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I have the Quest I and Quest II. Thrill of the Fight is my main "workout" game, so now I use the Quest I exclusively for that (works just as well), because I do worry about the amount of sweat I get on it. I use the Quest II for the less physically punishing apps to maintain its longevity.

The Quest II actually feels a little more uncomfortable to be for exercise anyway. It seems like the lenses are closer to the face and the unit gets a little warmer.

So to you question, yes the face gasket and head strap can get quite sweaty, but not so much "inside" the device far as I can tell.

To the last point, I've punched the headset with the controllers a few times (usually going for a short inside uppercut), but they seem pretty sturdy. (Or maybe my punches just have no power :-)
So, it's not relevant, but then it's more relevant?

Well, sure, merit and popularity rarely align, and one with enough technical culture can always imagine a better world.
> For one thing that clock would have to survive the sun going nova.

Off-topic, but our sun won’t go nova.

https://www.space.com/14732-sun-burns-star-death.html
Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused
I mean, C++ doesn't have "proper" strings, so I wouldn't wait up for C getting them.
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Tides of History is fantastic
What games does the Index support that the Quest 2 doesn't? Honest question since the Q2 works fine with Steam VR.
I am getting higher monitor stands so that I am not pointing my head down whenever I am viewing a screen.
I love how benign it all is, fun rabbit hole.

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No, but I don't know of any other uses for such concentrated peroxide.
Tiny snake game made in x86_64 assembly for Linux
> which separated strontium atoms into a line in a single vacuum chamber

I’ve always wondered how stuff like this works in practice. Even with particular accelerators, how did they figure out how to control the particles to line them up and synchronized it to be blasted at high speeds? I always assumed it was something less sophisticated like bombarding it and just letting whatever gets sent across get measured. But this is taking about lining them up in a vacuum.

This type of physics is like black magic to an outsider.
Like this page?

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/gpl-code/

It's not even slightly hidden, pretty easy to get the code.
Outdoor group sports wasn't really forbidden in many countries, or just for a small period of time.

It wasn't my goal to alienate anybody. On the contrary I was trying to highlight the advantages of group sports.
Pay special attention to the "Coffee Temperature" section:

> "Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C),[37] relying on more sternly worded warnings on cups made of rigid foam to avoid future liability"

In other words, Stella's lawsuit was sort of a one-off success for aspiring hot-coffee lawyers, and the only effect it had in the long run was maybe a few more warning labels on paper cups.
Not only that, one could easily argue that it hasn't even happened in the USA :)

Although a massive PR campaign has been waged to suit the legislative agenda of tort reform, because in order do massively limit the liability of huge corporations to effective legal redress for their victims, there has to be a public perception of a masses of frivolous law suits.
Not to be confused with https://github.com/microsoft/pyright and dozens more smaller projects.
I don't think skrebbel was saying that the branches are not git-compatible, I think they were just wondering if there is support for branches at all, but I'm not sure. Anyway, there is support for branches. They behave more like Mercurial's "bookmarks" in that they are assumed to have the same name on all remotes. That usually works well, but it gets annoying if there are unrelated branches all called e.g. "fix-formatting" on multiple remotes you pull from. Jujutsu would then tell you that the branch has a conflict because it doesn't know where it's supposed to point. I'll probably add some way of telling `jj git fetch` which branches to import, but I'm not sure yet what the best solution is.

See https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/branches.md for more information.
I can’t imagine the amount of work and research need to make a podcast of that quality and length. I imagine many Master theses would be unable to convert their work into a podcast of this quality.

And to see it’s all released for free for us to consume… just mind-boggling.
Just thinking out loud, I wonder if this falls afoul of the GDPR for users in the EU in any way. This "access is blocked" position kind of leaves hanging whether data has explicitly been retained or deleted; so in scenarios where a user could demonstrate incontrovertible proof that they uploaded some information to a service and did not delete it, it would be interesting to see if the user could leverage freedom-of-information or similar to regain access to their data. My naive guess is that the only legitimate scenario where the service could deny this is where the content is illegal - and I (loosely) understand that the GDPR has stipulations requiring humans to be able to review and revert automated/AI actions applied to user data, so issuing a FOIA-type request could make for a fairly intuitive way to kick the tires in these sorts of situations - worst case scenario the service hands the user their data and tells them to leave, best case scenario (sigh) there's no explanation and everything goes back to normal :( (hmph)

*If* this is possible, of course, it only works where the GDPR holds ground - so the EU, sadly. But again, *if* this is actually possible, that's a pretty big win for the GDPR and all the more reason to make noises about it.

Which was why I was wondering out loud - I'm curious how far detached my mental model is from reality.
I loved Thrill of the Fight.
I sweat like a pig on it.

Too bad I get obsessed with fast knockout punches and my shoulders hurt like hell after a couple of days.

I also learnt the hardway you cannot outrun a bad diet. I would routinely burn 600+ callories in Thrill of the Fight only to get extremely hungry after and eat double what I've burnt.

For me weight training is better than cardio because I don't get the same hunger afterwards, on the countrary, if I do it late in the evening I can't eat at all. I also can't sleep afterwards.

I also became obsessed with shooting/hunting simulators and haven't done any exercise in VR for a long time.
if you have the stock cloth piece in your headset, it gets disgusting and you'll have acne by day 3. No way to clean it unless you buy the aftermarket eye piece that isn't porous.

I tried working out in VR but realized that working out in RR is way more fun.
You are right, in tethered mode I don't think the Quest 2 has any fewer games than the Index, I was just considering the standalone mode of Quest 2.
Like if you fail to win an election (or even if you win 4 years earlier, but fail to secure the popular vote), for example, or if your inauguration didn't have the highest attendence ever, one could go on and on with examples :)
Gmail is much more likely to mark emails from smaller providers as spam, thats my experience.

Kind of sad that “it looks bad” if your email lands in spam. It happens, this is the technology.
Honest noob question: when we get to this level of precision with time, do we have to start worrying about Heisenburgian effects? As in, having such precision in our timing measurements influences the outcome of our results?

I know nothing about physics but I find this fascinating.
>New Orleans, Louisiana where 18.8% of households live without cars has a 23.7% poverty rate and a median income of $41,604, that’s well below the national average.
Dallas Texas where 10.2% of households live without cars has a 18.9% poverty rate, median income of $52,580, so it’s larger, wealthier, and denser yet has significantly more cars.

Are you suggesting that when poor people get cars, they are better able to drive to work, then make more money? Because that is my take-away from this
Why? Do you think something's wrong with that?
Indeed, but we are not talking about bringing down an undemocratic government here. There are democratic ways to replace a government in a democracy.
Another atomic clock.

(No, really: with three uncorrelated clocks you can separate their variances.)
I don't disagree with anything you've said! I take issue specifically with the idea that coercion implies ownership, which, well, it doesn't
I don't think you can generally claim that testers aren't to blame for bugs, nor that should they be credited for bug-free software.

Obviously dedicated testers can't fix bugs themselves, so cannot be to solely to blame for bugs. Similarly, it's possible to write bug-free software without a dedicated tester, so testers can't receive full credit for bug-free software.

However, a testers job is not to play a game haphazardly. Rather, the job of a tester is to develop a methodical way testing software that is under rapid development. This can mean creating test plans, understanding the most important user flows, understanding common failure scenarios, and even light automation. Games are hugely complex pieces of software. This large breadth means that the test workload is too big for the engineering team. Also, the systems underpinning a game are usually very tightly coupled, meaning that changes in one system can break things in a completely unrelated system. Having good testers is an integral part of delivering a bug-free experience in this type environment.
1) Games take this into account. There's no "Headbanger Hero VR". The headset holds on just fine with moderate acceleration.

2) The face gasket gets damp with a moderate workout, and sometimes I soak it if I push really hard. It air-dries between uses. It's made of antimicrobial something-or-other which seems to last a long time before it turns funky. When it does, new ones are 2 for $40, so you just throw it away and snap a new one on. The rest of the headset doesn't get wet.

3) I haven't had problems with it, but some people feel it gets too hot and humid. If so, you can get aftermarket fans which fit in the frunk to circulate air through it.

4) I haven't yet! The headset stays on fine. I have clapped the controllers together moderately hard a few times with no apparent damage. Everything seems well-made, and you can buy individual pieces if you do manage to break something.

My experiences are all with the Valve Index. YMMV with other setups.
You are correct, and if that were the end of it, people like myself who are concerned about it could rightly be labeled paranoid.

However, the collected data create an intimate, detailed portrait of you. Data aggregators can know how old you are, your general state of health, where you have been, your interests, including sexual interests, your political views both expressed and unexpressed, your associations, your associates,
your family, your daily habits, your unusual habits, your credit score, whether that credit score is accurate, etc, etc.

And, this is true for everyone you come into contact with: friends, family, business associates.

An AI could, with this data, model you and your behavior more accurately than could your own spouse.

Moreover, not only must you trust the people with access to that data, and everyone they sell it to, to only ever use it for targeted ads, but you must trust everyone who will ever have access to it, forever.

While you may believe you're boring and your views are entirely uncontroversial, times change. Or, hell, with enough data and motivation, someone can paint a damning portrait of you made up whole cloth from true, innocuous details.

You have to just hope that neither you nor anyone you associate with become a political target, or the target of criminal activity, or garner just plain negative attention, for whatever reason, because if so, you and your loved ones will be trivially easy to find and manipulate.
No, the famous hot-coffee lawsuit did not result in lower service temperatures. Coffee is still widely served at the same flesh-burning scaldingly hot temperatures:

> "Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C),[37] relying on more sternly worded warnings on cups made of rigid foam to avoid future liability, though it continues to face lawsuits over hot coffee.[37][38] The Specialty Coffee Association of America supports improved packaging methods rather than lowering the temperature at which coffee is served. The association has successfully aided the defense of subsequent coffee burn cases.[38] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...
That's true, I just forgot about them. From what I've seen, the Vive occupies a midpoint in price and quality between the Oculus products and the Index.

EDIT: I hadn't actually seen much of the Vive Pro 2, it looks... comparable to the Index? Both price and feature-wise?
> How on earth are you going to clone a game like Stardew Valley, or Disco Elysium, or Factorio, or No Man's Sky, or Subnautica

Stardew Valley clones: https://gamerant.com/stardew-valley-clone-harvest-life-super...

Factorio has a bunch of games that if not clones, are pretty damn similar to Factorio. I'm playing one right now called Dyson Sphere Program, but there's Satisfactory, Mindustry, Automation Empire, Shapez.io, FactoryIdle.com, and here's one on iOS in particular (since we're talking about mobile games) called Builderment: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/builderment/id1558592038

Subnautica: https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/141925/subnautic...
Hell, people claiming No Man's Sky's new content update being heavily inspired by Subnautica: https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/155102/no-mans-s...

No Man's Sky already has a bunch of similar games that predates it on a bit smaller scale, but here's one I found that looks heavily inspired by it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/41244629...

Disco Elysium is so heavily narrative driven it's not a good candidate for a clone, sure, and also it's not the sort of game that would appeal to a casual app crowd, so it's not a good candidate for being cloned anyway. I guess you found one!

I'm not saying there's nothing out there that can't be cloned, obviously a couple of guys at a clone studio aren't going to crank out a game in a couple of months that has the borderline AAA production values of No Man's Sky. But the point is, neither can most indie developers make those games in the first place either, especially not those that haven't already had a previously (and usually much smaller) successful game first.

Hell, Hello Games couldn't even make No Man's Sky (at least not the first time around, took several years and many apologies to buyers before it finally got to its original vision).
> does my boss or employer own me?

Nope. Because you and your boss work based on a voluntary freely consented agreement, not a forcible one. Slave contracts are illegal. You can quit anytime.

Taxation is not a free consent thing. I vote against lots of taxes, but they pass anyway and I'm forced to pay them. A vote is not consent and is not a contract.

> I don't agree that exerting some amount of influence over behavior that affects me is ownership

Forcibly controlling other people's behavior is ownership.

I wore seatbelts years before the law forced me to. I resent such laws in a free society, despite my seatbelt saving my life at one point. I will continue to wear a bike helmet even though I'm pleased the helmet law was repealed. I encourage you to wear one, too, but if you don't want to, it's your choice and your cranium.
The context of my comment was the claim that there was "loss of mandate", not whether freezing bank accounts of any group is legal or advisable.
Oh my fault.. assumed the color scheme was the same:
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies here… you cannot make a measurement which is both precise in frequency and compact in time.

This should be, in some sense, natural to people who understand how a Fourier transform works… basically, when you apply a “window” function to measure a signal over a limited period of time, you end up with the signal smeared in the frequency domain.
Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2].

For video content of a similar feel, Historia Civilis[3] is hard to beat.

[0]: revolutionspodcast.com
[1]: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
[2]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis
Do you mean one microsecond every couple hundred years? Which would be a few nanoseconds per year?
OIC, thanks.
Ownership is the power to coerce someone to do your bidding. It's not a piece of paper.
I don't think I've ever used a linked list in 12 years of embedded C programming.
Fair. That was the term that came to mind in the flow of writing the comment.
Link is unrelated to headline.
FYI, there was an update on that issue saying that they're going to create an overlay tomorrow.
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One can work around HN’s mangling of dots in URLs by writing them as %2e. E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin....
Agree with all the benefits you listed about in-person sport. Main issue is the time commitment with team sports.

VR is in and out in 30-40 mins and the sports venue is your living room or garage (no travelling required)

IME - VR can be more fun than the gym.

VR can be social and competitive. Many online e-sports are.

Horses for courses etc..
Yes, that part is different, reusability of the code is not expected to be the same as normal software code. Not different that the code starts from requirements (which are different) and it should be correct, which basically is the "following normal development practices".
This Saudi women's activist - Loujain al-Hathloul, is one of the most courageous people I have ever heard of. She was arrested for driving a car in 2018 and remained in prison till 2021 and she was subjected to severe torture and abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul

Her husband is another exceptionally courageous person and it is inspiring to see their cheer and steadfast courage despite all the hardship they face. It is sad to see Saudi Arabia continuing to harass this couple.
It may not even be that. If, for example, one group rides bikes more often than another group, they may be cited for lack of helmet use more even if the percentage of helmet use was exactly the same and the enforcement was perfectly unbiased.
So, a couple of weird things here.

First, when I go to the website, whether it's the mobile version or the desktop version, the on-screen iPadOS keyboard is immediately hidden from me. I have no way to type anything into the website, unless I flip out the physical keyboard that just happens to be attached to this case. I have never seen that kind of behaviour before on any other website, ever.

Second, Apple does not make it easy to figure out where the "turn off smart quotes" option is located. I think I turned it off under the switch for Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation but I'm not 100% certain. Nevertheless, this is the first case where I recall using quotes where they were not honored as I would have expected. I'm not sure where the blame lies on this -- is it a user expectation problem, an iPadOS problem, or a website problem?

I'll try again, this time trying to make sure I use the proper type of quotes.
Well, the person who posted this nice-sounding comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402432 has an email in their profile.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Worth giving a go at least...

My anecdotal experience (just poking around) is that Google never deletes publicly-facing data, because it's cheaper to just keep it. So there may be a reasonable chance the photos are tucked away somewhere, along with the metadata pointing them to the account in question.
https://archive.is/vZAZV
That is not a reason to choose one over the other, for the reason you stated.
Our company read.ai builds add-ons for videocon clients so I'm pretty familiar with most clients.

- Zoom is just simply the best in terms of stability, performance, user experience, and in particular ease-of-first-use. Call quality is the best.

- Webex is a hot mess. They've been scrambling to catch up and have made stride but have a ways to go. Install is a nightmare

- google meet feels like it's barely changed in 5 years. Makes my fans take off. Decently stable at least

- Teams is decent all-around, featureful, and actually had a good SDK before Zoom, but install/userex and stability struggle at times

- is skype even a thing still?

Hands down the two biggest factors are time-until-first-use, friction, and stability of the audiovideo stream. Zoom simply dunked on the other legacy players in this regard.
I don't understand why migrating humans seems to surprise anyone. With stone-age technology, people can walk across a continent within a lifetime or sail across an ocean (Polynesians). What obstacles would have stopped million-year old pre-humans? Could it be they were travelling all over the world quite often but many of them ended up not leaving any descendants or fossils?
A good show should let you miss a few episodes.

I tend to prefer self contained shows, like South Park. Unless I'm going to binge the entire season at once.
I think he deserves to be name shamed here
Thanks... makes sense to me. Maybe i will contribute by finding a solution and describing the way to get there.
I think invoking the act is well within the democratic framework. The act mandates that there be an inquiry after to assess the validity etc. That will all come in time and I am sure lawsuits will follow too.

That said, there is definitely something going wrong with a portion of Canadian society because they trust Rebel News and Infowars more than any legitimate media organisation. Getting to the root of it will be crucial in figuring out what went wrong.
The Case Against Manned Spaceflight (1986)
That's unfortunate. We study history to avoid repeating old mistakes. Censorship of active conflicts is sometimes understandable in the heat of battle, but history usually provides enough distance for reflection and debate. If contemporary corp/state leaders ever forget expensive lessons learned by humanity, it can be instructive to have living examples of reformed institutions.

There is sometimes a risk of category errors with long-lived companies and trademarks, across multiple geographies, decades, leadership regimes and business models. Sometimes it would be helpful to have a more granular reference, e.g. BigCo Version N, or Decade M, or hash (time, geo, leadership, policy).

We are on the verge of encoding complex social policy into computer-enforced transactional and payment systems, far beyond the scope of traditional e-commerce. Hopefully we can spare a moment of silence and reflection to ensure "Never Again".

Prior HN discussions:

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20122053

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268248

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650611