Is this true for ecstasy? I thought it was more of a short-term thing.
Regardless, even if it elicited some response in him... being a modern billionaire usually requires stepping on lots of heads, being ruthless and very self-interested. So I think it wouldn't bring someone like Musk a whole lot closer to the rest of us.
Fair point, I haven’t had either experience in a very long time but I recall having a more empathetic and eye opening experience long ago.
To your point, maybe it’s a good argument to not have billionaires that are seemingly ignorant of the normality we normals face on a day to day basis, be an influence on policy that they lack the ability to fully contemplate.
Such individuals might just consider policy based on data points that aren’t reflective of how their policy changes might affect everyday folks.
It's actually photogrammetry, not LiDAR (or at least, the LiDAR scans aren't done by Street View cars), which is why it's limited only to certain pre-scanned cities instead of everywhere with modern Street View.
I agree as a Canadian. It feels like there's vastly more reporting on this than there are actual people fully supporting this movement. These things may be getting more coverage because they sound so outrageous and novel, but it's an unpopular idea even among Albertans. It also lacks anything that Quebec's once-mighty secessionist force had - no unified organization pushing for it, no vision for what an independent Alberta would be like, no cultural differences with the rest of Canada, no irreconcilable grievance with the federal government (outside of them not being conservative enough).
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of tension in Alberta - but as it stands, this movement is more of a way to voice discontent, rather than a serious plan to become a sovereign state. IMO, it's not worth a dramatic full-page treatment that paints this as a likely possibility - but foreign reporting on Canadian issues has often been very questionable.
>t feels like there's vastly more reporting on this than there are actual people fully supporting this movement.
Which is everything to say about today's media. They are, wrong, made up and late. They are only here for the clicks and view. Not for informing anyone.
Some people despised the XP UI when it first came out to a lot of fanfare. To this day, "Fisher-Price UI" is strongly associated with it.
Most people seem to think that whatever design language they got used to at a certain age was the obviously superior choice for all ages.
I think the biggest issue of modern UI design is that a lot of the software with it is poisoned by metric-chasing and mass data collection that megacorps love. But on a deeper level, most modern UX designers are vastly better than the average person working on UIs in the 90s. All the horrendous stuff from the 90s got forgotten, leaving behind only the fond memories of Windows 9x and similar.
I'm much younger than you, and I get liking the 9x design only in the sense that this was the last time when MS did a clean-slate design and redesigned everything in the system to be consistent, as opposed to them juggling like 6 different design languages for the sake of backwards compatibility and their apparent fear of not making something new. But as a design.. well, "all components must be the exact same shade of grey, look identical and have as little hierarchy as possible" isn't the peak of design, imo.
I really don't understand what people are losing their marbles about. I know (re)designs always face some controversy, but the reception here on HN seems overwhelmingly negative.
It's not even a full redesign - they're advertising a few new "expressive" elements that developers will be able to add to their existing Material 3 apps. The examples they're giving in the articles are mostly mockups with the use of these new components dialed up to 11, to show off what it is.
As someone who made a few small things using the Material spec in the past, I like this. Don't get me wrong, Material 1 was great, but it was also very rigid and samey - there was no official way to make your design adhere to it and look like something you made. Material 2 fixed this by introducing more variety and new elements. This is Material 2 for their current design stage - to me it looks like giving the individual designer more freedom to customize their website or app while still looking "like Android."
I feel like we're reading two different posts. In my interpretation, the post describes the whole accusation as a logical contradiction. It's not your normal insider trading - it's an accusation based on the fact that the CEO did any stock transactions while knowing classified information that also related to his company. What was he supposed to do to make this right? Tell the general public the classified information? Avoid doing anything with his company's shares indefinitely (or at least, for the decades until said information is declassified)? The defense here goes beyond "everyone does this so this is fine" (though I wouldn't be surprised if others did in fact do this).
You got me, I just came to the comments to learn what felonies I’m committing so I may be missing some nuance.
But I do believe that doing stock transactions while knowing material non-public information is the definition of insider trading that you’re taught if you ever work at a public company. As for how exactly you’re supposed to handle that if you’re the CEO I’m not sure but I don’t think the answer is “just do the insider trading, everyone does it.”
Isn't Sharepoint like an enterprise management tool? I've never interacted with it once.
As for appdata... There's many faults to find in modern Windows changes, but I'm not willing to pin this on MS. Microsoft stuff tends to use %appdata% fairly sensibly, in most cases. On the other hand, the behavior of third-party developers has been really frustrating. What was initially intended as a universal storage location for some program data has become some kind of program container. Now, whenever you download some giant 300-500mb Electron app or whatever, you can be sure that it will force its entirety into appdata with no way to change the location. Every one of these developers has decided that their program is so valuable and Important that it's inconceivable that the user might want to install it on anything but the system drive. No, our program is unique and deserves nothing but the best!
>Now, whenever you download some giant 300-500mb Electron app
There's the mistake right there. Electron is to be avoided like the plague; if all I want is the same dumb touchscreen focused web UI of the creator's website, there's no need to wrap it in a Chrome instance and call it a 'desktop' app when it doesn't follow a single desktop UI convention.
This isn't really the point of the post. Even a 10mb compact native desktop app is in the wrong if it forces itself into appdata with no alternatives - it's just that modern web-app-likes seem more likely to do this. Some of them aren't even Electron, but they always manage to somehow take up hundreds of megabytes of space anyways.
Is there a huge difference in outcomes, really? On average, I feel like the people who live in dead-end cities and towns that have no hope left in them would move on their own, given the money. But the places that still have promise in the form of natural resources or manufacturing capacity could get their economies restarted, letting them attract people and investment.
You redirected me to this comment from my other one up the thread. But for #1, your blog post mentions that going with the USB cable option provides the best quality, which is what I use. Maybe a better wording is that VD is preferred for people who want to use it wirelessly.
For #2... that sounds like some kind of a software issue that only applies to DCS? Or maybe some obscure issue with the headset software? When I take off the headset in its normal link mode, it will usually pause whatever's going on PC-side, but I can just press the power button and keep it running if that's required. Never had an issue with this, let alone something that requires restarting the whole headset.
Is VD actually better than USB link? If that's the case, I might look into buying it. I thought that the post reaffirmed this, but I may be wrong.
I was under the impression that the inconvenience of using a USB cable is compensated by the higher throughput/lower latency of using a direct cable connection vs. a theoretically more limited wireless connection. Does VD simply have a better compression algorithm than Link, or can it actually push through more data?
I'm just pointing out different options that exist. Virtual Desktop is WiFi only but ALVR can do either.
If you're not capped by bandwidth because you can hardware encode into H265 or AV1, it shouldn't make a difference (besides the bugs and software quirks in both programs)
It offers better compression algorithms, and importantly exposes settings for you to fine tune for your network and GPU. If you have good enough network equipment you may be able to push more data over wireless than wired (most motherboards are bottlenecked by the USB controller bandwidth).
I'll admit that I'm not up-to-date with all the updates and developments, nor do I play DCS, but I've never felt like Virtual Desktop was required. I just hook it up with a cable, open the Oculus app and then I can use whatever runtime or software I want. That's the way it always worked for me.
It depends on your network though. In my case the image quality was good, but going to the link cable was a substantial improvement in quality and latency.
Regardless, even if it elicited some response in him... being a modern billionaire usually requires stepping on lots of heads, being ruthless and very self-interested. So I think it wouldn't bring someone like Musk a whole lot closer to the rest of us.