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Re: Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

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KerrAvon wrote: post #468
boloust wrote: post #383

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> I highly doubt I'd feel comfortable using a full VR headset regularly unless it was a "full dive" experience where I don't have to use a controller. The Quest headsets already have accurate controllerless hand tracking, but not many experiences optimized for the input mode. > Apple has more experience designing and producing hardware than Google, Facebook and Amazon combined and if they don't think the tech is read…

You cannot be sure that Apple is releasing anything in any timeframe until it’s actually announced. Things can get scrapped at any point. What secret sauce has Apple found that will make it more compelling than all other solutions which have utterly failed to gain any traction? Cheaply enough that anyone outside early adopters will want it? People don’t want to wear glasses for long periods of time in the first place…

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Post by boloust »

KerrAvon wrote: post #468
boloust wrote: post #383

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> I highly doubt I'd feel comfortable using a full VR headset regularly unless it was a "full dive" experience where I don't have to use a controller. The Quest headsets already have accurate controllerless hand tracking, but not many experiences optimized for the input mode. > Apple has more experience designing and producing hardware than Google, Facebook and Amazon combined and if they don't think the tech is read…

You cannot be sure that Apple is releasing anything in any timeframe until it’s actually announced. Things can get scrapped at any point. What secret sauce has Apple found that will make it more compelling than all other solutions which have utterly failed to gain any traction? Cheaply enough that anyone outside early adopters will want it? People don’t want to wear glasses for long periods of time in the first place…

What "secret sauce" did the Apple Watch have that made it more compelling than all the previous smartwatches that utterly failed to gain any traction?

Pancake optics and Apple silicon will probably play a key role in Apple's VR product. But Apple often succeeds where others fail through incredible execution, holistic product design, and the trust they've built with consumers.

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Post by cableshaft »

KerrAvon wrote: post #468
boloust wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I highly doubt I'd feel comfortable using a full VR headset regularly unless it was a "full dive" experience where I don't have to use a controller. The Quest headsets already have accurate controllerless hand tracking, but not many experiences optimized for the input mode. > Apple has more experience designing and producing hardware than Google, Facebook and Amazon combined and if they don't think the tech is read…

You cannot be sure that Apple is releasing anything in any timeframe until it’s actually announced. Things can get scrapped at any point. What secret sauce has Apple found that will make it more compelling than all other solutions which have utterly failed to gain any traction? Cheaply enough that anyone outside early adopters will want it? People don’t want to wear glasses for long periods of time in the first place…

> People don’t want to wear glasses for long periods of time in the first place — it’s why LASIK exists.

Some people don't, but plenty of people do, or at least would rather where glasses than be blind or take a slightly risky procedure. I'm one of those people.

I've chosen to keep wearing glasses despite LASIK being a thing for 24 years now. Even my own father has gotten LASIK and I haven't.

If anything, getting into VR (I use it for about an hour a day on average, it's become part of my workout routine) has made me want to get the eye surgery more, to make putting on/off the headset more convenient.

For now I've just gotten prescription lenses for my headset, which are definitely a lot better than putting the headset over my glasses, but still not ideal.

Also, I choose to wear glasses instead of contact lenses. I did wear contact lenses for a couple years, but it my eyes dried out a lot, I left them in when I passed out on accident periodically, easy to lose, they were expensive, and my left eye really fought me putting them in. I'm far from the only person, as:

"According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses, and about 11% wear contact lenses, either exclusively, or with glasses."[1]

[1]: http://www.glassescrafter.com/information/percentage-populat...

Re: Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

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Post by darthrupert »

charcircuit wrote: post #53
frankincense wrote: post #47

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At a company the size of Facebook, the CEO should not be involved at that level.

Why not? It's his company. He can do what he wants.

You're essentially right. It's not the job of the corporation to act morally. The job to create a moral framework under which corporations operate is the nation's.

Unfortunately, corporations have been successfully lobbying on removing constraints on what they are doing and against adding new ones.

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Post by aetherson »

synu wrote: post #414
aetherson wrote: post #393

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I dunno, maybe there was a wrong turn -- or maybe just you're responding to rapidly changing conditions. But if there was a wrong turn, and now you're error correcting, that still seems quite a bit different from, "Lol what does this doofus know, he's just an idiot."

I don’t recall having said anything like that.

I recall you saying that Zuckerberg's plan was to "make everyone miserable," and that the result of that would be that the highest performers would quit.

I think paraphrasing that as "Zuckerberg's an idiot" is, if anything, charitable.

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Post by 31835843 »

spookthesunset wrote: post #190
lordnacho wrote: post #22

Maybe I'm being totally naive, but what I want from FB is not better discoverability and metaverse, I want my friends to put their lives on it like they used to a few years ago. I don't even put anything on it myself anymore because of the smell around the company, and very few people I know do either, so my feed now looks like a bunch of memes and random news, with adverts in between. Engagement with a real human pu…

It’s not the smell of the company that has significantly reduced my usage. For me it’s just the fact I cannot state any opinion at all because of the controversy it might cause. It’s just not fun anymore. The stakes got to high. All FB is good for now is an occasional cat or kid post. And even the kid pictures I don’t really feel comfortable with either because of the paper trail I would be leaving for my kid.

> For me it’s just the fact I cannot state any opinion at all because of the controversy it might cause.

Years ago I would have rolled my eyes at this comment. As someone who is liberal and runs in liberal circles, it seems ludicrous to me that any sane person would get called out for anything not overtly racist or mean spirited.

Then one time I asked in a group chat — with people I thought were my friends — about where I could read about trans kids getting hormone blockers, because I wasn’t really sure about giving kids (who generally don’t know what they want) the kinds of drugs that alter their bodies.

The rebuke I got was swift and severe. For reference… I’m a mid-30s gay man who lives in the Bay Area, and I wasn’t even expressing an opinion.

Yeah; I’m out.

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Post by [deleted] »

eru wrote: post #170
bmitc wrote: post #80

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It's a framing issue, just like what Tesla recently did. Now they have the agency to clean house as they see fit with the excuse of "turning up the heat on performance" to hide behind.

Well, if you say so. I would have assumed that Facebook always had the ability to manage-out people they wanted out.

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Post by s17n »

joshstrange wrote: post #315
robonerd wrote: post #297

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Managers have personal priorities and interests that may not align with the interests of the company. e.g. company doesn't want dead weight, but the manager does for any number of reasons. Maybe the manager really likes those people on a personal level, or maybe the dead weight have dirt on the manager, or maybe the dead weight are kept around as sacrificial material should the manager ever be forced to make cuts, or…

Or, in my specific situation, my manager (and the manger above them) were terrible at handling intrapersonal conflicts. They would just ignore it until it went away and hating confronting anyone about anything. At least one of them also "liked" the "dead wood" in question or had at least worked with them for a long time. I understand all of that. But at the end of the day, it was bad managers. Even if you somehow man…

From the CEO's point of view, line managers and employees are basically an undifferentiated mass of potential dead wood. Getting managers to "do their jobs" is exactly the intention of a policy like this.

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Post by hnfong »

akhmatova wrote: post #379
elpescado wrote: post #113

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But launching rockets isn't rocket science. You build giant steel tube, fill it with some explosives and liquid oxygen, ignite it and, kaboom! you go to space. That's the theory behind it. Now, to put that into actual practice is whole different thing. The same with CRUD. CRUD is simple, but to do CRUD on ~Facebook~ Meta scale, that's a different thing.

Meta-scale CRUD is fancy, to be sure. But the craft behind it is still not on the same level as building things that can, you know, blow up on the lauchpad. Or break apart up at 46,000 with you a schoolteacher and other crew members inside. While the nation watches. Stuff like that.

Whole nations _have_ been blown up by Facebook though.
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