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You're missing something. Yes it's for turbo nerds, but it's also for ultra casuals.

I have shown Beat Saber to probably around 30 people at this point. The game is set up in the living room with the TV mirroring the headset and the audio coming through the living room speakers. So it feels like a party environment with everyone trading off with watching and playing. Without even a single exception, every person who has tried it has absolutely loved it. Even several people who have never touched a digital game of any kind in their life, and took all manner of convincing to even try it at all.

In any other game you play, there is always some mapping of inputs into actions. Doesn't matter if it's MKB or game controller or touch screen; you have to learn that deflecting a joystick moves the player camera, or pressing "A" causes your character to jump. But in VR, at least in games like Beat Saber, you simple move your body in exactly the way you'd expect. You don't press a button at the right time to slice a block, you just slice the block. Couple that with the immersion you get in both sound and visuals, and it adds up to something that feels absolutely magical.

Yes, many things do struggle with clunky movement, nausea, etc. There are many games that I have no desire to play in VR. But the stuff that shines bright shines really bright, and I think there's a huge amount of potential there.
As this comparison says[1], people got from Wright Brothers to 747 in a very short time and thought we'd be space travellers soon after that, but hey, a 747 was good enough.

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
> Not wireless

It's supposedly an autonomous device, although from the photos it seems that there's a brick on a cable to carry around.
kind of... he had it in his pocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs

but Steve is a showman and Tim is coordinator.
Never, ever install any business software (except software with a license for personal use like M365) or store any private business content on any personal device, ever.

If you want to know why, check the paperwork you had to sign for the job. I can 100% guarantee that you will find some legalese on IT, security and liability somewhere. In other words: If something goes terribly wrong you could be fired on the spot.
Don't think we'll take 10 years. GenAI NPCs are like 1-2 years. GenAI video is about 3-5 years max.

A little scary bringing a kid into this world. I've seen how my nephews and nieces get completely absorbed by screens.
The difference being is that Valve is competing a (mostly) open market. Clearly they are offering enough value to earn their 30%?
I think I'll skip the first generation and wait for the resolution to become better. 4k is good for a 22" external monitor, but having 4k cover your field of vision will make have to move your eyes a lot for the text to look good.
You'd think at some point people would learn, but I suppose human nature and selection bias are at play.
Well, first because they mentioned these UAPs were detected by multiple sensor systems, both in this article and the articles about the past videos you're referring to.

And second, from my own personal experience working in this area. We saw anomalous stuff on visuals/FLIR all the time. When you start seeing stuff on visuals/FLIR and radar/lidar/sonar/etc systems, then it's definitely worth a decent look.
Now that Apple supports it, people will want it.
"Get ready to learn to type without looking at the keys I guess"

Why wouldn't you be able to look at the keys? This is AR, you can see everything around you still, including a physical keyboard right in front of you.
Earlier today, I talked to people who are reformed criminals who have been thrown in Jail by the SEC and know its inner workings fairly well.

He'll likely get a slap on the wrist with some fines.

Doesn't look like anybody is going to jail.

We shall see how things shake out. Would get intriguing if the jaws of FINCEN suddenly opened up.
- AirPower. That was straight-up cancelled.
- The larger HomePod was pretty crap.
- Butterfly switch failures
- Apple Maps was garbage upon first release
- Ping was 13 years ago, but it was one of those things that everyone knew was doomed to fail
- The trashcan Mac Pro was not really made for professionals. I don't remember many selling.
Was sort of expecting a demo of interacting with a real object in your field of vision. And... maybe 'interacting with' isn't the right phrase. But the idea of looking at a table and being able to call up info about the table, or a dog, or a couch, or mountain, or whatever... I suspect that may come later, but was a little surprised to not see it out of the gate.
I find this notion deeply unconvincing. An assistant being consistently right matters when you give them simple gruntwork that you yourself can do fairly fast, and where it so is not helpful if you need to spend much time checking it. You quickly learn which types of tasks like that ChatGPT can do precisely enough to be worth it.

But for many other tasks, getting an outline - even a broken one - can often unblock things. I've noodled with fixing a bug in a compiler for a while, and asking ChatGPT gave me a solution that didn't work, but that was close enough to give me an outline of an approach that unblocked my own thinking.

It's more productive of you don't look at ChatGPT as a piece of software you expect flawless output from, but more like a slightly dense and annoying junior dev that you need to learn to work around: When you know its limits and use it accordingly, it can still save you time. If you expect it to do too complex tasks on its own, on the other hand, you end up with a time consuming mess.
Nope.

I get it, it's Apple and it's great and all that.

I'm just not going to wear that on my face.

I'm not.
As they demonstrated, Bluetooth accessories like a keyboard and mouse can be used. I basically did this, during the pandemic, with my Quest 2, a TV tray, and my MacBook sitting on the floor, next to me. I used my closet.
This whole conversation stems from an article about the excessive cost of putting parking _everywhere_, and acknowledging that while the desire to have a car and to want a place to park it is reasonable, that policy decisions fixating on that create costs for _everyone_. The article specifically mentions how in LA after the 1960s it was infeasible to develop medium-sized housing projects because of the parking minimum requirements. And planning specifically means that a lot of property owners were blocked from building higher density on their property. I.e. the car-centric and suburbanite central planners won, have been in control for decades, and their policies actively exacerbate the housing shortage even in urban markets.

In that context, it's absurd for you to act like suburbanites are the brow-beaten victims of city-dwellers telling you how to live. People living in the city who don't own cars are paying higher housing costs because of planing policies that demand that developers build more parking, or disallow multi-unit projects. It's the car-folk who are telling everyone else how to live, and have been for decades. The city-residents are also subsidizing the road construction and maintenance and the less efficient emergency services for suburbs in our counties, and the whole planet has to deal with the higher carbon footprint.

For you to frame this as all about individuals just happening to prefer driving and living in suburbs is disingenuous when the policy problems are _all about_ car-centric policies _forcing_ unnecessary constraints onto people. The LA guy in the article that wanted to open a deli but spent 6 figures and multiple years blocked over showing that he was meeting the parking requirements, and then giving up -- why is his desire to open a business less important than your desire to drive and have ample parking wherever you go? Suburban drivers are not the victims here; they are the problem.
Oh shit. I assumed outlook was being flaky because my inbox is 10gb.
It looks like support is coming along nicely

https://chaos.social/@marcan@treehouse.systems/1104910318986...

> I realize there are some Linux' running on Apple H/W, but due to do the closed nature (H/W specs anyone?) it will already be inferior to MacOS.

By that argument you could also say that Linux will always be inferior to Windows on the desktop
It is absolutely possible and it's exactly what will happen. Back in my day parents and grandpas were horrified with these things called video games which sucked the lives out of their kids. And how repetitive and mind numbing it all was and how humanity was doomed. Guess what? Didn't happen. It didn't happen back then it won't happen now. Chillax and go watch a few tik tok videos. Not everything there is garbage. You just need to give it time in order to see the value.
I assume you mean the Scala type Option<Int>, and that's an integer type which can be NaN, right?
Yes. What percentage of people in the world who use headphones would you say is using them?
Most of the live streaming stuff seems to be converging towards AV1.
yah, I'm amazed how humongous piles of paper analyses are considered more safe than evidence that stuff works in the real world. I get statistics are hard. It took 30 years to bust p-value hacking and much longer to get Bayes inference widely accepted. some of us would.love to _understand_ how neural net based automation makes it's decisions. how do you deal with the observable fact that these robots indeed in the real world make the right decisions more often than humans? but we can't explain why, because we didn't construct the robots controls, at least not in the traditional way?
A lot of “decent” people here would testify against their mother if the SEC showed up. I’m not convinced. Gensler is a fraud who is captured by monied interests. He is on your side for now, given that many here share the “MIT crypto teacher” desire to destroy that industry. Let’s see how it all plays out.
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Are you old enough to remember the big VHS video recorders? The shoulder mounted ones? This is minuscule and unobtrusive comparatively. Nothing dystopian about it.
Ex-radiology software developer here, and seconded! J2K is good, but here are some advantages of JXL in the context of medical imaging:

- Better compression ratios

- Ability to modify effort of lossless compression (good for real time transcoding)

- Multi-threaded encode and decode

- Far superior progressive decoding (great for low bandwidth scenarios, just stream in the lossless quality over time)
Yeah Valve/Steam seem relatively decent/ethical now (eg. Steam deck being a PC u can install what u want on and modify and repair), but it's just cus the average tech company has gotten so bad. When I 1st saw steam I was appalled, its a DRM system, a program running on my system that has no function and I dont want, + a bunch of online or social features I dont give a shit about.. and none of that has changed.
Does that mean acquired? 'cause that's more likely
n.b. "Pro Display" is a monitor, "Vision Pro" is the VR/AR headset.
100 games at launch isn’t aiming for gamers? That’s at least decent compared to the quest.
fwiw safari can also be a memory hog as well; it really comes down to the site you are browsing unfortunately (its just a reality of the web nowadays)

just open a few tabs of youtube in safari and 8gb laptop starts to feel cramped
I tried that at the time, I did plan for this eventuality in Nov 2020, but I remember that this didn’t work for that area. I forget why, but I was also trying to route towards gas stations since we were taking the scenic route and the stations were much further apart than I had expected. I also had a ham radio, but no programmed frequencies. It was like time traveling to the 1990’s except I had XM radio
Ah don’t worry they’re claiming they only used it for coffee orders and such ;)
On the other hand, isn't it quite typical for good ideas to be recognized as such many times before the technology is actually mature to implement them properly?

Edit: most morbid example that comes to mind - flying machines.
What does "forecast model" mean in this context?

I am surprised to hear an unfamiliar term described as a basic tool!
Does it really matter? These days decoding image with JS or Wasm should be fine. It's not video.
yea, the owner of the current world currency attacking it makes all the more evident right?
yeah, that's a classic read
That's an arbitrary over-generalization. I'm sure first class was carrying blackberries long after 2007.
The real money isn't in VR right now though. The real money is in AR. Does this fit that? Not sure, but there are hundreds of use cases for something like this in the workplace (and not just for developers/desk workers). Think the person who needs to reference a manual while working on something (machinery, car, top of a telephone pole, etc.). Just a single example, but I feel that is the kind of market that the executives are aiming at cause they know for businesses, the cost is immaterial if it solves their issue or makes it so 1 person can do the job of 2. Not endorsing it either, fwiw, just saying, that has to be part of the thinking. The gaming market just isn't big enough, especially when you figure in the cost of the equipment (even at half the cost).
The Neural engine is for inference, not training.
The neural engine on all recent Apple silicon (and A## devices) has "tensor" cores for matrix calculations (note: Apple abstracts all of this behind coreml so there is some conflation between the ANE and AMX instructions/hardware). The M2 Ultra offers 31.6 trillion ops per second with fp16, for instance, which actually bests an A100.

The software support is terrible, of course, which is the biggest limitation, but Apple clearly wants to be in that realm as well.
1. Low enough that you don't need to worry for most web backend code and 2. Anything is easier than that. *XYZ is not Send* amiright?

With Rust's async you have to worry about a different worker thread picking up the work after a context switch, which makes things complicated. Not so with Java.
You turned on a feature which helps diagnose this type of mistake at runtime, and it helped you by diagnosing the mistake at runtime. What does that prove?

What I'm talking about is that Rust's Option is very cheap in all the cases where it can be very cheap, which makes this whole design feature more affordable. C++ eventually grew std::optional which is not powerful enough for this work and yet is also bigger and slower. They could have done better, but safety wasn't a priority.
> After a few thousand years untouched, all forests became "rainforests".

Yea… I’m pretty sure this isn’t true.

There are many remote forests in Canada for example that haven’t been logged maybe ever and those areas still experience occasional large scale wildfires.
Hey, I think that's fair too.
Apple marketing made "Mac vs PC" to try to differentiate themselves, and I refuse to adopt their marketing terms as if they are facts. Most people who work with computers will call a Mac a Mac, but won't use the "PC" category as if it doesn't include Apple PCs.

Apple Silicon is really good for what it does. Apple does not create its RAM and the RAM is indeed equal for a significant markup.
I always figured Apple would target Glass before going into full AR. I mean, the "smartwatch for your face" accessory for your phone seems more up their alley, something lightweight and fashionable that just sends you notifications and turn-by-turn directions and stuff like that.

Going instead for this huge bulky thing is really surprising, since it's so far outside their normal wheelhouse. It seems like the real things it would bring to the table would be gaming and 3D viewing/modeling applications, which were barely considered in the demo.
My two warm takes, as a non-gamer and “never VR” guy who wears glasses and is old enough that I need new prescriptions every year and I don’t see trying to keep up with yet more annual prescription lens purchases:

In 5+ years will it be glasses and we can dump the iPhone? That'd be good (I realize it’ll surely take longer). I might pay $2K for that but I like taking my glasses off and sitting in front of my big 4K TV without anything on my face. So take that use case away unless I’m on a plane.

Mark Zuckerberg must realize how unserious his efforts have been. He probably can't ever do anything this ambitious, coordinated, and platform integration dependent. Even with his Brewsters Billions.

It’s about as refined and impressive and futuristic as I could’ve expected a v1 product to be, but while I enjoy gawking at it I don’t really want to take one home.

No one’s going to say, “Where’d you leave the vision pro’s?” It’ll be goggles or mask or something else. Not well named. Except they won’t be shareable (with lenses in), because they’ll be too personal, like a hat.

I maxed out the new Mac Pro on the Apple Store site and it came to $10K even. With full memory. That’s really blowing my mind.
Someone in my coworking space bought a Pro Display XDR. He's a movie maker who is shopping around a documentary to some major OTT players in my country. He said his work pretty much demands a really good screen and Pro Display XDR is the best he can buy as an independent filmmaker - his previous employer, a large studio, had screens that were slightly better but cost $20k+
Why not for a Macbook? What are the issues?
Really, what we need is a little 360 spatial drone that records important events like birthdays and what not and then you can relive them on a device like the Vision Pro. That's the best of both worlds and I think that's where things will head eventually. I think Google or Amazon or someone has made a security camera drone that flies around your house so it can't be far off.
Errr... I think there are a thousand developers talking about how AI doesn't help them, so I don't think that's a good argument.

My personal experience is:
- Writing some boilerplate/copy-paste testing code might turn out fine, but I still need to check it and that takes more mental effort than to just copy-paste-adapt with well-known keyboard shortcuts.
- Writing business-relevant production code that is readable, maintainable and concise: Forget AI (at least for now).

On good days I try to use and adapt to LLM-generated code, but at the end of the day, when I have to get things done I turn them off: It's easier to reflect and build a complex system without someone constantly "trying" to bullshit you... After all the LLM does not (yet?) know about all the details, the why and all other things that produce something readable, correct and concise.
The problem is not the cost, it's the experience. You _could_ be carrying multiple laptop batteries with you also. It would make the laptop itself lighter and thinner, but it would be a larger hassle overall.
I don't think this was true. It was entirely common practice for an ISP to ignore alt.binaries but carry all the rest of Usenet fairly reliably. To the point where users would rebuke each other for posting binary content in a non alt.binaries hierarchy, lest the ISPs detect that as a stealth binary group and drop that too.

What killed Usenet was as the parent said - users are better served by the centralized management and reliability of a web forum, they don't need or care about decentralization and peering. The same thing happened for Discord and Slack replacing IRC.
on a flight you just plug it into your seat
AR/VR is still a solution in search of a problem and will be for a long time.

This is one of the most laughable launches and devices I have ever witnessed in my life.
It is the hiccup that have been worring me in the past week. I've gotten 502 or error json files from banking, imdb, online doc for some api, gmail, but a retry fixed the issue always. It is not as sexy as all websites are down, but all website are of dubious quality now.
Another model that isn't actually able to be used commercially because of links to LLaMa base weights.
>Obviously you are in the minority

Non-Apple laptop users are in the minority? You sure about that?
Not especially, it would really depend on what's up at the company and the nature of the layoffs. Hopefully she got a bonus at the time.

As fortunate as it is that she had these copies of the data, it's not like she helped them by being really, really good at her job, she helped them from the coincidence of working from home for a while.
Years ago we'd call it "Steve Jobs Reality Distortion"
I think the issue for me was how "real life" and "digital life" are basically on equal footing when looking through this device. So your kids are now competing with whatever youtube video you are watching and it's harder to look away from the digital distraction. The same is true today when you are watching a video on your phone, but it's way easier to get someone to look away from their phone when it's not life-size, constantly in view, and always on
See also: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/11/06/concurrency-models.html which is the first article I've ever seen that says that `m:n`-style-green-threads are bad and good at the same time.

TL;DR - he says that "doParallel" and "doConcurrently" are separate operations with distinct semantics that designers of programs must care about and that conflating the two (especially the common "doConcurrently-and-often-but-not-always-in-parallel") is one of the most common causes of bugs in programs that need to make progress in multiple threads of execution.
The device seems amazing, it's just... not really Apple, that's all.
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos? Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket) instead of on a couch with their family/friends?

Not saying that I like it, but a very large swath of people mindlessly scroll instagram for hours a day, or watch movies on their laptop.
The ads I see on billboards for apple have been getting very dystopian over the years. One was just a humongous iPhone being held in hand, completely blocking the actors face, with the wrist cocked at this very uncomfortably looking angle such that the apple watch face was perfectly squared to the phone. It felt like something out of Black Mirror, like if I moved the phone there would be no face or some sick grin. A far cry from the cute dancing earpod silhouettes.
I’m due for a new mac, going to wait it out and give this VR thing a proper try. Remember those first cell phones.. we’ve just past the “dude why would you carry a brick in your pocket” situation.
Is the implication here that everyone who could be affected by a transaction should have to consent to it?

In which case, sure. Hence why the government regulates transactions.
Don't get myopic here - the timing constraints are critical for systems like DVB-T/C/S (and whatever the US equivalent is), not as much web. The things you're talking about might be dismissable when you're sending things from your blog app, but TS is primarily used in broadcasting.

The DVB machines I've worked with were very sensitive to any kind of jitter and clock skew.
Is anyone else terrified that this is the beginning of the end of "outside"?

Like, I can see people wearing these full-time, everywhere, to "enhance" life at first with the ultimate goal of these _replacing_ life (i.e. why go outside, where you have to spend money and deal with people, when you can just wear these and be in a world that you control without leaving your couch?)

Or am I just becoming a curmudgeon? If I am, I didn't expect it to happen at 35!
AI connected journals? It's just a to-do app, why would I want to waste my time with some AI's "insights"?
On flights you want noise cancellation. Maybe you could pair these with noise-cancelling AirPods, but then would you still get the "spatial audio"?
The SEC brings civil charges, it doesn't "throw people in jail"