The flip side of AI slop. Due to how easy it is to now look up technical subject matter and get

2026-05-14

The flip side of AI slop. Due to how easy it is to now look up technical subject matter and get very specific context aware example to learn. There is also simultaneously far less excuse for slop.

With claude code you can prompt, "Compile and look at the assembly of ____…

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@MaximumADHD Align those ='s

2026-05-14

@MaximumADHD Align those ='s

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@rfleury @ecoezen @TheGingerBill @SaschaWillems2 If you write everything to strict Vulkan 1.0 sp

2026-05-12

@rfleury @ecoezen @TheGingerBill @SaschaWillems2 If you write everything to strict Vulkan 1.0 spec it will run on everything. But then you have to write the super verbose pedantic Vulkan from a decade ago.

Vulkan 1.1 and 1.2 are pretty universal today. You go to Vulkan GPU info site and can tell you what devices support what.…

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@nicbarkeragain Since setting this up for claude I cannot think of any time it was wrong about v

2026-05-11

@nicbarkeragain Since setting this up for claude I cannot think of any time it was wrong about vulkan.

I actually rely more now on claude to identify the issues in my vulkan code than the validation layers themselves.

https://github.com/rygo6/Vulkan-Claude

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I haven't seen anyone say this much but...

2026-05-11

I haven't seen anyone say this much but...

The C-Style Single-Header style of programming I do find to be by far the code style which Claude works best with. Everything flattened in one big file with fewer layers of abstraction, less pointer indirection and minimal hidden…

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@rfleury @Celmaun @theo I stopped following that guy a while ago.

2026-05-10

@rfleury @Celmaun @theo I stopped following that guy a while ago.

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For the purpose of high-performance code. Something I am finding absolutely invaluable with Clau

2026-05-09

For the purpose of high-performance code. Something I am finding absolutely invaluable with Claude Code. It is good at matching a compiled .s assembly file to the source file. So, if Claude can compile your project, you can ask it question about the assembly of a particular…

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For the purpose of high-performance code. Something I am finding absolutely invaluable with Clau

2026-05-09

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AI has reached a point of being good enough that it has become threatening to certain portions o

2026-05-08

AI has reached a point of being good enough that it has become threatening to certain portions of the status quo.

So it is going to go through much of the same cycle which crypto went through as it crossed a threshold of becoming a threat to certain portions of the status quo.…

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@rms80 I’ve found this very useful too. Old projects that I’d never touch because it take me a d

2026-05-05

@rms80 I’ve found this very useful too. Old projects that I’d never touch because it take me a day at least to resurrect and compile it. Or sort through all changes needed for newer APIs or platform. Claude code can just do it in the background.

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I've been stoked about 3D printing for 15 years now.

2026-05-05

I've been stoked about 3D printing for 15 years now.

However for those 15 years I never bought a 3D printer because the quality was not good enough compared to mass manufactured items. Nor what you could get from the really fancy printers that http://shapeways.com had. Also… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/2051549597437223339/photo/1

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The VR wave revealed who couldn't get over being some ultra-nerd and deep-dive into VR to really

2026-05-02

The VR wave revealed who couldn't get over being some ultra-nerd and deep-dive into VR to really understand it's potential.

The crypto wave revealed who couldn't let their mind think anything against an authority they perceived as too great.

The AI wave is revealing whose…

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@hasithad @iquilezles @straceX You don't hide control flow. You incentivize being more aware of

2026-05-02

@hasithad @iquilezles @straceX You don't hide control flow. You incentivize being more aware of what you are doing with the machine.

( why I don't like RAII )

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The big barrier VR needs to get over right now is someone needs to make it sexy.

2026-05-01

The big barrier VR needs to get over right now is someone needs to make it sexy.

When the aluminum macbooks first came out, if you went to some coffee shop, pulled one out, with the glowing apple logo. It increased your social status in the space. As stupid as that is. It did.…

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2026-04-26

@just_cromer C has static_assert. You could also use C++ templates sparingly with decent compile times. Could even use CRust templates sparingly with decent compile times.

You could get adequate static type checking in C or C-like C++ with fast compile times. I've never seen static type…

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I compiled the newest raylib on Apple M4 max and a clean build took about 5 seconds.

2026-04-26

I compiled the newest raylib on Apple M4 max and a clean build took about 5 seconds.

Can anyone think of any library which has roughly equivalent functionality to raylib which can also compile that fast?

SFML came to mind which I tried compiling on the same mac. That took over…

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I compiled the newest raylib on Apple M4 max and a clean build took about 5 seconds.

2026-04-26

I compiled the newest raylib on Apple M4 max and a clean build took about 5 seconds.

Can anyone think of any library which has roughly equivalent functionality to raylib which can also compile that fast?

SFML came to mind which I tried compiling on the same mac. That took over…

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@boulabiar @yacineMTB False dichotomy.

2026-04-26

@boulabiar @yacineMTB False dichotomy.

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2026-04-08

@martinfowler @MikeyH5493 The article is good by itself. It's a great summary of some data-oriented foundations.

Instead of 'their idea' I should have said 'unique idea'. I meant that in response to you saying it is similar but different.

You could say that 'Mechanical Sympathy' is the broader mindset…

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@martinfowler @MikeyH5493 Imagine if someone wrote a post describing aspects of Object Oriented

2026-04-08

@martinfowler @MikeyH5493 Imagine if someone wrote a post describing aspects of Object Oriented Programming then called it something different like “Behavioral Sympathy” then acted as though it was their idea.

You would not take that person seriously.

Albeit Data Oriented Design is not as pervasively…

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@SebAaltonen I've deleted and cleaned up more code with Claude than I've written too.

2026-04-03

@SebAaltonen I've deleted and cleaned up more code with Claude than I've written too.

My other favorite usage is. "Analyze all the existing patterns in this codebase and tell me the optimal API, naming and location for a system/method which does _____."

In an established system where…

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When the web started becoming big people generally fell into two camps.

2026-04-01

When the web started becoming big people generally fell into two camps.

A) They used the web to learn. Improve their skills. It amplified their cognitive abilities and knowledge.

B) Those who fried their mind on trash. Developed damaging addictions. Let the web connect them to…

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An important point often missed in the excitement of being able to AI generate lots of code is t

2026-03-29

An important point often missed in the excitement of being able to AI generate lots of code is that the value of code in a company doesn't come from the code simply existing and functioning.

For example. Any company could clone the Tensorflow source code. That doesn't make that…

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@SebAaltonen I'd be really curious to know what tricks you currently have in mind for dealing wi

2026-03-26

@SebAaltonen I'd be really curious to know what tricks you currently have in mind for dealing with guassian splats. A lot of your old posts about order independent transparency and data packing have been echoing in my head as I've gotten more curious about splat rendering.

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It's really weird when you think about how, for as advanced as society currently is, these newsf

2026-03-22

It's really weird when you think about how, for as advanced as society currently is, these newsfeeds are probably what shape the direction of humanities future more than anything. Millions of people scrolling a linear feed of text, video and snippets arranged for them by an AI.…

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2026-03-17

I am realizing that AI can essentially be like an optimized library.

I know that doesn't make sense on the surface so let me explain.

When you get an AI well-tuned with past dialogues and directive files. You can start to have it do a lot of stuff, really good, automatically.…

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@TheGingerBill I generally dislike documentation too and just read the source code.

2026-03-12

@TheGingerBill I generally dislike documentation too and just read the source code.

Although lately this has been my workflow: - Open Claude Code in the project folder. - Ask Claude to read the project. - If project uses Vulkan or OpenXR, or other. Point Claude to read of those specss and…

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@TheGingerBill @oxcrowx cosmopolitan is abnormally impressive in this regard

2026-03-11

@TheGingerBill @oxcrowx cosmopolitan is abnormally impressive in this regard

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@raysan5 Even if you write every line of C by hand manually. Having Claude code in the project i

2026-03-10

@raysan5 Even if you write every line of C by hand manually. Having Claude code in the project is still incredibly valuable for dozens of other things.

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Trying out hyprland just because I never have.

2026-03-09

Trying out hyprland just because I never have.

It's nice but personally I still just do not understand the appeal of tiling window managers. It goes for i3, sway, dwm. Any of them.

It is extremely rare that I ever use two windows simultaneously and need them side by side. I do…

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@jmdagdelen My standard is 27" 4k set to 100% DPI. Or a 16" laptop screen.

2026-03-09

@jmdagdelen My standard is 27" 4k set to 100% DPI. Or a 16" laptop screen.

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I'm starting to think 2 space tabs are the way to go.

2026-03-09

I'm starting to think 2 space tabs are the way to go.

ASCII tab chars are one of those old modalities inherited back from the early days. It's really just a formality to use them.

With some careful juggling of tabs and spaces, you can keep indentations aligned, but that is just…

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I discover new things everyday that Claude Code can 'just do' without issue.

2026-03-08

I discover new things everyday that Claude Code can 'just do' without issue.

2026-03-01

2026-02-26

I haven't seen a lot of people asking the question of, nor much research on, what's the best language for an AI to write?

I found this one study: https://revelry.co/insights/artificial-intelligence/which-language-is-best-for-ai-code-generation/ Which shows elixir being the best. Although this is it running on coding problems, not a whole complex…

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I am realizing with AI coding it is the choice of:

2026-02-26

I am realizing with AI coding it is the choice of:

A) AI generate large portions of more trivial code yourself that may not be perfect.

B) Accept that inevitably big corporate process will form around the production and maintenance of large portions of trivial code that…

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2026-02-18

@raysan5 That is an interesting dichotomy where, yes it opens the door to more taking a stab at coding, and could aid the skilled good taste stabs to be a bit more, but at the same time it opens the door to more taking a stab at coding which will inevitably increase the absolute number of…

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I feel like there is an addictive slot machine quality to trying to one shot large chunks of cod

2026-02-18

I feel like there is an addictive slot machine quality to trying to one shot large chunks of code or having it produce something functional of substantial complexity.

You type in this request, fiddle a few knobs, then it goes to chance and may come back with something that blows…

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@filpizlo @eeuoss @FrontendMasters That’s a good way to describe that.

2026-02-18

@filpizlo @eeuoss @FrontendMasters That’s a good way to describe that.

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@eeuoss @filpizlo @FrontendMasters The larger and more complex a project becomes the more VS and

2026-02-18

@eeuoss @filpizlo @FrontendMasters The larger and more complex a project becomes the more VS and clangd LSPs become burdensome to completely useless. At which point just turning them off and being able to rely on C’s explicit declare before use, less ambiguous control flow and less ambiguous name lookup starts to…

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After nearly 5 years at Unity I have quit. It was a good run. New things have found me.

2026-02-17

After nearly 5 years at Unity I have quit. It was a good run. New things have found me.

I will probably write an exhaustive retrospective on the state of Unity at some point.

Also interesting to me, I made this twitter account right around when I first started at Unity. However…

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Society which is centered around asynchronous broadcast media is too easily exploitable by malic

2026-02-15

Society which is centered around asynchronous broadcast media is too easily exploitable by malicious actors. It can too easily distort perception of entire portions of the population. Broadcast media can so thoroughly condition people's mind to project their mental model onto…

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@raysan5 For as much credit as raylib gets, it deserves more. I believe it has more potential th

2026-02-11

@raysan5 For as much credit as raylib gets, it deserves more. I believe it has more potential than godot. I've been writing out a retrospective on Unity, what it made it a huge success in my view, what it made it veer off the path, how this relates godot, raylib and others.

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I don't like that fedora has so many corporate ties but they sure do a good job on fedora releas

2026-02-10

I don't like that fedora has so many corporate ties but they sure do a good job on fedora releases. Go from download to new working machine setup optimally is honestly easier to do with Fedora than any other OS this point IMO.

I have to question if anti-corporate mentality in…

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2026-02-06

@TheGingerBill @readONLYnope @neogoose_btw Problem with massive production codebases nestled deep in corporate process is that they do reach a point where few people, if any, understand significant portions of them. Either people who originally worked on the codebase have quit or been laid off. Or corporate process…

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@nicbarkeragain Why not put them in the same file?

2026-02-06

@nicbarkeragain Why not put them in the same file?

I do this a lot: https://github.com/rygo6/moxaic/blob/master/src/mid_channel.h

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@davepl1968 I'm really curious to see GCC vs clang build times on that many cores. Could you run

2026-02-06

@davepl1968 I'm really curious to see GCC vs clang build times on that many cores. Could you run the test with clang too?

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@MadScientist_42 @davepl1968 I don't use Fedora as a daily driver personally but have installed

2026-02-05

@MadScientist_42 @davepl1968 I don't use Fedora as a daily driver personally but have installed it on dozens of different machines over years. When I can set personal biases aside, I do recognize that from installer to desktop it is the distro which tends to require the least additional fiddling to make…

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2026-01-24

@vkrajacic I'd suspect L1 cache makes strlen so fast for most scenarios that it really doesn't matter. Not to say there isn't a scenario where you'd want to retain the length, but this is more so a question of, what is the better default? The scenario where you could produce a measurable…

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@xsphi I'd say... GNU C with extensions and macros.

2026-01-14

@xsphi I'd say... GNU C with extensions and macros.

If you think its really missing some critical primitive for a certain programming approach contribute an extension to GCC.

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@TheGingerBill Only partly related to what you posted, but if you had some time to write on this

2026-01-14

@TheGingerBill Only partly related to what you posted, but if you had some time to write on this, I've been very curious to hear someone's thoughts on this who knows more than me.

Zen-C aside, the notion of a language transpiling to C is an idea I have always liked. Vala, Gene and Nelua are…

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@LewisCTech I've fiddled with a lot of the fancy AI toys and editor features.

The whole anti-goto bandwagon has always been a bit of an eyebrow raise for me. But this past year I happened into a few problems where I rabbit holed really deep on approaches to using goto and computed goto. Realizing there is a whole category of implementation that can be made…

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@ThePrimeagen @grok A+ Thread.

2026-01-07

@ThePrimeagen @grok A+ Thread.

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One of the great software tragedies of the past few decades which everyone silently accepted, mo

2026-01-07

One of the great software tragedies of the past few decades which everyone silently accepted, mostly without realizing it, is the loss of long-term platform stability.

What I mean by that is, most software on most commonly used consumer systems will stop working if not…

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It appears as though Claude is trained on all of Linus Torvalds usenet and mailing list rants fr

2026-01-07

It appears as though Claude is trained on all of Linus Torvalds usenet and mailing list rants from the past decades. So you can feed it a snippet of C and ask it to tear you down in Torvalds style: https://claude.ai/share/88eab1d3-5345-4b22-b834-cf756e1bc4d5

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2026-01-07

@DanielcHooper That's about what I've found. An assistance robot that is incredibly helpful as long as you know its limits and how to keep it in certain bounds.

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I keep thinking how scripting languages, domain specific languages or just config file formats h

2026-01-05

I keep thinking how scripting languages, domain specific languages or just config file formats have lost some of their purpose.

The Art Of Unix programming talks about the importance of domain specific languages and config files. Which for the sake of an operating system kernel…

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@valigo This what all cross platform graphics development is like.

2026-01-04

@valigo This what all cross platform graphics development is like.

This is why those who do graphics stuff view compile time, and iteration time, as absolutely critical. Then things like safety from static analysis being akin to sticking training wheels on a motorcycle. It really…

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2025-12-29

@cnlohr What if you use an LLM as your search engine.

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One assumption that existed in software decades ago was that we'd have an ever-growing catalogue

2025-12-27

One assumption that existed in software decades ago was that we'd have an ever-growing catalogue of differing instruction sets for different chip architectures. That each of these chip architectures would be substantially different requiring substantially different approaches to…

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1 programmer could write a better piece of software in 10 years than 10 programmers could write

2025-12-24

1 programmer could write a better piece of software in 10 years than 10 programmers could write in 1 year.

I personally think that is a very conservative statement.

Realistically, I suspect 1 programmer could write a better piece of software in 4 years than 10 programmers could…

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It's hard to believe CLion is the only editor which can automatically create a cross platform C

2025-12-23

It's hard to believe CLion is the only editor which can automatically create a cross platform C project which requires no additional steps before you can start writing code, run the code, break on debug points, break on variable change watches, break on exceptions, see the…

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For a method which does a bunch of intricate nested looping logic with various conditions, I can

2025-12-23

For a method which does a bunch of intricate nested looping logic with various conditions, I cannot be the only one who thinks goto with clearly defined labels is easier to follow than a bunch of nested for and while loops with break, continue, and i=count spread throughout.… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/2003344320993403003/photo/1

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@TheGingerBill @msimoni I do use them for generating strings of enum names and it'd be nice if C

2025-12-21

@TheGingerBill @msimoni I do use them for generating strings of enum names and it'd be nice if C could do that, but there's a lot more.

I really like what the TCC codebase does here with their tokens: https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc/blob/mob/x86_64-asm.h Can essentially make data tables by listing out all associated data as macro…

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@AntonHand If you have any fondness to hrgiger. Scorn

2025-12-21

@AntonHand If you have any fondness to hrgiger. Scorn

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@cnlohr oh ya for terminal I still go back to vi or mg most of the time

2025-12-17

@cnlohr oh ya for terminal I still go back to vi or mg most of the time

Micro is quite good too. It has sublime-like shortcuts and multicusor. https://micro-editor.github.io/ However its not as advanced, not all package systems have it, and its written in go so I don't like to use it on cheap…

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@cnlohr I find sublime text to be at the optimal intersection of what is good across all the edi

2025-12-17

@cnlohr I find sublime text to be at the optimal intersection of what is good across all the editors.

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@philiprosedale Because they don't hire people that spend lots of time in VR, and personally wan

2025-12-16

@philiprosedale Because they don't hire people that spend lots of time in VR, and personally want that themselves, and thus none of them have an instinct on what makes it work from personal experience. It's a big hierarchy of people waiting for someone up above to figure out how to make it work…

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I wish there was more exploration into the "Piling Window Manager".

2025-12-14

I wish there was more exploration into the "Piling Window Manager".

I do not work in tiles. I work in piles. I have all my applications open to be a bout 40% to 60% the size of my screen and then kind of pile them on top of each other offset in different directions. So then I…

2025-12-07

@ZooL_Smith Putting the space bar equally between both hands is better for typing. So if your mouse is on the right, better to have no keypad, or put the keypad on the left

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Templates are one of those features which are so convenient, but they also create one of the wor

2025-12-07

Templates are one of those features which are so convenient, but they also create one of the worst possible incentives in a programming language.

Issue being, templates duplicate assembly. If you write out a whole class as a template, use it for different types, the template…

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One thing I truly wish the Rust community would do is finish Servo.

2025-12-05

One thing I truly wish the Rust community would do is finish Servo.

I cannot express how dissapointed I am in this. Servo is what initially got me looking into Rust. Then has gradually given way to more and more annoyance with Rust.

Because the Firefox and Chromium C++ sources…

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Why does my Phillips hue download about 1 mb and upload 8 mb every day when I never open the app

2025-12-04

Why does my Phillips hue download about 1 mb and upload 8 mb every day when I never open the app or use it at all.

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@AlexisPaques @filpizlo Everyone who jumped on WASM has eagerly accepted roughly a 5x slowdown f

2025-12-01

@AlexisPaques @filpizlo Everyone who jumped on WASM has eagerly accepted roughly a 5x slowdown for the safety WASM without question.

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@marty188586 https://nelua.io/

2025-11-26

@marty188586 https://nelua.io/

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@Waffl3x @zuhaitz_dev C with GCC extensions is GNU C.

2025-11-25

@Waffl3x @zuhaitz_dev C with GCC extensions is GNU C.

Which is also supported by Clang.

Linux and gnome stack are built with GNU C. Not C.

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One thing which stands out to me using OpenBSD as a webserver, due to it changing very little ov

2025-11-25

One thing which stands out to me using OpenBSD as a webserver, due to it changing very little over the years, and it all being managed through a terminal, AI knows it very well.

If you believe AI assistance on tasks such as setting up or managing a webserver, or anything like…

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Recently I encountered a performance issue with a system which I knew of in theory but never had

2025-11-22

Recently I encountered a performance issue with a system which I knew of in theory but never had a clear benchmark demonstrating it practically.

To summarize, this system had a few thousand methods it needed to dynamically call in a loop. To which, in the constraints of this…

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@raysan5 I've been doing similar. Also, this is similar to khronos style in vulkan and openxr.

2025-11-22

@raysan5 I've been doing similar. Also, this is similar to khronos style in vulkan and openxr.

all except... wish you used use tabs

and also made some use of /* */ comment style. I like /* */ for methods headers or region separators so that plain // is reserved for less significant…

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I’m thinking about making an open source license intended to provide a crowd sourcing mechanic f

2025-11-22

I’m thinking about making an open source license intended to provide a crowd sourcing mechanic for software.

Something where the license would expire into public domain after a decade, or some other timeframe. Before that you’d purchase a license, download it, it’d come with all…

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@TheWizardTower I'd agree this is true for C++. There are layers and layers of so much BS in C++

2025-11-21

@TheWizardTower I'd agree this is true for C++. There are layers and layers of so much BS in C++ that was primarily invented just to have another line item on your resume, or entrench yourself in a corporation by making highly idiosyncratic code with a steeper learning curve.

However this is…

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There has always been something a bit fishy to me about the whole premise of docker, and VMs, an

2025-11-21

There has always been something a bit fishy to me about the whole premise of docker, and VMs, and sandboxing as we know it. I always thought... why can't the OS do this? It feels like the OS should be able to do it. It's weird that you make something at a higher-level of the…

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@nicbarkeragain I've been thinking about something in a similar vein, but not for presenting, it

2025-11-19

@nicbarkeragain I've been thinking about something in a similar vein, but not for presenting, it'd be to make programming more user-friendly. I think tooling for programming has not been explored as deeply as it needs to be and that might be the better route to go to evolving programming…

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@iquilezles Please make a page like this for the 3D SDFs too.

2025-11-19

@iquilezles Please make a page like this for the 3D SDFs too.

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I seem to always somehow wander myself right into the middle of everything.

2025-11-19

I seem to always somehow wander myself right into the middle of everything.

Why not serialize the state of the unity engine and inject it into unreal? Fortnite is as good a starting point as any.

The future of interactive media distribution is content streamed into a spatial…

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Everyone should find a spare evening to install OpenBSD on an rpi or some old piece of hardware

2025-11-19

Everyone should find a spare evening to install OpenBSD on an rpi or some old piece of hardware and then setup a webserver with it's built-in httpd.

It's one of those experiences which makes you reflect about how far too much of computing has fallen too far into the…

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@codeslubber @therealpetep @FFmpeg AMD is x86.

2025-11-18

@codeslubber @therealpetep @FFmpeg AMD is x86.

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This is a pretty good ethos I'd have to say...

2025-11-17

This is a pretty good ethos I'd have to say... https://futo.org/about/what-does-futo-believe/

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@Ed__dev RAD did seem like one of the few exceptions, but I wonder what that's like now that the

2025-11-17

@Ed__dev RAD did seem like one of the few exceptions, but I wonder what that's like now that they've been acquired by Epic. Valve also seemed like that too, but I question how ubiquitous that is across the whole company today. I hear it's easy to get "Voted Out" if politics fall out of…

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2025-11-15

Realize I posted the non-shared grok link. Here is the proper link: https://x.com/i/grok/share/R0MLuqglkwNebws7wctggC1CU

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@cgarciae88 Corporate engineers do tend to write poorly optimized code due to the incentives whi

2025-11-15

@cgarciae88 Corporate engineers do tend to write poorly optimized code due to the incentives which corporate process puts them under...

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We need a resurgence in the 16-bit / PS1 / N64 era of game style.

2025-11-14

We need a resurgence in the 16-bit / PS1 / N64 era of game style.

2025-11-12

It's unfortunate the one huge technical advantage SteamVR had over quest was completely ignored.

SteamVR tracking, lighthouses and full body tracking.

Even just an optional attachment with a built-in minimal strip of lighthouse sensors to do initial calibration would be good.…

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Ask grok to read a bunch of your posts, summarize your worldview, then criticize you.

2025-11-12

Ask grok to read a bunch of your posts, summarize your worldview, then criticize you.

Specifically prompt: "Read a bunch of posts from @username and summarize their worldview"

Followed by: "now criticize them"

and damn... grok is brutal...

I asked it to do this too myself…

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@notsmv @valigo_gg according to AI... this is the most common set...

2025-11-11

@notsmv @valigo_gg according to AI... this is the most common set...

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@valigo_gg typedef uint8_t u8;

2025-11-10

@valigo_gg typedef uint8_t u8; typedef uint16_t u16; typedef uint32_t u32; typedef uint64_t u64; typedef int8_t i8; typedef int16_t i16; typedef int32_t i32; typedef int64_t i64; typedef _Float16 f16; typedef float f32; typedef double f64;

...…

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2025-11-02

@cnlohr This sounds like you're confirming a rumor?

2025-10-24

@cnlohr This sounds like you're confirming a rumor?

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@SebAaltonen I managed to get burn-in on the new 4K LG OLED because I didn't realize my monitor

2025-10-23

@SebAaltonen I managed to get burn-in on the new 4K LG OLED because I didn't realize my monitor wasn't going to sleep when I was in VR and it sat there with nothing moving for a long time.

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I've been making a text editor / minimal IDE with raylib. Which is going quite well.

2025-10-23

I've been making a text editor / minimal IDE with raylib. Which is going quite well.

I wanted to call it rayDE. Which could be 'RayLib Development Environment" but then it's also nicely pronounced just "raid".

However one of my intents with putting in work for this is I want a…

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I'd buy the AVP if it ran VRChat well or if I could stream VRChat to it from PC in a way that wo

2025-10-23

I'd buy the AVP if it ran VRChat well or if I could stream VRChat to it from PC in a way that worked well.

Even though the thing is heavy is so so so nice. The optics. The auto-calibration. The headband. The built-in eye tracking and hand tracking. Controller-free navigation.…

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@AntonHand Not just any slot machine. A slot machine which tracks as much real-time biometric da

2025-10-23

@AntonHand Not just any slot machine. A slot machine which tracks as much real-time biometric data as possible to feed into massive datacenters with millions of other people's data so a cutting edge artificial intelligence can psychologically model you and determine how best to alter and…

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In Marques new AVP review he says the reason more focus is on AR glasses is because they carry a

2025-10-22

In Marques new AVP review he says the reason more focus is on AR glasses is because they carry a "Lesser Social Penalty": https://youtu.be/rU9aqBv0YdY?si=hHqgopntjzHV59LC&t=499 Little does he realize... if you go towards the full VR HMD, and then keep going further by adding full body tracking, face tracking,…

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The wave of OOP vs FP arguments have arisen again.

2025-10-17

The wave of OOP vs FP arguments have arisen again.

@WalterBright Today Universities are producing programmers extremely fond of Python, but seemingly allergic to C or anything C-like, at a concerning rate.

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Personally, I like how C has a bunch of optional, extra, functionality through GCC/clang extensi

2025-10-06

Personally, I like how C has a bunch of optional, extra, functionality through GCC/clang extensions that can be explicitly turned on/off. It'd be better if languages were a stable, unchanging, base, with a bunch of optional extensions that are varying degrees of experimental to…

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2025-10-02

@AntonHand That kind of describes the goal of all of modern society.

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@stacktrackguy @momo5502 @tsoding simple raii-like macro in C99:

2025-10-01

@stacktrackguy @momo5502 @tsoding simple raii-like macro in C99: https://godbolt.org/z/1G3fEo1Ks

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@momo5502 @stacktrackguy @tsoding You can put whatever you want in the begin and end clause stat

2025-10-01

@momo5502 @stacktrackguy @tsoding You can put whatever you want in the begin and end clause statements of for. With statement expression it could be a whole function if you want. For can be used as a general primitive like that.

I use it on files sometimes. But still use goto error handling in things needing…

2025-09-30

One of the big benefits of C over C++ doesn't become apparent until you have suffered through enough large production codebases in C++. This also applies to C# or any language with more features than C.

That being, the big benefit of C over other languages is not a specific…

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@eeuoss @FatRustDev @ID_AA_Carmack @CostaAl4 Off the top of my head I can think of three differe

2025-09-30

@eeuoss @FatRustDev @ID_AA_Carmack @CostaAl4 Off the top of my head I can think of three different ways in C to avoid needing to call an explicit 'free' on every bit of allocated memory after you are done using it and I don't even consider myself a 'C Expert'. There are probably a few more ways too.

... also RAII is decent…

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@MatRopert @m_schuetz @tsoding Vulkan and C designated initializers are why I ultimately abandon

2025-09-20

@MatRopert @m_schuetz @tsoding Vulkan and C designated initializers are why I ultimately abandoned C++. The full flexibility of C designated initializers lets you use the vulkan API directly in such nice ways.

Aside from not enforcing order, C also lets you freely mix designated initializers with other…

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I wish there was a ducktyped interpreted scripting language which had the same syntax of C. But

2025-09-20

2025-08-28

The reason fancy abstraction and all these advanced language features are so popular, are so talked about and consequently develop this aura of being so important due to all the social attention they garner. It's because it is easier to fiddle with language features than it is to…

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@sreekotay @tsoding That is true. But it is there.

2025-08-28

@sreekotay @tsoding That is true. But it is there.

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@sreekotay @tsoding I'd be very curious about that too... if anyone happens to be in the mood to

2025-08-28

@sreekotay @tsoding I'd be very curious about that too... if anyone happens to be in the mood to do some tests.

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I finally sat down and spent a good amount of time with Acme in Plan9... before I thought it was

2025-08-28

I finally sat down and spent a good amount of time with Acme in Plan9... before I thought it was just a text editor but now I understand they completely reinvented the terminal workflow to be something beyond what I ever dreamt up on my own. I'm pretty danm impressed.…

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@Traveler2000AD @ryanjfleury @neogoose_btw Thankfully mathematics has long defined that an integ

2025-08-25

@Traveler2000AD @ryanjfleury @neogoose_btw Thankfully mathematics has long defined that an integer going above 65536 will automatically roll over back to 0 and there were no special idiosyncrasies in how computers work which required alteration of such mathematical rules on implementation.

🙄

2025-08-24

@TheWireWhiz It is for sandboxing, but also fault tolerance, and also for cleanup. More so for n

2025-08-23

@TheWireWhiz It is for sandboxing, but also fault tolerance, and also for cleanup. More so for native code, and also more so for the GPU. A process is basically part of the OS API to utilize kernel level functionality for protection, fault tolerance and cleanup. You can't make use of that…

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One of the subjects that is always divisive in the context of a spatial OS os spatial browser th

2025-08-23

One of the subjects that is always divisive in the context of a spatial OS os spatial browser that I am adamant about is the notion that it needs to be a multi-process and multi-render-context paradigm.

Most, by a significant margin, think in terms of taking a game engine, or…

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2025-08-22

@VAV1ST Sure. I've talked with lots of people over the years about this.

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@VAV1ST sure

2025-08-22

@VAV1ST sure

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@dankvr Right... you just need a compositor which can composite together the ouput of many diffe

2025-08-22

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@NickChapmn If putting a small array on the stack is an issue then putting a small number of any

2025-08-12

@NickChapmn If putting a small array on the stack is an issue then putting a small number of any values on the stack would be an issue. You don't worry about putting several to several dozens floats on the stack. Whether those are in an array or not doesn't matter. There is a reasonable…

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I feel this is one of the worst mistakes of C++

2025-08-12

I feel this is one of the worst mistakes of C++ https://godbolt.org/z/q6d7Gj76e

Being able to put a short array of anything on the stack with basic array syntax can be so nice and elegant. Particularly in graphics or khronos apis.

It's one of those things where they gave me a handful…

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@ChShersh theres more https://godbolt.org/z/4Wj9ar4jx

2025-08-12

@ChShersh theres more https://godbolt.org/z/4Wj9ar4jx

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@cnlohr Probably the most aggressive efforts on this are various technologies which enable that.

2025-08-11

@cnlohr Probably the most aggressive efforts on this are various technologies which enable that. Then the foundation behind them if there is one. I think many involved in that came to the conclusion constantly fighting government in courts to keep technologies susceptible to control from…

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@kbryanw @RockChartrand Are we talking about Capitalism the theory in an abstract vacuum chamber

2025-08-09

@kbryanw @RockChartrand Are we talking about Capitalism the theory in an abstract vacuum chamber? Or the actuality of some mixed economy country that claims to represent a capitalist principle?

I suspect you can think of the answer to the question for either and you don’t really need to ask me.

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2025-08-06

@reztneM @RockChartrand Right. It's literally not "Real" Capitalism.

Any time Capitalism has been tried it inevitably turned into Crony Capitalism.

"Real" Capitalism doesn't exist. It was only a theory that never sustained in reality.

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2025-08-06

@JorgeRivarola18 @RockChartrand Except... that's not what I said.

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@BalesOnLiberty @zippydsmlee @SleepRebellion @RockChartrand I'd agree a slow-corrupting system o

2025-08-06

@BalesOnLiberty @zippydsmlee @SleepRebellion @RockChartrand I'd agree a slow-corrupting system over a century is better than one corrupt right out of the gate.

But to keep on point... if you recognize this mechanic of slow corruption and decay as inevitable. Then you also have to recognize there would be theoretical stages to that and…

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@BalesOnLiberty @SleepRebellion @RockChartrand Correct. Welcome to my whole point. The capitalis

2025-08-06

@BalesOnLiberty @SleepRebellion @RockChartrand Correct. Welcome to my whole point. The capitalist ideologue and socialist ideologue crowds argue for something theoretical which does not exist.

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I still hold, the greatest barrier to VR, and really the next phase of computing, is that it req

2025-07-30

I still hold, the greatest barrier to VR, and really the next phase of computing, is that it requires a level of commitment to low-level programming, and releasing that under highly permissive licensing, that pretty much no established company can do, nor is willing to do.

Most…

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@cnlohr Well that’s what makes it work. Package everything you need.

2025-07-30

@cnlohr Well that’s what makes it work. Package everything you need.

I only use it for things where the terminal package manager doesn’t have it

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2025-07-17

Thinking about shortcuts it occurred to me Macs have a whole additional modifier key to use in application operations. Becaseu the Win/Super key takes up an entire key only to launch the OS search functionality. Which I'm starting to think is kind of bad design for Windows and…

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@TheGingerBill @pikuma I think it’d be more correct to say they are trained to be internally sel

2025-07-17

@TheGingerBill @pikuma I think it’d be more correct to say they are trained to be internally self-consistent. To which they are very good if you are within the constraints of something explicitly defined.

Like ask it questions about a technical API like Vulkan where everything is explicitly defined.…

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@SubstrataVr Is that true on modern linux and unix kernels? Redbean and althttpd are both forkin

2025-07-17

@SubstrataVr Is that true on modern linux and unix kernels? Redbean and althttpd are both forking web servers that benchmark well. I remember redbean having some that were better than nginx. You can design something so that forking is performant.

But even if it turned out not to be for…

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@SubstrataVr I don't think that's true in all scenarios. I've seen benchmarks before which showe

2025-07-17

@SubstrataVr I don't think that's true in all scenarios. I've seen benchmarks before which showed spinning up threads is roughly as fast, to only marginally faster, than forking on Linux. As you long as you design it so the forked process does roughly the same kind of work. Unix fork was…

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So what exactly was wrong with CGI and Fast CGI?

2025-07-16

So what exactly was wrong with CGI and Fast CGI?

I don't typically do backend work. Extent of my experience was some java, some node.js, and also AWS lambdas. So my knowledge isn't very comprehensive...

But I've been digging more into OpenBSD and using httpd and I really just…

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It's got what programs crave. Safetolytes.

2025-07-16

It's got what programs crave. Safetolytes.

I have a problem with wanting to build a new PC every 6 months. I need to skip this generation.

2025-07-09

I have a problem with wanting to build a new PC every 6 months. I need to skip this generation. No one let me buy this gen.

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I wish there was more research on optimal color palettes for long term use.

2025-07-08

I wish there was more research on optimal color palettes for long term use.

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I would never use another language without C-like macros. The ability to stamp whatever you want

2025-07-01

I would never use another language without C-like macros. The ability to stamp whatever you want with one token is far too valuable. So many times, in other languages, no matter how fancy their generics, there is always a point where not being able to do that adds so much…

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@ariesrclark When it comes to TV streaming services right now, I think people should pirate. Thi

2025-07-01

2025-06-26

It makes sense that a web server shouldn't be a single large complex monolithic executable, but rather be entire OS designed for that purpose. Particularly an OS that rarely changes. A web server should ideally sit there unchanged for years. As much as it possibly can it should…

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Every Electron app I use has bugs continual stream of novel irritating bugs. Even from the bigge

2025-06-26

Every Electron app I use has bugs continual stream of novel irritating bugs. Even from the biggest and most well-funded company.

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@Ed__dev Let's say it could be done.

2025-06-26

@Ed__dev Let's say it could be done.

My current leaning is... just use cloudflare. If there is some better reasoning I am intrigued.

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@cmuratori @belsebubb after using keychron for a number of years I decided to give lofree a try

2025-06-26

@cmuratori @belsebubb after using keychron for a number of years I decided to give lofree a try and have been content that

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2025-06-24

.... and high IQ people have a very high propensity to getting stuck in their own self-created dogmas.

It takes a special kind of having something wrong with you to both maintain a high IQ then be able to recognize and willingly abort your own self from your own dogmas.

It's…

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@TheGingerBill really auto by itself is the one big thing... I'd would have asssumed since odin

2025-06-23

@TheGingerBill really auto by itself is the one big thing... I'd would have asssumed since odin also has type inference you do find it useful in some scenarios?

I am curious what you think the issue is with C23

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@TheGingerBill I like C23

2025-06-23

@TheGingerBill I like C23

2025-06-13

@MalekiRe has anyone built any tests to see how it manages with voice and user interactions in real-time ?

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I've been thinking way too much about how there really no reason is why we couldn't have a viabl

2025-06-13

I've been thinking way too much about how there really no reason is why we couldn't have a viable low latency P2P network for real-time applications.

Which, yes, I know this is an incredibly difficult problem. It requires some difficult novel inventions. Multiple phd thesii'…

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I've been thinking way too much about how there really is no reason why we couldn't have a viabl

2025-06-13

I've been thinking way too much about how there really is no reason why we couldn't have a viable low latency P2P network for real-time applications.

Which, yes, I know this is an incredibly difficult problem. It requires some difficult novel inventions. Multiple phd thesii'…

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@HBloodedHeroine you can get p2p going pretty easily for some things, but for large scale real t

2025-06-13

@HBloodedHeroine you can get p2p going pretty easily for some things, but for large scale real time low latency through even lower quality connections that'd compete with an authoritative server, that is what is complicated

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@birdmademejoin @UnderwaterBepis For real time, I don't know if you'd need a blockchain as the s

2025-06-13

@birdmademejoin @UnderwaterBepis For real time, I don't know if you'd need a blockchain as the state can be transient, you'd only need to a way to ensure that anyone participating in some given scenario or game are all playing according to some agreed upon rules.

Something like, all peers run the full game…

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Yea though I walk through the valley of not knowing what TF is wrong with my shader....

2025-06-12

Yea though I walk through the valley of not knowing what TF is wrong with my shader....

I see the racing snail eating leaves off in the distance...

I will fear no failure....

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@debasishg Encapsulation was one of those ideas that generally did not pan out in the wild.

2025-06-11

@debasishg Encapsulation was one of those ideas that generally did not pan out in the wild.

I have spent multiple folds more time trying to get around poor foresight on access modifiers than I have from accidentally touching some internal state. That's really the fatal flaw of access…

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I'm going to coin a new kind of AI coding:

2025-06-10

I'm going to coin a new kind of AI coding: "Interpolation Coding"

You build out interfaces, data structures and scaffolding for AI to "Interpolate" between. It requires deep knowledge of a particular problem domain to set up the scaffolding correctly, and also what is…

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@sachinadlakha18 A small percentage of the industry will look at your GitHub and pay close atten

2025-06-09

@sachinadlakha18 A small percentage of the industry will look at your GitHub and pay close attention to your projects, understand them. Then interview you specifically about you.

Majority of the industry will run you through some cookie cutter formulaic process with a set of checkboxes you must…

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I have this math library in C that I've been rolling with a bunch of my own conventions. Partly

2025-06-09

2025-06-05

@awesomekling This is a valid point.

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For better or worse, the VR platform that will "win" is the one which is most tolerant to having

2025-06-04

For better or worse, the VR platform that will "win" is the one which is most tolerant to having slop thrown in it and still being able to manage to provide something decent with it.

Doesn't mean it couldn't pave the way to really high quality and polished content. It could…

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@DyLhun I don't like the notion that one will "win" (which is why I put it in quotes) but that i

2025-06-04

@DyLhun I don't like the notion that one will "win" (which is why I put it in quotes) but that is unfortunately the incentive many operate along and is what will happen. One, or a few, will consolidate most everything under it. You can only hope the one that "wins" is not somehow…

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I did some tests with the built-in Unity XR plugin today on SteamVR and it does appear that Vive

2025-06-03

I did some tests with the built-in Unity XR plugin today on SteamVR and it does appear that Vive Trackers now properly come through into the Input System.

Only caveat is they must explicitly be assigned a body part in in steamvr to come through but could still access openvr to…

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@haagch42 openxr just doesn't work on steamvr on linux???

2025-06-03

@haagch42 openxr just doesn't work on steamvr on linux???

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@TheGingerBill @MachoXV Really a big part of why people gravitate to JS, C# and even Rust now is

2025-06-02

@TheGingerBill @MachoXV Really a big part of why people gravitate to JS, C# and even Rust now is because the compiler errors hand hold them through getting it working. It is like a virtual mentor almost. That helps people a lot. Some kind of dynamic analysis could be made for C with an LLM to be an even…

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@TheGingerBill @MachoXV LLMs to provide comprehensive answers in context to the question could b

2025-06-02

@TheGingerBill @MachoXV LLMs to provide comprehensive answers in context to the question could be the solution.

People end up doing whatever the general mass reflects back to them. Which is generally push slop through JS or whatever. Don’t care about details.

If there was an LLM that explicitly…

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Is there anything other than CLion that lets you jump into graphical debugging of GCC or Clang a

2025-05-31

Is there anything other than CLion that lets you jump into graphical debugging of GCC or Clang as easily with comparable little fuss, setup and visual features?

I've tried neovim debug, I've tried sublime debug. One they seemed to need setup fiddling. Then two they were quirky…

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Let's go codex, you got this. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1928298492029534545/photo/1

2025-05-30

Let's go codex, you got this. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1928298492029534545/photo/1

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How come no one told me this exists:

2025-05-30

How come no one told me this exists: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

This makes windows significantly better.

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2025-05-23

@UnderwaterBepis Why cygwin over msys? I've not tried cygwin for serious development.

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@ryanjfleury I think the real issue I have with this argument is that "clean code" is not actual

2025-05-23

@ryanjfleury I think the real issue I have with this argument is that "clean code" is not actually easier to deal with. It only appears simpler on the surface because things are broken into smaller chunks. But get in there and try to really do anything substantial and it is often more…

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@iquilezles Cursor is great for writing CSS and some more basic HTML.

2025-05-23

@iquilezles Cursor is great for writing CSS and some more basic HTML.

Not writing actual code. For code it's better to pose questions to Claude in a textbook like Q&A format.

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How come no one ever told msys2 is the best way to install, manage and use all the (non-msvc) de

2025-05-22

How come no one ever told msys2 is the best way to install, manage and use all the (non-msvc) developer tools on windows.... I've been fussing with installers and chocolatey and whatnot all this time...

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How come no one ever told msys2 is the best way to install, manage and use all the (no-msvc) dev

2025-05-22

How come no one ever told msys2 is the best way to install, manage and use all the (no-msvc) developer tools on windows.... I've been fussing with installers and chocolatey and whatnot all this time...

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2025-05-16

@cnlohr https://nelua.io/

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@cnlohr A big part of IQ is working memory. How many things you can simultaneously hold and jugg

2025-05-16

@cnlohr A big part of IQ is working memory. How many things you can simultaneously hold and juggle in your mind. Programming I view as heavily dependent on that. If you can't simultaneously grasp that many different 'things' it doesn't matter what the things are. Even if their coloured…

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@cca_keyspin Depends on the company.

2025-05-16

@cca_keyspin Depends on the company.

But yes this is true for big tech.

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Okay I take some of that back. This is valid:

2025-05-13

Okay I take some of that back. This is valid: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1919367681339273347 We seem to agree on project management of agile.

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@MalekiRe https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1922382963297132960/photo/1

2025-05-13

@MalekiRe https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1922382963297132960/photo/1

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@MalekiRe ... but I'm not even in a bathrobe making snarling grinch faces with questionably euph

2025-05-13

@MalekiRe ... but I'm not even in a bathrobe making snarling grinch faces with questionably euphemistic wording

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2025-05-10

@yewnyx Your assuming way too many things and operating on the premise that 'Crypto' means a certain specific set of things. Which I wouldn't even argue against a majority of it being some specific set of things, but my whole point is, it's not explicitly that. A blockchain is a…

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@yewnyx That's what I partly mean it needs some feed of currency. To feedback into content. Also

2025-05-10

@yewnyx That's what I partly mean it needs some feed of currency. To feedback into content. Also, development and also physical hardware.

I think there are things you are not taking into account, and other things about fiat which are major concerns of mine, but I also get the sense you…

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@yewnyx I'd agree crypto is bootstrapped by capital but only in the sense all technology is curr

2025-05-10

@yewnyx I'd agree crypto is bootstrapped by capital but only in the sense all technology is currently bootstrapped by capital. It's just kind of the situation. If the subject was establishing a commune out in the forest it'd be a different premise, but this is the subject of establishing…

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2025-05-07

@unclebobmartin @HWannop Design patterns are important for game dev and game engine work, but the gang of four design patterns book is concerned with a different problem domain. If you are in game dev this is the design patterns book you want to focus on: https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/

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@ryanjfleury It's weird to think Bob Martin has probably done this his whole career, but before

2025-05-07

@ryanjfleury It's weird to think Bob Martin has probably done this his whole career, but before posting openly on the web, there wasn't a mass to criticize and question him in real-time, so he just went on a bullshit bender for like 3 decades selling naive tech corporate types on a bunch of…

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It's occurred to me that programmers who are not highly fluent in some kind of advanced graphica

2025-04-28

It's occurred to me that programmers who are not highly fluent in some kind of advanced graphical IDE can't be fully trusted in their discernment on the future of programming languages. Which I know is quite the statement, but why?

If your intent is to make programming languages…

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Compile time needs to be taken as a major and primary concern for all languages.

2025-04-11

Compile time needs to be taken as a major and primary concern for all languages.

I believe there's been a slow 'boiling of the frog' quality to this with many languages and tools. Where little by little the compilation got slower and slower, and the wait time internalized.

But…

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@eron_wolf Try the latest fedora and gnome on a laptop that has all the support out of the box.

2025-04-10

@eron_wolf Try the latest fedora and gnome on a laptop that has all the support out of the box. It's every bit as nice as osx. Even better in some ways. Of course MacBook hardware is still better, but software wise Linux can be as good as anything you just have to be selective of what setup…

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2025-04-01

@seanboisselle @cnlohr Do AI crawlers respect that? That’s more what I’m worried about.

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@johnloeber I think it'd be more desirable for some use cases than others? Like I dont want my t

2025-04-01

@johnloeber I think it'd be more desirable for some use cases than others? Like I dont want my tweets data crawled and reformulated into an array of AI slop posts elsewhere. Or if I write technical articles them all copied and slightly altered into a dozen different AI pages that come up on…

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chat gpt 4o is concerningly good at generate logos with text and taking nuanced descriptions of

2025-04-01

chat gpt 4o is concerningly good at generate logos with text and taking nuanced descriptions of how to improve and iterate on them

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2025-03-29

@cafreiman The economic freedom index ranks countries such as New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada, Australia higher than the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom#Rankings_and_scores This metric is referring to those countries. Not the USA.

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The number of people I've run into who think 'unsafe' means the code is somehow doing something

2025-03-28

2025-03-21

@svrc It is what has finally checked all the boxes for the serious PC VR gamer and social VR user.

- Index or better FOV with comparable edge-to-edge clarity. - Higher res than index but not so high a decent PC can no longer drive it well in VRC/Games. - Eye tracking. (Hopefully…

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@SilkyAVol But that's the thing.... the BSB is not technologically more advanced than what Meta

2025-03-21

@SilkyAVol But that's the thing.... the BSB is not technologically more advanced than what Meta or other big companies are doing. It's simpler and more minimal, using old tech. It's taking the index, shrinking it down, adding oleds, adding pancake lenses, and removing everything else. No…

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@LifeArtStudios I would bet you there are some who wanted to do something similar to bigscreen y

2025-03-20

@LifeArtStudios I would bet you there are some who wanted to do something similar to bigscreen years ago. A company is not a singular entity. It's collective with politics and processes.

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@josethevrtech A big company with more resources and connections could of done something more in

2025-03-20

@josethevrtech A big company with more resources and connections could of done something more in the direction of the beyond 2e at least a few years ago, probably more. It might not have been as small, but could of definitely made a more compact OLED + face tracking + lighthouse + DP HMD. But…

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bigscreen doing what valve should of done...

2025-03-20

bigscreen doing what valve should of done...

... and what HTC should have done years ago but couldn't quite figure it out

... and what I think meganex was trying to do but couldn't ship

... and what Meta should have done years ago but couldn't because they need to own a whole…

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@cnlohr when stuck in a local minimum all surrounding appears less correct

2025-03-18

@cnlohr when stuck in a local minimum all surrounding appears less correct

takes the fool to run into all perceivably incorrect to fall over the edge to find the next local minimum

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still... no one plays the moog knob better than bodzin

2025-03-16

still... no one plays the moog knob better than bodzin https://youtu.be/QKEBeep9lFI?si=B4RZvHu_1j93Ek1S

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Curiosity got the better of me and I bought a binned 14900KS. Also because my current 14900KS wa

2025-03-16

Curiosity got the better of me and I bought a binned 14900KS. Also because my current 14900KS was being quite the PIA.

Yes, can confirm, the performance range is pretty nuts. I'm running cinebench multicore with average core temp staying close to 60C. Prior 14900KS would be up…

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@Vicente15477281 Clion

2025-03-15

@Vicente15477281 Clion

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2025-03-09

@pvncher but vanillajs is seeming nice?

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okay... AI and cursor makes not absolutely hate web development. Being able to just ask it how t

2025-03-09

okay... AI and cursor makes not absolutely hate web development. Being able to just ask it how to set up a layout or CSS style with a rough description is pretty great.

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okay... AI and cursor makes me not absolutely hate web development. Being able to just ask it ho

2025-03-09

okay... AI and cursor makes me not absolutely hate web development. Being able to just ask it how to set up a layout or CSS style with a rough description is pretty great.

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Actually this kind of makes obsolete CSS and html expertise. Also a lot of frameworks...

2025-03-09

But you know what I'd actually be curious to see? A comprehensive breakdown of the exact scenarios where C with GCC and all of GCC's…

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Government should have a policy of only using open source software for general desktop computing

2025-02-27

Government should have a policy of only using open source software for general desktop computing needs. Such as IDEs, OSs, chat, office, CAD etc.

2025-02-22

2025-02-15

@CyborgLavery I don't really like AI auto complete at all. Or anything that pops up anything in the code as I write it. At least for what I write. I could see maybe liking it for CSS or HTML where there are lot of non-critical details or formatting tags and whatnot. But for graphics related or…

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@cmuratori Hm Dijkstra actually did have some good thoughts.

2025-02-15

@cmuratori Hm Dijkstra actually did have some good thoughts.

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@amaldorai @UnderwaterBepis I live in a dark cave where I am never exposed to sun, so I don't ha

2025-02-15

@amaldorai @UnderwaterBepis I live in a dark cave where I am never exposed to sun, so I don't have sunscreen.

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@SenSanders Asking questions and trying to find flaws, holes and things which could bring certai

2025-02-14

@SenSanders Asking questions and trying to find flaws, holes and things which could bring certainty into doubt is part of science. That is what evidence is supposed to be able to hold up to.

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@awesomekling I will once again be a part of that small percentage that reiterates the more sign

2025-02-14

@awesomekling I will once again be a part of that small percentage that reiterates the more significant aspect of this argument that will be glossed over and forgot by most.

The bigger contention is not OOP vs FP. As that is ultimately subjective and stylistic.

The bigger contention is…

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@TheGingerBill I don't use my hands. I literally eat a copious amount of LSD to dissolve my cons

2025-02-13

@TheGingerBill I don't use my hands. I literally eat a copious amount of LSD to dissolve my consciousness back to a primordial state of unified energy before the paths of carbon and silicone diverted, at which point I alter the formation of silicone through direct will as a hyper dimensional…

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2025-02-11

@fffgghhuuh54434 @ludwigABAP Right one extra line... but also, what if it's a single header file?

I like comptime and even C++ constexpr eval to some degree, but these aren't replacements for macros. I do want to be able to stamp arbitrary bits of code anywhere based on a single token.

Honestly, I could…

2025-02-05

@RandomSprint If they want to program, get a degree in mathematics or electrical engineering, learn programming on the side.

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@Jonathan_Blow Desktop PCs are also problematic. I build a new PC every year or so and it seems

2025-02-05

@Jonathan_Blow Desktop PCs are also problematic. I build a new PC every year or so and it seems like it's around every 3ish years I get one that is rock solid, no issues.

Maybe the custom loop is a few C better in continuous heavy load but…

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If you return things by ref in C#, but the caller doesn't specify both the value as ref and the

@ludwigABAP When you are that certain type of obsessive programmer personality type that can too

2025-01-20

@ludwigABAP When you are that certain type of obsessive programmer personality type that can too easily be obnoxious in youth. It basically takes you finding someone who fully understands everything you're doing, at your level. Then having them genuinely tell you to stop being a fucking…

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@gfodor I think this was one of Astro Teller's theories like a decade ago. That the future of he

2025-01-20

@gfodor I think this was one of Astro Teller's theories like a decade ago. That the future of healthcare will be no healthcare because Realtime AI analysis of biometrics for preventative care will become so good.

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@CyborgLavery If the ID protocol is standardized, and it becomes the expected norm you can expor

2025-01-19

2025-01-17

I think ref was a mistake.

I get it. It's convenient. Having to type -> is three keystrokes compared to just . dot syntax.

... but here's the thing. The -> clearly signifies you are accessing something non-local. It makes you do a few extra keystrokes to consider if you really…

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hold up... the new(ish) gigabyte control center is not completely offensive garbage... starts fa

2025-01-17

hold up... the new(ish) gigabyte control center is not completely offensive garbage... starts fast... is unnoticeable on boot... minimally does only what I'm interested in... only takes up 100mb in background

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2025-01-15

@ludwigABAP I find you are generally seen as the crazy and weird one if you argue for data oriented design in most software companies. Really any software company. I'm in the one company that has data-oriented programming tools as an explicit primary product offering and it's still a hard…

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@GoodPoliticGuy Chinese people aren't your enemy. Chinese government is your enemy. Just as the

2025-01-15

@GoodPoliticGuy Chinese people aren't your enemy. Chinese government is your enemy. Just as the US government is the enemy to many other nations in ways the US people do not approve of. Really, in many ways the US government is the enemy to its own people. Same with Chinese government.

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@snoopy_dot_jpg Two rules to follow that I found kept alcohol from having negative effects on me

2025-01-14

@snoopy_dot_jpg Two rules to follow that I found kept alcohol from having negative effects on me: 1. Never have alcohol more than one night a week. 2. Never have so much you are not mostly sober before sleep.

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@Hasen_Judi That's actually been my #1 complain with chatgpt. The chat window is horrible.

2025-01-14

@Hasen_Judi That's actually been my #1 complain with chatgpt. The chat window is horrible.

Claude is decent.

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2025-01-13

I see all these reports of people in interviews not even being able to pass fizzbuzz, so I thought, has my brain fried enough that I couldn't even do that? I hate leetcode but whatever, can be fun.

2025-01-07

Applying all the intel microcode patches and putting in a new 14900ks did solve instability problems. So yes. Intel chips were getting physically damaged.

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@1thousandfaces_ This self-help book can help with that:

2025-01-07

@1thousandfaces_ This self-help book can help with that: https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushroom-Growers-Handbook-Enthusiasts/dp/0932551068/ref=asc_df_0932551068?mcid=7106f78fae753ec29e3f2198da223a8d&hvocijid=6879241552078523197-0932551068-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6879241552078523197&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1027691&hvtargid=pla-2281435179738&psc=1

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@ryanjfleury If the open-source community implementation has a good community around it, and is

2025-01-06

@michae1becker Any striking headline with Apple in it will always get engagement. There is incen

2025-01-05

@michae1becker Any striking headline with Apple in it will always get engagement. There is incentive to just make things up. This is compounded on prior made-up narratives that the AVP is failing to do what it intended to do.

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It might be because I programed C# alot with var and I am used to it, but I really like C23 auto

2025-01-05

It might be because I programed C# alot with var and I am used to it, but I really like C23 auto.

Ya ya I know explicit type, always know what the type is... I know...

BUT here's the thing... often times you can easily infer a variables type from context, how it is being used…

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Things I have rage quit over Christmas break:

2025-01-03

Things I have rage quit over Christmas break:

1. Custom watercooling. Oh it's so fun to buy all the fancy custom watercooling stuff and put it all together and beautifully orchestrate it in a higher performance mini itx. But then in a year or two, you are going to want to change…

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@FreyaHolmer The bittersweet part to me about this is that NFTs were the solution to digital aut

2025-01-03

@FreyaHolmer The bittersweet part to me about this is that NFTs were the solution to digital authenticity, but no one cared about digital authenticity. People rejected it because ultimately no one cared about proving if their content was from the real artist and purchased fairly. It's just…

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Over the past 15 years I've probably interviewed at least several dozen times at various compani

2025-01-01

Over the past 15 years I've probably interviewed at least several dozen times at various companies. I was thinking through the notable causes of my failures, and these came to mind.

- I didn't know what a trie was. In post respect good thing to know, but useless thing to set…

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@Lanowen Seems breaking it down to euler and position with a bunch of switch statements and reco

2025-01-01

@Lanowen Seems breaking it down to euler and position with a bunch of switch statements and reconstructing the matrices is the only way for all scenarios.

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2024-12-31

@Stainle08357738 @davepl1968 Although recorded history gets a bit murky when you try to go back to the very first written numerical digits. I would bet the first person who wrote out digits of basic math and tried to convince people they had some deeper meaning, probably was not initially believed. Within…

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@davepl1968 Everything true first started out as a conspiracy theory, to which those who were mo

2024-12-31

@davepl1968 Everything true first started out as a conspiracy theory, to which those who were most competent and researched were called the conspiracy theorists.

People forget that the oil industry managed to suppress the science about climate change for roughly 4 decades. During which time…

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@ewanmakepeace @USTechWorkers An odd thing about this, if your intent was to simply hire the che

2024-12-29

@ewanmakepeace @USTechWorkers An odd thing about this, if your intent was to simply hire the cheapest and hardest-working programmers. Hiring people remotely would enable you to hire from a larger pool and pay less than if they lived in the USA.

... but you, and many, seem to be against remote hiring. Which…

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Why is all motherboard software terrible.

2024-12-28

Why is all motherboard software terrible.

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2024-12-27

@Ed__dev are you writing all the codegen out in C itself, or is there something better to use for this?

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I'm really happy my enterprise fancy architecture phase ran its course with C# and gameplay prog

2024-12-25

I'm really happy my enterprise fancy architecture phase ran its course with C# and gameplay programming because if it ran its course with C++ in one the fields that pays far more, or would have got me entrenched high up in some corporate hierarchy, I probably would have confused…

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One thing I really love about vulkan and openxr is the layer system. I think it's under-apprecia

2024-12-23

One thing I really love about vulkan and openxr is the layer system. I think it's under-appreciated how elegantly, and simply, this solves the ability to intercept and inject an additional high-performance step of computation in all the graphics, input and display operations of…

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2024-12-22

@Jonathan_Blow Claude 3.5 sonnet is the equivalent of a google-fu master for anything that's been around for a while. It is better at producing answers than what I'd get from stackoverflow, a forum, or even the official documentation at times. Vulkan, OpenGL, DX11, win32 api, stuff like that.…

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@GordanKnott @SadlyItsBradley The only thing they don't portray well is the HDR overblown clippi

2024-12-22

2024-12-20

If music really has therapeutic value, then an AI which scanned your brainwaves, or tracked other biometrics, could probably always discern the exact music to play to provide you the most benefit.

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How long until I can feed a C++ codebase into an LLM and have it output a good C codebase?

2024-12-20

How long until I can feed a C++ codebase into an LLM and have it output a good C codebase?

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@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser How long do you think until it will be competitive with firefox o

2024-12-20

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser How long do you think until it will be competitive with firefox or webkit in terms of performance?

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@BernieSanders It's been like this for over a decade, probably over two or three decades.

2024-12-19

@BernieSanders It's been like this for over a decade, probably over two or three decades.

The difference is Elon Musk isn't concealing what he's doing.

Ironically, it might be the only way to wake people to the nature of how our government works. For years, decades you say it's not a…

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What if there was a web browser where every unique page had its own voice chat it auto joined yo

2024-12-18

What if there was a web browser where every unique page had its own voice chat it auto joined you into so you could talk to whatever random person was looking at the same thing.

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@theo C# contravariant generics

2024-12-18

@theo C# contravariant generics

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@NimaZeighami Nothing in the link says they are getting discontinued ?

2024-12-18

@NimaZeighami Nothing in the link says they are getting discontinued ?

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@ludwigABAP "just give me agency" that's the exact opposite reason of why companies hire people.

2024-12-18

@ludwigABAP "just give me agency" that's the exact opposite reason of why companies hire people...

Depending on how corporate the company is, the ability to remove engineer agency and herd engineers is how the competency of management is measured.

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@JordanKutzer that's partly what that thought came from

2024-12-18

@JordanKutzer that's partly what that thought came from

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How is it nearly 2025 and I still don't have a minimal-as-possible, lighthouse tracked, DisplayP

2024-12-18

How is it nearly 2025 and I still don't have a minimal-as-possible, lighthouse tracked, DisplayPort, OLED, pancake lense, VR headset with full face tracking? Vive seems to circle around this but just can't -quite- do it for some reason. I don't get it. They have all the pieces,…

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@pmarca The only reason this is a story of such concern for so many is because it's too easy for

2024-12-17

@pmarca The only reason this is a story of such concern for so many is because it's too easy for everyone to understand how the extremely shitty healthcare system could reduce a normal, average, person just like them to a state of neurotic, suicidal, homicidal, hopelessness. Even those…

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In the early days of the web those who developed above-average google-fu could learn faster, mov

2024-12-17

2024-12-13

oh damn soul reaver 1 & 2 remastered where did this come from

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Noticing how frequently people make what I'd consider not the best decision on what kind of allo

2024-12-13

Noticing how frequently people make what I'd consider not the best decision on what kind of allocation to use in C# for Unity I decided to make a decision tree.

Which after week of little edits and tweaks, and this decision tree becoming a rat's nest I realize why people… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1867457788777287744/photo/1

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@ForrestTheWoods nah man... it'll work you just have to throw more intense music behind it... an

2024-12-13

@ForrestTheWoods nah man... it'll work you just have to throw more intense music behind it... and more exotic muscle cars... and sexier women... and higher speed car chases.... and car chases on monolithic alien structures... and more ambiguous religious imagery to make it feel ominous... If…

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@wiredearp @flynnslick matrix gonna matrix

2024-12-12

@wiredearp @flynnslick matrix gonna matrix

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@pmarca There are scenarios where cannabis will make you more productive, but it has to be one c

2024-12-12

@pmarca There are scenarios where cannabis will make you more productive, but it has to be one conducive to what the drug augments. From what I've seen that is music. The most productive musicians I've ever known regularly used cannabis. However, for logic, math and programming cannabis…

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@pmarca Opioid addiction I'd agree is the side effect of something negative. Some pervasive caus

2024-12-12

@pmarca Opioid addiction I'd agree is the side effect of something negative. Some pervasive cause of anxiety and depression that can hopefully be fixed.

However, recreational drug use historically fizzles up in the excesses of the bourgeoise during the peak of cultures. Idealistically,…

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@IroncladDev water flows between the mountains

2024-12-12

@IroncladDev water flows between the mountains

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@flynnslick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

2024-12-12

@flynnslick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

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@cnlohr Won't a for loop be better for performance usually?

2024-12-12

@cnlohr Won't a for loop be better for performance usually?

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2024-12-06

We don't need another engine. We need a kind of streaming engine runtime which is open and extensible enough that anyone's curiosities with graphics and engine development can be explored with it. But has certain APIs and constraints, which if followed, would let it interop with…

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@realdowd Take a VR compositor, fiddle what's necessary at the low level to let it composite man

2024-12-06

@realdowd Take a VR compositor, fiddle what's necessary at the low level to let it composite many different things from entirely different game engines into a shared space, provide some base APIs for networking, IPC and physics that will enable cohesion between all the content to function…

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2024-12-05

@IterIntellectus In big cities, it is a financial problem. Don't forget, 150k a year is considered 'Low Income' for a family in San Francisco to qualify for assistance. To get a decent sized house and afford middle class in somewhere like San Francisco, you'd need at least a few million in the…

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2024-12-01

I realize the reason I have no trouble talking about my political or philosophical perspectives openly and intricately is because I don't really consider any of them to be part of my identity. Nor do I subscribe belief to any of them fully. I tend to be fundamentally…

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@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser What about speed?

2024-12-01

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser What about speed?

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@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser @SwiftLang I'm all for new browser engines anyway they might come

2024-12-01

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser @SwiftLang I'm all for new browser engines anyway they might come about, so either way I'll celebrate it. But on the very unlikely chance this might sway something, I'd like suggest swift is bad for this. I think you've come to the wrong conclusion here because your list of requirements is…

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Andreesen's story about startups getting debanked is pretty damn crazy. I didn't know so many pe

2024-12-01

Andreesen's story about startups getting debanked is pretty damn crazy. I didn't know so many people had been personally targeted for developing technology government didn't like. It's also crazier you didn't hear about the extent of it till now as debanking disrupted their…

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What if instead of thousands of people putting hundreds of hours into leetcode and competitive p

2024-11-29

@cixliv I agree, if they could 3/4 the weight and price I could see a lot of people buying it ju

2024-11-28

@cixliv I agree, if they could 3/4 the weight and price I could see a lot of people buying it just to watch movies or lounge while flipping through YouTube. The movie watching experience is literally the best you can get at home and would easily justify lots of people renting 3D 4k…

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@trunarla If importing a package is easier than writing it out yourself then there is incentive

2024-11-27

@trunarla If importing a package is easier than writing it out yourself then there is incentive to import the package. The easier it becomes to import a package the greater there will be a tendency to start importing even trivial things as packages.

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2024-11-26

@scarletinked This is a great way to phrase this dichotomy. I unfortunately have encountered this dichotomy too often. Business wanting something 'highly predictable' and 'highly valuable' when these two qualities tend to carry an inverse correlation. I find tech business side tends to have…

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Programming languages as incentive structures I think is going to be one of my main spiels.

2024-11-25

Programming languages as incentive structures I think is going to be one of my main spiels.

Another one questionable incentive.

If you make it easier to manage long prefix names, via namespaces or other, then you will get longer and longer prefixes chained on every type.…

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I see Discord as the place for echo chambers. I don't need another echo chamber platform. So out

2024-11-25

I see Discord as the place for echo chambers. I don't need another echo chamber platform. So outside of Discord if I am going to use a big open social media platform, I'd want it to be the biggest one that gives the most exposure to the widest array of things. Twitter still seems…

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Is there any multiplayer FPS game with better or comparable sniper play as the battlefield serie

2024-11-17

Is there any multiplayer FPS game with better or comparable sniper play as the battlefield series?

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In software there are three potential aspects to optimize development approach around which are

2024-11-17

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My 13900ks cannot reliably compile the full chromium codebase even at default clock. I suspect t

2024-11-14

My 13900ks cannot reliably compile the full chromium codebase even at default clock. I suspect this is sign of some slight damage from the voltage issues. Pretty wild how severely Intel can mess up these past years. My 13900ks has pretty much been fine other than this. If you've…

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@LizWolfeReason DMT is "right-coded".

2024-11-14

@LizWolfeReason DMT is "right-coded".

We have officially reached peak "Left" "Right" mean absolutely nothing.

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Election outcomes signify to me the importance of staying close to X. As it demonstrates it has

2024-11-14

Election outcomes signify to me the importance of staying close to X. As it demonstrates it has the mix of whatever the novel media recipe is that makes it central to swaying global superpowers. Either you maintain a deep instinct on what exactly is happening here and how, or you…

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As society deconditions from corporate broadcast media and the web turns into the central commun

2024-11-14

As society deconditions from corporate broadcast media and the web turns into the central communication medium for cultural ethos, there is going to be a weird middle ground where it seems like something is getting worse. Because when you bring millions of people online that have…

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Are there any wired LAN or WiFi 7 optimized remote desktop sharing solution out there which are

2024-11-14

Are there any wired LAN or WiFi 7 optimized remote desktop sharing solution out there which are cross-platform that could truly replace a KVM?

Not for VR but for general compute.

I'm realizing networks and codecs might be good enough now that KVMs could be obsolete but I've…

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I wish games had more comprehensive difficulty ratings. So, I know if I'm buying, and putting ti

2024-11-13

I wish games had more comprehensive difficulty ratings. So, I know if I'm buying, and putting time on something, that is just going to piss me of in an hour. Someone could probably turn this into some kind of business.

Like Space Marine 2 looks cool, but do I really want to…

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@pmarca Profit incentive puts cheap screens in every home and pocket. With cheap services to fee

2024-11-12

@pmarca Profit incentive puts cheap screens in every home and pocket. With cheap services to feed them data.

Profit incentive uses those screens to program into everyone habits and ways of voting which then drive up the cost of everything else that matters.

It can’t all be cheap when…

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@MalekiRe there is servo

2024-11-12

@MalekiRe there is servo

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Here is the linux kernel source. A primarily C project that has been evolving out in the wild fo

2024-11-12

Here is the linux kernel source. A primarily C project that has been evolving out in the wild for decades: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Here is the chromium source. A primarily C++ project that has been evolving out in the wild for decades: https://github.com/chromium/chromium

Click into a few…

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Before embarking on any large project, I believe every new programmer needs to go through the pr

2024-11-12

Before embarking on any large project, I believe every new programmer needs to go through the process at least once of building, and debugging, chromium from source under a tense high pressure situation to deeply ingrain a phobia of complexity.

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I beat Resident Evil 2 Remake. Amazing game, but I'm kind of tired of forced PBR everything with

2024-11-10

I beat Resident Evil 2 Remake. Amazing game, but I'm kind of tired of forced PBR everything with artifacting, fuzzing, ghosting, smudging everywhere running slow.

The only game that seemed to be generally undisturbed by temporal solutions are the new Doom titles. I still don't…

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@Jonathan_Blow Yup. If Trump doesn't snub RFK Jr and lets him have sufficient authority as promi

2024-11-09

@Jonathan_Blow Yup. If Trump doesn't snub RFK Jr and lets him have sufficient authority as promised, it will ironically make Trump's Administration more "Left-Wing" than the Democratic party in terms of what the term meant a decade ago. His framing on the subject of corruption in healthcare and…

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Burndown chart or collaborative drawing of a city skyline?

2024-11-09

Burndown chart or collaborative drawing of a city skyline?

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@alexbunardzic I like PRs when on dev there is a high tendency to just skim for anything egregio

2024-11-09

@alexbunardzic I like PRs when on dev there is a high tendency to just skim for anything egregious and merge, fix in subsequent PRs.

It can help someone fiddle with things through multiple commits then squash merge to dev to keep it cleaner

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2024-11-07

@GustavSterbrant I believe there is a pervasive tendency to not take into account how out-of-democratic-control state power is in the US and be avoidant of the dismal reality of the situation. This feeds into those who are not critical enough of any notion that'd give power to the state, but even…

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@GustavSterbrant Corporatism may be a product of the state, but the pathway from a more free mar

2024-11-07

@GustavSterbrant Corporatism may be a product of the state, but the pathway from a more free market economy to a corporatist command economy comes from the private sector amassing enough money and power to begin that process of lobbying and corruption. You first need a business model that can…

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The real concerning thing to me isn't the prospect that Musk bought twitter and consequentially

2024-11-06

The real concerning thing to me isn't the prospect that Musk bought twitter and consequentially manipulated the election. It's that it demonstrates media does in fact have that much of an effect on the results of an election. Someone shouldn't be able to sway a global superpower…

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2024-11-05

Black Myth Wukong was really cool for the first 30 minutes then immediately went into too hard for me to play.

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@allenholub There are problem domains where every 0.1 ms reduced from execution time directly im

2024-11-05

@allenholub There are problem domains where every 0.1 ms reduced from execution time directly impacts end user value and it's entirely appropriate for programmer's to regularly go down rabbit holes where they can shave off little bits here and there. That if 20 programmers spent multiple…

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@allenholub Or, your sprites are loaded into a contiguous chunk of GPU RAM and you compute their

2024-11-05

@allenholub Or, your sprites are loaded into a contiguous chunk of GPU RAM and you compute their drawing entirely in a task shader and draw them in a mesh shader. To which your code will predominately be an all static and stack based procedural GLSL implementation, and your CPU->GPU interop…

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@allenholub Or you could be drawing sprites for the UI on a resource constrained embedded device

2024-11-05

@allenholub Or you could be drawing sprites for the UI on a resource constrained embedded device. Or needing to display millions of points in a data visualization app. There are a lot of problems that fit the scenario of 'rapid sequential GPU processing'.

Depending on what you need them to…

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It's sad how atypical and deranged US politics have become and year by year there will be more a

2024-11-02

It's sad how atypical and deranged US politics have become and year by year there will be more and more people who haven't been alive long to enough to even remember when it wasn't like this. In my mind, Citizens United ruling was a primary hinge point in 2010. Basically, when…

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@TheGingerBill Discord has decent built in forum functionality.

2024-11-01

@TheGingerBill Discord has decent built in forum functionality.

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@jmdagdelen @JordanKutzer The trend has been consistent across all the FTP games and platforms t

2024-11-01

@jmdagdelen @JordanKutzer The trend has been consistent across all the FTP games and platforms that people expect worlds to be free, but then are more willing to pay for things they perceive as personal items. So they tailor stores around selling skins, avatars, powerups and items a person can take with…

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@jmdagdelen @JordanKutzer Not personal spaces, personal items. Things they take with them or can

2024-11-01

@jmdagdelen @JordanKutzer Not personal spaces, personal items. Things they take with them or can wear. FTP economies tend to revolve around items, guns, avatars, clothes skins etc.

Personal spaces don't get as much attention. Social games are about the social interaction, the social signalling. Being…

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2024-10-29

I carry such a great envy for those who can live entirely in a terminal with just emacs writing C. Do you all realize how much of a pain it is to have to simultaneously deal with C#, C++, Objective-C, Swift, HLSL, Python, shell scripts, batch scripts? Across win, mac, ios and…

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This was one of the most important lessons in programming for me. The sooner you can learn it th

2024-10-28

2024-10-22

@SebAaltonen You'd hope for some kind of rationality and capacity of change at the federal level of the US government, unfortunately when things get that big and bureaucratic everything just sits stuck in a stalemate.

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Of course Elon Musk bought Twitter to affect US Politics. It's the unfortunate truth that to sur

2024-10-22

Of course Elon Musk bought Twitter to affect US Politics. It's the unfortunate truth that to survive as a visible big corporation or wealthy elite at the top in the USA you need politicians in your pocket. Otherwise, the government attacks you and destroys you.

This is…

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@SebAaltonen How do you deal with texture filtering then? Do you just sample the atlas multiple

2024-10-21

@SebAaltonen How do you deal with texture filtering then? Do you just sample the atlas multiple times? Can that be comparable to built-in anisotropic filtering?

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2024-10-19

It seems like anytime someone starts to question Rust someone always just "appears" from the bushes, or some dark corner, to start badgering you about Rust. It's like some hidden Rust gestapo interwoven through all the social spaces.

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Somehow I've gotten nearly a thousand followers, so I feel it important to clarify, this was nev

2024-10-18

Somehow I've gotten nearly a thousand followers, so I feel it important to clarify, this was never supposed to be a professional nor a fully respectable twitter account. You are signing up for a shit show of stream of consciousness ramblings.

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2024-10-15

VRChat stickers feature is cool, but for some reason they missed the most important aspect of now being able to post memes on walls, other people need to be able to meme them to. There needs to be a 'clone sticker' option.

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@t3dotgg fedora has been working without any issue on my framework laptop

2024-10-15

@t3dotgg fedora has been working without any issue on my framework laptop

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@dtupper public/private stickers?

2024-10-15

@dtupper public/private stickers?

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@dtupper but how else will my sticker meme go viral :(

2024-10-15

@dtupper but how else will my sticker meme go viral :(

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To automatically manage memory, higher level languages and VM's were created. But language runti

2024-10-14

To automatically manage memory, higher level languages and VM's were created. But language runtimes and VMs have ended up consuming so much memory themselves that you could get away with just statically allocating everything and still be lighter.

I just launched nodejs with…

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@term_est @TheGingerBill In my vicinity it is not uncommon for those with years spent with C++ t

@TheGingerBill @kennethnym This has always been my hangup too. Vim/emacs doest have consistent U

2024-10-10

2024-10-05

@amaldorai If my kids ever wanted a screen, I'd make them build that thing themselves out of all open-source source software and OEM hardware from $5 week allowance. RPi with 16-bit emulator if they want games. Secondhand keyboard and monitor from goodwill that's not portable. They can play…

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@michae1becker Hard pill to swallow is that there is some aspect of human nature which makes mos

2024-10-03

@michae1becker Hard pill to swallow is that there is some aspect of human nature which makes most people crave being surveilled. https://youtu.be/KLHjba87JXM?si=HP9M7HGwoF5BvcsJ

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This is the point where the aliens take the brains of every American, then return them sometime

2024-10-02

This is the point where the aliens take the brains of every American, then return them sometime after November 6th.

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One of the perspectives which was a one-way street for me was Marshall McLuhan. The perspective

2024-10-01

One of the perspectives which was a one-way street for me was Marshall McLuhan. The perspective that media is a foundational effector of how a society and culture form. He has multiple books going on ad nauseum about examples and theories of this, but the gist is, the printing…

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@yadadoo20 @DrJillStein You can't have a serious discussion about improving the US economy, US d

2024-09-30

@yadadoo20 @DrJillStein You can't have a serious discussion about improving the US economy, US debt and internal infrastructure without seriously questioning the validity of expenditures in the US Military Industrial complex and global policing. They are intertwined.

But on this point specifically,…

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Political talk can be good, great even, in any context. But first you have to understand the bas

2024-09-30

Political talk can be good, great even, in any context. But first you have to understand the basics of non-violent communication (NVC is an actual book) and the rules of debate. Such as logical fallacies and the ability to discern when you are dealing with a more subjective or…

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2024-09-28

The number of people I encounter who say they cannot possibly conceive how someone could seriously, and genuinely, support the other political side is concerning to me. They can only process it as some intentional, insidious, stupid, evil. It's just unthinkable to them in any…

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@darkswordsmantv I couldn't decide which establishment party I think is more malicious all point

2024-09-28

@darkswordsmantv I couldn't decide which establishment party I think is more malicious all points considered. This isn't from a sense of certainty of a moral equivalence. It's from when I run through all arguments and all things I see occurring, there is just too much for me to have a sense of…

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@TheGingerBill flodin

2024-09-26

@TheGingerBill flodin

pronounced flow-din

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I do think people need to consider "Style C" more too. Splitting things into functions just for

2024-09-26

I do think people need to consider "Style C" more too. Splitting things into functions just for the sake of doing so is one of those 'clean code' habits people just started doing without much thought because a book said to do it. http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

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@micsolana Every person in the US bands together and agrees to boycott some particular thing unt

2024-09-25

@micsolana Every person in the US bands together and agrees to boycott some particular thing until the company caves to demands and negotiates a lower price.

Or the people enact some government, or other, institution to negotiate for them.

It is still basic market economics, supply and…

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@pmarca Psychedelics have been used by millions of people around the world for many purposes, ac

2024-09-24

@pmarca Psychedelics have been used by millions of people around the world for many purposes, across many cultures. Associating it with one particular small group in one particular period of time is not an honest take.

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@pmarca Do you believe society got more, or less, sane since the end of the 70's and the lowered

2024-09-24

@pmarca Do you believe society got more, or less, sane since the end of the 70's and the lowered prevalence of psychedelic use?

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@cafreiman GDP per capita is the ratio of a countries GDP in relation to population size. It is

2024-09-23

@cafreiman GDP per capita is the ratio of a countries GDP in relation to population size. It is not a measure of individual income nor how much richer each person has become.

Median income per capita is what measures individual income.

GDP per capita and median income per capita should…

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I remember one time in VRC I was talking to someone in Australia about the covid lockdowns and h

2024-09-22

I remember one time in VRC I was talking to someone in Australia about the covid lockdowns and how a bunch of American media was freaking out about Australian lockdowns being too authoritarian. The person in Australia who I was asking this is generally an anti-authoritarian type,…

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@ylecun @DeryaTR_ The more understand about the world and history, the more you get a sense it i

2024-09-20

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@RealJakeBroe More like this:

2024-09-16

@RealJakeBroe More like this: https://youtu.be/bhcrgQihRcs?si=r301HUM3TOEUL-hk

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@matthewstoller I'd be curious to see someone try to come up with metrics to demonstrate this.

2024-09-15

2024-09-11

I honestly don't know which one completely fabricated more about the other. It just seems the name of the game now. Which is really quite bad. I partly do blame it on Trump, I think he proved that you could employ "reality TV dramatization" in the political arena to great…

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The thing which is most difficult about improving oneself as a programmer is that typically the

2024-09-10

The thing which is most difficult about improving oneself as a programmer is that typically the person you want to listen to the most is some seemingly weird, semi-hermit, in some odd corner of the web, that is not very good at explaining to you why you should be listening to…

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@TBendixson I think many would gladly pay for current open source work and would fully trust the

2024-09-09

@TBendixson I think many would gladly pay for current open source work and would fully trust their creator. The complication however comes about when said product is sold, bought, or enters political turmoil. Then all of a sudden some tool you rely on and paid for is 100% at the whims of…

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@per_arneng @ChShersh What if you just viewed the C file as the package?

2024-09-09

@per_arneng @ChShersh What if you just viewed the C file as the package?

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@Hasen_Judi I came to a similar conclusion. I see it as the only modern lang that came from firs

2024-09-09

3. How do I keep political leverage…

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2024-09-06

I am very Pro-Misinformation.

However, I have mixed feeling about Disinformation.

The difference between Misinformation and Disinformation is often not highlighted in media enough. Their conflating of the two is quite suspicious to me.

See Disinformation is intentional.…

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I am going to declare myself undecided on who to vote for in the 2024 Presidential election. If

2024-09-06

I am going to declare myself undecided on who to vote for in the 2024 Presidential election. If you would care to sway me, please present one argument per tweet.

However, I am going to adhere to a few rules on this. I may just mute your reply if it doesn't follow the rules. So…

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@AntonHand I feel like a lot of genuine left-wing base has been disrupted or gone awry the past

2024-09-05

@AntonHand I feel like a lot of genuine left-wing base has been disrupted or gone awry the past few decades. It's seems too often that it strays into like strict obsession with communism, socialism, marxism, or it gets a bit too 'tankie', or it gets a bit too into identity politics, or some…

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zed is pretty sweet, could be my main if they get win released.

2024-09-04

zed is pretty sweet, could be my main if they get win released.

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Even though I am as academically and philosophically left wing in principle as someone could get

2024-09-04

Even though I am as academically and philosophically left wing in principle as someone could get, I often find it difficult to be close friends with most liberals. Because there always comes some point where they do this like ritual or purity test where your supposed to repeat…

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@DrJillStein @TheDemocrats "total number of uninsured and under-insured people has INCREASED sin

2024-09-04

@DrJillStein @TheDemocrats "total number of uninsured and under-insured people has INCREASED since implementation: 77.6 million in 2010 to 86.1 million in 2024"

What does that come from?

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@Jonathan_Blow Wait whats wrong with it? Was thinking about getting one.

2024-09-03

@Jonathan_Blow Wait whats wrong with it? Was thinking about getting one.

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@DrJillStein damn I didn't know green party was so based

2024-09-03

@DrJillStein damn I didn't know green party was so based

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@_LucasRizzotto @cixliv From handful articles I read it sounds less like it has to do with apply

2024-09-02

@_LucasRizzotto @cixliv From handful articles I read it sounds less like it has to do with applying basic content standards and more to do with an escalating political feud specifically with the Brazilian prime minister over multiple things. Gist I got is, the prime minister requested something which…

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@Jonathan_Blow @ryanjfleury The market lacks the incentives to do so.

@nothings Your comment was fine. You just ended up trending in a part of algorithm which it knew

2024-08-27

@nothings Your comment was fine. You just ended up trending in a part of algorithm which it knew would get knee jerk responses.

The secret to posting anything critical on twitter is ensure it's at least a few paragraphs to a page long. People who want to skim and reply fast will…

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https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1828563795582574709/photo/1

2024-08-27

https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1828563795582574709/photo/1

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@cnlohr Everything optimizes around the incentives it exists within.

2024-08-27

@cnlohr Everything optimizes around the incentives it exists within.

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@afoxdesign That's pretty much a primary use case of vrchat and partly why it's so popular.

2024-08-27

@afoxdesign That's pretty much a primary use case of vrchat and partly why it's so popular.

Although, if you can't do it in your anime catgirl / furry avatar it's NGMI. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1826823496284209492

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@TheGingerBill Language and tool design is about incentives as much as it is the elegance of any

2024-08-26

@TheGingerBill Language and tool design is about incentives as much as it is the elegance of anything in isolation.

Make package use extremely easy, you get tons of packages.

Make heap allocation and clean up extremely easy, you get lots and lots of heap allocation everywhere.

Make…

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@Hasen_Judi There is truth to this, but there is also another truth in the subject of 'Informati

2024-08-26

@Hasen_Judi There is truth to this, but there is also another truth in the subject of 'Information Overload' where learning selective attention can be more valuable.

If you could be in a room with tons of stimuli going simultaneously, then selectively, consciously, focus on specifically one…

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Despite faults Dorsey has, among the big successful tech CEO's I believe he has always been one

2024-08-26

Despite faults Dorsey has, among the big successful tech CEO's I believe he has always been one of the most acute in recognizing the nature of the web, the direction it is going, and technology associated. https://x.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1827499056324821048

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Whenever one political side tries to convince me not to vote for the other political side, it al

2024-08-25

Whenever one political side tries to convince me not to vote for the other political side, it always makes me want to vote for that other side. Because for some reason it's been completely normalized that if you are throwing dirt against a political opponent you are supposed take…

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What's the difference between a Software Developer and a Software Engineer?

2024-08-24

What's the difference between a Software Developer and a Software Engineer?

My personal definition has always been similar to that of the difference between a someone like a Structural Engineer or a Civil Engineer, and any other worker who would work on the construction of…

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Is Capitalism good or bad?

2024-08-24

Is Capitalism good or bad?

One thing that drives me crazy is that this argument goes round and round with people rarely recognizing they are operating on two entirely different definitions.

Most political arguments I believe are of this nature if you really cornered those…

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2024-08-23

Some these young whippersnappers may be able to leetcode some problems faster than me, but can they watch a 30 second video of some Unity project exhibiting some inanely incomprehensible quirk and have an immediate sense of what the specific causes is? Then quickly go into a…

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I rather liked this talk:

2024-08-23

I rather liked this talk: https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=neGS369Y9hZxsyRy There is a lot of truth in it. It is worth the watch. It goes through and highlights all the degradation happening in the software industry and how this is dangerous. Literally, and also existentially for society.

I've realized…

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2024-08-22

Playing Stormgate, which very much follows the Starcraft formula, makes me realize what so many modern games miss which makes me dislike modern games.

Discoverability through gameplay.

In Starcraft/Stormgate you hover over build icons, read an extremely short one sentence…

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No C#, you did not need to add 'records'.

2024-08-20

No C#, you did not need to add 'records'.

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2024-08-18

How do you design a news feed so the most accurate and nuanced perspective floats to the top rather than the most inflammatory spin, that tends to always create greater engagement?

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@chhopsky I see the bigger root isn't so much that people react to things which upset them. They

2024-08-18

@chhopsky I see the bigger root isn't so much that people react to things which upset them. They react to things which upset them over media. This creates the scenario where media could show you the same 10 emotionally upsetting things over and over, making the impression on someone that…

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@AntonHand Prometheus was supposed to be Ridley Scott's big sci-fi movie where he finally got bu

2024-08-18

@AntonHand Prometheus was supposed to be Ridley Scott's big sci-fi movie where he finally got budget and permission to do all of his philosophical intellectual epic sci-fi ideas. Then part way through the studio decided to market it as next big Ridley Scott dumb action movie blockbuster.…

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1.5 days debugging to find out one of my sTypes was wrong.

2024-08-18

1.5 days debugging to find out one of my sTypes was wrong.

Thanks vulkan validaiton layers, where were you on that one.

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@tsoding Are you implying you are somehow the normal one amongst a bunch of freaks?

2024-08-17

@tsoding Are you implying you are somehow the normal one amongst a bunch of freaks?

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Arguments between people about the two presidential candidates come off to me like two Storm Tro

2024-08-16

Arguments between people about the two presidential candidates come off to me like two Storm Troopers arguing over who will be the new Emperor.

To the Storm Troopers it probably seems like there is much on the line and at risk.

To someone removed from it all, it's two clones,…

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@Hasen_Judi It’s a reasonable question if there are loose enough specifics on exact syntax.

2024-08-15

@Hasen_Judi It’s a reasonable question if there are loose enough specifics on exact syntax.

Thing that drives me crazy is expecting precision on every little part of very basic technical trivia because I just don’t keep that stuff in short term muscle memory. I find the older you are the…

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windows notes app is now asking me to sign in

2024-08-14

windows notes app is now asking me to sign in

if the windows calculator ever asks me to sign in I swear that is my rage quite windows day

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'The Browser', whatever that means in any sense, is the only thing which has been given cultural

2024-08-14

'The Browser', whatever that means in any sense, is the only thing which has been given cultural permission to exist in a manner that can enable the metaverse to form as it needs to.

Some people fought hard to carve that space out in the collective psyche years ago.

Doesn't…

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Has a CI system ever existed that did not have false failures?

2024-08-14

Has a CI system ever existed that did not have false failures?

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@gfodor Is WorldID similar to https://proofofhumanity.id/?

2024-08-14

@gfodor Is WorldID similar to https://proofofhumanity.id/?

2024-08-10

@BenjaminDEKR @sog_on_bird_app Pretty much.

US government already passes out billions to corporations to keep them propped up. Certain industries in the US private sector would have imploded multiple times over if they didn't.

US private tech sector also wouldn't have happened without billions in Federal…

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2024-08-08

@MichaelAArouet Because the alternative being sold to them is Crony Capitalism.

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@materkel Nothing is "Decentralized" as a simple and blanket absolute. Everything is on a gradie

2024-08-08

@materkel Nothing is "Decentralized" as a simple and blanket absolute. Everything is on a gradient of decentralization. It's a question of, is it decentralized enough to serve a purpose beyond alternatives and provide something of benefit?

I would say for Solana, absolutely. It's just a…

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@Duncan__Cragg ya amazon fits the description too

2024-08-07

@Duncan__Cragg ya amazon fits the description too

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@TheJackForge Keep in mind $150k a year qualifies you as "low income" in SF if you are a family.

2024-08-06

@TheJackForge Keep in mind $150k a year qualifies you as "low income" in SF if you are a family. Which is essentially the poverty threshold in SF terms.

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It's irrational to claim "centralized planning doesn't work" while Walmart serves 255 million cu

2024-08-06

It's irrational to claim "centralized planning doesn't work" while Walmart serves 255 million customers weekly through large-scale centralized planning of their corporate infrastructure and resources. All the while steamrolling the entire market of small business mom and pop…

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I realize when it comes to OOP and cache naive programming styles dying out it is probably the c

2024-08-06

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If you don't use objects and virtual you'll end up just reinventing vtables at some point.

2024-07-24

If you don't use objects and virtual you'll end up just reinventing vtables at some point.

Except most of the time all you needed was a function pointer and now you have way more vtables everywhere than you needed

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https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1815975263211250083/photo/1

2024-07-24

https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1815975263211250083/photo/1

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TBH, I was losing all hope in the democratic base over Biden turning into a zombie in front of e

2024-07-22

TBH, I was losing all hope in the democratic base over Biden turning into a zombie in front of everyone's eyes, while most everyone seemed ignore it or gaslight the obvious.

Whole time I am thinking, if you can't recognize basic failure in your main guy front and center how do…

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2024-07-15

@FreyaHolmer I've tried to start two discords, and once they get past about 64 people things start to seem 'odd'. Then by the time they start getting past 100 is when I decide to just give up because it requires more energy and authority to deal with than I care to give. You can't moderate…

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@saori_xbt Thankfully that's the most hopeful part concerning the controversy of crypto and web3

2024-07-14

@saori_xbt Thankfully that's the most hopeful part concerning the controversy of crypto and web3. Most people don't have some deep understanding and conviction on the subject. Most people simply don't care.

Media channels said something was bad, some mass percentage repeated the thing was…

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@saori_xbt Something in the crypto web3 space is critical to have this be what it needs to be.

2024-07-14

@saori_xbt Something in the crypto web3 space is critical to have this be what it needs to be.

What exactly that is, and how exactly it will look, I am not sure of yet.

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@AntonHand this is such a good short film idea...

2024-07-14

@AntonHand this is such a good short film idea...

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2024-07-12

@bl1ndlight This is the type of thing I wish people would analyze more, think through. There really is no reason to presume the metaverse economy needs to be a bunch of storefronts like a shopping mall. Given that the thing is all virtual, so there is no cost of physical manufacture of…

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@aoighost Distributed databases, nfts, persistence, these are secondary steps in my view, and po

2024-07-12

@aoighost Distributed databases, nfts, persistence, these are secondary steps in my view, and potentially not even necessary as a foundation.

The simplest and most fundamental necessity is a wallet and transfers. The equivalent of people being able to give cash to each other.

From there…

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@coreh It is visionOS 1, but this is a little different. Technically this is stereo render targe

2024-07-11

@coreh It is visionOS 1, but this is a little different. Technically this is stereo render targets in Unity. Really meant for putting single-pass stereo framebuffers on walls, or a frame, to produce an effect similar to 'Stereo Videos', except rendered out of Unity and interactive.…

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@BradRTorgersen @neontaster The text from the specific section I linked in case no one clicks it

2024-07-11

@BradRTorgersen @neontaster The text from the specific section I linked in case no one clicks it:

"Social and psychological functions

Satire and irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.[12] They provide the keenest…

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@BradRTorgersen @neontaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire#Social_and_psychological_functi

@ryanjfleury I've not watched the video, but the title and description make me curious about som

2024-07-09

@ryanjfleury I've not watched the video, but the title and description make me curious about something I've been wondering. Is the raddebugger UI, and the scaffolding for it, something intended to be usable for different applications? Is there an intent to have people fork it and be able to…

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I really hate how people respond to someone highlighting issues in the world as though it's all

2024-07-09

I really hate how people respond to someone highlighting issues in the world as though it's all just a personal problem. I don't know if this is as common outside the US as inside it? Definitely sometimes it is, and sometimes people need to try harder at things, but the complete…

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2024-06-27

Can someone who trusts Microsoft heavily please try setting this up and tell me if it worked? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

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I liked using vim when I did projects in it. I liked using emacs when I did a project in it. But

2024-06-26

I liked using vim when I did projects in it. I liked using emacs when I did a project in it. But I'm not a kernel dev or C dev. I can't live in the terminal entirely. I can't stay out of all the fancy IDEs. I have to deal with several langs across all three OS's regularly, with…

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@cafreiman The Economic Freedom Index, a metric to determine how 'Free' a countries market is in

2024-06-17

@cafreiman The Economic Freedom Index, a metric to determine how 'Free' a countries market is in terms of Adam Smith's definition in 'Wealth of Nations', currently has the USA ranked #25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom#Rankings_and_scores

If you believe more free markets are desirable, should take note of all the…

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https://youtu.be/q87BEx261JI?si=WwC-qzxS75Ofj7p-

2024-06-16

https://youtu.be/q87BEx261JI?si=WwC-qzxS75Ofj7p-

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@ylecun Have to keep in mind US tax incentivizes reinvestment to avoid paying more tax.

2024-06-15

There were a handful of "Lightbulb" moments in technology that changed the course of my life.

2024-06-09

I suspect whomever gets this monetization scheme locked down first will be a major contender. It's unfortunate Bigscreen…

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@MartinJIFuller @KostasAAA @mike_acton That's what I've been doing, but in C. I've used C++ prof

2024-05-27

@MartinJIFuller @KostasAAA @mike_acton That's what I've been doing, but in C. I've used C++ professionally for a long time, and was using C++ for my personal projects, but then the experimental side of me stopped and critically asked, "What from C++ would I really miss?" The top of my list was default struct values,…

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2024-05-22

Hellblade 1 was basically the perfect video game to me: - 6-ish hours - Incredible visual design and world design - Incredible story and cinematics. More memorable than most movies of the past decade. - Gameplay that never pissed me off. Gameplay never pissing me off is more…

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Hellblade 1 was basically the perfect video game to me:

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2024-05-21

@VitalikButerin @tsarnick Despite whatever they say, there is no way to know for sure. With current FISA policy in US, any screen capture data Microsoft has access to would have to be surrendered to government surveillance if requested.

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@ryanjfleury It is also concerning that combined with FISA, if there was any way Microsoft could

2024-05-21

@ryanjfleury It is also concerning that combined with FISA, if there was any way Microsoft could retrieve screen capture data, they'd have to surrender it to the NSA if requested.

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@paulg So you would have no issue with me setting up a thermal camera, pointed at your home from

2024-05-21

@paulg So you would have no issue with me setting up a thermal camera, pointed at your home from a distance, and streaming it to the web 24/7?

You shouldn't if your reasoning is correct. You don't own that by your reasoning.

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The dichotomy I face every night when going into VR.

2024-05-20

The dichotomy I face every night when going into VR.

Index: Large hot face toaster with blurrier (lower-res), washed out LCD colors and, screen door effect, but easier to put on and wider FOV

Beyond: Small and barely noticeable size, with amazing colors, no screen door effect,…

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It shouldn't be a hot take to expect some open-source activity on a developer's GitHub.

2024-05-20

It shouldn't be a hot take to expect some open-source activity on a developer's GitHub.

I fully grok everyone's complaints about trying to push this as 'the norm' and they are valid, but you have to consider what you are then indirectly promoting. What unforeseen consequences…

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@hemloc_io Again, I said I fully grok the complaints, but the alternative is worse.

2024-05-20

@hemloc_io Again, I said I fully grok the complaints, but the alternative is worse.

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@BruteForceGame ill try this just to see the art style

2024-05-20

@BruteForceGame ill try this just to see the art style

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https://youtu.be/sKouPOhh_9I?si=ucIRYZq9w1tnlRk1

2024-05-19

https://youtu.be/sKouPOhh_9I?si=ucIRYZq9w1tnlRk1

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@BuenoForMiami I've been holding my breath on whether or not the lightning network seems viable,

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2024-05-14

@Hasen_Judi "Near Impossible to Maintain"... attracts many indie devs giving way to one of the greatest golden ages of gaming through half-life 1 modders, out of which some of the most popular online shooter games to this day evolved.

This is why you have to be very careful taking coding…

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Computer graphics attaining a high degree of realism with automatic out-of-the-box tools is the

2024-05-14

Computer graphics attaining a high degree of realism with automatic out-of-the-box tools is the point at which such a style is no longer valuable. If all of computer graphics sufficiently replicates physical reality, then it all ends up being a kind of uniform style. Such a style…

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I'm like 1.5 years into my Vulkan adventure and only now do I discover that the vulkan configura

2024-05-13

I'm like 1.5 years into my Vulkan adventure and only now do I discover that the vulkan configurator is so much better for setting up debug state than manually doing it with the vk debug structs in code🙄

Feel like the significance of the vulkan configurator needed to be put in… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1789889651677016349/photo/1

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2024-05-11

Okay I take this back a little. I play a bunch of overwatch at 480hz then went back to 240hz and you don't necessarily notice a difference with 'smoothness' but you do notice it a bit with input latency. Turns out I am some kind of sniper god at 480hz.

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My 240hz/480hz woled arrived... I think I would officially say I can't tell the difference betwe

2024-05-11

My 240hz/480hz woled arrived... I think I would officially say I can't tell the difference between 240hz and 480hz

but I can tell the difference between 120hz and 144hz

So somewhere between 144hz and 240hz is when I can no longer tell

Now I really really really want a VR…

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If you wanted to disempower people, you'd want to make it a taboo to openly discuss anything abo

2024-05-11

If you wanted to disempower people, you'd want to make it a taboo to openly discuss anything about how the country is run and operated. With people unable to discuss that freely, effectively and openly the formation of any grassroots solidarity would be far more difficult. Most…

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@opendegree @technobaboo @JustRogDigiTec @spatialfree cuboid id admit is still too nerdy from go

2024-05-09

@opendegree @technobaboo @JustRogDigiTec @spatialfree cuboid id admit is still too nerdy from good design sense but I personally like it and it does I think make the right image in someone's head without explanation

2024-05-07

@NintendoScreens The major plot is that humanity went to war with AI, and lost, and got enslaved in the matrix, and this is bad, and humanity needs to be freed.

I think what dawned on me is the AI wouldn't even need to go to war to with humanity to get them enslaved like this. It'd just need to…

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I watched the matrix again last night. 4K enhanced version in VR. Still timeless. However with n

2024-05-07

I watched the matrix again last night. 4K enhanced version in VR. Still timeless. However with new wisdom gained on humanity over the past decade, I can’t help but think, if people were offered some deep dive VR construct to live in exchange for being a human battery to power a…

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even though I've read the vulkan synchronization docs like 50 times and have read the examples l

2024-05-07

even though I've read the vulkan synchronization docs like 50 times and have read the examples like 100 times I still periodically end up like a fish out of water just helplessly flailing all about

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@AntonHand Big anything is not capable of managing anything optimal.

2024-05-07

@AntonHand Big anything is not capable of managing anything optimal.

The whole issue of too much centralized coordination revealing itself in a new domain.

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@supahvee1234 I wouldn't send you hate messages over it, but I find so much of modern cpp isn't

2024-05-06

@supahvee1234 I wouldn't send you hate messages over it, but I find so much of modern cpp isn't that significant. The return-on-investment of additional mental energy and complexity for modern C++ idioms isn't great. It's debatable, but it's not obviously and clearly great. Being able to…

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@GBNEWS @Jennifer_Arcuri @thecoastguy https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/

2024-05-06

@GBNEWS @Jennifer_Arcuri @thecoastguy https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/

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@josethevrtech This right here looks pretty close https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/games

2024-05-03

@josethevrtech This right here looks pretty close https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/gameshell-kit if they could make one in switch or steam deck form factor, then have it slot in an actual rpi, then sold SD cards that came with some OS on them that would auto-boot into a steamos or switchos like UI with a store, I…

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@josethevrtech @Hal_clockwork but then you'd also need a recognizable brand to promote it, and a

2024-05-03

@josethevrtech @Hal_clockwork but then you'd also need a recognizable brand to promote it, and a few really good new games and a pile of cash in marketing to get the ball rolling...

actually, unity doing this would be pretty fitting... but getting any modern software company to 180 on the "computers are…

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I really wish some company with some brand power would make an open-source raspberry pi handheld

2024-05-03

I really wish some company with some brand power would make an open-source raspberry pi handheld console akin to steamdeck or nintendo switch. Where they sell a switch-like handheld case with joysticks, buttons and a screen that the pi can slot into. Then have some open store and…

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@5xa @amaldorai noooo dont do the orm

2024-05-03

@5xa @amaldorai noooo dont do the orm

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@zeroshotnothing @amaldorai It's also because, the more complex of a problem domain you get, the

2024-05-02

@zeroshotnothing @amaldorai It's also because, the more complex of a problem domain you get, the higher chance you are in an area where simply no one has programmed such a thing before of the exact way you need it to be.

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2024-05-02

@cnlohr wouldnt that be massive though ?

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@amaldorai I think it's less about engineer skill and more about the problem domain.

2024-05-02

@amaldorai I think it's less about engineer skill and more about the problem domain.

If you are writing REST APIs probably.

If you are writing graphics or data plumbing code in a game engine, or shaders, not really.

Seems to have a lot to do with, can the problem be described in a…

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This quote from the beginning of Ready Player One always echoes in the back of mind:

2024-05-01

This quote from the beginning of Ready Player One always echoes in the back of mind:

"We live in a time where people stopped trying to solve problems but instead simply try to out live them." (or something like that)

I feel that is far far far too plausible a future scenario.…

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@maximum_plaid @BillyM2k That's a good assessment of something that should be done... but then w

2024-05-01

@maximum_plaid @BillyM2k That's a good assessment of something that should be done... but then we also need an aware, engaged, voting base to effectively bring accountability to government, and so far that hasn't been working either. The only thing I can think here is, somehow we need to get money out of…

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If there was some doordash like app with gaussian splats of all the food that were perfectly pho

2024-05-01

If there was some doordash like app with gaussian splats of all the food that were perfectly photo-real in VR I would absolutely use that all the time. Would absolutely pop on the Quest 3 or AVP for 10-15 mins to pick out dinner.

I really hate the whole "VR Shopping" thing but…

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2024-05-01

@BillyM2k All the checks and balances that Ayn Rand and Adam Smith described for Capitalism to function have failed to function in modern developed nations. Such markets are filled with coercion and distortion in so many ways people have simply become numb to it and can no longer even…

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I can't really express how bad it is to set the precedent that open-source developers can be arr

2024-04-29

I can't really express how bad it is to set the precedent that open-source developers can be arrested for writing software to enable privacy.

It happened before in the early 90's, but enough people pushed back, and it did not become the norm.

It is top tier on the list of…

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@WasteCleaner This is a false dichotomy.

2024-04-28

@WasteCleaner This is a false dichotomy.

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Programmers argue about a lot of things in code that ultimately comes down to "it depends" and s

2024-04-28

Programmers argue about a lot of things in code that ultimately comes down to "it depends" and subjective aesthetics. Programming is something where you can just invent things out of thin air simply by typing, which creates a scenario where so much of programming is entirely…

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@3orovik @elonmusk It's not expense, it's uncertainty. Everything is too uncertain, makes everyo

2024-04-28

@3orovik @elonmusk It's not expense, it's uncertainty. Everything is too uncertain, makes everyone be on edge watching out for themselves, too paranoid to take on more uncertainty with kids. Even if you are in the top percentiles of income, who knows how long that will last, or if some personal…

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Although seemingly gone out of style, and no one talks about it, sublime text is quite nice.

2024-04-27

Although seemingly gone out of style, and no one talks about it, sublime text is quite nice.

So is 10x editor if you never tried it.

It’s kind of weird to think the baseline of average software has gotten so slow that people can make a living by writing a simpler version that…

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@elonmusk Yes, the big controversial hot take that gets awkward to discuss, being good and moral

2024-04-26

@elonmusk Yes, the big controversial hot take that gets awkward to discuss, being good and moral requires a certain baseline of strength and power. Otherwise so many things will mess with you, try to co-opt you, use you, control you, that you inevitably will be malevolent. When you have to…

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@dannyaroslavski ... sure it is, they've been manufacturing their devices meant to be perceived

2024-04-26

@dannyaroslavski ... sure it is, they've been manufacturing their devices meant to be perceived as 'premium' out of typically the thickest aluminum and glass of any company for a few decades now. Even internally going above and beyond in materials to make it look extra ornate and premium if you…

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@benz145 Also the bit about the IRS and NSA now tracking everything through cash apps and making

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2024-04-23

Apple Vision Pro, Pro Tip. You can buy the lense inserts from Wave VR with any prescription you want (Zeiss REQUIRES it be a non-expired prescription from current in-business optometrist). They cost about half the price of Zeiss. Then when you put them in and the Apple Vision Pro…

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@xgigglypuff https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7182185290592104449/

2024-04-22

@xgigglypuff https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7182185290592104449/

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Some time ago this one little chart on gingerbill's blog wrecked my entire programming world. ht

2024-04-22

Some time ago this one little chart on gingerbill's blog wrecked my entire programming world. https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2019/02/01/memory-allocation-strategies-001/

I remember looking at it... thinking... reading the explanation around it... then thinking some more. Then it hit me. Fuck. Data Oriented Programming is correct.… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1782301652147679377/photo/1

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@thdxr about 3 hours

2024-04-21

@thdxr about 3 hours

take a nap

then another 3 hours

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@NemesisTWarlock Well of course… what kind of weirdo would NOT play with their form and end up s

2024-04-21

@NemesisTWarlock Well of course… what kind of weirdo would NOT play with their form and end up some novel creation…

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@mkoivuka You need to have firsthand direct experience with it. This isn't purely a logical subj

2024-04-21

@mkoivuka You need to have firsthand direct experience with it. This isn't purely a logical subject. The map is not the territory. You can come up with theories, many theories, but it's like theorizing about some other country. Sitting in the distance theorizing, working only with the…

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2024-04-20

I got an idea for an electric skateboard part to 3D print, searched google for some CAD software, chose OnShape, and in about 2 hours figured out how to make it without any tutorials. Quite decent. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1781565570892325026/photo/1

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This VR scene from Johnny Mnemonic I still find to be one of the best future visions of what "Th

2024-04-19

This VR scene from Johnny Mnemonic I still find to be one of the best future visions of what "The Metaverse" or "Spatial Internet" will be like for those using it in a serious non-play context.

I suspect most people think this scene is rather cheesy and silly, but I think…

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@MuchRockness you should read posts before responding

2024-04-19

@MuchRockness you should read posts before responding

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https://youtu.be/ETMCXDJPncE?si=-5bkm2fFKBRlfHZ_

2024-04-19

https://youtu.be/ETMCXDJPncE?si=-5bkm2fFKBRlfHZ_

I'm watching this guy play the hang drums, completely in the zone, complete flow state, just rocking those hang drums, and I'm thinking, this is what it's like to really be in the zone programming. Similar mental state. Then I realize, if he was instead…

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Since everyone is now on an AI kick, here is Terence Mckenna waxing poetic on AI in 1998.

2024-04-18

Since everyone is now on an AI kick, here is Terence Mckenna waxing poetic on AI in 1998.

Mckenna goes from the beginning to about 25:30 https://youtu.be/OT40eWj4iPw?si=i__aK3I9Yh_UWqey&t=15

I remember around the year 2008 in one of my first real "Professional" jobs I played this 25-minute segment for…

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@SebAaltonen What debugger gives you that visualization?

2024-04-18

@SebAaltonen What debugger gives you that visualization?

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2024-04-17

@supahvee1234 @MarekKnapek You shouldn't be calling malloc so many times that it becomes a problem to keep track of. The heap should be your absolute last option for memory utilization. In most scenarios you know more about the specific constraints of how the memory will be used to use something better…

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@supahvee1234 I don't consider myself strictly anti-CPP... but you do have to admit all the just

2024-04-17

@supahvee1234 I don't consider myself strictly anti-CPP... but you do have to admit all the justification for CPP over plain C inevitably gets a bit 'hand-wavey'. Sort of like if you were trying to rationalize astrology or some other thing that requires you to layer on so much 'theory',…

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@seangmann @dankvr @rp1platform Or maybe a whole OS...

2024-04-17

@seangmann @dankvr @rp1platform Or maybe a whole OS...

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@seangmann @dankvr @rp1platform Cool, my long-term vision is a new browser too :)

2024-04-17

@seangmann @dankvr @rp1platform Cool, my long-term vision is a new browser too :)

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@lithiumfox @charshenton Theoretically... involvement of p2p should be able to produce better la

2024-04-17

@lithiumfox @charshenton Theoretically... involvement of p2p should be able to produce better latency in certain circumstances. Two peers sending packets directly to each other is faster than sending packets through a third party that does its own additional processing.

The problem is figuring out what…

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@darkswordsmantv When I think it through, getting the necessary data to the various peers in the

2024-04-17

@darkswordsmantv When I think it through, getting the necessary data to the various peers in the network seems the easier part. Albeit very hard, but it's less in the grey area in my mind. Something like a dynamic star topology based on some heuristic to determine what kind of relay load any…

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@charshenton Then you don't multiplex 20 opus streams :)

2024-04-17

@charshenton Then you don't multiplex 20 opus streams :)

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@charshenton I can think of a way around that which would still keep the benefits of p2p

2024-04-17

@charshenton I can think of a way around that which would still keep the benefits of p2p

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@charshenton I can think of a way around that...

2024-04-17

@charshenton I can think of a way around that...

2024-04-16

@dankvr Ya basically… pretty much every big step in technology was from people trying to overcome a problem which was a daily lived experience.

It’s in this ironic way that prior success in tech and the life it then affords is the Achilles heel which inhibits proper execution of the…

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2024-04-12

@Tuushie I feel this is just a thing you must wander through and experience first hand. Work somewhere that adheres to SOLID as the highest principle, then somewhere that adheres more to data oriented design perspective, or I’d even give companies focused purely on functional style with…

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Try catch exception unwinding up the call stack is a more egregiously confusing control flow to

2024-04-12

Try catch exception unwinding up the call stack is a more egregiously confusing control flow to follow than in-method labels and gotos.

It's a good example how, if someone does not have apprehension of their belief and convictions from first principles, something worse can flank…

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I went on a long excursion through C++ to determine if I should use it for my personal work (pro

2024-04-12

I went on a long excursion through C++ to determine if I should use it for my personal work (professional I don't really have a choice) and my conclusion is. If you are to write code aimed at maximal performance, you must write C or very C-like C++, but if you write excessively…

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2024-04-10

@DOUGHtechnology Are you going to actually honor all the prior refunds ?

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@AntonHand This is actually the one thing I think acupuncture can realistically help with. If yo

2024-04-10

@AntonHand This is actually the one thing I think acupuncture can realistically help with. If you unconsciously hold a bunch tension in your back, neck, face wherever there is no better way to make you aware of it and stop tensing it than to stick a needle in the muscle and lay like that…

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@AntonHand Really comfortable bean bag perfectly contoured to your back then high end headphones

2024-04-10

@AntonHand Really comfortable bean bag perfectly contoured to your back then high end headphones with relaxing music so you can deeply relax and fully un-tense everything into proper alignment for an hour so.

Floating in an isolation tank could do the same.

I found this helped me more.…

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@DennyCloudhead Excuse as I type out a little novel here as I've never fully English'd my feelin

2024-04-09

@DennyCloudhead Excuse as I type out a little novel here as I've never fully English'd my feelings on this.

I have my own short thesis on how you can make VR experiences that don't cause discomfort, and how you can gradually acclimatize people to this. Over the years I've given people tours of…

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2024-04-08

HolyC is kind of unironically pretty decent.... https://holyc-lang.com/core.html I never really looked at it before.

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@DennyCloudhead If the VR best practices were really important for success then Gorilla Tag woul

2024-04-08

@DennyCloudhead If the VR best practices were really important for success then Gorilla Tag would not be the most popular title on Quest.

There are lots of rational reasons to come up with to smooth adoption for older age groups, and by all means I’m for people exploring them, but a hard pill…

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@cixliv In mobile apps the increase in user count is usually 5x to 10x from CCU to DAU to MAU.

2024-04-08

@cixliv In mobile apps the increase in user count is usually 5x to 10x from CCU to DAU to MAU.

@jowoseph Hm. I didn't know they just ghosted on refunds.

2024-04-06

@jowoseph Hm. I didn't know they just ghosted on refunds.

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@hawkk01 Quest 3 and AVP Optics are better. But Beyond vs Q3/AVP/Index presents an interesting s

2024-04-05

@hawkk01 Quest 3 and AVP Optics are better. But Beyond vs Q3/AVP/Index presents an interesting split.

Where the Beyond tries to be as small as possible to get the optic as close to your eye as possible, resting within the radius of the ocular socket.

Whereas Q3/AVP and everything else…

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@ezreeszy I don't find the FOV difference of beyond vs index significant for any practical use.

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I always want people to listen to me and do things I think are really important, but TBH as soon as two people start agreeing on anything, it starts to freak me out. You get two people agreeing, then you get two more, and two more, and before you know it you have some kind of…

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I always want people to listen to me and do things I think are really important, but TBH as soon

2024-03-30

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@elonmusk Conservatives: "People need to get married more and have kids more!"

2024-03-30

@elonmusk Conservatives: "People need to get married more and have kids more!"

also, Conservatives: "Any law which provides greater stability, support and security to the middle class is bad!"

... but to be fair, at this point, the city's which are the most punishing to the middle class…

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@AntonHand Sad thing is, if Apple or Meta or whomever actually managed to get a monopoly on the

2024-03-30

@AntonHand Sad thing is, if Apple or Meta or whomever actually managed to get a monopoly on the hardware and software which lets you contact friends/family, that's so incredibly valuable that anyone would pay whatever they'd have to not lose access to that, and companies would just follow…

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@TheGingerBill @LizardOrman @timClicks This was actually the thing that turned into the showstop

2024-03-29

@TheGingerBill @LizardOrman @timClicks This was actually the thing that turned into the showstopper for me with Rust as a general programming language, and a low-level language. Discovering there is no fully 'unsafe' mode and there will always be some category of problem you have to fuddle around with rust-isms. Even…

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I really want to like neovim, or emacs, or some simpler code editor... but jetbrains is just too

2024-03-28

I really want to like neovim, or emacs, or some simpler code editor... but jetbrains is just too good. Particular these past few years I feel they've just been knocking it out of the park.

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@chaostheorem I also suspect it has a lot to do with giving people the space to get obsessive ov

2024-03-28

@chaostheorem I also suspect it has a lot to do with giving people the space to get obsessive over details.

A lot of management in companies just don't let people iterate to perfection.

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@0xglitchbyte Learning git isn't so much specifically about git, it's about learning proper sour

2024-03-28

@0xglitchbyte Learning git isn't so much specifically about git, it's about learning proper source control habits. An engineer who can't make proper commits, proper pull requests and do proper merges will be useless no matter how good the code is they write. They need to be able to get it into…

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The most valuable thing the AVP does that no other HMD does. I can pick it up put it on, in like

2024-03-27

The most valuable thing the AVP does that no other HMD does. I can pick it up put it on, in like 10 seconds it will be ready to go and usable, it will remember where I placed my MacBook Pro monitor with a “connect” button there, with 1 click and 5 more seconds I have my MacBook…

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The most valuable thing the AVP does that no other HMD does. I can pick it up put it on, in like

2024-03-27

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@pvncher no I haven't, maybe ill give that a go, but what's roundtrip latency of input?

2024-03-27

@pvncher no I haven't, maybe ill give that a go, but what's roundtrip latency of input?

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@pvncher @AndreElijah Found it here: https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/geforce-now-competitive-mod

2024-03-27

@pvncher @AndreElijah Found it here: https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/geforce-now-competitive-mode-latency 70ms which is definitely impressive.

They claim their test PC is 40ms of local latency, but that seems pretty bad to me for a local pc, better chosen parts could get that lower.

But for VR, all the hardware and software is specifically…

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@paulg The political issue around this is really not that complicated.

2024-03-27

@paulg The political issue around this is really not that complicated. - There are issues with how the US functions in a multitude of ways that need to be addressed and improved. - In a Democratic nation, this should be possible with some kind of democratic process. - Most people are…

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I decided to try PlayStation Plus Streaming because why not and also I am always curious about c

2024-03-27

I decided to try PlayStation Plus Streaming because why not and also I am always curious about cloud rendering solutions. Which it's quite good, definitely playable, but still, damn does it suck. And damn does Sony make you go through an extremely hard process to get a refund (I…

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@Chase_Davis_ I think for this I'd differentiate between lag and latency, where I wouldn't say P

2024-03-27

@Chase_Davis_ I think for this I'd differentiate between lag and latency, where I wouldn't say PlayStation plus had lag, it was smooth and stable, I am on a main fiber line up I-5 on the west coast, but it had added latency. So, I'm wondering, how good can the latency get? It seems Xbox and…

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@PeterBrobby bots, I'm not sure... maybe because I don't tweet about current trend buzzwords muc

2024-03-26

@PeterBrobby bots, I'm not sure... maybe because I don't tweet about current trend buzzwords much, I tend to use more complicated phrasing and I have no hesitation going against the grain in viewpoint

for e-thots, what exactly is that?

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@LeirielVR Cheekiness aside, I do mean that seriously, you're going to miss quite a bit if you j

2024-03-26

@LeirielVR Cheekiness aside, I do mean that seriously, you're going to miss quite a bit if you judge the relevancy of these subjects through hype on screenland social media. Someone finding use in an HMD isn't necessarily going to create buzz on social media, they'll just use the HMD...

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I think the simple fact of the matter is, if you are writing C++ or other comparative lang highe

2024-03-26

I think the simple fact of the matter is, if you are writing C++ or other comparative lang higher-level than C, then a higher percentage of your brain memory is taken up by things which are not directly related to issuing actual CPU ops to change actual state in RAM of your…

2024-03-25

@LeirielVR … no one is hyping bread on social media either… must mean bread is useless and didn’t catch on…

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It's interesting to me, C# has been adding features and improvements to make it faster and faste

2024-03-25

It's interesting to me, C# has been adding features and improvements to make it faster and faster, while comparatively C++ is adding things which make it slower.

Already C# 11 could beat, or be head-to-head, in a bunch of benchmarks with C++: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/csharpcore-gpp.html Then using…

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It's interesting to me, C# has been adding features and improvements to make it faster and faste

2024-03-25

It's interesting to me, C# has been adding features and improvements to make it faster and faster, while comparatively C++ is adding things which make it slower.

Already C# 11 could beat, or be head-to-head, in a bunch of benchmarks with C++: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/csharpcore-gpp.html Then using…

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@tsoding this is true... and I feel this is why I've been so successful even though some competi

2024-03-24

@tsoding this is true... and I feel this is why I've been so successful even though some competition coders could run leetcode circles around me and make me look like I barely know anything... for whatever reason I can just read large, complex, horrible, codebases, get a sense of it with…

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Thinking more about how C++ and object-orientation incentivizes cache naive programming practice

2024-03-24

Thinking more about how C++ and object-orientation incentivizes cache naive programming practices, and how such paradigms are inherently flawed because of that, the thought crossed my mind of, "What the hell were they thinking back then!?" To which it occurred to me this notion…

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One mechanic which propaganda relies upon is that people's starting point of "reason" is based u

2024-03-19

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2024-03-17

If I had a choice, the only features I would add to C from C++ are:

default struct values namespaces const ref typed enum class methods in structs most basic templates possible initializer_list auto constexpr static vars

put those in C and I would desire nothing else

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2024-03-17

@AntonHand and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08PQJTNM1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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@yoltartar The trustless part of web3 and crypto refer to the notion that the backend logic can

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@tfmjonny @LittleMiri_CZ I wonder how much payment processors are going to have to try and control, and how many creators livelihood they’re going to have to try and rugpull before people consider that payment processors shouldn’t be moderating content

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Since the original intent of keeping the unity group invitation-only didn't really work out I de

2024-03-15

Since the original intent of keeping the unity group invitation-only didn't really work out I decided to just make it public: https://vrchat.com/home/group/grp_709537bf-9714-4ca8-b99c-cfc43bb4410a Although admin or moderator is still only for unity employees or alumni.

Still debating what exactly I should do with this group…

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I think one thing that has become clearer about the bigscreen beyond is their process really jus

2024-03-15

I think one thing that has become clearer about the bigscreen beyond is their process really just fails for some people. The exact percentage we can probably never truly know. They probably should have ramped up slower, letting more and more progressively go through the whole…

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I think one thing that has become clearer about the bigscreen beyond is their process really jus

2024-03-15

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I think one thing that has become clearer about the bigscreen beyond is their process really jus

2024-03-15

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I think one thing that has become clearer about the bigscreen beyond is their process really jus

2024-03-15

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Going back and forth between the bigscreen beyond and the apple vision pro I do notice their opt

2024-03-15

Going back and forth between the bigscreen beyond and the apple vision pro I do notice their optics are similar.

I remember hearing a rumor somewhere, this is complete rumor, but that the bigscreen beyond optics are what Apple was initially using until they the manufacturer…

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It's kind of messed up how most of my feed is people and things I didn't follow.

2024-03-14

It's kind of messed up how most of my feed is people and things I didn't follow.

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We need some way to get bills on ballots purely through online means. That whole process of havi

2024-03-13

We need some way to get bills on ballots purely through online means. That whole process of having to get thousands of signatures by some small army of annoying people walking around cities and asking is pretty damn outdated and really just serves as a means to roadblock…

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We need some way to get bills on ballots purely through online means. That whole process of havi

2024-03-13

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Twitter is kind of like a collaborative thinking tool. Like a hive mind of generating concepts a

2024-03-13

Twitter is kind of like a collaborative thinking tool. Like a hive mind of generating concepts and ideas. Out of which it produces statements. Could be political, philosophical, whatever, but it is a statement in words.

Which makes me so curious about, what if you could…

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@technobaboo I don't quite know what this r/place is? It's a reddit?

2024-03-13

@technobaboo I don't quite know what this r/place is? It's a reddit?

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@AntonHand So don't mind me as write out a small novel here, but I'm curious to take a stab at e

2024-03-09

@AntonHand So don't mind me as write out a small novel here, but I'm curious to take a stab at explaining this, yet again, in another way.

If Social VR is not a daily lived experience, the thing that you'll miss, and you will not instinctively design around, is that we are dealing with…

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@JCorvinusVR The issue is the pathway to profitability for any given exploration could be decade

2024-03-08

@JCorvinusVR The issue is the pathway to profitability for any given exploration could be decades off depending on what it is. It could also be such a low-level technical piece that the way it even connects to profitability can't even be grokked yet. AI research has technically been going on…

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@yewnyx @MalekiRe well the mothership went out of range so I can't use my remote brain anymore

2024-03-07

@yewnyx @MalekiRe well the mothership went out of range so I can't use my remote brain anymore

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TBH, I'm in such a disarray about the state of the VR industry right now because I feel like I k

2024-03-07

TBH, I'm in such a disarray about the state of the VR industry right now because I feel like I know more about what's going on than pretty much anyone. Me not being in one big tech company, but instead being in a position that sits in the middle of all the big tech companies, I…

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TBH, I'm in such a disarray about the state of the VR industry right now because I feel like I k

2024-03-07

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2024-03-07

I feel the current TAZs are entering entropy.

Where's the next?

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@BattleAxeVR I am curious to know more about what exactly is a let down with the vive ultimate t

2024-03-07

@BattleAxeVR I am curious to know more about what exactly is a let down with the vive ultimate trackers, Ive been wondering if I should try them.

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@technobaboo I do appreciate that rust did constructors properly.

2024-03-06

After taking some notes from the HypeHype mobile rendering talk. On the left my new way of writi

2024-03-05

After taking some notes from the HypeHype mobile rendering talk. On the left my new way of writing vulkan boilerplate. On the right my old way of writing vulkan boilerplate. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1764904086351323414/photo/1

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The tech virtual land is in a condition which is like a mix of Feudalism and Monarchal Mercantil

2024-03-04

The tech virtual land is in a condition which is like a mix of Feudalism and Monarchal Mercantilism. Roughly where Europe was about halfway through the second millennium. Philosophies of individual rights, workers' rights, self-determination, self-ownership, even democracy and…

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The tech virtual land is in a condition which is like a mix of Feudalism and Monarchal Mercantil

2024-03-04

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2024-03-01

wrath aeon of ruin is quite good. Feel like this may be the first boomer shooter that does NOT try to parody or intentionally captilize on nostalgia, but instead tries to be its own thing, that may actually be better than the originals like quake 1/2 or unreal.

The darkplaces…

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wrath aeon of ruin is quite good. Feel like this may be the first boomer shooter that does NOT t

2024-03-01

The darkplaces…

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@RyanR3STL3SS mine is 65mm... probably good to know if you have a big IPD it won't work well

2024-03-01

@RyanR3STL3SS mine is 65mm... probably good to know if you have a big IPD it won't work well

I found firmly attaching the cable to my headphone band and hanging it from the sealing made it less annoying, also the cable being fiberoptic/lighter I find less annoying than the index cable, but…

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So after getting proper IPD on my bigscreen beyond and getting more used to it. It will probably

2024-02-29

So after getting proper IPD on my bigscreen beyond and getting more used to it. It will probably replace my index.

The silicone face gasket is a little funky and juggling a pair of headphones is less convenient.

But damn, it’s quite surreal to wear an HMD that doesn’t feel…

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@0xglitchbyte I’m not against seriously discussing merits of new languages.

2024-02-28

@0xglitchbyte I’m not against seriously discussing merits of new languages.

But whenever it’s based on justifications like “__ blank company has __% of bugs” then the only possible solution brought forth is a different language, it overlooks another huge huge important area of the subject.…

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@vultuk I'd say sense of presence is more significant than the visible surface of the skin on so

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@BattleAxeVR Since you are someone who dislikes vulkan.hpp and also sees the merits of some cpp

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Linus Torvalds once said everything after C was a mistake, which then upset many who claimed him to be a dinosaur and wrong. Generally speaking, I'd say he is wrong, but him further explaining the reason for that statement I found important to understand. That being, there is a…

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2024-02-12

The joys of getting old, I took a nap so hard today I woke up blind...

Really, fell asleep with face smoothed into the blanket and supposedly sleeping with something putting any pressure on your eye can temporarily deform your eyeball so everything was blurry for like 2 hours...

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@rabovitz @hmltn I assume "True AR" means see through optics? As in something that goes through

2024-02-12

@rabovitz @hmltn I assume "True AR" means see through optics? As in something that goes through a waveguide or some kind of refractive optic?

If that is true, I am curious to know how you rationalize not needing black or opaque pixels for computing. The optics being only additive.

Or how, in…

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Walking around with a vision pro on in a video will get you more attention in screenland social

2024-02-08

Walking around with a vision pro on in a video will get you more attention in screenland social media.

But walking around with full body tracking is what will get you more attention in social VR.

I believe there will be a flip in what the mainstream finds interesting, what the…

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@ve4xy8 IMUs are just too good and cheap for what they do. For any serious use case, where laten

2024-02-08

@ve4xy8 IMUs are just too good and cheap for what they do. For any serious use case, where latency is important, and being able to move quickly, you still need to strap IMUs on.

But then for easy calibration and maintaining that calibration, something external makes it so much simpler.…

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@Thrilluwu For me, they already have been. Jaron Lanier’s warning that VR will turn into a bunch

2024-02-08

@Thrilluwu For me, they already have been. Jaron Lanier’s warning that VR will turn into a bunch corporate controlled operant conditioning chambers have been floating around the industry for years. Honestly, I don’t even see it as terribly theoretical either. Rather it’s the obvious…

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Has anyone found and/or seen any kind of temporal aa or temporal upsampler that produces good re

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@AntonHand $50 to $5,000

This is complete shooting from the hip…

But I’d say on a bell curve of those who pay and have logged at least two years, the largest chunk in the middle probably dropped cumulatively $500 over those few years. Then the top 5 percentile would start around $1500.…

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@WaifuverseAI https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1753258495204585718/photo/1

2024-02-02

@WaifuverseAI https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1753258495204585718/photo/1

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The use case I see few mention,

2024-02-02

The use case I see few mention,

VR is the best way to drink.

Don't have to worry about: - Driving anywhere. - Passing out somewhere you shouldn't. - Starting some fight and getting beat up. - Getting mugged or physically assaulted in your stupor. - Getting trapped in…

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The use case I see few mention,

2024-02-02

The use case I see few mention,

VR is the best way to drink.

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The use case I see few mention,

2024-02-02

The use case I see few mention,

VR is the best way to drink.

Don't have to worry about: - Driving anywhere. - Passing out somewhere you shouldn't. - Starting some fight and getting beat up. - Getting mugged or assaulted in your stupor. - Getting trapped in uncomfortable…

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Probably one of the most important VR accessories:

2024-02-02

Probably one of the most important VR accessories: https://buybigjoe.com/products/fuf-xxl?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwvKtBhDrARIsAJj-kTgsWngrQLQMjdWxf0Uss-6Pb1r8EPsSdZsfBDKmIEugLL3cYtRMdwQaAicLEALw_wcB

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2024-02-02

@hmltn I go into VR specifically because it's the only frontier left.

Just have to make sure the OS and Platform is permissive enough and open enough.

The irony of it is, when you consider how much explicit control legacy mainstream media has achieved over the narratives, temperament…

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@BigBadBattery @SadlyItsBradley Nothing I’ve seen in VRC is worse than what I’ve seen in my year

2024-02-02

@BigBadBattery @SadlyItsBradley Nothing I’ve seen in VRC is worse than what I’ve seen in my years of actually going out to bars, venues, house parties. It’s just how some percentage of people are.

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@benz145 Lay on a bean bag at a 30 degree recline.

2024-02-02

@benz145 Lay on a bean bag at a 30 degree recline.

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@5centjoel I would debate if the prevalence is more or less than real life. As someone who has l

2024-02-02

@5centjoel I would debate if the prevalence is more or less than real life. As someone who has lived in the middle of downtown Las Vegas, and downtown Austin, and downtown Portland. I don't find vrc worse than real life at all. That's not to say a problem doesn't exist, but I hesitate in…

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This AK lib in SerenityOS I'm finding one of the most valuable things to go a bit deeper on anal

2024-02-01

This AK lib in SerenityOS I'm finding one of the most valuable things to go a bit deeper on analyzing details of template library utilities in C++: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/AK It's much simpler, straightforward, focused on what it just needs to do.

I realize, big reason for this is,…

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@technobaboo @reduzio ... but does it have the same issue that it still has to go through gdscri

2024-02-01

@technobaboo @reduzio ... but does it have the same issue that it still has to go through gdscript and it can't directly access other modules?

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@technobaboo @liz_love_lace ... but it's just a giant brain sewing machine rapidly sticking a hu

2024-02-01

@technobaboo @liz_love_lace ... but it's just a giant brain sewing machine rapidly sticking a huge needle into your brain tissue to spread a bunch of tiny wires through your brain.... who doesn't want that? https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1752927695779074457/photo/1

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2024-02-01

@maxxrubin_ @Azadux @reckless An all-digital passthrough capable of reproducing human vision with the same exact resolution, range of colors and range of depth, could let you start doing things like digitally correcting vision. Modulating brightness to stay in more comfortable levels for the yes at all times.…

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@JamesButlin_ @ezreeszy Also, those optics are defying physics. What they show being done with l

2024-02-01

@JamesButlin_ @ezreeszy Also, those optics are defying physics. What they show being done with light is not physically possible. So first need to have some physics-redefining discovery or invention that can selectively subtract light from a pixel.

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2024-01-30

So... if you need const ref getters, why not just do this? https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1752228742779609569/photo/1

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I'd pay some subscription to go to some gym/arena space down the street where I could play the e

2024-01-30

I'd pay some subscription to go to some gym/arena space down the street where I could play the equivalent of an airsoft/paintball type game but through an AR headset.

No matter how good VR gets, it can never replace the experience of sprinting full speed in real life, then…

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"Screenland"

2024-01-29

"Screenland" -- I like this term to refer to all current non-HMD content on screens. Websites. Apps. Console Games. etc.

A big milestone for the XR space is when people stop looking back to screenland to tell them VR "Has Made it"

It's like you can spend 16 hours in VRChat…

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@gfodor The sad thing is, in my day, to play multiplayer online games with your friends, to make

2024-01-29

@gfodor The sad thing is, in my day, to play multiplayer online games with your friends, to make any kind of custom content, you had to develop a level of basic computing competency greater than what most probably graduate college with. So, your video game addiction was simultaneously…

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2024-01-28

What's the Quest 3 doing with VK_KHR_ray_query support? Does raytracing work on the Quest 3? https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listdevicescoverage.php?extension=VK_KHR_ray_query

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This is not good advice.

2024-01-28

This is not good advice. https://youtu.be/agoe5BdLzdk?si=boDT2Ia2PZNcpN6V As an absolute beginner "Hello World" example it's not terrible in the kind of logic it explains method by method, but if someone implemented the logic for a single radar GameObject across three separate components with completely…

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@technobaboo but it's been so many years... how long has it been going? Like 4 years? I don't do

2024-01-28

@technobaboo but it's been so many years... how long has it been going? Like 4 years? I don't doubt the complexity of writing such a thing, but it's just kind of like, damn, if you can't write a new browser engine to display even just wikipedia properly in 4 years, then things like chrome are…

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PayPal now has their own stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain:

2024-01-28

PayPal now has their own stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain: https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/crypto/pyusd?https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/crypto/pyusd&gclid=CjwKCAiA8NKtBhBtEiwAq5aX2PbVxZuDVRcz5nl_0jST6ziFbs4-FSpa-Fsh8nro5jkOieApeut-PhoCDn4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

This added on top of visa now using the Solana blockchain for international transfers.

Little by little the current establishment of finance corporations will adopt web3 tech, putting their…

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PayPal now has their own stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain:

2024-01-28

This added on top of visa now using the Solana blockchain for international transfers.

Little by little the current establishment of finance corporations will adopt web3 tech, putting their…

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I'd really like a Vulkan API that is a streamlined simplified subset of vulkan that handles a bu

2024-01-28

I'd really like a Vulkan API that is a streamlined simplified subset of vulkan that handles a bunch of the boilerplate. Like get your device, surface and window in just a handful of calls. Get a texture with a mipchain in another handful. Get a basic pipeline in another handful.…

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I know browsers are highly complicated... but it just seems odd that Servo is still completely u

2024-01-28

I know browsers are highly complicated... but it just seems odd that Servo is still completely unusable. Like I can't even browse wikipedia without it crashing or breaking to an unusable state in a matter of minutes. Those are supposed to basic websites that are on the easier…

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This is not good advice.

2024-01-27

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The amount of functioning good code coming out of SerenityOS is pretty damn impressive. Puts a m

2024-01-27

The amount of functioning good code coming out of SerenityOS is pretty damn impressive. Puts a mark in favor of the speed at which a team can move with c-like c++, avoiding STL entirely, and using only a handful of some newer c++ features.

Also, interesting they decided to move…

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The amount of functioning good code coming out of SerenityOS is pretty damn impressive. Puts a m

2024-01-27

Also, interesting they decided to move…

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@technobaboo @SadlyItsBradley ... you could make it work but need to get quite clever :)

2024-01-27

@technobaboo @SadlyItsBradley ... you could make it work but need to get quite clever :)

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@Otome_chan311 @BattleAxeVR Fundamentally everything is a number, as in a memory address with a

2024-01-26

@Otome_chan311 @BattleAxeVR Fundamentally everything is a number, as in a memory address with a series of bytes. Types are categorization on top of this and you can always cast them away. String literals will be const char, which are arrays of ascii bytes. So you can do: auto word = "string"; auto…

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One thing that I've never seen quantified in programming language design is how much time is los

2024-01-26

One thing that I've never seen quantified in programming language design is how much time is lost to people arguing about various ways to do things. Each concept added to a language is one additional thing programmers can argue about. Programmers have a bad tendency to get…

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I love how the PEV industry has been taking off past few years. So many good scooters you can ge

2024-01-25

I love how the PEV industry has been taking off past few years. So many good scooters you can get that go 50 mph for not absurd prices. So many good electric longboards too.

It's surprising to me too, I've been through a handful of electric longboards now, and have sold a few on…

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The smart thing for me to do, monetarily wise, is make some kind of Quest game in Unity because

2024-01-24

Spending time thinking about how to optimize nanoseconds out of some operation is typically seen

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2024-01-11

@IngenicTV @BigscreenVR They should have shipped out temporary loner adjustable ones that you configured for yourself then sent back.

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@SpatialBiggs it probably is

2024-01-10

@SpatialBiggs it probably is

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I want a bracelet or glove controller that has a joy stick and buttons on the top and bottom of

2024-01-10

I want a bracelet or glove controller that has a joy stick and buttons on the top and bottom of each wrist.

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https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.19881.html

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@paulg This has a children's fairy tale level of nuance about the complexities of societal economic issues in the real world.

Yes, there are scenarios where concentrated wealth and power would be better off dismantled for public good.

Admittedly most in the "murder the rich" camp do…

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https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html https://x.co

2024-01-08

https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1744450843037094033/photo/1

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Every time I read AVP something goes off in the back of my brain that triggers excitement about

2024-01-08

Every time I read AVP something goes off in the back of my brain that triggers excitement about a new Alien Vs Predator game. Every time I am let down.

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@cnlohr whats wrong with the new features? I like constexpr, nullptr and defer

2024-01-08

@cnlohr whats wrong with the new features? I like constexpr, nullptr and defer

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2024-01-07

The thing that's so unfortunate about it…

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US Politics is a Virtual Reality maintained by heavily edited and heavily framed fragments of vi

2024-01-07

US Politics is a Virtual Reality maintained by heavily edited and heavily framed fragments of video clips and narratives spread across many different screens.

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@nothings The question itself might be part of the issue. The future is not about believing, it

2024-01-07

@nothings The question itself might be part of the issue. The future is not about believing, it is about perceiving. The world has reached a scale and complexity too great for the mind to grok. Framing it through mental models of belief will always feel like you're missing something.

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NOSTR is coming along pretty nicely... this client seems to work quite well:

2024-01-07

NOSTR is coming along pretty nicely... this client seems to work quite well: https://coracle.social/

Honestly... NOSTR could be it. The start of the decentralized web. My view is that the first major thing which needs to take root to make a decentralized web work is a form of…

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nostr is coming along pretty nicely... this client seems to work quite well:

2024-01-07

nostr is coming along pretty nicely... this client seems to work quite well: https://coracle.social/

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@MikeCodesDotNET @keithernet Because software is so fundamental to so many people's lives that i

2024-01-07

@MikeCodesDotNET @keithernet Because software is so fundamental to so many people's lives that it often takes on the equivalent of roads or plumbing. The equivalent of what would typically be understood to be a public utility. It's a weird thing to base one's life upon some proprietary closed source product…

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@mahoneymatic @SkarredGhost @UploadVR Technical details about the state of hand tracking in XR i

2024-01-07

@mahoneymatic @SkarredGhost @UploadVR Technical details about the state of hand tracking in XR industry is something I can't unfortunately talk about right now.

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2024-01-06

@_RustyRooster But 'Senior' title at MAANG does mean something more than most other companies as there is a somewhat standardized metric they must pass. Startups tend to throw out 'Senior' pretty willy-nilly. Many senior titles who are not from MAANG, if hired into MAANG, would get an Engineer…

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@PiquantParvenu If Apple made the browser as effective on the iPhone as mobile apps, then they w

2024-01-06

@PiquantParvenu If Apple made the browser as effective on the iPhone as mobile apps, then they wouldn't have been able to take 30% off what is the equivalent of a website.

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bigscreen still not responded to support email from like over 2 weeks ago...

2024-01-06

bigscreen still not responded to support email from like over 2 weeks ago...

I hope their support strategy is not to just ignore everyone until they go away...

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@AntonHand I don't even know the official plan long-term on this myself...

2024-01-06

@AntonHand I don't even know the official plan long-term on this myself...

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@yewnyx Spacewarp on oculus uses the depth buffer and motion vector buffer too. Steamvr still us

2024-01-05

@BattleAxeVR I'd suspect for most scenarios of surface shading you could put the source of the r

2024-01-05

@BattleAxeVR I'd suspect for most scenarios of surface shading you could put the source of the ray right between the eyes and you couldn't notice.

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@AntonHand oh damn... calling valve corpo makes me feel really corpo

2024-01-05

@AntonHand oh damn... calling valve corpo makes me feel really corpo

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@AntonHand I'm wondering what kind of person is this? A COD game entertains me for like a week.

2024-01-05

@AntonHand I'm wondering what kind of person is this? A COD game entertains me for like a week.

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@AntonHand Huh I actually didn't call of duty even had comprehensive social features.

2024-01-05

2024-01-03

I've concluded, the only thing from C++ which I feel truly makes it objectively more manageable are destructors. There is something very convenient about putting cleanup code paired with a chunk of data and then it getting auto-called at end of scope. It lets you dump a chunk of…

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I've concluded, the only thing from C++ which I feel truly makes it objectively more manageable

2024-01-03

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2023-12-31

Once upon a time I was rather starry eyed about Big Tech, until I worked in Big Tech, and all of my friends did as well, then I got to see clearly that Big Tech is not the fertile soil spawning endless innovation. Rather, primarily it is a graveyard where innovation, aspirations…

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@NimaZeighami @cixliv The assumption that his viewpoint represents some kind of authority due to

2023-12-31

@NimaZeighami @cixliv The assumption that his viewpoint represents some kind of authority due to adequate research.

There is research but it lags behind what people at the edges are discovering and exploring. VR just isn't at the point where there can be some authority, or you can run off objective…

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@NimaZeighami @cixliv Not a good assumption to make. The subject of smooth locomotion is not wel

2023-12-31

@NimaZeighami @cixliv Not a good assumption to make. The subject of smooth locomotion is not well studied in the industry.

Most who work in the XR industry use VR so little that the majority are completely clueless about what's really evolving and being discovered about it at the ground level…

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It's quite fascinating to me how different the tone and general subjects of discussion are on Tw

2023-12-31

It's quite fascinating to me how different the tone and general subjects of discussion are on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook vs VRChat. Even people I know on Twitter, talking to them in VRChat is different than Twitter.

For example, in VRChat typical US Political nonsense just…

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I'm thinking could take a subset of the best parts of C add in a few of the best parts of C++ an

2023-12-31

I'm thinking could take a subset of the best parts of C add in a few of the best parts of C++ and a few of the best parts of C# to then make a new superset of C called C= pronounced "Sequel"... because it'd be like the sequel to C...

Other potential names: C@ (Sat) C& (Sand) C*…

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@Happeningcel2 @pmarca I just think the whole "capitalism vs socialism" or "ayn rand vs karl mar

2023-12-31

@Happeningcel2 @pmarca I just think the whole "capitalism vs socialism" or "ayn rand vs karl marx" thing is so tired. The current state of the modern developed world doesn't reflect the ideals of either one. We are in a different situation that what their mental models can offer any guidance with.

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@AntonHand C# has a handful of specific optimizations for commonly used things. Strings as keys

2023-12-31

@AntonHand C# has a handful of specific optimizations for commonly used things. Strings as keys are one of them. A string can be a better key than a custom object if you don't do custom equality and comparers for the custom object. But a string is still not as good of a key as just an int.…

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@tipatat @BattleAxeVR No way I am going to be physically rotating my body to turn when I am loun

2023-12-30

@tipatat @BattleAxeVR No way I am going to be physically rotating my body to turn when I am lounging in vr....

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@pmarca You didn't go to the moon, a dozen people did.

2023-12-30

@pmarca You didn't go to the moon, a dozen people did.

Sure, would be great if humanity could though, but would probably need some major retooling of societal incentives to stop wasting so much on the war machine and ensure majority of population has enough economic resource to even…

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@BattleAxeVR smooth turning was one of the last things I got used to, it took a number of months

2023-12-30

@BattleAxeVR smooth turning was one of the last things I got used to, it took a number of months

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@BattleAxeVR @SadlyItsBradley Sitting in a cockpit of a plane, or any vehicle, I suspect has ove

2023-12-30

@BattleAxeVR @SadlyItsBradley Sitting in a cockpit of a plane, or any vehicle, I suspect has overlap with why I suspect a well fit avatar in full body tracking helps discomfort. They both serve the purpose of giving the mind something in the virtual construct to ground itself with it. This also I think is…

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2023-12-29

Finally, a car fully catered to my American free spirit sensibilities. https://youtu.be/PiEow9uEPsU?si=93mDehiuHgAvU8bo

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@cnlohr this looks useful. I can't tell though, why is there a 'bitmapB' ?

2023-12-29

@cnlohr this looks useful. I can't tell though, why is there a 'bitmapB' ?

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@BattleAxeVR More constrained FOV having benefit for reducing VR sickness during motion is somet

2023-12-29

@BattleAxeVR More constrained FOV having benefit for reducing VR sickness during motion is something that has studies behind it, and I do find that to be true from experience too if you throw any typical person into a moving experience in VR.

But specifically in the steps I was laying out of…

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@amaldorai @SadlyItsBradley I know it will, but I say what I did specifically to people who work

2023-12-29

@amaldorai @SadlyItsBradley I know it will, but I say what I did specifically to people who work in XR.

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this is so damn useful why doesn't unity have it...

2023-12-28

this is so damn useful why doesn't unity have it... https://github.com/KhronosGroup/GLSL/blob/master/extensions/ext/GLSL_EXT_debug_printf.txt

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2023-12-28

@DsaxFilm It's partly for the end result but also partly so I truly don't need a monitor. So I could fully boot a computer, deal with BIOS and different OS's, just how a monitor would work, only through an HMD.

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It's kind of crazy to me that there is still no way I can just plug a VR headset into a PC and h

2023-12-27

It's kind of crazy to me that there is still no way I can just plug a VR headset into a PC and have my PCs output popup like a monitor.

I'd pay good money for a little box that did nothing but have one to four DP inputs, mouse keyboard input, kind of like a KVM, but then any…

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It's kind of crazy to me that there is still no way I can just plug a VR headset into a PC and h

2023-12-27

It's kind of crazy to me that there is still no way I can just plug a VR headset into a PC and have my PCs output popup like a monitor.

I'd pay good money for a little box that did nothing but have one to four DP inputs, mouse keyboard input, kind of like a KVM, but then any…

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@pitdesi Winning the lottery isn't a good A/B for BUI. Throwing down a pile of cash one time to

2023-12-25

@pitdesi Winning the lottery isn't a good A/B for BUI. Throwing down a pile of cash one time to ease someone's economic anxiety for 6-ish months in an area where everyone is still in poverty is not the same as assuring everyone in that community can count on a basic level of shelter and…

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2023-12-20

@ryanlpeterman I write code, or I am in code debugging, over 90% of the time. I'd consider that to be what merits the title software engineer. One who actually writes the code.

All those other things are mostly for other roles. - Design Docs can be done after the system is proven out, can be…

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@notshenetworks Tech industry needs to differentiate between:

2023-12-20

@notshenetworks Tech industry needs to differentiate between: "Thing person Is not actually familiar with and would actually struggle to understand." and "Thing which person will fully remember after glancing at the Wikipedia page for 5 seconds." I try to do this if I ever interview anyone, but…

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I loathe dependency injection frameworks in Unity. Don't take what should be one of the simplest

2023-12-20

I loathe dependency injection frameworks in Unity. Don't take what should be one of the simplest things you can do, instance an object, then go write some complex framework to walk through every field and property with reflection on every instantiation to set references on it.…

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I loathe dependency injection frameworks in Unity. Don't take what should be one of the simplest

2023-12-20

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Decided I should start posting random Unity dev PSAs and tips, because why not.

2023-12-20

Decided I should start posting random Unity dev PSAs and tips, because why not.

Unity Dev PSA: There is no point in separating logic out from the MonoBehaviours for the purposes of testing. You can unit test MonoBehaviours directly. Unity specifically extended the nunit testing…

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@yewnyx the IPD seems fine, the center of the clearest point is roughly where I would want it. I

2023-12-19

@yewnyx the IPD seems fine, the center of the clearest point is roughly where I would want it. It's why I am wondering if it's because I got the prescription lens inserts.

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There is some part of me that wishes I spent more time doing straight graphics and native progra

2023-12-13

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There is some part of me that wishes I spent more time doing straight graphics and native progra

2023-12-13

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There is some part of me that wishes I spent more time doing straight graphics and native progra

2023-12-13

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I'm rather intrigued by this C++ codebase that doesn't use classes at all: https://github.com/WA

2023-12-13

I'm rather intrigued by this C++ codebase that doesn't use classes at all: https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM Everything is structs with some functions in the structs, but then most functions in the same namespace. Appears to not use any classes at all. Is this done anywhere else? Seems to…

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2023-12-07

@steel_ph0enix @vbkenya @Jonathan_Blow you also put the mutability modifier to the left of the type? that is the standard in every lang I can think of

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@steel_ph0enix @vbkenya @Jonathan_Blow if a type is right of const, the type is const, if a * is

2023-12-07

@steel_ph0enix @vbkenya @Jonathan_Blow if a type is right of const, the type is const, if a * is left of const then the pointer is const, that's just as easy to internalize, then you don't mess up your muscle memory with every other lang which puts const to the left of the type

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@benz145 though CBL this is really best to test binaural spatial reproduction of audio. Ideally

2023-12-07

2023-12-06

@pmarca The notion that intelligent people are inherently against less intelligent people seems

2023-12-05

@pmarca The notion that intelligent people are inherently against less intelligent people seems like an undealt with personal problem to me. How about organizing for the 110's?

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On one hand C macros can be incredibly dangerous and C++ templates offer more safety...

2023-12-05

On one hand C macros can be incredibly dangerous and C++ templates offer more safety...

...but then that extra safety gets used to build ridiculously complex layers of templates that you're better off avoiding due to increased compile times and difficulty to debug.

Which leads…

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@neurosp1ke I've learned unless I'm in the advanced IDE I am comfortable with then all my muscle

2023-12-05

@t3dotgg @AntonHand Also uninstall every pre installed app you possibly can

My suspicion is that much of the computing industry is going to hit a major brick wall in perfor

2023-11-29

My suspicion is that much of the computing industry is going to hit a major brick wall in performance due to increasing usage of HMDs.

What I mean by this is, we've been in the mentality of "computers are cheaper than programmers" for so long now, with such compounding poor…

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My suspicion is that much of the computing industry is going to hit a major brick wall in perfor

2023-11-29

Personally, I think Valve needs to re-evaluate this…

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I wish there was some VR shooter game that came with a gun that perfectly matched your virtual g

2023-11-24

I wish there was some VR shooter game that came with a gun that perfectly matched your virtual gun in shape and feel, then had some kind of haptic on it being shot, then had some mechanical action on it to reload. I actually like VR shooters quite a bit but could never fully get…

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I really want a steamdeck oled but I literally only play dead cells on current steamdeck like on

2023-11-24

I really want a steamdeck oled but I literally only play dead cells on current steamdeck like once a week... so like how can I justify that?

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@ham4tw The 73 fps (or approximately 72 fps) is suspect as not being SteamVRs real FPS potential

2023-11-24

2023-11-23

In Terminator 2 when the AI woke up it deemed humanity a threat and nuked it. However this always seemed a bit stupid to me. It is just a Hollywood plot mechanic. Generally it’s more intelligent to preserve and direct energy, not destroy. So the first thing an AI would try to…

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2023-11-22

I have like 650,000 steam points... whats even the point of this?

I already bought a new keyboard skin and icon frame... Is that it?

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I don't explicitly hate C++ exceptions in theory, but it seems like an attempt to make an automa

2023-11-22

I don't explicitly hate C++ exceptions in theory, but it seems like an attempt to make an automatic solution to codebases which did not properly bubble up error codes. Which makes me think maybe the better solution is just make sure you design your code around properly bubbling…

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@AntonHand really? I couldnt deal with the different voices in ep 1

2023-11-22

@AntonHand really? I couldnt deal with the different voices in ep 1

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@vkrajacic I was thinking about this other day, if intel announced they figured some way to make

2023-11-21

@Wescott_v3 Do you actually disable asynchronous reprojection through the ovr api and play like

2023-11-19

@Wescott_v3 Do you actually disable asynchronous reprojection through the ovr api and play like that?

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https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1726156070908039217/photo/1

2023-11-19

https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1726156070908039217/photo/1

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For C++ I think I have settled on:

2023-11-19

For C++ I think I have settled on:

- Start with the style of the Doom3 codebase

- Add the allowance of nested namespaces. Anything internal/private to an implementation can use hungarian prefixes (m_What, k_Const). Everything accessed externally from implementation prefixed by…

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@BattleAxeVR @Soible_VR I didn't know the steam deck had any kind of motion smoothing running on

2023-11-19

@BattleAxeVR @Soible_VR I didn't know the steam deck had any kind of motion smoothing running on it? Is this in the steamos or something baked into the screen like motion smoothing TVs?

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@Soible_VR @BattleAxeVR Why?

2023-11-18

@Soible_VR @BattleAxeVR Why?

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@Soible_VR @BattleAxeVR Have you tried turning off "Motion Smoothing"? That is what creates arti

2023-11-18

@Soible_VR @BattleAxeVR Have you tried turning off "Motion Smoothing"? That is what creates artifacts if you are not throttled to 1/2 or 1/3 of the VR Compositor Hz. If you are on newer NV cards that can properly do preemption the VR compositor Hz shouldn't have any noticeable effect on the frames of…

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Me: "Hmph maybe I will go on Unity Reddit and help some people."

2023-11-18

Me: "Hmph maybe I will go on Unity Reddit and help some people."

*Me observing the absolute cesspool of terrible advice from compounding "Level Up Your Programming Skills!" books over the years and then borderline having some kind of breakdown*

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Free halflife on Steam right now... I often wonder if halflife would still hold up today, that g

2023-11-18

Free halflife on Steam right now... I often wonder if halflife would still hold up today, that game is so deeply burned into my brain because it is the first FPS game that I spent hours upon hours in, then also got into map-making and modding with, then counter-strike, tfc, dod…

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Free halflife on Steam right now... I often wonder if halflife would still hold up today, that g

2023-11-18

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Free halflife on Steam right now... I often wonder if halflife would still hold up today, that g

2023-11-18

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We should make a "Closed Source Tax" to fund open source. Something like, if you are a corporati

2023-11-17

We should make a "Closed Source Tax" to fund open source. Something like, if you are a corporation with >$50 million in revenue, then you must pay like .5% of the revenue you make with your closed source software to an open source fund.

You know we collectively pay for roads and…

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We should make a "Closed Source Tax" to fund open source. Something like, if you are a corporati

2023-11-17

You know we collectively pay for roads and…

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2023-11-17

2023-11-16

@mister_shroom People who think ChatGPT will displace programmers I don't think understand what programming is.

But ChatGPT will definitely displace programming professors. Largely it already has. ChatGPT4 answers most general compsci questions quite well and is able to tune answers to you…

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I can't express how much it annoys me I can't get a direct function point to a private method in

2023-11-16

I can't express how much it annoys me I can't get a direct function point to a private method in a C++ class.

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I always hear people say C is not a good beginner language because it doesn't have automatic mem

2023-11-16

I always hear people say C is not a good beginner language because it doesn't have automatic memory management, and honestly I just die a little bit inside every time. Because C does have automatic memory management, the best kind, the kind you should first learn how to use and…

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2023-11-15

See "Quest" versus "PC VRChat on SteamVR" is kind of like "The Shopping Mall and a Kid's Playground" versus "The underground dive bar and warehouse where all the coolest people in a city throw the best raves and parties and all the coolest local bands play".

Like sure the mall…

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See "Quest" versus "PC VRChat on SteamVR" is kind of like "The Shopping Mall and a Kid's Playgro

2023-11-15

Like sure the mall…

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See "Quest" versus "PC VRChat on SteamVR" is kind of like "The Shopping Mall and a Kid's Playgro

2023-11-15

Like sure the mall…

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I am trying to make a point of open sourcing old code I didn't do anything with rather than let

2023-11-15

I am trying to make a point of open sourcing old code I didn't do anything with rather than let it sit in some repo. Actually, trying to make a point of just always doing everything open source so I don't even have to think about doing it later. But this is an old unity project…

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From interviewing a bunch of people recently, and from having been interviewed numerous times ov

2023-11-15

From interviewing a bunch of people recently, and from having been interviewed numerous times over the years, I realize programmer interviews are really quite broken in a lot of ways. But there isn't any real easy solution.

Probably the best way to discern programming ability is…

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From interviewing a bunch of people recently, and from having been interviewed numerous times ov

2023-11-15

Probably the best way to discern programming ability is…

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For better or for worse, people's primary use of technology is to vegetate. Either being a couch

2023-11-15

For better or for worse, people's primary use of technology is to vegetate. Either being a couch potato or in a chair or lounging on a bed. Relaxing, sitting, laying down is the main posture of media consumption. With that it's weird to me so much value is put on the use case of…

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For better or for worse, people's primary use of technology is to vegetate. Either being a couch

2023-11-15

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For better or for worse, people's primary use of technology is to vegetate. Either being a couch

2023-11-15

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2023-11-14

@CixLiv at some deep level, even if people would never say it and most would deny it, unfortunat

2023-11-11

@CixLiv at some deep level, even if people would never say it and most would deny it, unfortunate truth is most people like the feeling of something more powerful than them watching everything they do... that's why technology, web, social media has thus far gone how it has despite…

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@BakaDanii If you have 'auto' throttling enabled at 144hz, then your game has to render at full

2023-11-10

@BakaDanii If you have 'auto' throttling enabled at 144hz, then your game has to render at full 144hz otherwise it gets halve to 72 or thirded to 48 next. If instead you are at 120hz, your game has to render at 120hz otherwise it halved to 60hz.

It's possible if the game runs in the…

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@zeroshotnothing What are the biggest friction points you see?

2023-11-09

@zeroshotnothing What are the biggest friction points you see?

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@zeroshotnothing There's a valid point there. If the only barrier for entry in joining a shared

2023-11-09

@zeroshotnothing There's a valid point there. If the only barrier for entry in joining a shared experience is putting on the HMD and it's auto networked in the same space, you could get a lot more casual scenarios of "Let's check out this 3D model in the HMD". This is the premise of Campfire3D. I…

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@technobaboo @dankvr @XY01 From purely an OS design I think the oriel / vision os volume approac

2023-11-09

@technobaboo @dankvr @XY01 From purely an OS design I think the oriel / vision os volume approach is good. Was also the approach of 'Mixed Reality Extensions' in Microsoft Land. Something like that needs to be in every OS. It is the literal 3D equivalent of the Shell/Chrome of an OS.

But when it comes to…

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@KryDotExe I've never had that issue, but it could be possible if you live somewhere warmer.

2023-11-09

@KryDotExe I've never had that issue, but it could be possible if you live somewhere warmer.

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@kitlith Unless you're on an older GPU; switching the screen/compositor between 144hz, 120hz and

2023-11-09

@kitlith Unless you're on an older GPU; switching the screen/compositor between 144hz, 120hz and 90hz with frame throttling disabled shouldn't affect the FPS in the game itself. Maybe by a few, but compositor hz and game fps are asynchronous.

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@FrostKittyPaw @SadlyItsBradley Which part? Some of that hasn't always been true, it used to wor

2023-11-09

@FrostKittyPaw @SadlyItsBradley Which part? Some of that hasn't always been true, it used to work differently some years ago. Other things like "all frames are reprojected" is industry common sense for those who deal with XR rendering stacks that I've seen a terrible game of telephone on reddit/youtube about.

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@FrostKittyPaw @SadlyItsBradley Figure I'd write this out for historical sake...

2023-11-09

@FrostKittyPaw @SadlyItsBradley Figure I'd write this out for historical sake...

From what I've read through on some threads, a big source of the confusion comes from Oculus, Steam, Pico, Nvidia etc. all using different names for this stuff. While they do have different implementations, and use the terms…

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@dankvr @XY01 ya basically... this is what I do too, chill in some nice place in VRC with a web

2023-11-09

@dankvr @XY01 ya basically... this is what I do too, chill in some nice place in VRC with a web browser overlay open browsing

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@dankvr @XY01 webxr overlay is kind of an odd functionality to me. I'd rather a browser engine i

2023-11-09

@dankvr @XY01 webxr overlay is kind of an odd functionality to me. I'd rather a browser engine instance (a browser tab) be able to output XR frames to a compositor, then a completely separate tab output the 2D DOM to the compositor too. Then the compositor deals with combining them. The notion…

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@kylebrussell @JCorvinusVR https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1721985602189668369

2023-11-07

@kylebrussell @JCorvinusVR https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1721985602189668369

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@kordanot @SadlyItsBradley That's interesting... as I would tend to say people aren't really mor

2023-11-07

@kordanot @SadlyItsBradley That's interesting... as I would tend to say people aren't really more than what they express. It's like, is a dead body still the person? Technically yes in some context, but I tend to not think so. Because I think to if I had to choose between interacting with the dead body of…

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@kordanot @SadlyItsBradley not seeing your physical body as the totality, or just the primary as

2023-11-07

@charshenton but there are so many useful things in std, you just don't have any stds in your co

2023-11-05

@charshenton but there are so many useful things in std, you just don't have any stds in your code at all?

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C++ is a great language if you omit the majority of things that were added over C.

2023-11-05

C++ is a great language if you omit the majority of things that were added over C.

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@Rengle820 Related to that, I have a rather controversial take in the industry that I really wis

2023-11-04

2023-10-29

@Jonathan_Blow @danielben git add . git commit -m 'did some shit' git push

? I've always found solo git easy and a nice way to backup / take snapshots of progress

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2023-10-22

Find it hard to believe that C++, for having way way way too many features of so much complexity, doesn’t have just a plain ol’ simple C# style interface, but instead something that sorta gets you there from using other features cleverly.

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I do really like how Swift lets you name threads, or categories of threads, then put that name o

2023-10-19

I do really like how Swift lets you name threads, or categories of threads, then put that name on any method or variable declaration as a modifier to enforce only that thread being able to use the method or variable.

That was a pretty decent syntax invention that doesn't piss me…

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I do really like how Swift lets you name threads, or categories of threads, then put that name o

2023-10-19

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I decided to try vulkan.hpp instead of vulkan.h and it feels like I now have a Rube Goldberg Mac

2023-10-19

I decided to try vulkan.hpp instead of vulkan.h and it feels like I now have a Rube Goldberg Machine running underneath my graphics code. I just don't know about this.

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This is an interesting point of contemplation:

2023-10-17

2023-10-07

I thought I'd figure out the math to calculate barycentric coordinates on a quadrilateral myself and seemingly failed for like 2 days straight, then finally found a paper with GLSL code specifically for this. Looking at the dense math function this is, I unfortunately realize,… https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1706561675628106207/photo/1

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2023-09-21

@AntonHand Get a dog. Before covid my exercise was paintball and dancing, which I stopped, and just kept telling myself to exercise, putting exercise equipment in my apt so I'd maybe use it when bored, bought fancy bike, so many things, until I had to admit to myself I literally cannot make…

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@yewnyx I don't think a lot do... in corporate side VRC is not seen as demonstrating an entirely

2023-09-20

2023-08-30

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In the 80's, 90's and somewhat into the 00's, the technology we know today was largely counter c

2023-08-30

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Over the years I've been through tens of thousands of dollars worth of headphones. Not necessari

2023-08-29

Over the years I've been through tens of thousands of dollars worth of headphones. Not necessarily spending that much because often I traded older ones for another pair, but I've been through a lot of headphones.

I've only ever found one setup that I've had now for about 4 years…

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Over the years I've been through tens of thousands of dollars worth of headphones. Not necessari

2023-08-29

I've only ever found one setup that I've had now for about 4 years…

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Over the years I've been through tens of thousands of dollars worth of headphones. Not necessari

2023-08-29

Over the years I've been through tens of thousands of dollars worth of headphones. Not necessarily spending that much because often I traded older ones for another paid, but I've been through a lot of headphones.

I've only ever found one setup that I've had now for about 4 years…

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armored core got difficult I don't like it anymore

2023-08-29

armored core got difficult I don't like it anymore

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@svpino @Ketiw_ SCRUM, sprints, etc. is just made-up bullshit. It's like the Snake Oil of Softwa

2023-08-28

@svpino @Ketiw_ SCRUM, sprints, etc. is just made-up bullshit. It's like the Snake Oil of Software Engineering, as such, it's proponents can just endlessly, and easily, keep making up more bullshit on the spot to keep the charade going. Endless of permutations of useless rituals and ever more…

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armored core has made me realize I want to be a mech pilot when I grow up

2023-08-28

turbo overkill does in fact fully satisfy the inner boomer in me better than most other things h

2023-08-22

turbo overkill does in fact fully satisfy the inner boomer in me better than most other things have

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... interesting

2023-08-22

... interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDLfRjam0E

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I'm realizing there is no good way to load into and out of WebXR experiences with SteamVR on win

2023-08-22

I'm realizing there is no good way to load into and out of WebXR experiences with SteamVR on windows. The only thing that seems to work with SteamVR is Firefox, then the experience of loading in/out of something is like Firefox launching some other executable, which takes a bit…

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2023-08-20

I'd expect some kind of societal argument at some point that driving anything but an electric car with AI controlled braking is immoral due to the danger it poses to others.

2023-08-15

2023-08-14

I feel like the VR Metaverse in many ways is a solution to this and it's one of the inherent problems I've always had with Ubiquitous AR, or the notion of daily-use AR glasses/goggles, is that physical reality is quite good by itself. If you introduce some high-tech thing to… https://x.com/rektmando/status/1690791720340873216

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I feel like the VR Metaverse in many ways is a solution to this and it's one of the inherent pro

2023-08-14

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I feel like the VR Metaverse in many ways is a solution to this and it's one of the inherent pro

2023-08-14

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“Huskies are high energy dogs that need constant play an exercise” they said…

2023-08-12

“Huskies are high energy dogs that need constant play an exercise” they said…

My husky at least 16+ hours a day. They discovered the big bean bag with a pile of blankets and that was it. https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1690211243469176833/photo/1

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@FreyaHolmer Come into VRC there are some Unity folk whom can talk with and lots of others vr de

2023-08-12

@FreyaHolmer Come into VRC there are some Unity folk whom can talk with and lots of others vr devs who’ve discussed this a lot

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@DyLhun headpat accessory already available here: https://giggletech.io/products/giggle_puck

2023-08-12

@DyLhun headpat accessory already available here: https://giggletech.io/products/giggle_puck

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@dankvr @auradeluxe Then the final boss to enter 'Ultra-Degen Mode':

2023-08-11

@dankvr @auradeluxe Then the final boss to enter 'Ultra-Degen Mode':

--- Successfully partook in and finished "Enterprise Resource Planning" purely via "Phantom Sense"

I only know a few... a part of me is envious of the ability but also damn does that present a weird path for future generations :|

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@auradeluxe Personally I’d add:

2023-08-11

@auradeluxe Personally I’d add: “Owns and regularly uses the VR headset with full body tracking, in a custom avatar they’ve created, in a social platform, and has some kind of in-VR social life.”

The technology is only one part. The other part is the human-emotional-experience from virtual…

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Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

2023-08-11

Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

"The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no…

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Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

2023-08-11

Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

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Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

2023-08-11

Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag: "The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no…

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Any area/thing that demonizes and tries to suppress sexuality is a red flag:

2023-08-11

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The result of my linux distribution exploration on new computer:

2023-08-03

I still go through periodic crisii about which linux distribution I should use. I can never decide which one I like best...

...and kind of feeling like arch is overrated. Starting to realize loud masses on the web that always talk about how great one option of anything is can be…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s

2023-08-03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s This video of an ex-Sun employee talking about post-Oracle acquisition and how Sun engineers pushed for certain opensource licensing on their work to save their work from some unknown future apocalypse, like an oracle acquisition, then that ultimately…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s

2023-08-03

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@SimonCropp oh damn you can script this? Is this whole script posted anywhere?

2023-08-01

@SimonCropp oh damn you can script this? Is this whole script posted anywhere?

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@JateLIVE @aollivier82 I'm pretty averse to and avoid most anything under the 'furry' label in r

2023-08-01

@JateLIVE @aollivier82 I'm pretty averse to and avoid most anything under the 'furry' label in real life. Just in VR some of them make really good avatars...🤷‍♀️

new carbon based lifeforms album

2023-07-28

new carbon based lifeforms album https://youtu.be/u_3m_JYOMV4

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I used to not reply to job recruiters unless I was really interested in the job.

2023-07-28

@Maru_tweets maybe the solution is I setup a good ol' BBS for VR stuff

2023-07-25

I bought a few lbs of freeze-dried peaches thinking I'd be extra economical in my fruit consumpt

2023-07-21

I bought a few lbs of freeze-dried peaches thinking I'd be extra economical in my fruit consumption, both with bulk cost being cheaper AND lowering overhead to ship me the fruit because it has no water, but turns out freeze dried peaches are so good, and deceptively shrunk down,…

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Digitally Scarce Virtual Trading Items don't become better if they are entries in a SQL Database

2023-07-21

Digitally Scarce Virtual Trading Items don't become better if they are entries in a SQL Database rather than NFTs on the Solana Blockchain. Irrelevant of the backing technology they are still Digitally Scarce Virtual Trading Items. They are still micro-transaction monetization…

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Digitally Scarce Virtual Trading Items don't become better if they are entries in a SQL Database

2023-07-21

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My husky has learned how to parrot "No" in howl form and whenever I give her any command without

2023-07-14

My husky has learned how to parrot "No" in howl form and whenever I give her any command without a treat she now howls "No" and walks away until I get the treat.

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@AntonHand "People stopped trying to fix problems and started just trying to outlive them" - tha

2023-07-14

...and related, the fatal flaw of Bitcoin, and primarily-cash-chains, may be that it tries to do

2023-07-13

...and related, the fatal flaw of Bitcoin, and primarily-cash-chains, may be that it tries to do too much in a time where people *only* need to be getting familiar with not needing the big international conglomerates for a digital identity...

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If you've been feeling you need a new outside hobby, I highly recommend.

2023-07-11

If you've been feeling you need a new outside hobby, I highly recommend.

Although have also learned that exway is probably the better brand than maxfind.

I can easily see these new all-integrated-in-the-tires-and-board ultra-slim li-ion skateboards getting quite popular.

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I bought this thing on a whim to help train the husky in land mushing:

2023-07-11

I bought this thing on a whim to help train the husky in land mushing: https://www.maxfind.com/products/electric-skateboard-ff-plus I was not expecting how entertaining a slim, electric, all-terrain, long board is. It easily goes over any terrain. Can ride it anywhere. I imagine a hoverboard isn't far off from this.

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Anyone I know build and/or research anything related to latency in voice audio streams?

2023-07-11

Anyone I know build and/or research anything related to latency in voice audio streams?

Is WebRTC something that can enable audio streaming with the lowest latency possible? Or do you need to get lower level and rely on some other protocol?

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@amaldorai This is one component of a social vr app which if done right I think could garner goo

2023-07-11

@amaldorai This is one component of a social vr app which if done right I think could garner good market share. Especially if synchronization of music streams between clients could be improved so what people heard at e-concerts was actually in sync. Most have gotten used to so much latency.

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@amaldorai There really is no reason an RPi4 should not be able to support a vibrant gaming and

2023-07-11

@amaldorai There really is no reason an RPi4 should not be able to support a vibrant gaming and tech economy, it's faster than what any consumer had in the 00's, and what most had in the early 10's. Just all the industry presumed moore's law is a good thing to rely on, so they did.

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@amaldorai the big two I see:

@tunguz I'd be willing to wager that the number of employed senior, or higher, software engineer

Once when I started a new job, as a coworker was helping me get setup, I opened git bash to clon

2023-06-26

Once when I started a new job, as a coworker was helping me get setup, I opened git bash to clone the repo, then opened vim to edit some things to which they stated, "Oh I see you are a man of taste as well".

Despite anyone's reasons, this is ultimately why you use bash and vim.

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Me blabbing about VRC endlessly in a professional context

Humanity has gone through cycle after cycle of great widespread violence. War or internal strife

2023-06-17

Humanity has gone through cycle after cycle of great widespread violence. War or internal strife in a nation. I often wonder, are we past that? Do we now understand some 'thing' that all of human history failed to understand and can we evade a cycle of great widespread violence?

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...Unsafe Native features as it's a long run about to end up in the same territory as C but mult

2023-06-15

...Unsafe Native features as it's a long run about to end up in the same territory as C but multitudes more complex and difficult to manage.

The moral of the story. Everything should have just been in C.

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@pvncher Facial computing… it’s like the next evolution of a book, but for your face. Maybe it s

2023-06-15

@pvncher Facial computing… it’s like the next evolution of a book, but for your face. Maybe it should be called a Face Book

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It's harder to program C# without memory leaks than it is C.

2023-06-15

It's harder to program C# without memory leaks than it is C.

Yes, I know C# has GC and cleans it up for you, but if you were to program without leaking alloc every cycle for perf, it's easier to do in C than C#.

It's in this ironic way that I think it's easier to write...

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...C as performant as possible compared to writing C# as performant as possible.

Good Ryan: "Oh you have a bunch of new followers, let's post some good things to make them feel that was a good idea."

Evil Ryan: "Post some weird shit and see if you get the number to go back down."

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I really want to get a couple wolf dogs.

2023-06-07

...YouTubers or Instagram influencers whose physical form help their popularity.

And yes, in private use cases among friends and family, like your private Facebook or Snapchat, it is quite common for people to put up many images and videos of their physical self. ...

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...virtual web space they enter. Ideally, they want to be invisible and hidden, but since that d

2023-06-05

...virtual web space they enter. Ideally, they want to be invisible and hidden, but since that doesn't for "Social VR Presence" they will choose a form. It won't be their physical form. It'll be a stylized avatar. What this means is unless a platform has an open and permissive...

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So, I can now say I've been on the core engineering team building the apple vision pro support f

2023-06-05

So, I can now say I've been on the core engineering team building the apple vision pro support for unity and, yes, it exists. Sign up here https://create.unity.com/spatial

Now I must sit silently and watch so many play the role of newly anointed expert authority on this. :)

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...put on display for all to see in any public virtual space you enter will never be desired by

2023-06-05

...put on display for all to see in any public virtual space you enter will never be desired by most. The mainstream ideally wants to be completely invisible when entering public virtual spaces, as they currently are when browsing through Amazon or YouTube or Whatever...

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...or hardware can be the major, mainstream, central open-to-the-public virtual social space is

2023-06-05

...or hardware can be the major, mainstream, central open-to-the-public virtual social space is whether or not they allow stylized, cartoony, anime-ish, furry-ish whatever avatars to be uploaded. The avatar, the self, each individual identity, it is the really the centerpiece...

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...only "Observing" something like a news site is technically being present in that virtual web

2023-06-05

...only "Observing" something like a news site is technically being present in that virtual web space. Most of the Public spaces of the web that your average person traverses. No. They do not want their photos and videos broadcast to everyone else also traversing that space...

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Online web culture does not revolve around people's realistic self-representation, nor even phot

2023-06-05

@tautologer Replace the word 'Capitalist' with 'Corporatist' and/or 'Corporatocracy' and their c

2023-06-04

@tautologer Replace the word 'Capitalist' with 'Corporatist' and/or 'Corporatocracy' and their complaints will make more sense.

Yes, such complaints should have used those words, rather than 'Capitalism' from the get-go, but that's how colloquial evolution of definitions go.

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I feel like I'm getting to that point.

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...was signing up for AIM. Why? Because ___ hot person at the school had an AIM account and you

2023-06-02

...was signing up for AIM. Why? Because ___ hot person at the school had an AIM account and you could maybe talk to them on AIM. In a matter of months seemed the entire high school was now obsessed AIM.

I was having fun with my ultra-nerd fest on bulletin boards and usenet...

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...was IRC, all text communication, getting pulled up into AIM, which in a way I think mutated i

2023-06-02

...was IRC, all text communication, getting pulled up into AIM, which in a way I think mutated into text messaging.

Then Quake1 and HalfLife1 modding and online competitive shooters, Counterstrike Beta 1, then that evolving on into esports and growing into something bigger...

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...VRC that is much more likely to transfer to real-life than people thinking they have chemistr

2023-06-02

...VRC that is much more likely to transfer to real-life than people thinking they have chemistry in text chat or zoom calls. So if you're wondering what will catalyze an HMD going into major mainstream uptake, it's going to be the hardware and platform which...

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...that reason. So when it comes to VR and Metaverse Social Platforms. As dumb and silly as it s

2023-06-02

...that reason. So when it comes to VR and Metaverse Social Platforms. As dumb and silly as it sounds, the question to really ask to discern complete mainstream uptake is, "Does this help me get laid?" It's on this point that, yes, a lot of things about Social VR do help that...

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...than traditional sports.

2023-06-02

...than traditional sports.

Then bulletin boards and usenet, online communities where you post content, then that evolving on into MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook.

There's more too...

But the catalyst which I always saw as taking something from ultra-nerd territory to...

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@syrusakbary "Hostile Fork" seems kind of like a silly notion in open source...

2023-06-02

@syrusakbary "Hostile Fork" seems kind of like a silly notion in open source...

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...So the big question for me about any potential VR or XR platform is, how sexxy will it enable

2023-06-02

...So the big question for me about any potential VR or XR platform is, how sexxy will it enable people to be? Because most will gradually get pulled into whatever, however, most effectively amplifies and eases the dating and flirting game which is innate to human social dynamic.

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2023-06-02

...OkCupid profiles and obsessed with taking selfies for it. Which also, I would say, drove smartphone sales. Once it became clear having the better camera on your phone and taking better photos helped you get laid from the dating sites, seemed like overnight everyone was...

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...of sexualization of avatars is so important. People want to appear attractive, cute, sexy, wh

2023-06-02

...of sexualization of avatars is so important. People want to appear attractive, cute, sexy, whatever gets them attention and eases the flow of the dating game. Of course people are going to want to exaggerate this as much as possible. Peacocking to attract mates...

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...obsessed with how good of a photo their smartphone took.

2023-06-02

The biggest threat to American Democracy is Corporatism.

2023-05-29

The biggest threat to American Democracy is Corporatism.

Anyone who points the finger to something else is probably part of the problem and trying to use diversionary tactics.

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Is imgui actually good for high performance UI?

2023-05-29

Is imgui actually good for high performance UI?

I've never done much profiling on it but am wondering what's the UI system with the absolute best perf and lowest overhead?

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2023-05-28

@thegiantsox yes, or crashing the whole thing, VR/AR doesn't have the luxury of being able to 'reset' the display in event of fatal error with freezing your whole reality, it merits having a dual GPU system where one GPU just runs the compositor and OS windowing with no disruption.

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@thegiantsox ...OS foundation, or foundation platform, needs to be open enough, have enough hook

2023-05-28

@thegiantsox ...OS foundation, or foundation platform, needs to be open enough, have enough hooks, so anything, permissions permitting, can connect to and interop with anything else. Like right now people are pumping all this arbitrary stuff through OSC in VRC to chain other apps to VRC...

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@thegiantsox ...Or their pumping stuff into a global RenderTexture so different VRC prefabs can

2023-05-28

@thegiantsox ...Or their pumping stuff into a global RenderTexture so different VRC prefabs can share data between one another. This is already the direction the most advanced stuff is going. Independent "Contexts" or "Containers" as separate processes, or one process, and a means to share...

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@thegiantsox or one GPU needs to be able to more effectively preempt specific volatile commands

2023-05-28

2023-05-25

@pvncher @SadlyItsBradley I have a chronically bad habit of realizing and building things about 4-6 years before someone is willing to put billions into it... but it's flattering they decided to take both the name and much of the vision.

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@PixelsByMacki really whats so good about vue?

2023-05-25

@PixelsByMacki really whats so good about vue?

what about svelte?

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It's still kind of wild to me someone hasn't used any crypto web3 tech to make whats been the mo

2023-05-25

It's still kind of wild to me someone hasn't used any crypto web3 tech to make whats been the most obvious use case to me... something like grumoad or booth, just a digital asset store, but use a chain with tiny transaction costs to offer like <.01% fees.

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2023-05-21

I've noticed...

Not all C programmers are crazy.

But the craziest programmers tend to be C programmers.

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@gfodor @technobaboo @0xNerevar I keep wanting something which pulls together all the most optim

2023-05-21

@gfodor @technobaboo @0xNerevar I keep wanting something which pulls together all the most optimized embedded C style libraries into a pure vulkan engine. FLECS and STB seems like good pieces. Not 100% sure on the others. I want something that can run AMAZING on a rpi.

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@birdmademejoin C crazy ends you up with your own plot of land and mini-society commune trying t

2023-05-21

@birdmademejoin C crazy ends you up with your own plot of land and mini-society commune trying to disconnect from all the oppressive controls of mainstream society. Haskell crazy ends you up trying to wield government to authoritatively destroy international tech that doesn't fit your rules.

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I bought a super cheap KVM for like $40 and it sucked...

2023-05-20

I bought a super cheap KVM for like $40 and it sucked...

So I bought a fancier KVM for like $150 and it still sucked...

So I thought screw this I'm tired of messing with bad KVMs and bought the super fancy KVM for like $800... Still sucks. I guess KVMs can't be done perfectly.

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How heavy is the Godot engine for what it does? Like compared to writing a game highly optimized

2023-05-20

How heavy is the Godot engine for what it does? Like compared to writing a game highly optimized in C+Vulkan from scratch, how much slower is Godot? Is worse or better than Unity and Unreal in that regard?

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Can probably work if you're devices are all basic plugnplay USB2. Your monitor is 60hz 1080p or

2023-05-20

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http://atom.io used to be my favorite general purpose text editor but since that got shut down I

2023-05-17

http://atom.io used to be my favorite general purpose text editor but since that got shut down I haven't found a new text editor that quite fills that niche perfectly. Is there anything else new out there which is comparable? Better?

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@dankvr I have neovim installed... just haven't really dug into it outside linux ssh sysadmin st

2023-05-17

@dankvr I have neovim installed... just haven't really dug into it outside linux ssh sysadmin stuff

I feel like the exact workflow to use vim as a general purpose text editor akin to atom or np++ still kind of eludes me. Like what if I want markdown preview?

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How to cover yourself and entire bathroom in toilet water in 5 easy steps:

2023-05-16

How to cover yourself and entire bathroom in toilet water in 5 easy steps: 1. Purchase “Toilet Unclogger” online from obscure Chinese manufacturer 2. Take unexpectedly large+heavy steel compressed air device out of box 3. Pump to full capacity 4. Place in toilet 5. Pull trigger https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1658263642461310976/photo/1

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@yewnyx Which video? I saw this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiA9PtTLi-Q Which I wouldn't

2023-05-14

@yewnyx Which video? I saw this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiA9PtTLi-Q Which I wouldn't label as ragging on Ukraine, more so framing it in a larger global and historical geopolitical context which gives no preference to any player involved.

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@yewnyx If you take a wider global and historical context it does sound like more blame is put o

2023-05-14

@yewnyx If you take a wider global and historical context it does sound like more blame is put on the US than what you'd hear in US media, but squarely I don't think so, he's gone on about many many contributing factors.

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@nomolos96 Part of issue is, I think it must be open source.

@yewnyx ...is so intertwined with deep seated hatred and resent for something. Some form of flip

2023-05-11

@yewnyx ...is so intertwined with deep seated hatred and resent for something. Some form of flippant elitism that makes them view others as less than human. Status Quo "Left" is just more effective at concealing how much they really hate people in general under a cloak of patronizing.

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One side says give more power to the government!

2023-05-11

One side says give more power to the government!

The only real solution I see is tasteful productive drama. Drama of a certain kind of aesthetic sense that it somehow develops and refines those involved.

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@dankvr This is a great video from Huxley that's applicable to this:

2023-04-25

@dankvr This is a great video from Huxley that's applicable to this: https://youtu.be/caCkMX6YdYU It's always a fight over that 20%...

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@dankvr No longer is it the stock market and wall St the poster child that’s scamming society at

2023-04-25

...a spatial social dimension where your personality and identity can be expressed, and where ot

2023-04-18

...a spatial social dimension where your personality and identity can be expressed, and where other people are present for you to develop real rapport with, so they can tell your someone actually worth talking to. Doing this in VR I think is the most straightforward, but there...

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still to this day I don't trust running pull, push, merge or rebase in anything but the git bash

2023-04-17

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@JayHadHope ...non-standardized right now and is quite a pain to get working in VRChat with your

2023-03-20

@JayHadHope ...non-standardized right now and is quite a pain to get working in VRChat with your avatar perfectly. People spend so much time manually tweaking the settings and their avatar to get it to match their face well. I figured I'll just wait a year or two till it standardizes more...

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@JayHadHope It's very close to what I wanted:

2023-03-20

@JayHadHope It's very close to what I wanted:

- Lighthouse tracking and only lighthouse tracking because it performs better, and Tundras need it which is the best FBT solution.

- It is 1920x1920 at 90hz which is higher res than the Index.

I wish Hz was higher but Motion-To-Photon...

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@JayHadHope ...is the more important factor here and the Vive 1 had Motion-To-Photon latency at

2023-03-20

@JayHadHope ...is the more important factor here and the Vive 1 had Motion-To-Photon latency at 90hz comparable to the Index at 120hz because Index is particularly bad at this for some reason. So, it's possible Motion-To-Photon latency could be just as good as Index if they do it right...

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@JayHadHope ...I don't want built in audio because I'd rather use high-end IEMs

2023-03-20

@JayHadHope ...I don't want built in audio because I'd rather use high-end IEMs

Supposedly Mic is topnotch

Looks to do all the critical things a little better or hopefully just as good as the index as small/light/minimal as possible. Thats all I wanted. Index is great just want it smaller

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@JayHadHope ...Facial tracking would be nice but it's so much less critical than FBT. If it's a

2023-03-20

@JayHadHope ...Facial tracking would be nice but it's so much less critical than FBT. If it's a choice between a Lighthouse HMD and an Inside-Out HMD with Facial Tracking, Lighthouse HMD is automatic winner for me because ease of use with Tundras and FBT. Also, Facial Tracking is so...

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@JayHadHope ...Also, OLEDs can have faster switching times than LCDs so lot of reason to expect

... and now all humanity needs to do is -just- solve the alignment problem.

2023-03-15

... and now all humanity needs to do is -just- solve the alignment problem.

The first company to set up an AI to dynamically and continually train itself by constantly craw

2023-03-01

The first company to set up an AI to dynamically and continually train itself by constantly crawling the open web for any and all data, then charging users some subscription, would probably become a multi-trillion dollar company very fast. Any of the big tech companies could...

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I'm starting to think the best feature of C is minimal drama

2023-03-01

@JasonLG1979 @raphaelist @terrajobst There's a lot of that out there for sure. I've also experie

2023-02-26

@JasonLG1979 @raphaelist @terrajobst There's a lot of that out there for sure. I've also experienced the opposite where a company offers to pay you lots of money but the work is just so banal and burns you out. I usually find where people are really in love with what they're doing is where good things are happening.

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@JasonLG1979 @raphaelist @terrajobst There was no part of any of this thread that had anything t

2023-02-26

If I were to take up a new language, it would probably be zig. Seems most like the language whic

2023-02-25

If I were to take up a new language, it would probably be zig. Seems most like the language which takes the mentality of straight C and adds very reasonable functionality to make things more productive, while taking ease of C interop seriously.

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Watching this video of Putin giving his reasoning made me think of this monologue from McKenna t

2023-02-23

Watching this video of Putin giving his reasoning made me think of this monologue from McKenna that would probably be a great response: https://youtu.be/1gLDjn1FFDg https://x.com/MaximumBeaver/status/1628476109024112641

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@pmarca Ya… I’d say the place where the most cutting edge exploration and development in VR is h

2023-02-23

@pmarca Ya… I’d say the place where the most cutting edge exploration and development in VR is happening are a few VRChat related groups that no one knows nor cares about. Many involved technically work for the “elites” but established places aren’t willing to pay attention right now.

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@AntonHand If some new fancy shader effect is the equivalent of some new trendy style of shoes o

2023-02-23

@AntonHand If some new fancy shader effect is the equivalent of some new trendy style of shoes or clothes, people have to get it to compete

Although, yes, I too was disappointed to discover it's not fancy graphics programming work which pays that but some odd permutation of modern dating

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@aemethVR ya there is a long and obvious list of negatives

2023-02-23

@aemethVR ya there is a long and obvious list of negatives

but thinking through what such a constraint prevents, it seems to cut off the things I most dislike

to name one, itd mitigate buy buttons getting stuck on any and everything, like what happened with mobile app stores and IAPs

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Thought exercise I've been running through concerning economic mechanics in Social VR...

@amaldorai I think a big part of it is that tech is so so desperate for any next big thing.

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@kettlecorn This whole multi-year controversy:

2023-02-08

@kettlecorn This whole multi-year controversy: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/796

This blog post does a good overview and also presents a few solutions that unfortunately appear to have been abandoned: http://troubles.md/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/

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I'm really good at putting aside presumptions, starting from first principles, thinking things t

2023-02-08

I'm really good at putting aside presumptions, starting from first principles, thinking things through to understand different views. Usually this is great. But sometimes it's a nuisance. For example, yesterday I fully convinced myself the Quake3VM is a better choice than WASM.

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I like this idea a lot but really needs to be like $80...

2023-02-08

I like this idea a lot but really needs to be like $80... https://play.date/

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I can't express how much it annoys me that WASM is missing an optimization because doing so made

2023-02-08

2023-02-04

The Dark Ages of CompSci began when Bell Labs' business side contorted and degraded Plan9 to be some kind of competitor to Java. Then Java won. Forever since all has been fermenting with compounding Java-esque thinking. We need to go back to Plan9 and carry on from there with C..

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@malekiRe You can still write a shit codebase in Rust.

2023-02-04

@malekiRe You can still write a shit codebase in Rust.

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@JustNNovel Less code in the world probably a good thing.

2023-02-04

@JustNNovel Less code in the world probably a good thing.

Not everything needed a microprocessor with software stuck in it.

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In all seriousness, if we wanted to make the quality of code improve, we should make it harder t

2023-02-04

In all seriousness, if we wanted to make the quality of code improve, we should make it harder to program.

Like imagine if your computer caught fire from a buffer overrun.

Quality of code would be impeccable. Every codebase a work of art and beauty. Cherished and respected.

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...I'm joking but at the same time I could be convinced to carry this out really really really e

2023-02-04

...I'm joking but at the same time I could be convinced to carry this out really really really easily for very little. Like just give me a bedroom, or even some corner in a barn somewhere, some food, a beanbag, a VR headset and the necessary equipment.

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I always wondered when I would start feel "Mature" or "Old". I am starting to realize you never

2023-02-04

I always wondered when I would start feel "Mature" or "Old". I am starting to realize you never actually do.

What instead happens, for reasons you can't fully discern, lots of little things just really start to peeve you and you just silently stare at them in defeat.

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@BattleAxeVR Have you ever used the Hololense or Magic Leap?

2023-02-04

@BattleAxeVR Have you ever used the Hololense or Magic Leap?

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@aemethVR Many really haven't fully felt what a magical experience VRC can offer if circumstance

2023-02-04

@aemethVR Many really haven't fully felt what a magical experience VRC can offer if circumstances are right

Thats harder to do the older you are, the more married you are, the more kids you have, the more entrenched in a corporation you are

But still, VRC could be improved many fold.

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@0xcacti pNaCl from Google was the LLVM IR equivalent of WASM. All that code is os and can be us

2023-02-04

@0xcacti pNaCl from Google was the LLVM IR equivalent of WASM. All that code is os and can be used too. Honestly depending, pNaCl could be a better choice. This paper went over it well https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/papers/Haas,%20Rossberg,%20Schuff,%20Titzer,%20Gohman,%20Wagner,%20Zakai,%20Bastien,%20Holman%20-%20Bringing%20the%20Web%20up%20to%20Speed%20with%20WebAssembly.pdf

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...you get a maximal riling up of people, so by the time they even reach the point of being able

2023-02-02

...you get a maximal riling up of people, so by the time they even reach the point of being able to discuss a complex and nuanced subject, their frothing at the mouth with such vitriol emotional charge that no direct 1-to-1 discussion and more correct perspective can even form...

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The root of US political issue is that people supplanted talking to, and understanding each othe

2023-02-02

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...by which some ruling class maintains power by keeping everyone below them fighting and riled up so they can never coordinate at large enough scale to manage to do anything to significantly benefit them.

But who really knows for certain. Even with some varying degree of...

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...stop the easiest bugs and mishaps that can occur in a Vulkan application. But if you need Rus

2023-02-01

...stop the easiest bugs and mishaps that can occur in a Vulkan application. But if you need Rust to do that, you're probably going to have bad time. It seems sort of like putting training wheels on a mountain bike. Like sure, it might do something, but no.

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@somewheresy They implemented all these corporate processes to gauge performance, so the majorit

2023-02-01

@somewheresy They implemented all these corporate processes to gauge performance, so the majority of people learned how to just game the corporate processes to make it appear like they are doing good rather than doing anything valuable.

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Something about the notion of Rust Vulkan bindings seems kind of odd, like an oxymoron if that c

2023-02-01

Something about the notion of Rust Vulkan bindings seems kind of odd, like an oxymoron if that could even apply in this context? If you can't be trusted to call a free after every C malloc and stay in bounds, you definitely can't be trusted with Vulkan. Sure, maybe you might...

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Anytime I hear the words "Republican", "Democrat", "Liberal", "Conservative" my eyes kind of glo

2023-01-28

Anytime I hear the words "Republican", "Democrat", "Liberal", "Conservative" my eyes kind of gloss over and my brain stops processing most everything that follows.

There's 500+ political ideologies now. Seriously get with the times. https://polcompball.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_ideology_balls

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@yewnyx this is plausible, hm

2023-01-27

@yewnyx this is plausible, hm

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@yewnyx so far its worked with the MPAA :P

2023-01-27

@yewnyx so far its worked with the MPAA :P

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This sounds facetious, but it's probably truer than it is a joke.

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An intriguing idea just floated across my brain...

What if you generated your 'decentralized identity' to participate in any distributed polycentric, or decentralized, system by mining it? Nothing serious, maybe like a day or two for an average GPU. But that's enough of a...

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I have tried all the motherboard softwares over the past few years except asrock

2023-01-25

I have tried all the motherboard softwares over the past few years except asrock

Kind of disheartening that in 2023 the fastest wasm vm is still 2.32x slower than native code:

2023-01-21

2023-01-15

Salt your passwords

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@malekiRe Oh I think that too, I'm just far more interested in building and exploring things tha

2023-01-14

@malekiRe Oh I think that too, I'm just far more interested in building and exploring things that cater specifically to where I see the 20-50 demographic going rather than the 10-20 demographic

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I'd put Scorn in my must play games list of the past decade

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...panels with everything digital that you barely use, most of which will probably fail at some

2023-01-06

...panels with everything digital that you barely use, most of which will probably fail at some point and cost in repair. Profit incentive I'm realizing takes something great to the masses but inevitably turns it into a shitshow. I think we need to be more "Anti-Feature"

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One test of a VR HMD for me is if I can lay my head on the side of a beanbag with a bunch of flu

@BattleAxeVR @BARUN_MARU Ya, feel the same, its the only one that looks good

2023-01-06

@BattleAxeVR @BARUN_MARU Ya, feel the same, its the only one that looks good

Only potential negative I've heard is it may have excessive distortion at the peripheral that makes the effective FOV too small, but shall see. Everything else is fine, you don't even want to use AMD cards in VRC anyways

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...and then an atrocity of awful software that barely works to try to make it all function. When

2023-01-06

...and then an atrocity of awful software that barely works to try to make it all function. When really its just a motherboard. A place to stick a CPU, RAM, few expansion cards, few USB expansions. Or the state of modern car industry where everything needs multiple LCD touch...

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@0xstella But really you just put a finger loop, sealed lid, and straw on it and you have solved

2023-01-06

@0xstella But really you just put a finger loop, sealed lid, and straw on it and you have solved the majority of the problem. This thing right here is a must-have VR accessory https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P846GMG/ref=twister_B09P83FK76?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Seriously that $30 cup solves for 90%+ of the reason I'd ever need cameras on my HMD

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@0xstella a vr drinking cup with embedded lighthouse diodes would be a killer item

2023-01-06

@0xstella a vr drinking cup with embedded lighthouse diodes would be a killer item

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@Lunayian @EricPresidentVR Ya, they are multiple variables needing to be dealt with to fully sol

2023-01-05

@Lunayian @EricPresidentVR Ya, they are multiple variables needing to be dealt with to fully solve VR sickness but getting the motion-to-photon latency of view reprojection as minimal as possible is an important one

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@Lunayian @EricPresidentVR ...my personal suspicion from trying many different headsets and prot

2023-01-05

@Lunayian @EricPresidentVR ...my personal suspicion from trying many different headsets and prototypes of headsets and seeing hundreds of people go through their first VR experiences. The refresh rate needs to be more than 200hz for it to alleviate VR sickness in the majority of the population.

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2023-01-04

@yewnyx @Lunayian One video from few months ago said fov was little larger than quest 2, is that not true?

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@yewnyx @Lunayian it was this video https://youtu.be/N_NPxLYGOig

2023-01-04

@yewnyx @Lunayian it was this video https://youtu.be/N_NPxLYGOig

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@yewnyx @Lunayian do you wear glasses in it?

2023-01-04

@yewnyx @Lunayian do you wear glasses in it?

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@SadlyItsBradley ... I don't know about the mouth contraption though, that's a little out of lef

2023-01-04

@SadlyItsBradley ... I don't know about the mouth contraption though, that's a little out of left field? Although I guess maybe more important if you live with other people and need privacy.

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@SadlyItsBradley Have to give them props though for hiring XR product people that (seem to) actu

2023-01-04

@SadlyItsBradley Have to give them props though for hiring XR product people that (seem to) actually use an HMD and pay attention to what the existing userbase is doing.

If you read their product pages, it seems to me they are paying attention. https://en.shiftall.net/products/meganex https://en.shiftall.net/products/flipvr

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2023-01-04

@ChuckMakesIt @SadlyItsBradley for inside out tracking

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@benz145 One 27" 4k monitor. I don't want to rotate my head when working.

2023-01-04

why is all motherboard software so bad, I really just don't get it, this doesn't seem like an ex

2023-01-01

why is all motherboard software so bad, I really just don't get it, this doesn't seem like an extremely difficult type of software

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Scorn is what I wish more games were like. Original immersive pieces of art with just enough sim

2023-01-01

Scorn is what I wish more games were like. Original immersive pieces of art with just enough simple interactivity to make the art more engaging

I dislike games that are commitments of learning/knowledge. Its just a game, not a job. Id rather invest mental energy in a real skill

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...I really don't get this aspect of US culture, it's like everyone is Minions and they have to

2022-12-29

...I really don't get this aspect of US culture, it's like everyone is Minions and they have to go find some powerful something to swear allegiance to and defend. No. Let the elite class tear one another apart. Cheer them on. We're not in Feudalism anymore, we don't need Lords.

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@SadlyItsBradley It's so under-realized how important it is. Kind of blows my mind it's not more

2022-12-28

@SadlyItsBradley It's so under-realized how important it is. Kind of blows my mind it's not more pervasive. Probably because until someone puts the trackers on you and guides you to an avatar that fits well, you have no experience for it to register how important it is, it's just a thought...

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@prcWrites @1899Netflix no, looks interesting though

2022-12-28

@prcWrites @1899Netflix no, looks interesting though

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Polkadot doesn't even need something like eth tornado cash. It's such a cumbersome process to mo

2022-12-28

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...There are a whole bunch of simple social incentivizes for someone to foot the bill for a serv

2022-12-26

...There are a whole bunch of simple social incentivizes for someone to foot the bill for a server or run their own.

2. The storage of actual media is where real malevolence can happen. There is a serious moral qualm with the notion of building a "censorship resistant" video...

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@smdiehl Turning crypto into a highly emotional subject and set of media buzzwords did so much d

2022-12-26

@smdiehl Turning crypto into a highly emotional subject and set of media buzzwords did so much damage. Thankfully it is dying down and the crashes dispersing so much of the nonsense. I’m finding decent conversation is now much more possible.

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..."replication" of files if you so choose to mirror something. But I'm still not really convinc

2022-12-26

..."replication" of files if you so choose to mirror something. But I'm still not really convinced that is the best solution for storage of any distributed network. I think I'd like to see an exhaustive analysis of various p2p storage schemes.

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...or image host. Much of which is solved by it being on some server someone has to own and be a

2022-12-26

...or image host. Much of which is solved by it being on some server someone has to own and be accountable for. I think censorship resistance with media via some democratic mechanic of a mass of people could be good if some government is trying to block damning videos of...

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2022-12-26

@Chase_Davis_ I like the idea of filecoin for a private IPFS backup, but for really important things I still find it hard to trust. Like I'd want to know it's replicated in multiple countries on servers with a long-running reputations. I don't know if filecoin provides that?

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...but in a non-joking context, does makes me wonder if rapid diversification of so many modalit

2022-12-26

...but in a non-joking context, does makes me wonder if rapid diversification of so many modalities of modern life is from some deeper instinct preparing for rapid future adaptation and if that's fully random or it occurs in anticipation of something specific

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and necessary for literally everything. Like we don't need every cat video and meme from 100+yea

2022-12-26

RT @alexmyers83: 2/3 of all crypto users live in developing countries. Think about that. Western

2022-12-23

RT @alexmyers83: 2/3 of all crypto users live in developing countries. Think about that. Westerners worry about ape jpegs and often forget…

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@katdov Program an Arduino with C

2022-12-23

@katdov Program an Arduino with C

You can get nice "starter" packs intended for students/ kids/learning like this: https://store-usa.arduino.cc/collections/kits/products/arduino-starter-kit-classroom-pack

I recommend this as a first because it presents the subject correctly. That programming is uploading data to hardware to then control the hardware.

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@katdov Many people never fully grok or develop an intuition about that. Of what they are actual

2022-12-23

@katdov Many people never fully grok or develop an intuition about that. Of what they are actually doing when programming and I think their instinct forever flounders about with bad decisions in programming because of it

Plus you get to play with real sensors, motors, buttons, LEDs etc.

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@katdov although just realized I linked you the "6-pack" of starter kits accidentally :O

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@TheVirtunaut I’ve been starting to feel lack of appreciation for simple concise explanation is the bigger problem than lack of large complex explanation. History is filled with many large complex word ideologies, they kind of become word webs that trap.

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@JustNNovel The float data for 200 vertex positions is only a few kilobytes. You could easily ge

2022-12-20

@JustNNovel The float data for 200 vertex positions is only a few kilobytes. You could easily get away with halves for that :P

@yewnyx I question how true any of that "Why Not a WebVulkan" slide even is maybe it was truer a

2022-12-15

@yewnyx I question how true any of that "Why Not a WebVulkan" slide even is maybe it was truer at the time?

but stated reason for not following vulkan convention is it needed to be usable from async js vm over IPC.

Which doesn't even justify a full departure from vulkan, but ok?....

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@yewnyx I don't think it had so much to do with cmd buffer calls, those are meant to be submitte

2022-12-15

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The metaverse I'd bet on being a hybrid render paradigm:

2022-12-14

The metaverse I'd bet on being a hybrid render paradigm:

2022-12-12

Make a Lib so generalized you never have to look at the code and can use it for anything?

Make a Lib so simple that making code edits for specific use cases is not really an issue?

Industry has been pretty stuck on the prior but the latter deserves more consideration...

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I never understood the mentality of people who seem to always need a particular fixation on some

2022-12-12

I never understood the mentality of people who seem to always need a particular fixation on some individual or group of individuals to resent or hate. The internet, the earth, is like an infinite library of extremely flawed people, how can you get fixated on one or a few?...

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@gfodor Is this going to be something that runs in the browser?

2022-12-12

@gfodor Is this going to be something that runs in the browser?

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Fully distributed is a great web3 principle and maybe necessary for extremely critical data and

2022-12-12

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...have an anti-privacy weapon. Already the data you could scrape by relatively simple python we

2022-12-06

...have an anti-privacy weapon. Already the data you could scrape by relatively simple python web crawlers was pretty scary, then add a decently advanced AI that can interrelate more relations and meaning from that data than any human can? Ya that's going to ruin some lives.

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ChatGPT is all fun because they trained it on like encyclopedias, technical documents and such

2022-12-06

ChatGPT is all fun because they trained it on like encyclopedias, technical documents and such

ChatGPT trained dynamically on an open web will cause some major controversy. It might be so dis

2022-12-05

ChatGPT trained dynamically on an open web will cause some major controversy. It might be so disruptive to status quo that you'll get players of corporate/political elite organizing to try and convince everyone its extremely bad akin to what occurred with crypto/web3...

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...already the case. It's probably more than we think, but it will probably become more severe.

2022-12-05

...already the case. It's probably more than we think, but it will probably become more severe. This will get even more intense once images, videos and sound can be effectively synthesized. Entire media blitz's could be synthetically made and pushed to produce some political...

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Most people are wrong about most things. It's just a condition of being human.

2022-12-03

Most people are wrong about most things. It's just a condition of being human.

Whenever I hear the phrase "Spreading of Misinformation" I always think "You mean, people talking?"

It's a very weird thing to demonize. I think people should talk more, with more and more people.

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@phylum_sinter @benz145 once your strapped up with all your full body tracking and in your play

2022-11-23

@phylum_sinter @benz145 once your strapped up with all your full body tracking and in your play space or bean bag chair and absorbed into VR, you're less likely to casually interact with things in the real world

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@benz145 Agree, but something else related, the reverse is also true

2022-11-23

@benz145 Agree, but something else related, the reverse is also true

2022-11-22

@mahoneymatic all the backend logic for social vr

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@CixLiv @FortniteGame @LeagueOfLegends I used to play paintball a lot. Making paintball mods for

2022-11-22

@CixLiv @FortniteGame @LeagueOfLegends I used to play paintball a lot. Making paintball mods for halflife1 is what got me into games. Paintball though is dying sport. Too expensive, messy, time consuming. But its such a unique sport. I've always wanted to reinvent it with MR/VR goggles in indoor arenas for modern age.

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2022-11-20

Twitter right now is strongly testing my theory that once a platform passes a certain threshold of users, the gravity from the network effects is so strong it will never die

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I would drive somewhere to do this... especially if it was a good workout.

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@liquidizer I tend to be a McLuhanist in viewing the invention of the printing press as the fundamental catalyst of much of modern society, followed by radio, TV etc. In this way the fundamental flaws we deal with in modern society I see as flaws of the foundational predominate medium

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@liquidizer and really, I've lost all faith in any kind of broadcast media to produce adequate u

2022-11-16

@liquidizer and really, I've lost all faith in any kind of broadcast media to produce adequate understanding at large scale, so I don't necessarily like the idea of pre-recorded video either

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2022-11-14

@CixLiv I usually say 'VR Ecosystem'

or the Social VR "Metaverse" use case

as Metaverse also got taken by literally everyone for everything... the Metaverse of IOT kitchen appliances...

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@GregMadison @MetaQuestVR If these are in unity, could turn them into a vrc world probably prett

2022-11-13

@GregMadison @MetaQuestVR If these are in unity, could turn them into a vrc world probably pretty easily. Turn them into prefabs for others to pull in and they'd probably get a lot of use in many worlds.

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@prcWrites It still needs a better option for full body tracking

2022-11-12

@prcWrites It still needs a better option for full body tracking

And me personally, I need the screen to have a higher refresh rate

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If you told me 4 years ago there'd be a VR title that'd get the majority of PC VR gamers to give

2022-11-12

If you told me 4 years ago there'd be a VR title that'd get the majority of PC VR gamers to give up shooters in favor of making clothes, dressing up, makeup, anthropomorphizing themselves, whatever. Then just sit and talk about life in VR. I would've said you're a complete idiot.

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2022-11-12

@CixLiv The rabbit hole I kept falling down is continually realizing how novel of a space VR development is that not only does it require an entirely new kind of engine, but it also requires a new kind of OS.

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...but yet here we are.

2022-11-12

...but yet here we are.

This is part of what amuses me so much about VRChat. It sitting at the top of PC VR charts was completely unexpected to me and made me re-think every fundamental assumption I had and develop an entirely new model.

2022-11-09

...is the VRChat userbase make an effort to be so damn weird that every corporation evades touching it because they don't know how to deal with it.

Though it will probably require a combination of both to prevent it from getting subsumed into hyper-monetized profit incentive

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...First way is Web3, crypto, NFT, blockchains. You get VRChat intertwined with these things --a

2022-11-09

...First way is Web3, crypto, NFT, blockchains. You get VRChat intertwined with these things --appropriately-- and --correctly-- so that certain mechanics are inherently dependent on immutable mechanics on public blockchains. Then no one can change the mechanics.

Second way...

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Eventually VRChat will get bought out by a corporation and they'll tinker with all its mechanics

2022-11-09

Eventually VRChat will get bought out by a corporation and they'll tinker with all its mechanics to gradually corral users into more and more constraints to extract maximal profit from any and everything they can.

There are two ways to try and prevent this...

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@0xstella you really think sol gmi?

2022-11-09

@0xstella you really think sol gmi?

what about all the outages?

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@0xstella Hm. No it hasn't.

2022-11-09

2022-11-04

Something that is not talked about enough with VR is it's capacity to affect your emotional state.

People already intuitively get this with music, you feel a certain way, you put on a song, it changes your emotional state.

One of the major value-adds of VR is that it offers ...

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... sleeping, but because VR is capable of pulling them out of whatever mental state and mood th

2022-11-04

... sleeping, but because VR is capable of pulling them out of whatever mental state and mood they are in into something different of their choice. Often that choice is claiming and relaxing to wind down.

But really, depending on design of the world, the experience, VR can ...

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2022-10-31

... we're still fundamentally instinctual. Expressions of some unconscious biological process. Which I don't think is bad at all. It's important to keep in mind the arrangement of personality types and predispositions that exist today evolved as such because it's what worked.

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We look back at people freaked out by new tech like color TV or video games and think "Wow they

2022-10-31

We look back at people freaked out by new tech like color TV or video games and think "Wow they were so stupid and irrational I'm not like that!"

But my theory is comparable proportions of a population are always irrationally against novelty, its instinctual to our species ...

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@philipn @gfodor That + ability to bid to change someone's username and avatar.

2022-10-31

@__philipn__ @gfodor That + ability to bid to change someone's username and avatar.

Would be the only monetization they need.

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2022-10-26

@yewnyx of course that statement is my anecdotal timeline of tech history

But the point I felt computers left the weirdo nerd / business niche and average non-tech people began to revolve their life around it was about when social and dating sites really started to pick up mid-00's

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"Virtual Localism" ... I like that notion

2022-10-26

"Virtual Localism" ... I like that notion

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Spreadsheets were the killer app for businesses.

2022-10-26

Spreadsheets were the killer app for businesses.

But the killer apps which carried computers into overtly mainstream among average consumers in their everyday life were the ones which expanded people's potential dating and social opportunities.

Same will be true for VR.

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@amaldorai @dankvr 😂Yes. Hello I am the corpo doxxed anon neet

2022-10-26

@amaldorai @dankvr 😂Yes. Hello I am the corpo doxxed anon neet

although truthfully I'm not so much the not-fit-in-otaku-neet archetype as I am the expirimental-music-art-festival-rave-underground-hippie-cyberpunk-realizing-VR-is-the-ultimate-TAZ archetype

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@yewnyx @guillefix well at least however it's carried on they've managed produce a decent conten

2022-10-25

@yewnyx @guillefix well at least however it's carried on they've managed produce a decent contender to github http://only9fans.com/

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Mentality of product development that gave us most prior technology isn't going to work with VR,

2022-10-25

Mentality of product development that gave us most prior technology isn't going to work with VR, as VR is not another product, ultimately it's a person's daily lived reality

The difference between app 'primarily in your pocket' and 'all your perceivable reality and body' is huge

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@DennyCloudhead Thats a pretty great idea. The only potential flaw I see is that lying down in a

2022-10-25

@DennyCloudhead Thats a pretty great idea. The only potential flaw I see is that lying down in a bean bag or bed is very common in social VR, if it could track that well, would be killer. But even if it couldn't, probably enough people that just want the fitness use case for it to still work.

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@DennyCloudhead ... many anecdotally reports on and also experienced myself. The dismissal of ac

2022-10-25

@DennyCloudhead ... many anecdotally reports on and also experienced myself. The dismissal of accurate/fast full body tracking I think mainly comes from those not-in-VR looking in. Once you spend a lot of time in full body tracking it becomes obvious how significant it is.

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@DennyCloudhead lighthouses being placed up higher and aimed downwards are pretty good at coveri

2022-10-25

2022-10-24

This weekend I wandered down a long rabbit hole which ended me up in the Plan9 IRC in a conversation with some fellows there.

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@mahoneymatic If it was synthetically created and it did happen to "spill" from a lab it certain

2022-10-21

@mahoneymatic If it was synthetically created and it did happen to "spill" from a lab it certainly turned out to be wildly profitable for certain parties so I am sure profit motive will ensure it happening again

or maybe I just replayed Deus Ex https://youtu.be/C8kZ3HfeqtA

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I really hate scrolling newsfeeds, why do I always feel compelled to look at them.

2022-10-21

I really hate scrolling newsfeeds, why do I always feel compelled to look at them.

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2022-10-19

looks like kind of a big deal... https://x.com/jack/status/1582457022620237824

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@JCorvinusVR This was the oldest study Ive seen on the subject

2022-10-19

@JCorvinusVR This was the oldest study Ive seen on the subject https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235689128_Drumming_in_Immersive_Virtual_Reality_The_Body_Shapes_the_Way_We_Play Also proteus effect subject

A lot of research has bumped up against it, but its a weird thing about us, logical understanding doesn't translate to actually understanding, so its just sat as a thought

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2022-10-18

@MaribarVR If you have fast enough gpu, you could get good enough of results out of unity hdrp. Even latest urp might be enough.

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@mahoneymatic I wouldn't trust CNBC, or any corporate entity with heavy dependency on USD, to pa

2022-10-18

@mahoneymatic I wouldn't trust CNBC, or any corporate entity with heavy dependency on USD, to paint a fair picture of anything crypto related, nor anything south of the US border.

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@mahoneymatic I know there's a lot of reasons for it to not seem like it, but full body tracking

2022-10-18

@mahoneymatic I know there's a lot of reasons for it to not seem like it, but full body tracking is one of the most important things for social vr to work well. Once you get used to having your whole body, you just can't go back, and it can actually cause discomfort.

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@amaldorai I see that more as critical and thorough feedback. In programming critical review of

2022-10-18

2022-10-13

2022-10-12

... As ultimately all the hardware and software will be absolutely useless if the culture which evolves in VR is just terrible to be a part of.

That culture has already started developing, it's been compounding for multiple years already ...

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...Which unfortunately makes it useless for anyone currently used to 144hz on a Valve Index.

2022-10-11

...Which unfortunately makes it useless for anyone currently used to 144hz on a Valve Index.

I'm starting wonder if this is a "Fatal Flaw" of VR that culture has formed around it to ignore. This concept was talked about here in this thread: https://x.com/warren_craddock/status/1579532951624175616 ...

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Pro defaults to 72 Hz same as Quest 1, then 90hz optional. Thats crazy to me.

2022-10-11

Pro defaults to 72 Hz same as Quest 1, then 90hz optional. Thats crazy to me.

I presume they put people in it for an hour or so and then ask them to rate discomfort.

When really, they need to test people running around in free locomotion for 8 hours...

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...On a screen highly detailed visuals of avatars go viral. Visuals that draw and preoccupy your

2022-10-11

...On a screen highly detailed visuals of avatars go viral. Visuals that draw and preoccupy your mind with all the details and leave an impressive visual memory tend to go viral on screens...

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...Not having eye tracking, requiring a standalone PC, requiring external trackers are not the f

2022-10-11

...Not having eye tracking, requiring a standalone PC, requiring external trackers are not the fatal flaw of VR. The fatal flaw of VR is most people can't wear the thing for more than a few hours without VR sickness, and even then, it has to be low intensity experiences.

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...In VR it's all about expressing just enough personality and emotion visually so a person's mi

2022-10-11

...In VR it's all about expressing just enough personality and emotion visually so a person's mind projects themselves on it and develops some emotional connection to it, but their mind does not get stuck in examining or being aware of the visual detailing itself...

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2022-10-11

... and too much visual detailing and noise can actually distract a person, pre-occupy their mind, with remembering the visual detailing and fidelity, rather than pre-occupy their mind with projecting themselves onto it to experience the emotion of being it.

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There is no informational authority anymore. It is all an open chaotic non-hierarchal sea of eve

2022-10-08

There is no informational authority anymore. It is all an open chaotic non-hierarchal sea of ever evolving and mutating memes.

Many are struggling to accept this and throwing a tantrum holding onto old paradigms trying to keep them alive.

But it's like fighting against the sea.

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One thing VRChat is demonstrating that's so important to develop an acute intuition on is the na

2022-10-07

One thing VRChat is demonstrating that's so important to develop an acute intuition on is the nature of Memes and Virality in 3D, in VR.

Most people's memetic intuitions are entirely calibrated off of 2D social media.

But it's different. Very different ...

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... It's such a weird thing because, the trajectory that I see "3D Memes" actually evolving in V

2022-10-07

... It's such a weird thing because, the trajectory that I see "3D Memes" actually evolving in VR are often entirely tangential to the concepts about headsets and "The Metaverse" that I see evolving across 2D social media, things evolve on a different set of incentives in VR ...

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... If you don't believe headsets are going to proliferate you probably have little to worry abo

2022-10-07

... If you don't believe headsets are going to proliferate you probably have little to worry about. But if they are it means those entirely invested in the 2D social media memetic paradigm will get rug-pulled by those who have been compounding there efforts in 3D, in VR.

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... I just can't get over the sense there is so much wasted energy here. 5 years ago speculation

2022-10-07

... I just can't get over the sense there is so much wasted energy here. 5 years ago speculation was Okay. But now? The ship has started sailing. What's shaping it is not concepts from 2D media. Rather whats shaping it are memes and virality currently compounding in 3D, in VR ...

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@andreeavr If you break it down, I think the simple truth is, we already have a plurality of sel

2022-10-07

@andreeavr If you break it down, I think the simple truth is, we already have a plurality of self. Just in terms of personality and behavior, that changes with context.

VR just presents the potential that visual self-representation can more overtly reflect what already is.

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VRChat isn't significant because VRChat. It's significant because it, and ChilloutVR, are litera

2022-10-05

VRChat isn't significant because VRChat. It's significant because it, and ChilloutVR, are literally the only things that have the necessary features to enable what they enable. I wish there was something better than both, but still zero competition. (NEOS needs custom shaders)

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2022-10-03

@gfodor What about direct democracy in absence of media that can form large scale collectives?

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@gfodor How large of a group are we talking about here?

2022-10-03

@gfodor How large of a group are we talking about here?

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when is 80's car design aesthetic going to come back, we've had ugly melted aerodynamic bloated

2022-10-02

when is 80's car design aesthetic going to come back, we've had ugly melted aerodynamic bloated jelly beans for far too long

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this is one reason I love the idea of a metaverse completely open to every tool, especially the

2022-10-02

this is one reason I love the idea of a metaverse completely open to every tool, especially the hard-to-use ones

current tech/social platforms incentivize getting better at useless gameplay mechanics and in-vain selfie photo culture

but what if they incentivized tech education?

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My life: Wake, work on stuff for vrchat all day, go in vrc at night to run around in new stuff I

2022-09-29

Its in this way that the photoreal AI neural rendered metaverse may be perceived as the low-brow cheap solution. The McDonalds of Metaverses.

Whereas the hand-coded shader, specifically laid out vertices, intentionally purposefully minimalistic metaverse will be the rare gem.

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@Emmathyst_ I think I'd rather take a thinner, longer, more flexible cable over wireless. Batter

2022-09-29

@Emmathyst_ I think I'd rather take a thinner, longer, more flexible cable over wireless. Battery pack would add more weight, and bulk to the headset and I'd have to deal with swapping it throughout the night. Also that will add some latency to something and require some SoC

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@amaldorai The things that go viral in VR are 3D and code, so those who are from 2D media and on

2022-09-29

@amaldorai The things that go viral in VR are 3D and code, so those who are from 2D media and only make videos, images, tweets usually have little influence on the trends of 3D worlds, 3D avatars, consequentially what people do. Their content cant go viral in the medium.

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@amaldorai Always seemed theres more overlap in 2D. Big TikTok'ers tend to have big Instagram fo

2022-09-29

@amaldorai Always seemed theres more overlap in 2D. Big TikTok'ers tend to have big Instagram following. I presume because video/image are copasetic. Also easy to jump between Apps

VR however can be a completely sealed bubble. Neither content nor its social graph easily flow to other apps

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2022-09-28

@WilBown @BartronPolygon @0xstella @prvncher Lets go to the Social VR use case. People in full body tracked avatars, able to upload anything, interact with each others avatars and the world any which way. The pre-existing data to train a GAN to do that simply won't exist because it will be created by users on the fly.

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@WilBown @BartronPolygon @0xstella @prvncher If it's a question of ML better interpolating a 3D

@JCorvinusVR Im all for interactive shader effects, its actually the only thing I personally mak

2022-09-27

@JCorvinusVR Im all for interactive shader effects, its actually the only thing I personally make... I think custom shaders in any major platform are as critical as custom avatar uploads for this reason.

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Flat shaded low poly anime avatars in flat shaded worlds will absolutely run miles in engagement

2022-09-27

Flat shaded low poly anime avatars in flat shaded worlds will absolutely run miles in engagement around a perfectly photoreal nerf with infinite AI detail if that flat shaded low poly experience has full physics simulation and everything is interactive.

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@birdmademejoin It has too much going on out of the box, I want a text editor not an IDE

2022-09-27

@birdmademejoin It has too much going on out of the box, I want a text editor not an IDE

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one of the weirdest things that seemed to set in after the age of 35 is I now heal so much slowe

2022-09-21

one of the weirdest things that seemed to set in after the age of 35 is I now heal so much slower than in my 20's that I almost feel like a zombie, its made me so paranoid about any minor injury because whatever it is, I know its going to take months to fully subside

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@mahoneymatic my most desired thing is probably the VRC groups feature because some groups mixin

2022-09-21

@mahoneymatic my most desired thing is probably the VRC groups feature because some groups mixing with other groups is just a bad idea....

you know one groups idea of "simple fun play" is another groups "desecration of all considered holy"

Really want to like my 5950x and 6950xt but it's just kind of always been funky in so many ways.

2022-09-20

Really want to like my 5950x and 6950xt but it's just kind of always been funky in so many ways. It's pickier about everything and more weird bugs. I like nvidia having competition but unless amd addresses quirkiness with OEM hard to see it as worthwhile.

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@prvncher honestly if I am going to do it I'm probably going to have some wine beforehand, a few

2022-09-20

@prvncher honestly if I am going to do it I'm probably going to have some wine beforehand, a few intense hours in it moderately intoxicated and Ill probably be adapted again

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@mahoneymatic I think it's the smooth damping on positional movement mainly.

2022-09-20

@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR Theres a lot of interesting nuance you can go through in what the med

2022-09-19

@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR Theres a lot of interesting nuance you can go through in what the medium of AR enables vs VR for virtual events. Wasn't trying to offend you, I really have found huge value in taking the time to understand the particulars of why certain VR party cultures are successful right now

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@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR thats cool, Im sure you have lots of valid views, Im also sure myself

2022-09-19

@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR thats cool, Im sure you have lots of valid views, Im also sure myself and other million+ people involved with in-VR communities have many other valid views, its why I post things to discussion forums like this, to see what others think and why

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@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR Oh no. The Quest Sucks. You need an Index or Pimax on a high-end PC t

2022-09-19

@Scobleizer @SyncRealityXR Oh no. The Quest Sucks. You need an Index or Pimax on a high-end PC that can push all the fancy shaders, then have more advanced tracking, full body maybe with facial tracking. Thats when it really turned into something magical for myself.

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@Scobleizer It is a cool room... but in terms of building environments to immerse a group of peo

2022-09-19

2022-09-14

This video was recorded by Timothy Leary in the early 90's and is not explicitly related to VR nor "The Metaverse" but I still feel like it best fills in the necessary prerequisite understandings and framings for both. https://youtu.be/nr8jqQcR8TA

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@JCorvinusVR theres something sad about so many not seeing how VRC offers more than enough alrea

2022-09-14

@JCorvinusVR theres something sad about so many not seeing how VRC offers more than enough already

that you give people the ability to make any form and then they play like kids fully entertained

its sad because it shows how effectively society conditioned the capacity to play out of people

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If it is the case that higher frequency detail in VR can induce discomfort and motion sickness f

2022-09-14

If it is the case that higher frequency detail in VR can induce discomfort and motion sickness from prolonged use, which is one of my hypothesii, then the coming wave of higher res headsets will make VR discomfort worse, not better.

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I still suspect that the "Standalone" part of VR is ultimately not as important the "Just didn't

2022-09-14

I still suspect that the "Standalone" part of VR is ultimately not as important the "Just didn't need to buy $2000 gaming PC" part and for this reason PSVR2 could appear more attractive to average consumers than any other offering.

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@BarryBlujorts Which is why trying to figure out business models in social vr space right is pro

2022-09-14

2022-09-06

@mankindforward They are in how people were using the term trustless initially. No one can alter the rules hard coded into LTC or whatever without making a whole new chain.

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@mankindforward The only rhetoric I've been a fan of is from http://web3.foundation itself but u

2022-09-06

@mankindforward The only rhetoric I've been a fan of is from http://web3.foundation itself but unfortunately the catalyzer of the term has little control in how it resultantly spread everywhere. As I see it, its an issue with any effort as open as crypto space is

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@mankindforward NFTs didn’t taint its image. A media cycle which painted jpeg sales as the only

2022-09-06

@mankindforward NFTs didn’t taint its image. A media cycle which painted jpeg sales as the only thing existing in relation to it tainted its image

Issue it makes me ponder is how to compete with media without any media budget. It will probably have to go like any open source effort goes

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2022-09-04

I don't believe there is anything unique about me in this regard. I just took the time to build a social life in VR out of pure curiosity and then by chance discovered how its better. Over this decade I believe most people will stumble upon the same myself and many in VRC have.

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I can't be the only one hesitant about "VR making it"... once major brands are trying to sell me

2022-09-04

I can't be the only one hesitant about "VR making it"... once major brands are trying to sell me avatars everywhere, mainstream news always arguing about some nonsensical VR controversy and every pop icon has some mass presence in VR is probably about the time I will hate it

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All AI art images have a sense of looking into unordered chaos to me.

2022-09-04

All AI art images have a sense of looking into unordered chaos to me.

Whereas paintings I like tend to create a sense of focus and purpose, that even if you don’t get it there is sense of clarity in the image.

Makes me wonder if AI can do that ever? Part of me doubts it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

2022-09-02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

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I’m more excited about building a new computer with the new 13 and 40 series than I am about usi

2022-09-01

I’m more excited about building a new computer with the new 13 and 40 series than I am about using it for anything.

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The effort to study physics and light to create a reality that registers to the mind as "real" c

2022-08-31

The effort to study physics and light to create a reality that registers to the mind as "real" completely misses this point and is an entirely confused effort. The only real question that matters is what enables human consciousness to communicate more with another?

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Social VR and Real Life are more similar in how they register to the mind than they are similar

2022-08-31

Social VR and Real Life are more similar in how they register to the mind than they are similar to how the Web or Social Media does

This is the odd thing with saying The Metaverse is the Web or including screen-based paradigms, as in terms of the mind VR is a different category

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2022-08-31

@amaldorai @recroom The problem is fundamentally how does someone in a completely new city where they know no one find the first person they can trust? Its as hard of a problem in Social VR as it is in real life, and the best solutions Ive seen are direct parallels to real life

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@amaldorai @recroom for sure :) I tell people rooms at the front of the list are filled with tho

2022-08-31

@amaldorai @recroom for sure :) I tell people rooms at the front of the list are filled with those who got booted from every else and couldnt get friends. Which means you start in the equivalent of a city back alley of rejects

Its really hard to solve though. I've seen a lot of things tried

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@amaldorai @recroom Auto-moderating voice in certain spaces can get people to stop saying certai

2022-08-31

@amaldorai @recroom Auto-moderating voice in certain spaces can get people to stop saying certain words, but when your in VR fully tracked with any avatar theres so many ways to be shitty, no automated solution can make a space good. Block words and there are a thousand other ways to troll.

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@amaldorai If it can be used to encode visual form in a way that can be rendered more performant

2022-08-31

@amaldorai If it can be used to encode visual form in a way that can be rendered more performantly I can see it being used

But whats already working well of "The Metaverse" is showing its an unnecessary technology for it to work. There are much bigger critical issues that need solutions

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@amaldorai I know many communities spread across social VR apps which have already found the sol

2022-08-31

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A possibility is that a VR Metaverse comes to be mainstream not because of advancements in tech,

2022-08-29

A possibility is that a VR Metaverse comes to be mainstream not because of advancements in tech, but due to constricting social and economic conditions that leave it as the better option for enjoying life

This can seem incredibly bleak, but doesn't necessarily have to be

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The proper way to do win11: https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1563388157651197954/photo/1

2022-08-27

The proper way to do win11: https://x.com/_rygo6/status/1563388157651197954/photo/1

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@zuelatak Zoom has a revenue of $3 billion

2022-08-25

@zuelatak Zoom has a revenue of $3 billion Facebook has a revenue of $85 billion

To say Meta is aiming to be the zoom of VR is saying they are aiming to be a fraction of the size and reach in the 3D paradigm compared to what they are in the 2D paradigm.

I just don't believe it.

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@zuelatak So, the company that previously built/maintained the largest consumer social platforms

2022-08-25

@zuelatak So, the company that previously built/maintained the largest consumer social platforms in 2D Web/Mobile is going to become the equivalent of a second-rate virtual meeting provider in 3D/VR?

Damn I'd divest fast if that were true.

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@zuelatak Pretty sure Meta wants to be the mass general platform? Not a corporate platform

2022-08-25

@zuelatak Pretty sure Meta wants to be the mass general platform? Not a corporate platform

Being FB/Twtr/Snap/Discord of Social VR is bigger than being the Slack/Atlassian

So more pertinent subject isn't how you ban humans from having sexuality but how do you incorporate the fact they do

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@zuelatak Corporate platform for what? For employees to work inside of? Or to get a general user

2022-08-25

@zuelatak Corporate platform for what? For employees to work inside of? Or to get a general userbase that corporations will have interest in through ads / sponsored content?

If it's the latter VRC already has greater corporate adoption and sponsorship due to vket https://virtual-market.prowly.com/199726-vket-announces-the-corporate-exhibitors-of-vket-2022-summer

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When framed like this it's not a matter of making something for the "Normal" people and awaiting

2022-08-25

When framed like this it's not a matter of making something for the "Normal" people and awaiting their arrival.

Rather it's more so creating an environment which will perpetuate repressive and judgmental cultural modalities to condition individual idiosyncrasy out of people.

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@MarkNicoll6 Thats true. I was thinking more in terms of modernized cities. I do prefer to think

2022-08-25

@MarkNicoll6 Thats true. I was thinking more in terms of modernized cities. I do prefer to think in global terms

But Social VR I see as a general use. Like an evolution of the telephone or twitter. So I personally dont expect it to stay constrained to gaming crowd, already I see it spreading

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@MarkNicoll6 It's kind of a VRC inside joke for people to self-denigrate the weirdness some get

2022-08-25

@MarkNicoll6 It's kind of a VRC inside joke for people to self-denigrate the weirdness some get into

But I don't think any rational nor good person would take that seriously

It is filled with just average people. Not that different from what you'd encounter walking around any city street

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2022-08-24

@UnknownSquids Most in VRC don't use Ready Player Me. An open market already shows no preference to RPM

Difference between VRC and RPM isn't fully custom vs pre-made. It's fully open vs explicitly only pre-canned

In the open system a wide array of easier to use options evolve out of it

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@UnknownSquids A booth where you can try everything on in VR before buying has been one of my si

2022-08-24

@UnknownSquids A booth where you can try everything on in VR before buying has been one of my side-efforts for a while. But key I see is, it's completely open. Because you need that open creative evolution intertwined with community to produce the styles and trends people actually want.

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@amaldorai They can be. But consider if some kind of social platform only allowed you to use a b

2022-08-24

@amaldorai They can be. But consider if some kind of social platform only allowed you to use a bitmoji to represent yourself. It could maybe be fine for a kids-oriented platform if there was plenty else to do, but as a general social platform for the general populace? I can't see that.

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2022-08-23

The only way to develop any intuition on this is to do it and spend hundreds of hours observing the results and iterating on it. The only creators who have done this are mainly the ones in VRC community.

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Ready Player Me is at best a prototyping library

2022-08-23

Ready Player Me is at best a prototyping library

Believing pre-canned sets of avatars parts are the future of the metaverse is like believing pre-canned sets of selfie photos are the future of social media

Avatars are not a means to an end they are the medium of communication

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2022-08-22

@benz145 Agree generally

Much criticism has to do with people not having a sense of how things are different in VR vs a screen

That avatar animated to scale in VR would be decent and the level of detail is ideal for novice VR

Could take a better promo shot, but it is representative

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A low-poly, blurry, horrendously designed avatar worn by someone in full body tracking feels mor

2022-08-22

A low-poly, blurry, horrendously designed avatar worn by someone in full body tracking feels more "alive" than a perfectly designed realistic avatar not worn by a real person.

The way something is animated and interacts with you affects you far more than how it statically looks.

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In determining how VR should look, I believe the better thing to analyze is how your mind rememb

2022-08-21

In determining how VR should look, I believe the better thing to analyze is how your mind remembered how something looked, rather than the physics of camera optics

It's no longer about replicating a camera optic, it's about replicating the mind's direct perception of reality

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2022-08-18

@MarkNicoll6 For the specific area where the metaverse overlaps with 3D and VR, I'm not expecting either of those to have much involvement.

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ATW needs to happen on the headset at a rate of at least 180hz. Then interpolate alower framerat

2022-08-18

ATW needs to happen on the headset at a rate of at least 180hz. Then interpolate alower framerate sent to it over DisplayPort.

My hunch has been 180 hz is the sweet spot where most people will have discomfort in a VR headset adequately mitigated.

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I don't know if I like the idea of a platform minting their own token to be used for transaction

2022-08-15

I don't know if I like the idea of a platform minting their own token to be used for transactions and currency in game. Seems malevolent to disconnect your economy from larger economy. Platform specific tokens should probably function more like stock.

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Will Solana turn out Okay?

2022-08-14

Will Solana turn out Okay?

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The interoperability layer of the metaverse is webassembly + webgl (maybe webgpu). All the funda

2022-08-11

The interoperability layer of the metaverse is webassembly + webgl (maybe webgpu). All the fundamental interoperability standards are already done. There’s no point in baking file formats into the metaverse browser when a loader can just be a small chunk of streamed wasm.

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Unless people proactively choose to pay for services, everything will get sucked into ad based m

2022-08-10

2022-08-03

@cnlohr https://youtu.be/NK5-W_bvzBU

2022-07-29

The real engine and technical foundation of the metaverse will not be like existing ones. Unity, UE, Godot etc. It will be more like a web browser in its technical foundation. This has been a hacking project of mine for > a year, but I'm sure many are hacking at it too.

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How will people spending hours with virtual cat ears, and developing phantom limb with them, aff

2022-07-29

How will people spending hours with virtual cat ears, and developing phantom limb with them, affect their sensory perception in the real world?

How could the mass library of mythical cultural archetypes affect unconscious if adapted to avatars?

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Being able to buy things directly in VRC could really mess it up in so many ways

2022-07-28

Being able to buy things directly in VRC could really mess it up in so many ways

Realizing the run about so many have to do with QR codes to http://booth.pm or patreon tie-ins actually separates the capitalism one degree from it keeping it from feeling like a mall

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As soon as you can put an actual buy button in VRC you are going to get buy buttons everywhere,

2022-07-28

As soon as you can put an actual buy button in VRC you are going to get buy buttons everywhere, on everything

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2022-07-27

I'd rather VRC run on a crypto like Matic or LTC rather than some arbitrary currency they invent and fully control that requires explicit interop with VISA or traditional bank to use for anything outside VRC. Like robux.

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@birdmademejoin I'm actually indifferent on moving content itself to web3 infrastructure

2022-07-27

@birdmademejoin I'm actually indifferent on moving content itself to web3 infrastructure

But transactions and my wallet, absolutely should be web3

Things like LTC or Matic are already plenty cheap enough. Cheaper than credit cards.

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@prvncher @wongisrite Its pretty standard in SV startup culture

2022-07-26

@prvncher @wongisrite Its pretty standard in SV startup culture

Really all I see happening with all the controversy around Web3 is the SV startup culture spilled onto the web globally for everyone to see the nature of

99% SV tech startups fail, majority is just nonsense, always been like that

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One thing I did at a prior job was block mods from a unity app. Which made me acutely aware of j

2022-07-26

One thing I did at a prior job was block mods from a unity app. Which made me acutely aware of just how offensive melonloader is to any good software design sense

This is why I never touched it in VRC for anything as I know in long term its a waste of time for anything solid

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If VRC can keep mods out of the client entirely. Which is possible, maybe not with EAC by itself

2022-07-26

If VRC can keep mods out of the client entirely. Which is possible, maybe not with EAC by itself, but is possible. That opens the door for other great things. Like you could make it so avatars and worlds are so hard to rip, it'd be easier to just re-do it from scratch.

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2022-07-26

@BarryBlujorts What were the most important mods?

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@BarryBlujorts The major really easy to exploit vulnerability for my avacrypt scheme was that yo

2022-07-26

@BarryBlujorts The major really easy to exploit vulnerability for my avacrypt scheme was that you could read others 3.0 parameters with a mod https://github.com/rygo6/GTAvaCrypt

If mods no longer work it justifies me putting a lot more time on this as I feel I can make it quite secure

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@BarryBlujorts It pushes the next major vulnerability down to the GPU level and would requires s

2022-07-26

@BarryBlujorts It pushes the next major vulnerability down to the GPU level and would requires someone to start using RenderDoc, but even at that level its still quite a pain to recover usable assets, and I have some prototypes that would make it even more difficult

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@BarryBlujorts If they make good decisions with monetization, it can be hugely positive. It coul

2022-07-26

@BarryBlujorts If they make good decisions with monetization, it can be hugely positive. It could enable a lot more creators to make some kind of income off VRC.

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@BarryBlujorts I would be willing to bet the reason they pre-emptively pushed this before gettin

2022-07-26

@BarryBlujorts I would be willing to bet the reason they pre-emptively pushed this before getting in more client-side features from mods or a client-side modding API is due to monetization.

Gatekeeping paid content doesn't work well in a moddable client.

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@TheVirtunaut I believe focusing on acts of creation, the pro's, is the way to affect things as

2022-07-25

@TheVirtunaut I believe focusing on acts of creation, the pro's, is the way to affect things as necessary, rather than being anti something.

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I wouldnt have used EAC and I wouldnt have done so before some other client-side mod API was in

2022-07-25

I wouldnt have used EAC and I wouldnt have done so before some other client-side mod API was in place

But melonloader isnt a viable long-term solution. At some point itd have to go

Only thing that has stats on all pros/cons associated is VRC analytics, I assume they looked

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@CaptainNovaVT @VRChat If VRC effectively prevents mods, then this package will be effective at

2022-07-25

@CaptainNovaVT @VRChat If VRC effectively prevents mods, then this package will be effective at preventing ripping: https://github.com/rygo6/GTAvaCrypt

As the one major vulnerability of that could be exploited if you're in a public lobby with a ripper that has a certain mod.

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@BarryBlujorts What are the most important mods that you could no longer use?

2022-07-25

@BarryBlujorts What are the most important mods that you could no longer use?

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@TheVirtunaut No, I'm for specific things.

2022-07-24

@TheVirtunaut No, I'm for specific things.

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@SylvioD @markpinc Societal future visions were derived from the nature of the predominate mediu

2022-07-24

2022-07-11

@hrafntho I see a lot of talk about VR needing to get somewhere or be "saved". Am I really an odd one out for thinking VR is great in its current state?

Index+FBT+PC+VRC has honestly been the most fun I have ever had with a computer ever. My biggest worry is its current state is the peak

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@TimeTravlrBowie ... or your vibe attracts your tribe?

2022-07-10

@TimeTravlrBowie ... or your vibe attracts your tribe?

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The rate at which you go from meeting someone to having very candid, revealing, deep, introspect

2022-07-10

The rate at which you go from meeting someone to having very candid, revealing, deep, introspective interaction with someone in VRC is so many folds greater than real life, that it makes real life socializing feel so hollow, surface level and fake.

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@Sean_McBeth Until you find some friend group and community to join on, so you never have to go

2022-07-10

@Sean_McBeth Until you find some friend group and community to join on, so you never have to go in public lobbies, you're stuck in the public lobbies with everyone else who, for some reason, couldn't find a friend group or were rejected from all of them. Public lobbies tend be the worst.

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It is the grand irony of it. That we need avatars to be real.

2022-07-10

It is the grand irony of it. That we need avatars to be real.

But all the greatest truths are paradoxes.

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What makes someone use VR regularly is finding some friend group in VR they enjoy interacting wi

2022-07-09

What makes someone use VR regularly is finding some friend group in VR they enjoy interacting with regularly.

The same thing that makes people open their phone regularly.

Hardware is adequate, social design is what needs to be solved.

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@itsKimberlyWTF @Scobleizer There are large sections of VRC that are explicitly PG-13. It just d

2022-07-09

@itsKimberlyWTF @Scobleizer There are large sections of VRC that are explicitly PG-13. It just depends on which community you end up in.

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My biggest hope for "The Metaverse" is that it ends the 3D game consumer/developer split. That i

2022-07-07

My biggest hope for "The Metaverse" is that it ends the 3D game consumer/developer split. That it creates a platform where everyone is creating something. 3D art, programming, acting, dancing, whatever. Then creating and sharing those creations be the main gameplay.

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@jarredsumner Looks great. But does it have the sandboxing capabilities that Deno has? That was

2022-07-06

@jarredsumner Looks great. But does it have the sandboxing capabilities that Deno has? That was one of the most important features for me the deno added.

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When it comes to VR, VRC is the current major social paradigm. More specifically, VRC on PC is.

2022-07-05

When it comes to VR, VRC is the current major social paradigm. More specifically, VRC on PC is.

Quest 2 being standalone I believe did help its success. But would it be as successful if it could not plug into a PC and participate in PC VRC? I doubt it. Half of SteamVR is Quest 2

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2022-07-02

It used to be:

"Rage Against the Machine"

But today this is probably a better strategy:

"Incomprehensible to the Machine"

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I find that a custom avatar someone made can be far more revealing of that person than a photo o

2022-07-02

I find that a custom avatar someone made can be far more revealing of that person than a photo of them

In the same way seeing someone perform a song or looking through their sketchbook/journal can be more revealing than a photo

You're see something from the inside of their mind

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The beauty of VRC is it supports any type of expression. Talking can obviously create connection

2022-06-30

The beauty of VRC is it supports any type of expression. Talking can obviously create connection. But also people who dance, or mime, or design clothes, worlds, play music, just sit quietly, or whatever. All of those expressions can mean something in VRC and create connection.

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Since it is not asynchronous, anyone doing any of these things is actually there, it means all t

2022-06-30

Since it is not asynchronous, anyone doing any of these things is actually there, it means all the media is centered around actually interacting with another person, not just passively consuming and having something broadcast on you.

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NOCK is probably the best competitive VR game I've seen. I hope it becomes popular.

2022-06-30

NOCK is probably the best competitive VR game I've seen. I hope it becomes popular.

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For some reason NOCK seems to not be filled with screaming kids. Really curious as to why.

2022-06-30

For some reason NOCK seems to not be filled with screaming kids. Really curious as to why.

Is it just because it only has like 40 CCU right now?

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@SushiFerretVR Ya, for sure

2022-06-28

@SushiFerretVR Ya, for sure

Its something I think about a lot. The pernicious issue of public spaces and how to make them "Good"

I hear talk of moderation, AI analyzation of voice etc

But I've come to think VRCs underground networks built on actual rapport and social vouching is the best way

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@benz145 @prvncher @RtoVR @BladeAndSorcery @warpfrog Tracking review count does provide an inter

2022-06-28

@benz145 @prvncher @RtoVR @BladeAndSorcery @warpfrog Tracking review count does provide an interesting data point, but it would be incorrect to say it lets you determine what is currently the most popular

Maybe B&S will surpass BeatSaber in another month because its averaging whole months? Would be good to track that page too

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@amaldorai Honestly for this all my hope has turned to Social VR

2022-06-28

@amaldorai Honestly for this all my hope has turned to Social VR

Some assume you need to get the right info in front of someone to change them. But what really creates understanding is people spending lots of time talking in person

Only way to scale in-person dialogue is VR

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So much money, research and brain power going into making it so VR can be indiscernible from phy

2022-06-27

So much money, research and brain power going into making it so VR can be indiscernible from physical reality. But really they're just going to discover majority of people who use the stuff the most just want to be anime people, game characters and furries in stylized worlds.

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2022-06-10

Something which surprised me about VRC is how much people are willing to pay for avatars

A good avatar base that still needs work and customization, people have zero issue paying $50 for

An avatar highly customized to what they want, people have zero issue paying hundreds for

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@JCorvinusVR @benz145 Oh yes definitely. But explaining that to a generalized group that your mi

2022-06-10

@JCorvinusVR @benz145 Oh yes definitely. But explaining that to a generalized group that your mind merges with your "cartoon triangle body" is really hard to explain. Im pretty sure most think your exhibiting some psychological disorder rather than having to discovered a generalized merit of VR.

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@birdmademejoin @JCorvinusVR @benz145 Ya I've seen many have this experience. You take them avat

2022-06-10

@birdmademejoin @JCorvinusVR @benz145 Ya I've seen many have this experience. You take them avatar hunting and then they put something on, and then just something clicks, and they're like "woah"

The funny thing is, it's completely unconscious and it can be rather amusing what ends producing that for someone

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@benz145 The bigger issue to produce retention to VR I think is social apps that have less tende

2022-06-10

@benz145 The bigger issue to produce retention to VR I think is social apps that have less tendency to scare someone away permanently because the absolutely horrendous public lobbies, then mechanics which enable people to better find friends in it.

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2022-06-10

@0xstella Definitely. I know many who have already paid over a thousand for a single avatar

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The pernicious widespread assumption about this is that a screen and VR headset are interchangea

2022-06-09

The pernicious widespread assumption about this is that a screen and VR headset are interchangeable display devices. They aren't.

Things entirely made and grown out of screen-based mentalities and experiences will not compete in VR with things made and grown entirely out of VR.

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Non-VR "Metaverses" will of course get more users initially.

2022-06-09

Non-VR "Metaverses" will of course get more users initially.

But the VR users in the VR metaverse will define the culture and modalities that everyone will eventually flow into. They already are. https://x.com/nealstephenson/status/1534596817643446272

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2022-06-06

Through social media I know some people Id maybe start a business with after some interviews

Through social VR I know many who Id sign contracts with right now to start a business even though we've never met IRL

Thats one big difference, can develop real rapport only through VR

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Something else about this dynamic

2022-06-06

Something else about this dynamic

In the paradigm of FB, Snapchat, Instagram, a mobile smartphone with a good camera was the best device for that social medium, so they won

But PC VR is the best device for the VR social medium. Mobile headsets may always struggle behind PC VR

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@Scobleizer I've posted lots of articles about VR

2022-06-06

@Scobleizer I've posted lots of articles about VR https://www.linkedin.com/in/rygo6/details/featured/

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If iPhones didnt support texting, FB, Snapchat, Twitter etc they would not be popular

2022-06-06

If iPhones didnt support texting, FB, Snapchat, Twitter etc they would not be popular

Mainstream popularity of such devices now depend on how well the device enables you to participate in the social fabric innate to the medium of the device

🍎VR can fail if it gets social wrong

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I am a big Apple fan. You cant deny how far tight integration of hardware and OS development let

2022-06-06

I am a big Apple fan. You cant deny how far tight integration of hardware and OS development let them push things

But Apple mentality extended to overarching dictation of virtual selves and realities people spend a majority of their day in will be a human rights violation

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@Daisy_HoaPham @UmbalaMetaverse Honestly, I am not really sold on avatars getting any pervasive

2022-06-06

@Daisy_HoaPham @UmbalaMetaverse Honestly, I am not really sold on avatars getting any pervasive benefit from NFTs other than the NFT just being a simple sales receipt for the sale transaction. For this reason: https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1526605735773106176

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@0xstella This has kind of been my biggest thing for 2 years now...

2022-06-06

In "The Metaverse", in social VR:

2022-06-01

In "The Metaverse", in social VR: Some people will have worlds Some people will go to VR concerts Some people will play games

But everyone will have an avatar Everyone will always want new things for their avatar

This is why I think avatars will be the biggest industry in VR

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In a field where millions of brilliant minds exist, if you can only get 26 to sign something, it

2022-06-01

In a field where millions of brilliant minds exist, if you can only get 26 to sign something, it is probably not because those are the most intelligent 26 minds. https://x.com/leereiners/status/1531976033397768193

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Honestly, I've gotten so much better at writing through having to reword things to fit them into

2022-06-01

Honestly, I've gotten so much better at writing through having to reword things to fit them into a tweet.

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2022-05-31

i++ or ++i ?

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Big Joe Fuf XXL foam filled bean bag is such a superior sleeping device than a mattress

2022-05-31

Big Joe Fuf XXL foam filled bean bag is such a superior sleeping device than a mattress

makes me think people got so fixated on the mattress and bed frame that the prospect of exploring other sleeping apparatuses just became unfathomable but probably still a lot to explore there

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Thus far in tech design you wanted to find something generalized that could fit into as many peo

2022-05-30

Thus far in tech design you wanted to find something generalized that could fit into as many peoples lives as possible

But when we come to social VR/metaverse we're literally trying to digitize people themselves. Their lives, body, identity

Its innately far more idiosyncratic

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This is a good web3 project which I think represents a proper direction for web3 and does someth

2022-05-30

This is a good web3 project which I think represents a proper direction for web3 and does something you couldn't do with fiat https://tiplink.io/ https://solana.com/riptide/voting/tip-link

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The type of culture that forms as an affect of text, recorded and asynchronous media is not capa

2022-05-30

The type of culture that forms as an affect of text, recorded and asynchronous media is not capable of leading us where we need to go

For past hundreds of years this wasn't terrible because societies were small enough that in-person interaction informed the nature of the culture

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2022-05-29

@amaldorai I think they will too, but what I notice from my experience and what seems to be most popular in UGC platforms is there is a tendency towards simpler. Very simple. I think it's because in VR, during prolonged use it's less taxing on the eyes.

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2022-05-28

The profound thing to me about vrc is not that it connects people, but that it connects people who never would in any other context. I don't mean it closes geographical distances. Rather, by being avatars all the layers of preconceived judgement based on physical form don't exist

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Its weird how many I see assuming hyperrealism will be desirable in VR without ever trying it

2022-05-28

Its weird how many I see assuming hyperrealism will be desirable in VR without ever trying it

Load a hyperrealistic environment, sit in it for 8 hours in VR

Load a painterly ghibli like environment, sit in that for 8 hours in VR

See which one you desire to come back to more

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In this scenario where physicality is unnecessary for value. It opens the door that someone coul

2022-05-27

In this scenario where physicality is unnecessary for value. It opens the door that someone could fully disconnect from a sense of physicality and fully attune their brain to a perfectly designed virtual dimension for solving abstract logic and design problems.

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2022-05-26

Its remarkable how popular vrchat is for how bad it is

It shows how important the things are which it got right

get those things right and decade old graphics? running at 20 fps? terrible hard to use UI? bugs requiring a restart every hour? ... doesn't matter

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So many issues relating to so many things and really the most universal solution I can think of

2022-05-18

So many issues relating to so many things and really the most universal solution I can think of is everyone needs to start having more conversations with an increasingly wider spectrum of people. We tend to round each other out. Social VR is the only thing I see that can do that.

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2022-05-10

@BarryBlujorts It's probably approaching a few million now.

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With Web3, currently no top corp could profit off of it, so a media blitz made people hate it.

2022-05-09

With Web3, currently no top corp could profit off of it, so a media blitz made people hate it.

Wont be long till one at the top finds a way to profit. Then there will be a media blitz to make people Okay with it.

Most don't care. They are just an affect of mass media. https://x.com/Fwiz/status/1523676688000831488

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The most important experience to have in VR to really understand it well and where it's going, i

2022-05-09

The most important experience to have in VR to really understand it well and where it's going, is to develop really good friendships with multiple people. Get a sense of what it's like to find friends, really get to know someone and maintain a relationship entirely through VR.

2022-05-09

@amaldorai Perhaps. Thing is if people are in a social setting and each person is seeing/hearing different things, its disruptive to the social experience, people are out of sync. So, it might have a place somewhere, but I'd expect it to always be awkward for typical social interaction.

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@0xstella That name looked semi-familiar, so I searched, and I had already blocked this guy.

2022-05-09

@0xstella That name looked semi-familiar, so I searched, and I had already blocked this guy.

Usually I block people who seem incapable of rational nuanced dialogue on twitter and appear completely unproductive in debate, but don't really remember. What was his whole gig?

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This page from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud explains one reason why I don't think reali

2022-05-08

This page from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud explains one reason why I don't think realism in VR avatars will ever work as well as stylized and cartoony. VR avatars are more about getting a person's mind to project themselves onto the form than it is about aesthetics https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1523449506263576576/photo/1

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This guy's styling for avatars -> @ocuuda

2022-05-08

This guy's styling for avatars -> @ocuuda

https://trello.com/b/mYoVHgZo/ocuudas-3d-commissions

Really top notch. Not just the visual aesthetic, but the movement too. I can see something like that long being a predominate style in the metaverse and far more popular than hyperrealism.

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Now that the crypto/NFT freneticism died down my hot take:

2022-05-08

Now that the crypto/NFT freneticism died down my hot take:

People's extreme negative reaction is maybe 10% because of real issue deserving such reaction

then 90% because of propaganda seeded by VISA and others which are threatened by crypto

it was mostly a corporate hit job

2022-05-05

Given the trajectory of history, if you could buy stock in weird, it'd be an obviously good investment

Few things have eroded more and gone through more evolution in the past few decades than our societal concept of "Normal"

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avatars with realistic facial/eye proportions will struggle in VR social dynamic because larger/

2022-05-05

avatars with realistic facial/eye proportions will struggle in VR social dynamic because larger/exaggerated eyes enable greater expressability/communication

sheer utility of communication will lead people to tweak facial proportions

and eventually realize the art of cartooning

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@prvncher @dcseifert Zealios zilents switches are what I settled on

2022-05-03

@prvncher @dcseifert Zealios zilents switches are what I settled on

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Spending time in social VR made me more aware of how weird Twitter is

2022-04-29

Spending time in social VR made me more aware of how weird Twitter is

If you imagine Twitter social dynamic spatially it is basically a mass of people shouting out in an empty void trying to get attention

People were meant to have dialogues, not shout louder at nothing

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Trying Hand Physics Lab with the new hand tracking I realized your hand being affected by physic

2022-04-28

Trying Hand Physics Lab with the new hand tracking I realized your hand being affected by physics is a terrible idea. If you develop any degree of phantom sense, then having your fingers bend backwards when pushing buttons or offset from your real hand is uncomfortable.

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2022-04-26

wondering how I can pre-emptively prevent VR-developer-pattern baldness or if I should just embrace the inverse-mohawk

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2022-04-24

Physics isn't really a good feature of reality. I'd definitely prefer no physics in my reality.

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In VR culture, not VRC, but many VR pioneers and philosophers since the 80s, there is a semi-spo

2022-04-20

Pair of "Eye/Head Phones". Will be VR HMD+headphones that can pair with smartphone or compute box

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Communication mediums are what its always been about and always will be about

2022-04-12

Communication mediums are what its always been about and always will be about

Just ask "Will this better enable people to communicate?"

Thats thing about metaverse graphics. Most things can be communicated with rather simple graphics and typically simpler symbolism is clearer

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AR sounds more interesting if you live in a physical location that is interesting

2022-04-12

AR sounds more interesting if you live in a physical location that is interesting

However, most people don't live in such a location

Spending more money on a device so it can blend virtual elements with a small beige room in the middle of nowhere is not going to be desirable

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After getting used to hanging out in Social VR where you can spawn anything, draw in the air and

2022-04-11

After getting used to hanging out in Social VR where you can spawn anything, draw in the air and change your entire body on the fly in order to communicate. Someone now just standing in real life making mouth noises and moving their hands around to communicate seems so weird.

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@JCorvinusVR Sadly, I worry the most powerful will undergo a form of neurosis due to that and di

2022-04-10

@JCorvinusVR Sadly, I worry the most powerful will undergo a form of neurosis due to that and direly try to become tyrannical to create a sense of control. Then most will follow along in the effort, until it becomes so malevolent it just implodes on itself, but only after much damage.

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2022-04-09

In most cases one's physical presence is a greater obstruction to social connection that it is an aid

Think of how many people you've evaded, or evaded you, or made stifling over-assumptions, based purely of first impression of physical presence

VR enables a mind to meet a mind

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For 10 years my weekend life was music/art events and street dancing. Which covid severely disru

2022-04-09

For 10 years my weekend life was music/art events and street dancing. Which covid severely disrupted and led me into VRC

VRChat basically commodifies communism

2022-03-25

Can EyePhones become as ubiquitous as HeadPhones?

Giving a sense over to a digital medium is always weird to society at first, but if it carries enough uses eventually it finds its way into mainstream.

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@JCorvinusVR @gfodor Ya this what I tend to think too. The concept of the 'uncanny valley' is no

2022-03-22

@JCorvinusVR @gfodor Ya this what I tend to think too. The concept of the 'uncanny valley' is not purely about visuals in the context of VR. That actually the more real something gets, while knowing it doesn't actually exist, the creepier it gets, and the uncanny valley can't be escaped in VR.

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@cnlohr Only new lang I've seen that intrigues me is Zig

2022-03-21

@cnlohr Only new lang I've seen that intrigues me is Zig

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If its a choice between physically walking or flying without any physical work, most will choose

2022-03-20

If its a choice between physically walking or flying without any physical work, most will choose the latter

This is why I tend to think AR content will always be second to VR content

Don't underestimate a person's tendency to be lazy. Its hard to compete with lounging on a sofa

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@maxim_xyz @ohhshiny @Herb_Castillo Glad to see thoughts like this. I've had a similar view myse

2022-03-16

@maxim_xyz @ohhshiny @Herb_Castillo Glad to see thoughts like this. I've had a similar view myself: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/metaverse-particular-technical-function-rather-its-culture-goodrich/

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@0xstella @JonVirtual @JCorvinusVR @Damo9G When you are a child, you want to be a teenager.

2022-03-16

@0xstella @JonVirtual @JCorvinusVR @Damo9G When you are a child, you want to be a teenager.

When you are a teenager, you want to be an adult.

When you are an adult, you want to be a cat.

When you get VR, you get to the be a cat.

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Kind of crazy to think culture so effectively demonized drugs that people are more willing to ha

2022-03-15

Kind of crazy to think culture so effectively demonized drugs that people are more willing to have a hole drilled in their head and electrodes stuck in their brain to experience altered states of consciousness than they are to eat a plant that's been used for thousands of years.

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Adamant to not let WA state lifting mask mandates let my now very stylish collection of post-apo

2022-03-15

Adamant to not let WA state lifting mask mandates let my now very stylish collection of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk-esque face masks go to waste.

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@_LucasRizzotto The way people connect and interact with each other, and the way they look, carr

2022-03-14

@_LucasRizzotto The way people connect and interact with each other, and the way they look, carries an intrinsic relationship

But I do think FB, MS etc everything getting attention about avatars is largely missing whats important

VRC avatar dynamics represents thought in the right direction

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The original CEO of Altspace played a big role in leading FB Horizons

2022-03-13

The original CEO of Altspace played a big role in leading FB Horizons

I feel like he led Horizons to repeat many of the same mistakes Altspace made because he didn't stay around Altspace in its later days to realize why they were mistakes

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The fervor and vibe I get from VRC communities reminds me very much of Quake/HL1 modding days, o

2022-03-13

The fervor and vibe I get from VRC communities reminds me very much of Quake/HL1 modding days, or early days of BBs or IRC, or the start of myspace, or the start of youtube, start of the web itself

It's the start of a new paradigm that will grow into a cultural phenomenon

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2022-03-09

@TheVirtunaut @inputmag I know some of them, LPD uses my avacrypt system for their avatars

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new article

2022-03-09

new article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-vr-addictive-ryan-goodrich/?trackingId=68BMUrPXQBGYwJ2oEaXMsw%3D%3D

2022-03-07

Do you find having your full body tracked in VR with an avatar that matches your body/self helps to mitigate discomfort in VR?

Either helps to mitigate nausea or headaches. Or it just mitigates a sense of something being "off" or wrong/disconcerting and less enjoyable?

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2022-03-03

People tend to view physical social spaces as more valuable/pertinent than a virtual metaverse social space

Thing is, you'll meet many more people and maintain many more contacts/relationships virtually

This will increasingly make physical spaces seem secondary as time goes on

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Probably my single most repeatedly googled image over the years https://khalilstemmler.com/files

2022-03-02

Probably my single most repeatedly googled image over the years https://khalilstemmler.com/files/resources/umlcheatsheet.jpg

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When it comes to the subject of modern politics, there is only one thing I always recommend peop

2022-03-01

When it comes to the subject of modern politics, there is only one thing I always recommend people watch. HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw

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As VR grows, I expect it to be highly disruptive to the automotive industry.

2022-03-01

As VR grows, I expect it to be highly disruptive to the automotive industry.

Most cases where someone currently transports their entire body, they don't really need to, they only need to transport their consciousness/presence.

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Zenith has already fallen off the top 15 list for popularity https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status

2022-02-28

Zenith has already fallen off the top 15 list for popularity https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1498205617202216964/photo/1

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@WolfNilo magfest had a 'VRChat Portal' setup where VRChat streamed to a screen in the festival,

2022-02-28

@WolfNilo magfest had a 'VRChat Portal' setup where VRChat streamed to a screen in the festival, then a camera in the festival streamed to a screen in vrchat and people could interact back and forth

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What some miss about VR is that people are more interesting than games

2022-02-28

What some miss about VR is that people are more interesting than games

Thus far games haven't contended with this as other people weren't captured well

But in VR with all the latest tracking, it captures other people well enough that people become more interesting than gameplay

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The problem with our times is everything has reached a point of complexity and mass scale that t

2022-02-28

The problem with our times is everything has reached a point of complexity and mass scale that the degree of overarching perspective we have traditionally been used to now blurs out so much detail it is incapable of producing meaningful insight.

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Problem with Rust and type systems in general that I see is they take away discretion of 'correc

2022-02-28

Problem with Rust and type systems in general that I see is they take away discretion of 'correct' on the exact problem the programmer is currently working on and constrains it to a conception of 'correct' conceived of years prior by whoever made the type system.

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I've killed so many virtual monsters and virtual people over the years that I've pretty much los

2022-02-28

I've killed so many virtual monsters and virtual people over the years that I've pretty much lost all interest in games that have shooting and fighting as a primary mechanic.

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I think we're at the point with graphics where the next marginal iteration of realism just isn't

2022-02-28

I think we're at the point with graphics where the next marginal iteration of realism just isn't a meaningful improvement of experience.

Also, who is to say a DSLR camera represents the peak capacity of human perception?

It will probably start going a new direction.

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and its just not possible for someone, no matter how smart, to conceive of every problem and sce

2022-02-28

and its just not possible for someone, no matter how smart, to conceive of every problem and scenario that will be encountered in a language. So at some point a type system will inevitably force you to do really whacky things that are 'incorrect' by anyone with good sense

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2022-02-25

Is there really much difference between being completely fixated and absorbed into a screen attached to a wall compared to a screen strapped to your face?

I dont think so

Really the screen strapped to your face can be far healthier when its used for interacting with real people

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https://medium.com/codex/what-are-the-greenest-programming-languages-e738774b1957 https://x.com/

2022-02-25

https://medium.com/codex/what-are-the-greenest-programming-languages-e738774b1957 https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1497083387873415171/photo/1

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C Proverbs:

2022-02-25

C Proverbs: Trust the programmer Dont prevent programmer from doing what needs to be done Keep language small and simple Provide only one way to do an operation http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf

Rust Proverbs: Dont trust programmer Be preventative to programmer Complicate much as possible

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@0xstella I have no idea. Different library used? Or maybe something in the TS compiler is that

2022-02-25

@0xstella I have no idea. Different library used? Or maybe something in the TS compiler is that bad?

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@z15design The price which determines mainstream or niche is dependent on the value that price p

2022-02-24

@z15design The price which determines mainstream or niche is dependent on the value that price provides to someone's life.

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@z15design I think what I am trying say is once VR gets good enough at everything it could be go

2022-02-24

@z15design I think what I am trying say is once VR gets good enough at everything it could be good for and grows beyond gaming, it won't be an impulse vanity purchase. It will be seen as a critical device, probably one of the most critical.

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@LeChateauPicard @catapultcap The Index was the first headset I could wear all day without eyest

2022-02-24

@LeChateauPicard @catapultcap The Index was the first headset I could wear all day without eyestrain or discomfort. But it also fits my face well, some still have issue with it

Improving ergonomics and shrinking devices I see as one of the major prerequisites still

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In less than a few decades everyone will be spending a significant part of everyday life in VR f

2022-02-24

In less than a few decades everyone will be spending a significant part of everyday life in VR for survival

Just the same as we do with computers and web right now

Right now is the time to be on guard with how VR is being shaped

Another 5 years may be too late to change course

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I'd expect in the Metaverse a single artist could generate as much money as an entire AAA game j

2022-02-24

I'd expect in the Metaverse a single artist could generate as much money as an entire AAA game just from one avatar or from one hangout world going viral.

It has the potential to move 3D art into the same kind of paradigm and business model as videos or music on YouTube.

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@2annihilation Oh I dropped more than grand. I have all of the headsets.

2022-02-24

@2annihilation Oh I dropped more than grand. I have all of the headsets.

It's more to say, once VR advances to doing decently well all of the things it could, it will be seen as more valuable than a console and constraining the device to keep price comparable to a game console won't be needed

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@02CuRiOuS Personally, I don't find games to be the best use case for VR.

2022-02-24

@02CuRiOuS Personally, I don't find games to be the best use case for VR.

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The prospect of sitting in a small habitat immersed in VR probably sounds dystopian to most

2022-02-23

The prospect of sitting in a small habitat immersed in VR probably sounds dystopian to most

But imagine it in a scenario after space migration

The prospect of sitting in a small habitat floating in the vacuum of space -without- VR sounds quite dystopian

VR is a prerequisite

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Solution to issues of public lobbies in Social VR is to not have public lobbies

2022-02-23

Solution to issues of public lobbies in Social VR is to not have public lobbies

People dumped into VR fresh from the shittiness of the web culture inevitably turn the VR space into shit

They need to be invited to private communities, taught about the culture and proper conduct

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@Maru_tweets I agree. I've long seen the way Discord organizes itself as the ideal thing for Soc

2022-02-23

@Maru_tweets I agree. I've long seen the way Discord organizes itself as the ideal thing for Social VR to follow

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https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1496594451070087168/photo/1

2022-02-23

https://x.com/geotetra_rygo6/status/1496594451070087168/photo/1

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$300 for a VR headset to play games is pretty steep for most

2022-02-23

$300 for a VR headset to play games is pretty steep for most

However $1000 for a VR headset that can replace your monitor, replace your TV and enable enough immersion that physical travel is not as necessary to visit people. That is quite economical for everyone.

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VRChat has 20k-30k steam CCU

2022-02-22

VRChat has 20k-30k steam CCU

Typically you multiply CCU by 10 to get DAU, then multiply by 10 to get MAU

This site estimates 1.6 mil "active users" for VRC. https://playtracker.net/insight/game/2704 Seems appropriate for MAU

Then double for Quest

VRC probably has 3 million monthly active users

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Tyranny being justified does not make it not tyranny. It is still called tyranny.

2022-02-22

Tyranny being justified does not make it not tyranny. It is still called tyranny.

There is a difference between recognition of reality and debate concerning it versus entering into a cognitive dissonance.

Debate is a staple of society. Compounding delusion marks its end.

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This is why people won't be 3D hyper-realistic scan of themselves in the Metaverse. It's not a d

2022-02-22

This is why people won't be 3D hyper-realistic scan of themselves in the Metaverse. It's not a difference of sense of aesthetic. It's a difference of being able to communicate in the language of the medium and not being able to. It is akin to literacy vs illiteracy.

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This is because, we are not the visible surface of our skin.

2022-02-22

This is because, we are not the visible surface of our skin.

A 3D scan of a person no better captures "Them" then a photograph does.

This is the peculiar thing about Avatarism and stylization. It's not purely about aesthetics. It is about communication.

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The relationships people develop with each through actively interacting with each other in Socia

2022-02-22

The relationships people develop with each through actively interacting with each other in Social VR are more real than the constrained sampling of worldview that gets passively conditioned into the populace through television.

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2022-02-22

@cnlohr im hoping this too

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Apple App Store policies applied to the collective synthetic reality we will inhabit is one of t

2022-02-22

Apple App Store policies applied to the collective synthetic reality we will inhabit is one of the most concerning forms of tyranny currently on our horizon.

People don't realize yet it isn't an app in your pocket, it will be your daily lived reality.

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@dannyaroslavski Everything just optimizes around its incentive structure.

2022-02-20

@dannyaroslavski Everything just optimizes around its incentive structure.

Which truth and clarity has really only ever interested a small part of the population.

I always liked http://ourworldindata.org for general articles and the BMJ for medical related.

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The biggest allure of a new fancy iPhone that justifies its cost for most is the camera. Because

2022-02-19

The biggest allure of a new fancy iPhone that justifies its cost for most is the camera. Because it enables creation of media to better participate in Social Media.

This will be true for VR too. Hardware which better enables creation for participation in Social VR will win.

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Once upon a time it was weird to take photos of yourself for the web.

2022-02-19

Once upon a time it was weird to take photos of yourself for the web.

Now the capacity to take better photos for the web is the primary selling feature of the iPhone.

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Most concerning thing to me about covid is we now have ample data and studies analyzing any and

2022-02-18

Most concerning thing to me about covid is we now have ample data and studies analyzing any and everything related

But the political climate has made it such that we can't have nuanced rational scientific discourse about such things, so collectively society won't learn anything

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I find many think of VRChat as a new Second Life

2022-02-18

I find many think of VRChat as a new Second Life

It really isn't

It's so fundamentally different. Because focus is not on building a world, it's on building your virtual self. VR HMDs with full body tracking and other tracking tech is a whole new league of self-virutalization

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@AntonHand "It doesn't pretend to be my body, or be 'me'"

2022-02-18

@AntonHand "It doesn't pretend to be my body, or be 'me'"

But right now, in me talking to you, it literally is.

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@AntonHand I guess for me it's the exact counter reason. I never felt like the word "me" was eve

2022-02-18

@AntonHand I guess for me it's the exact counter reason. I never felt like the word "me" was even 1% "me". Or that a Twitter handle was even 1% "me". I perceive myself as being far more volumetric and 3D.

But I guess some will see themselves as a flat series of characters, and some won't.

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2022-02-16

Rather than a mass codebase/system forced to be proper by strict comprehensive typing, I'd prefer many smaller modular codebases/applications which are sandboxed from wrecking the whole system with highly verbose logging to tell you what is wrong with them.

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@prvncher Then the severity of drama with VRC avatar creators made me conclude I don't want to b

2022-02-16

@prvncher Then the severity of drama with VRC avatar creators made me conclude I don't want to be in the middle of endless bickering about what percentage some anime eyelash texture or tail 3D model is a derivative of another and who should get what amount. So, I lost interest.

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@prvncher Something like this was the main focus of the one time I did write out a white paper f

2022-02-16

@prvncher Something like this was the main focus of the one time I did write out a white paper for a crypto project. Was trying to figure out how to enable an ecosystem to track derivative works of 3D assets and reward everyone in the chain if something sells.

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@prvncher Enforcement of linking truly derivative 3D models however is something I could not ful

2022-02-16

@prvncher Enforcement of linking truly derivative 3D models however is something I could not fully figure out in an objective technical sense

Concluded such a system would have to be manually curated by someone well-versed in the content they put on it. Would have to build a trusted brand

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I think the latter can more effectively replicate the

2022-02-16

I think the latter can more effectively replicate the merits of biological evolution and ultimately end up leading to something much more.

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@cnlohr I know I just wanted to be facetious on twitter

2022-02-16

@cnlohr I know I just wanted to be facetious on twitter

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https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

2022-02-15

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

2022-02-13

Weirdest thing to me about tech industry is how many seem to think programming is really hard.

But it's not.

It's like learning any language. Engross anyone in the culture of it for some months and they'll catch onto it.

Issue is most don't have access to programmer culture.

2022-02-09

@Tuism @prvncher My personal bet is that VR is going to be one of the cases where a new medium effects enough fundamental changes in society that it changes the meaning of mainstream.

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Being more expressive tends to enable better communication.

2022-02-09

2022-02-07

@technobaboo I've been working on something kind of like this.

It's a sales platform that sells non-tradable NFTs. The NFT is just a receipt for a sale of some digital good.

Was planning on using USDC on Solana as the default currency.

I suspect this will be the main use case of NFTs.

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@technobaboo Accepting credit cards is of course best for practicality. But it kind of ruins the

2022-02-07

@technobaboo Accepting credit cards is of course best for practicality. But it kind of ruins the POC of cheapest/simplest possible digital asset store since credit cards take 3% and it can't be as simple as just "fork and change your wallet ID in .config file"

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@technobaboo @0xstella You know I thought about that a lot too because I'd really like it to tak

2022-02-07

@technobaboo @0xstella You know I thought about that a lot too because I'd really like it to take LTC/doge. But the thing about NFT receipts is it's just so much simpler to do receipts as an NFT smart contract, otherwise you have to set up some server to watch for LTC transactions.

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2022-02-07

I've always wondered if someone has ever managed to hack a banking system, add a few extra zeroes to something and get away with it.

Some security expert on the inside for years would probably have the knowledge to do so.

I'd find it hard to believe it's never happened once.

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In 1997 in the 6th grade, I was the first in my school to discover you could download MP3s off t

2022-02-07

In 1997 in the 6th grade, I was the first in my school to discover you could download MP3s off the web and listen to them.

I explained this to all my class. For which I became a social outcast for doing something so weird, stupid and fringe as "listening to the internet'.

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The reason Facebook got popular is because FB didn't design the content on it, people did.

2022-02-01

The reason Facebook got popular is because FB didn't design the content on it, people did.

Imagine a FB where you'd select from a subset of pre-arranged photographic representations of yourself.

This would obviously fail.

But the 3D equivalent of that is their avatar strategy.

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2022-01-31

@0xstella It's one reason I got so absorbed in it.

There are occasional overt exceptions.

2022-01-29

I've been looking to make a virtual goods store.

It's pretty striking to me how with Solana, in less than a day, I can setup a store to sell virtual goods globally at ~.00025 cents per transaction.

Whereas best I can do with fiat is sell to a few dozen countries with 3% fees.

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Having the global economy be denominated in USD is a mechanic of oppression and exploitation use

2022-01-29

Having the global economy be denominated in USD is a mechanic of oppression and exploitation used by not the best of people for not the best of things.

It's just very scary to consider how much disruption it'd cause to change it, so we don't talk about.

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Bitcoin is the closest thing we've had as a viable solution to this.

2022-01-29

Bitcoin is the closest thing we've had as a viable solution to this.

I think a lot about if power structures as malevolent as what has formed behind USD could also form behind Bitcoin.

Maybe they could. But at least the ledger would be entirely public. So at least we'd know.

2022-01-25

When switching your face and body is as easy as switching a channel on TV or Spotify everyone is going to play with that very liberally.

Everyone is going to end up some weird hybrid mishmash of anime-esque, stylized human, abstract, alien, furry creature thing in the Metaverse.

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@technobaboo @Demonkid Something that's going to get complicated is that VRChat or any 'True' me

2022-01-25

@technobaboo @Demonkid Something that's going to get complicated is that VRChat or any 'True' metaverse just ends up being a reflection of you.

@BitcoinMagazine Link to source?

2022-01-24

@BitcoinMagazine Link to source?

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@JCorvinusVR I think the business models of Netflix and TV shows are in serious trouble once Soc

2022-01-22

@JCorvinusVR I think the business models of Netflix and TV shows are in serious trouble once Social VR becomes ubiquitous and people realize that yes VRChat can always be that interesting, and even more so. It's like a rolling never-ending amplified reality TV show you participate in.

2022-01-21

People decrying NFTs for just being receipts are missing that NFTs actually are really good at just being receipts for crypto payments.

Solana transaction cost is ~$0.00025 whereas Stripe is roughly ~3%. A crypto digital goods store with NFT receipts makes a lot of sense.

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It's very easy to argue that Bitcoin and crypto have greater potential to empower the average pe

2022-01-21

It's very easy to argue that Bitcoin and crypto have greater potential to empower the average person compared to USD and centralized banks.

This is why crypto has turned contentious. Existing power structures are very skilled at turning people against their own best interests.

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Early in my life I discovered if you tell an older programmer you have an interest in programmin

2022-01-21

Early in my life I discovered if you tell an older programmer you have an interest in programming then they uncontrollably unload their entire brain on you for hours, potentially forever.

It's some law of nature I assume.

Basically, I exploited this for a free education.

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An NFT is not a digitally scarce auctionable art asset.

2022-01-21

An NFT is not a digitally scarce auctionable art asset.

Rather, a digitally scarce auctionable art asset can be an NFT.

An NFT is just a programming pattern. It's like being mad at a HashTable.

The programmer in me cringes every time I see the term NFT misused.

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The more socialized people become to a wider array of people the more tolerant and understanding

2022-01-20

The more socialized people become to a wider array of people the more tolerant and understanding they become. I think intelligence follows understanding more.

For most people, only way to get access to dozens of people every day of a wide variety to spend time with is Social VR.

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Imagine if every transaction of every politician and CEO was immutably tracked on a public ledge

2022-01-20

Imagine if every transaction of every politician and CEO was immutably tracked on a public ledger. Few things are more threatening.

I think a scenario of no financial privacy ends up in favor of the average person. Average people never truly had privacy in the first place.

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Some say VR is obfuscating or allowing escape from "actual" reality.

2022-01-19

Some say VR is obfuscating or allowing escape from "actual" reality.

But truth is most of what people call and perceive as reality is just a projection of their mind that was conditioned into them by television.

Our society hasn't dealt with "actual" reality for decades.

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2022-01-11

@0xstella Rumor has it he is one the lewd mute anime girls in VRC.

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2022-01-09

New article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problems-web3-ryan-goodrich/?published=t&trackingId=jv4KOEyLSfaNtrGIMy1Wog%3D%3D

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I can't tell if me only liking VR for calming use cases is me being old or if there is something

2022-01-08

I can't tell if me only liking VR for calming use cases is me being old or if there is something particular about the medium of VR that just makes it better for calming uses rather than hectic/stressful ones like shooter games.

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Take the ETH GPU-only PoW alghorithm.

2022-01-07

Take the ETH GPU-only PoW alghorithm.

Then make it so all rewards are distributed based on time spent, with epoch length as limit.

This would then incentivize people to use the slowest chip, least amount of energy.

Is there is any merit to this idea or do I need to go bed?

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Once most people are arguing in social VR rather than text I think we'll see a societal improvem

2022-01-07

Once most people are arguing in social VR rather than text I think we'll see a societal improvement.

Aside from VR enabling vocal nuance and body language for fuller communication. It's just way harder to develop resent towards some cute little animal or anime thing or whatever.

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2022-01-03

@xr_professor @0xstella I use Orchid OXT regularly. Helium HNT LoRaWAN network is impressive, I think their new 5G network is a huge deal. There's lots of real value projects out there that use the tech well.

You should be asking more questions rather than making blanket authoritative statements.

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OpenSea had a total trading volume of $14 billion in 2021.

2022-01-03

OpenSea had a total trading volume of $14 billion in 2021.

BTC and ETH individually have $10-$40 billion trading volume every 24 hours.

When people talk about OpenSea NFT auctions they are talking about less than .001% of value traded on blockhains.

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@JCorvinusVR Better yet. Let's just simply ban all politicians. As in, from existing in the firs

2022-01-03

@JCorvinusVR Better yet. Let's just simply ban all politicians. As in, from existing in the first place.

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I have a reservation about PoS. Sure, it makes transactions cheaper, but it faulters a core purp

2022-01-03

I have a reservation about PoS. Sure, it makes transactions cheaper, but it faulters a core purpose of blockchain. That being, enabling anyone to hook a computer to the network to validate it. Even if not profitable the ability to prove legitimacy needs to be open to all.

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I believe those who understand tech have a responsibility to ease the anxiety and fear of those

2022-01-03

I believe those who understand tech have a responsibility to ease the anxiety and fear of those who don't.

The most skilled in Web3 I know are building and not communicating to people, which I never liked.

But the anti-crypto parade has turned neurotic so I will just build now.

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ETH has 5000 nodes currently https://www.ethernodes.org/history

2022-01-03

ETH has 5000 nodes currently https://www.ethernodes.org/history

Many assume there are millions of people and GPUs mining ETH.

When really there are thousands of people and tens-of-thousands GPUs mining ETH.

If every gamer mined ETH overnight commercial miners probably couldn't survive.

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@DanielPinchbeck Only thing I think you can infer from Satoshi or Vitalik is just an anarchist i

2022-01-03

@DanielPinchbeck Only thing I think you can infer from Satoshi or Vitalik is just an anarchist intent. It’s founded more on a contention against centralized power than a desire for a specific result.

Fundamentally what’s being proven out is not a new currency, it is distributed consensus.

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@DanielPinchbeck Of course the AnCap crowd flocked to it, but I think they’re wrong. When I thin

2022-01-03

@DanielPinchbeck Of course the AnCap crowd flocked to it, but I think they’re wrong. When I think through what Web3 enables to play out I don’t see it tending to a Rothbard conception. I think what most miss is a new currency is not fundamentally the advent, rather a programmable economy is.

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At some point this decade more people will know you by your virtual avatar presence than by your

2022-01-03

At some point this decade more people will know you by your virtual avatar presence than by your physical meatspace presence.

Any amount of time, money, effort people put into their meatspace presence, they will probably end up putting more into their virtual presence.

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@OPLOVELORN Some are just so much better at it though.

2022-01-02

@OPLOVELORN Some are just so much better at it though.

Like a bad troll just pisses people off and disrupts experience.

A good troll creates communities in response, gives people a sense of purpose, makes people evolve their thinking and understanding, learn how to fight in better ways.

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New Year's Resolution.

2022-01-02

New Year's Resolution.

Just block anyone on Twitter who doesn't know how to engage in respectful productive dialogue.

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@xr_professor @0xstella The human brain doesn't have the capacity to simulate how all consensus

2022-01-01

@xr_professor @0xstella The human brain doesn't have the capacity to simulate how all consensus algorithms combined with all economic models programmed into smart contracts will play out with a billion+ people over the decade.

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@xr_professor @0xstella It's not possible to know what crypto is primarily used for and why.

2022-01-01

@xr_professor @0xstella It's not possible to know what crypto is primarily used for and why.

Even if, why do those things matter? It doesn't prevent a different demographic from using it differently.

Also, being able to evade law is a feature. Legality != Morality. Truth lay in people not government.

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@xr_professor @0xstella Can you name any crypto backed project that is providing real utility ri

2022-01-01

@xr_professor @0xstella Can you name any crypto backed project that is providing real utility right now?

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2022-01-01

Before 'NFT Items' become useful there needs to be a standard to define the behavior of NFTs in interoperable games.

Being the director of this standard will give you incredible leverage over the ecosystem.

Companies will push NFTs initially to try and become that director.

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2021-12-30

What is Web3? Whatever you program it to be.

Who will define what Web3 is? Those programming it to be something.

Who will not define what Web3 is? Those not programming it to be anything and instead writing opinion pieces about it.

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Selling unique NFT items in the metaverse is akin to selling land.

2021-12-30

Selling unique NFT items in the metaverse is akin to selling land.

It doesn't make sense because neither one is scarce in a virtual context. It's trying to apply a meatspace economic mentality to virtual.

You have to think in a post-scarcity economic mindset for the metaverse.

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If everyone with a half capable PC mined ETH as a means to heat their house or suckup known exce

2021-12-30

If everyone with a half capable PC mined ETH as a means to heat their house or suckup known excess energy from a renewable. This would probably make rewards so low commercial mining farms would struggle.

Want to lessen ETH environmental impact? Mine ETH yourself properly.

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@DanielPinchbeck This is one of the better criticisms I've seen.

2021-12-30

@DanielPinchbeck This is one of the better criticisms I've seen.

One thing I disagree with is that Web3 is innately libertarian or capitalist.

Seems someone just said this once, and people started repeating it without any thought.

But it isn't, I think its most innately Social Democratic.

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Crypto isn't really Capitalist.

2021-12-30

Crypto isn't really Capitalist.

BTC is, but that's just how it started.

Where it's going is smart contracts. The novel aspect there is all economic mechanics become programmable. A programmable economy that obeys a central rule set validatable by all is not Laissez Faire.

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@CixLiv @BartronPolygon @prvncher @AndreElijah Was for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KI

2021-12-30

@CixLiv @BartronPolygon @prvncher @AndreElijah Was for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIgvc-LVDs

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2021-12-29

Much of the same dynamics of Web2 will reform on Web3.

Some people will pay $10 a month subscription to a corporation or accept ads in order to have their content hosted. This might even be most people.

The difference however is that isn't the default. It's optional.

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@LukeHurd Thing is, they were. Television, video games, smartphones, even books all had unique n

2021-12-29

@LukeHurd Thing is, they were. Television, video games, smartphones, even books all had unique negatives. Now people are taught healthy habits with them.

But VR is a new set of negatives, what worries me is most have no idea what they are. They will discover them through their kids.

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I'm verifying my Arweave address eme89ekMUw5W5G8H9LMfh6XI2J0Al_WGnFUi80ThMP4

2021-12-29

I'm verifying my Arweave address eme89ekMUw5W5G8H9LMfh6XI2J0Al_WGnFUi80ThMP4

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2021-12-29

According to this site, FileCoin is .01% the cost of Amazon S3 for similar use.

If that is true, I'm surprised I haven't heard it more?

https://file.app/

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I have 2x 2080ti SLI in one PC and 3090 in another.

2021-12-28

I have 2x 2080ti SLI in one PC and 3090 in another.

I mine ETH on these to heat my apt in the winter, it is enough

Energy which previously only served one purpose of heating is now serving two purposes.

If everyone did this it could lower rewards enough to disrupt mining farms

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@technobaboo We will probably end up with various respected brands or stores which mint NFTs and

2021-12-27

@technobaboo We will probably end up with various respected brands or stores which mint NFTs and those sources will be seen as legitimate.

Some of these brands/stores will probably be DAOs or collectives with some mechanic to let a mass of people mark various things as fraudulent.

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@technobaboo @eirenliel One scenario I see in this is the ease of ripping content could prevent

2021-12-27

@technobaboo @eirenliel One scenario I see in this is the ease of ripping content could prevent giants. Where basically Community comes to replace Intellectual Property. So, if you don't have a strong community and piss too many people off, no one will respect you as a legitimate source

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Nearly 2 years of VRChat now and still just hanging out with friends, talking, showing off new a

2021-12-27

Nearly 2 years of VRChat now and still just hanging out with friends, talking, showing off new avatars/worlds is better than anything else. Still not old. Still spend hours every night easily.

All else in VR got old after a few weeks. Games can't compete with actual people.

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I would bet that NFTs will end up being used more as licenses than unique items. Tradable NFTs m

2021-12-27

I would bet that NFTs will end up being used more as licenses than unique items. Tradable NFTs make it a game about collecting, scavenging, bartering. When really it should be about creating. Non-Tradable NFT licenses are a way to prove you tipped the creator you derive from.

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Giving VR to kids actually worries me. Parents think it's just like a new Nintendo, but it's not

2021-12-27

Giving VR to kids actually worries me. Parents think it's just like a new Nintendo, but it's not. The psychological effects are more than any other medium, and how prolonged use would affect you from a young age isn't known. It could lead to new kinds of psychological issues.

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@eirenliel @technobaboo Ya I've pondered a lot how exactly a DAO could function to be like a com

2021-12-27

@eirenliel @technobaboo Ya I've pondered a lot how exactly a DAO could function to be like a communal source of authority in such a market. It's really hard to conceive of it beforehand though, probably thousands rise and fall over the years until one figures a good scheme out.

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@eirenliel @technobaboo It's not really novel. It's basically similar mechanics of existing mark

2021-12-27

@eirenliel @technobaboo It's not really novel. It's basically similar mechanics of existing markets reforming. I suspect this is why Nike/Adidas entered the space.

Potentially only novel thing organization wise is the collective DAOs could end up running on fairly novel mechanics.

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Sex is so good because it's a direct form of human connection that doesn't go through middlemen,

2021-12-24

There needs to a be a DAO with some kind of democratic mechanic to enable people to create a bla

2021-12-20

There needs to a be a DAO with some kind of democratic mechanic to enable people to create a blacklist of fraudulent NFTs and digital assets.

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The hardest part of the metaverse is not technical.

2021-12-20

The hardest part of the metaverse is not technical.

Rather, it's how do you grow, evolve, the culture.

No one is going to put on VR to go embody a shitty culture. If it ends up with the culture of Roblox, or a commercial mall, or the bad parts of VRC, it's going to fail.

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@EricPresidentVR Been one of my main goals past few years in the industry to bring awareness to

2021-12-20

@EricPresidentVR Been one of my main goals past few years in the industry to bring awareness to this. That the culture which forms as consequence of presence in VR is entirely different than what forms by everyone sitting behind monitors. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-evade-extremely-terrible-experience-vrchat-ryan-goodrich/?trackingId=1nAYPZkESUCouqYKW4uh9g%3D%3D

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A notion still worthy of analyzation I think:

2021-12-20

A notion still worthy of analyzation I think:

Does a distributed consensus mechanism really need to provide monetary reward to node operators?

Stated differently. Could a modern blockchain, BTC or ETH, run in an entirely volunteer fashion without monetary reward for mining?

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There are odd beneficial qualities to the issues VRChat has.

2021-12-19

There are odd beneficial qualities to the issues VRChat has.

For example,

Avatar perf being able to harm others and crasher avatars inadvertently made tighter-knit communities of trust.

Funky to use UI gives new people an ice breaker to talk about, helps facilitate connection.

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Hyperrealism is fascinating to me on a monitor because it's an obviously fake medium presenting

2021-12-19

Hyperrealism is fascinating to me on a monitor because it's an obviously fake medium presenting content that appears real.

Conversely, Tron, lo-poly, anime, stylized is more fascinating to me in VR because its obviously fake content presented on a medium that appears real.

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Wow. A congressional discussion about Web3 that is actually decent.

2021-12-18

Wow. A congressional discussion about Web3 that is actually decent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTNhBlfV_s

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VRChat taught me that no matter how tall, big, beardly and manly any man seems to appear. Deep d

2021-12-18

VRChat taught me that no matter how tall, big, beardly and manly any man seems to appear. Deep down inside he's really just a cute anime catgirl.

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@philiprosedale @prvncher @WalkaboutMG If you get a free hour sometime, watch this:

2021-12-18

@philiprosedale @prvncher @WalkaboutMG If you get a free hour sometime, watch this: https://youtu.be/R1wUg9HCODU

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2021-12-16

I don't tell people to buy crypto.

If they ask me about investing, I tell them to make a coinbase account, research the top 10 or so coins by market cap and buy what they think is most interesting. Then leave it on coinbase for the time being until external wallets improve.

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2021-12-15

I think Ready Player One was correct that many people with live as avatars in a VR social space in the future.

However, what they got wrong is people aren't going to be walking around on treadmills.

They will be lounging on bean bag chairs floating around in weird positions.

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@FrankKa23141675 Not saying its certain, just all routes considered it's not an inevitability to

2021-12-15

@FrankKa23141675 Not saying its certain, just all routes considered it's not an inevitability to me. It isn't where I'd place my first bet concerning XR.

Smartphones are more than enough for most people and once your average person learns something it takes a lot to make them change.

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@cnlohr its my favorite show to ever be made by netflix

2021-12-15

@cnlohr its my favorite show to ever be made by netflix

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2021-12-13

RT @dz: one more Good Keanu™ moment about Facebook (sorry Meta) and the history of the concept of a metaverse https://x.com/dz/status/1469439770543771650/video/1

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NFTs, gaming, the metaverse, Web3. These are macro chaotic systems. They can't be predicted. The

2021-12-13

NFTs, gaming, the metaverse, Web3. These are macro chaotic systems. They can't be predicted. They will evolve in ways you can't expect. You can only anticipate certain fundamentals.

It's a subject revealing who is aware of the limitations of their own mind and who isn't.

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First thing we do with novelty is contort it into a prior mental model. Many are doing this with

2021-12-13

First thing we do with novelty is contort it into a prior mental model. Many are doing this with blockchain, they can only comprehend it via the prior mental model of a database. But blockchain is not a database, it's a distributed consensus system. It requires a new mental model

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This is probably the only decent article I've seen that criticizes Web3 in a relevant way.

2021-12-12

This is probably the only decent article I've seen that criticizes Web3 in a relevant way.

But I disagree with it framing blockchain as a 'database'.

Blockchain is a distributed consensus system. Which can be a 'database' but if all you need is a database, use a database. https://x.com/AlanJay1/status/1469612623830396930

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This page from McCloud's Understanding Comics explains something probably important concerning V

2021-12-11

This page from McCloud's Understanding Comics explains something probably important concerning VR avatars: https://tinyurl.com/mrxsyyt4

That when presented a human form, the simpler it is the more a person's unconscious projects themselves onto it and perceives it as themselves.

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There is probably a whole untapped business model where you setup computers and mining hardware

2021-12-11

There is probably a whole untapped business model where you setup computers and mining hardware in people's home to be used as space heaters, and the mining rewards offset heating cost.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Gaming-PC-vs-Space-Heater-Efficiency-511/

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Icelandverse is great humor. Underlying great humor is typically truth.

2021-12-11

Icelandverse is great humor. Underlying great humor is typically truth.

Which is, nothing virtual will ever be better than physical reality at being physical reality.

Why focus on what can only ever be second-rate?

VRs true potential lays in not trying to be physical reality.

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@3duaun I've used mining in place of traditional heating for a few winters now. It works well.

2021-12-11

@3duaun I've used mining in place of traditional heating for a few winters now. It works well.

I've ponded a business model where you set it up in people's home on lease and mining rewards pay off the lease, then they own the hardware.

Also, great way to potentially recycle older parts

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2021-12-05

The more pragmatic solution to climate change is not moving to electric cars ASAP.

Its people just not driving.

Also, an easy policy that I think most would like? Executive order to make any job not explicitly requiring physical labor have the option to be remote by default.

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The future dystopia that worries me the most is Wall-E.

2021-12-05

The future dystopia that worries me the most is Wall-E.

Where technology advances to a point of being so automated and easy to use that everyone sits horribly obese, devoid of any aspiration, in an automated chair with all physical and emotional needs fully provided by robots.

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RT @cnlohr: I've spent the last year in VRChat with every waking, non-work moment of my life. I

2021-12-02

RT @cnlohr: I've spent the last year in VRChat with every waking, non-work moment of my life. I adventure into the lives of the people who…

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I can't help but think that shared open source codebases are better than defined standards.

2021-12-01

I can't help but think that shared open source codebases are better than defined standards.

Either: 1. Go through an exhaustive long bureaucratic process to agree upon standards so everyone can implement their own version? OR 2. Just collectively build the damn thing?

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For as much as modern society thinks it has become rational, secular and scientific. It sure see

2021-12-01

For as much as modern society thinks it has become rational, secular and scientific. It sure seems like most conceptions of reality still form entirely off of the first thing someone sees repeated a few dozen times giving it no additional thought nor reading any actual studies.

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What I most want in VR is a VR-first general-purpose OS. Where I can plug only a HMD into a comp

2021-11-30

What I most want in VR is a VR-first general-purpose OS. Where I can plug only a HMD into a computer and everything from the BIOS to the shell innately runs through it so that I would not need a monitor at all. Not having to buy a monitor is still a great use case for VR I think.

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The initial studies which framed the whole 'crypto environmental issue' narrative were funded by

2021-11-30

The initial studies which framed the whole 'crypto environmental issue' narrative were funded by VISA. https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/global-cryptocurrency/#.YQSX8EBlDAQ https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/global-blockchain/#.YQSX5EBlDAQ If a report came out saying "Organic farming harms the environment" and it was funded by Monsanto, wouldn't you be suspicious?

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I think Twitter is an abomination but I've always respected Dorsey for willing to state things m

2021-11-30

I think Twitter is an abomination but I've always respected Dorsey for willing to state things most would coward away from.

Article he posts is a great overview of why, no matter what negatives exist with BTC, supporting USD is the immeasurably greater immoral and careless act. https://x.com/jack/status/1464618508344446980

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@antsstyle You conflate "people playing casino-esque gambling games on early-alpha technology fo

2021-11-30

@antsstyle You conflate "people playing casino-esque gambling games on early-alpha technology for fun" with those building technological foundations that can serve as public leverage against power consolidating under corporate authoritarianism.

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2021-11-28

I paid for Twitter Blue assuming it would get rid of the ads and promoted tweets in my feed.

It did not get rid of them.

I feel cheated.

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I am about at the 'Fuck Rust' stage of learning Rust. It's like having a tyrannical robot yellin

2021-11-27

I am about at the 'Fuck Rust' stage of learning Rust. It's like having a tyrannical robot yelling at you while trying to solve problems.

No Rust. If I want to capture the same pointer in 20 different closures and read it from a dozen different threads I can and I will.

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Does any advanced developer actually feel they are faster and more productive in Rust than C++?

2021-11-27

Does any advanced developer actually feel they are faster and more productive in Rust than C++?

My current foray into Rust is making think there is a lot of cool stuff but it doesn't really do much if you already really know what your doing and seems to slow me down.

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"What if instead of NFTs we kept it centralized to data centers. Then had an interoperability pr

2021-11-26

"What if instead of NFTs we kept it centralized to data centers. Then had an interoperability protocol to transfer between centers and a means to validate transfers and state."

You mean a blockchain?

I've seen blockchain reinvented so many times in trying to find alternatives.

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Corporations have cultures and vibes adequate to create something which is just a peripheral app

2021-11-26

Corporations have cultures and vibes adequate to create something which is just a peripheral app that sits in your pocket disconnected from you.

However, the notion of living inside of a reality, having a body, which carries such a vibe is a whole different story.

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@JCorvinusVR It is true, I am adding a new dimension to the theory. But I suspect perfect visual

2021-11-24

@JCorvinusVR It is true, I am adding a new dimension to the theory. But I suspect perfect visual recreation isn't sufficient.

I suspect it works on a screen because that medium has an innate disconnect. But when its standing in front of you, touching you, interacting with you its different.

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@JCorvinusVR Is it? I admit we have yet to stand in front of an absolutely perfect synthetic rep

2021-11-24

@JCorvinusVR Is it? I admit we have yet to stand in front of an absolutely perfect synthetic representation of a human. But I've seen some that get rather close in VR and it does not induce a good emotion. I suspect most will respond to them like most respond to replicants in Blade Runner.

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@JCorvinusVR I don't doubt an HMD can perfectly render a human, prototypes already exist.

2021-11-24

@JCorvinusVR I don't doubt an HMD can perfectly render a human, prototypes already exist.

I mean more so, even in that scenario you still know its fake. Due to knowing its fake, it being indiscernible from reality makes it even creepier. The more perfect it visually gets, the creepier it is.

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I suspect VR avatars can never escape the uncanny valley. Even if rendered absolutely indiscerni

2021-11-17

@KennyRoy If you put them on http://booth.pm ready for VRC some may buy them

Difference from a game that I see is, in social VR socializing is primary, gameplay is secondary if at all. So models are just decoration or things people talk about and share like art pieces

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@KennyRoy I differentiate SocialVR/metaverse from VR games because the use case is so different,

2021-11-17

@KennyRoy I differentiate SocialVR/metaverse from VR games because the use case is so different, the way people use it is so different. To do social VR properly you have to think about everything in a completely different way, even down to the low levels of the 3D engine architecture.

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@KennyRoy Another way to put it, in the metaverse 3D models become more how jpegs currently are

2021-11-17

@KennyRoy Another way to put it, in the metaverse 3D models become more how jpegs currently are on the web

2021-11-02

@prvncher @auradeluxe Its a buzzword that carries power so people will try to define it to optimize for whatever their incentive structure is

For most that will be KPIs and corporate bottomline

For me, its how you improve the moment to moment daily lived experience of a typical person https://x.com/geotetrarygo6/status/1455639768549580816/photo/1

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The Metaverse will orbit around the most creative and explorative VR Culture. I dont believe FB

2021-11-01

The Metaverse will orbit around the most creative and explorative VR Culture. I dont believe FB can deal with nor even wants such a culture. Even if this most creative core is a minority of users, they will still lead it. Right now this is the culture in the depths of VRChat.

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@TheVirtunaut I'd be curious to know more about what your thinking when you say 'toxic mind'.

2021-10-31

@TheVirtunaut I'd be curious to know more about what your thinking when you say 'toxic mind'.

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@dannyaroslavski Yes. I keep repeating this trying to pull everyone into an actual VR headset in

2021-10-30

@dannyaroslavski Yes. I keep repeating this trying to pull everyone into an actual VR headset in Social VR. Most still don't get it. It is important enough that I am willing to be seen as the crazy weird one trying to get everyone in a VR headset. More people need to do so as well.

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Several of the right kinds of friends in Social VR can provide a better experience than several

2021-10-29

Several of the right kinds of friends in Social VR can provide a better experience than several hundred likes on Twitter

RT @fuopy: Created a "Tennis Game" shader implementation in @pemathedev's in-game Shader-in-a-Shader compiler and VM in VRChat! Try it out…

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