
That sounds like it would be a bummer.
>If Marxism truly is responsible for suffering at scale, then why are there people still fervently attached to the idea? Is it a lack of historical context?

As a citizen of a former eastern bloc country, there is more than one reason. The first and most straightforward is the group who held jobs under socialism that barely created any economic value. Since being unemployed for a longer period of time was a criminal offense, a lot of these "bullshit jobs" were created to keep everyone occupied. These people had a rude awakening when a free market based economy had no need for their work.

The second group of people that are deeply disillusioned by the current status quo for various reasons. This group is much harder to define as their ideals combine both economic and social reform. I recommend reading Theodore Kacynski's Industrial Society and It's Future where he articulates his opinions better than I could in this reply. One notable catchphrase of this group is "real communism hasn't been tried" which is followed up by denying the atrocities committed by the soviets.

It's also a brand and national symbol in some places like you mentioned with capitalism. China is a de-facto capitalist dictatorship that is only socialist in name.

>is Marxism a flawed system but still has some good ideas in it?

Of course it has some good ideas. Nothing is black and white. And besides, one man's seized property is another man's government issued living space :^)
I think it's obfuscating the issue to say this is a problem with QR codes. The actual problem is visiting an unknown URL. It doesn't matter if you do that by QR code, clicking a link, or typing it in. The end result is the same. The lesson should be "Don't visit URLs you don't trust" no matter how you enter them into your browser.