Go is a solid piece of kit. No head or hand tracking, but the benefit is low weight and power efficiency. Basically, it's an all-in-one GearVR, which is a solid minimum viable standalone VR headset for lots of things like anything that involves a large virtual TV screen or spectating things like events in VR. Nice to see that it will be an open platform now, which will provide a nice baseline for apps to target who care about ensuring their content is accessible via cheap, open devices.
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the job market favors engineers hopping around instead of staying at one place Does it? That's a fair description of the consulting space, but I don't think it's an accurate representation of the job market as a whole. When product companies hire software engineers, they tend to aim for the long haul.
You'd think. Most career advice I get is you need to jump ship to get an actual pay raise. Maybe stay 3 or 4 years. Not enough to build up deep knowledge, at least compared to older engineers imo
Being unable to get a pay raise from your current employer often boils down to one of two reasons:
1. You're not negotiating effectively -- a skill you can improve upon
2. You're not worth as much as you think you are (e.g. low margin industry, company doing poorly, part of a low impact team etc, or maybe you're just not very good at $whatever skill the company needs).
Only #2 is a good reason to jump ship and try your luck elsewhere. Over the years I've learnt how to negotiate a fair remuneration. It's not easy, and it can definitely be uncomfortable at first. But in the end, it's totally worth it.
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
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I admire and respect John Carmack for his role in the history of computing (and his ongoing contributions), but I don't see how making 3D video games was really helping humanity more than this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Carmack made multiple fundamental breakthroughs in 3D graphics. Not only that, but he consistently positioned himself to commercialize those , which is not easy. His Quake 3 engine was the bread and butter of Id Software, generating billions in revenue. In recent times, he's done coronavirus simulations (I don't know anything else about that), and is doing AGI research. He's also a true hacker through and through. Si…
> generating billions in revenue.
Source?
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#164> Oculus CTO (and former id Software co-founder) John Carmack I thought Carmack stepped down from being CTO a few years ago? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/oculus-cto-john-carmack-to-...
none of these job titles matter at all
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same is true of some of the best work being done on the web, such as the NYTimes interactive infographics. Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Heck, even Flash projects from 15 years ago still run fine when compiled on Ruffle…
> Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure…
Fwiw, the Internet Archive is very much trying to avoid the random S3 bucket deletion problem, and donations to them are tax deductible.
The issues of long-term digital storage are such that - use whatever you want for your own blog - but (imo) ASCII isn't going to save you any more than binary blobs are, 300 years into the future after we're all long gone and buried. We're already in a world where UTF-8 is taking over in many places. (Many places but not all. Fun fact, you can't send Zelle to someone with an emoji in their local contact name with some banks.)
If I (today) said I had a word document and needed "an old version of Microsoft Word", I'm sure most people would know what I mean, and that I'd find someone with a Windows XP machine and a copy of Office 97'. Meanwhile, there are tons of people who are just going to stare at you blankly if you tell them about EBCDIC, never mind help you find a decoder.
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's dynamically updating based on a database of information that's not shipped to the app in it's entirety, you either have to hope you've somehow seen and preserved all the date from exploring the app, or accept that some data may be lost. > presumably JSON or CSV That's presuming a lot. Even if it's accurate for most/all NYTimes infographics today, it doesn't mean it's accurate tomorrow, and it isn't accurate t…
> If it's dynamically updating based on a database of information that's not shipped to the app in it's entirety, you either have to hope you've somehow seen and preserved all the date from exploring the app, or accept that some data may be lost. Well, yeah, that's true of all normal websites too. That's precisely what web crawlers are for. If there's no index page that links to all pages, or some way of iterating th…
> Well, yeah, that's true of all normal websites too.
Not exactly. While you may miss data that isn't requested specifically, you can crawl the site and get most/all that is accessible through links at least. Stuff only available through search results won't show, but if it's discoverable through browsing, you can get it.
The same can't necessarily be said for custom interfaces that are JS heavy, possibly with non-link click actions, custom sliders, a graphical representation of a map that expects a click on a region, etc. An old style page that lists all the regions (like states, or counties in a state), or even that has a dropdown in a form? Those are much easier to crawl and archive.
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's dynamically updating based on a database of information that's not shipped to the app in it's entirety, you either have to hope you've somehow seen and preserved all the date from exploring the app, or accept that some data may be lost. > presumably JSON or CSV That's presuming a lot. Even if it's accurate for most/all NYTimes infographics today, it doesn't mean it's accurate tomorrow, and it isn't accurate t…
Sure, that's fair if they don't have a single call that fetches the whole dataset. Though I'd think an article would often be covering a specific, bounded dataset to make its point, and wouldn't need to query a table of indeterminate length
We'd hope. Sometimes weird choices are made, or even not-so-weird choices (like if some site in some other country lifts the whole thing and presents it as their own) that cause sites to choose to be a bit harder to scrape than you would assume.
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
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I would definitely read a blog (or just follow up comments) about a technology orientated person jumping forward almost a decade in time and what they find really different. Are you a professional developer? Has framework churn been an issue?
Yes, been a web developer since 1994. Framework churn is THE WORST. Ugh. Really, nothing in terms of outside appearance has changed. The web looks pretty much identical to when I was locked up in 2013. There are a lot more ads, and way more video ads. The Web uses up waaaay more RAM and CPU. Development, though, has been a bitch since I got out a couple of months ago. I want to use the latest frameworks, but I'm star…
I find it really interesting that you love TikTok.
> it's actually fucking awesome for those of us with "neurodiversity".
Can you expand upon that a bit?
How engaged were you with social media before your sentence, and has that (or will that) change now that you've had some space from it?
> we would see the occasional video on the news
How does the picture that the media paints of the internet & social media compare to your observations now that you're able to use it hands-on?
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#169> allowing for a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now to be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down. This resonates so much with me. Each time I setup a new device that requires an Internet connection, I think about how we can enjoy booting 30 years old retro computers and how the next generation will not be able to do the sa…
The same is true of some of the best work being done on the web, such as the NYTimes interactive infographics. Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Heck, even Flash projects from 15 years ago still run fine when compiled on Ruffle…
I have to point out that Ruffle falls shorts on the Flash games that used certain animation or ActionScript features. It's going to be a challenge to fully recreate Flash in a supposedly secure manner. I am also wondering if Flash was always bound to be resurrected and if the company wanted to let it die a natural death or just put it out to pasture.
Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just waiting for a lightweight pair of AR glasses that I can wear while wrenching on a hobby car that give overlays, labels, disassembly instructions akin to car mechanic simulator. If they can automagically tell me what size wrench/socket i need to grab, even better.
As hard as it is to find any service manual at all for old machinery, and then when you spend $100 to order a used manual off ebay find that the really useful pages are ripped out or covered with grease, I think a product like you describe is waiting on AGI more than it's waiting on nice AR glasses. Very few people need this product, so the intellectual labor to produce it will need to be nearly free. I've gotten to…
Oh I know its a complete pipe dream, I can't help but want it regardless.
I see you may not have had the joy of working on something with mixed SAE, Metric, and if you're real lucky, JIS all combined.