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I'm actually pretty nervous of how few Carmack's we have. Not at all saying they don't exist, but the job market favors engineers hopping around instead of staying at one place a while to become experts in things.
Just because they aren't celebrities it doesn't mean they don't exist.
The thought of Facebook having telemetry on real time eye tracking data for a future popular Oculus VR headset in a few years is horrifying. I’ll never get over the sale of Oculus to Facebook.
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VR is advancing at an incredible pace really, I don't think it's sad.
Can you give some examples? What was not possible and what's possible now?
I'm really glad for what Carmack did. It's rather sad though, that support was dropped for this headset after only two years. As a reminder, the Oculus Go was released more than a year after the Nintendo Switch.
It was obsolete at launch, though. 3DOF is "poison the well" territory and not good marketing for VR at all.
> 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…
This seems pointless. My old phone is obsolete. There is literally no reason I would want to use it over my current phone. I could care less if it was bricked.
The thought of Facebook having telemetry on real time eye tracking data for a future popular Oculus VR headset in a few years is horrifying. I’ll never get over the sale of Oculus to Facebook.
Why? Can you rationally explain what you are afraid of them doing?
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> Also, for the first five years I didn't have any access to the news, for security reasons, so I was very cut off. What did they get you for?
The War On Redemption sucks so much I don't even want to know anymore. The past was better when we left it in the past.
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> 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 ov…
Modern Word versions still load Word 97 docs. There's a decent chance Office versions from around that time still work on Windows 10.
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Facebook's search and suggestion engine is hilariously broken. Say, I am commenting in a thread trying to respond to John Smith. That's the only person whose name starts with a J. If I start typing @J..., the suggestions would be for literally anyone else but John Smith in the thread. On their mobile website (which lags behind the app), typing @John Smith will sometimes suggest a number of John Smiths, none of them b…
Once you do manage to tag @JohnSmith, he will get a notification that he has been tagged in the thread. One notification per thread, regardless of the number of individual posts he was tagged in. The link on the notification will take him to the top of the thread. Depending on the thread's popularity, John could have a very difficult time finding the posts he's tagged in.
Facebook literally wants you to be caught up in wading through their posts, spending your life on their website.