John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

Post by ralmidani » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

soylentcola wrote: post #94

ralmidani wrote: post #59

Massive props to John Carmack! We also need laws to protect consumers when they don’t have an enlightened champion on their side. Part of the reason I buy Apple devices is because Apple is unlikely to get acquired or go out of business for the foreseeable future. I wish there were viable alternatives. Android devices are not an option for me, as they are more likely to be abandoned and/or contain Google/manufacturer/…

Oddly enough, this is why I stopped buying iOS devices. With my old Android phones/the one Android tablet I got I was able to install something useful and pared-down once they became older and unsupported. They work fine as readers/browsers on my home network or as "fancy" remotes and local-network media players. The only old iOS device I haven't sold/tossed is an iPad 2 which is unbearably slow for most things, and…

Post by kall » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

soylentcola wrote: post #94

ralmidani wrote: post #59

Massive props to John Carmack! We also need laws to protect consumers when they don’t have an enlightened champion on their side. Part of the reason I buy Apple devices is because Apple is unlikely to get acquired or go out of business for the foreseeable future. I wish there were viable alternatives. Android devices are not an option for me, as they are more likely to be abandoned and/or contain Google/manufacturer/…

Oddly enough, this is why I stopped buying iOS devices. With my old Android phones/the one Android tablet I got I was able to install something useful and pared-down once they became older and unsupported. They work fine as readers/browsers on my home network or as "fancy" remotes and local-network media players. The only old iOS device I haven't sold/tossed is an iPad 2 which is unbearably slow for most things, and…

Post by spicybright » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

tinco wrote: post #42

spicybright wrote: post #22

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Browsers evolve and break older pages. JS that requires requests as you interact with it will need an implementation of the server it uses (the subset and data of it's endpoints) How do you preserve that?

Browsers don't usually break older pages. The only time this happens when you rely on unstandardized features. At least, I have not noticed any page breaking in the past 15 years except for the ones I built using unstandardized API's.

Post by samstave » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

spicybright wrote: post #98

elric wrote: post #64

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> 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

Post by ralmidani » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

mywittyname wrote: post #71

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #13

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This is why I still try so hard to buy physical copies of games, and if there is a GOTY Edition, to have the DLC be on-disk , as opposed to being a bunch of download vouchers. I wanna be able to play the freaking game in ten years without worrying about whether the game/console's online service is still available to do some mandatory authentication or version check.

Unfortunately, a lot of new releases need a 0-day patch to be playable. It's basically an anti-piracy/anti-early release measure. So if you really want to preserve a game on disk, you pretty much have to pick up another copy stamped at a later date to include all of the patches.