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Yet another example that being "ugly" has little impact on utility. This looks right in line (if on a smaller scale) with the masterpiece that is McMaster-Carr https://mcmaster.com…

My anecdotal experience is that it briefly gets better, then much worse. Build scripts downloading tarballs from dead URLs and dependencies on unspecified versions of libraries tha…

DSP and more recently SBIRS are satellite-based systems, both use IR. If you track the missile to the end of it's burn you'll have a pretty good idea of where it's going after that…

I'd be curious about what you mean by software experience. Presumably oculus home gets replaced, but is the performance of things like tracking noticably different?

The Quest is unfortunately still a bit unique as the only standalone 6DoF headset. Edit: not truly unique as pointed out. The Index is more than double the cost for something that …

I've been using one of the knockoffs for about 6 years as lounge/work chair. It's comfortable for things like reading, listening to music, and sitting in video meetings, but not th…

Are there any problems we have a proof for, and a corresponding proof that no algorithm can exist to provide said proof? Basically, why can't I write an algorithm that can be given…

Thanks, that's new to me (or at least I've ignored it long enough to have forgotten if I had learned it before).

At a guess, it makes the language simpler. The main function is just that -- a function. It uses tools the language already has to deal with arguments and exit codes. Arguably it a…

Not for coding. The resolution just isn't there yet. Roughly, per-eye resolution is in the same ballpark as HD displays, but stretched over a 90+ degree field of view. Fonts need t…

It would surprise me if the majority of the market for "linux laptop with fast discrete gpu" wasn't really just a subset of "devs that want CUDA support".

If the machine doing the streaming is on the local network maybe. VR is not a forgiving environment for latency. If your target 72fps (Quest), about 862 miles is an upper bound for…

Python with type annotations is the closest I've used to that, and I hate it. It beats no type annotations, but only barely. As soon as I need to use someone else's code, all bets …

So much of what I do as a programmer is just try to understand what some existing piece of code does. If I come across code like that, I can search documentation or start to guess …

Not just more natural, it also lends itself to better accuracy and/or efficiency in some cases too. As a quick example, if you're writing a numerical approximation or even just a L…

I recently discovered greenshot. It's not perfect but I found it covered 95% of what I wanted while putting together some tutorial content recently (drawing decent arrows, highligh…

In this case wouldn't naming the agent also increase the likelihood that they're targeted? The clients have already been primed to follow the phishing link, so it'd just be a matte…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use case then? I'm imagining something like: A and B are on a phone call. A starts a video meeting. B goes to shortlink.dtmf or opens the app, which …

For the phone only route, it seems like you could still mostly automate it by going oldschool. Give the host an option to play the meeting code as a DTMF signal (or whatever) while…

That thing is basically just a laser range finder, it doesn't produce a 2D "image" of distances (unless you pair it with something to spin it around, at which point you just have a…

I haven't looked into MegaTexture much, but from what I can tell it doesn't repeat terrain textures. In most modern games, smaller textures are tiled over larger areas, allowing fo…

I was a 5-year-old with a penchant for opening electronics, so I'm fairly sure they exist. However, I'd be more worried about adults doing more harm than good by taking apart/putti…

First off, apologies if I was coming off as rude, I wasn't trying to be. My point was more that slurping a file without spawning another process is already quite easy in perl. That…

This isn't exactly idiomatic Perl and fails completely in environments that don't have cat (Windows). For one-time uses there's not a problem. However, if you find yourself writing…

Fabric Engine has released version 1.0 of its platform for multi-threaded optimised execution of scripting languages. Kind of cool, if somewhat misleading. The way that's written s…