Thanks, i will check it out. I think I did a couple years ago but mac os support was bad at the time? I don't quite remember, but this seems great now. Do you have one? Any experience with using it for work on mac os with multiple virtual screens?
fwiw unlike the other person, I use it for hours with my macbook and have no complaints. you will like it if regular vr makes you feel claustrophobic/isolated, since you still see the real world while using it. I don't understand the obsession with extreme text crispness many people have.
Blurry text is horribly noticeable after a while, and it also creates eye fatigue from trying to focus your vision on it. It also means you can't use smaller font sizes, which is important for some people since you can have more text on screen.
Really? Did you ever try adjusting the text sharpness?
I've a pair of Nreal Air glasses (before the rebrand) and a pair of Xreal Ones. I have found the latter remarkably comfortable and sharp enough for coding, reading text, playing games, etc. for extended periods of time.
The new widescreen modes are a real treat too. Still waiting for Real 3D to get upgraded to 60FPS though.
Because my 15 minute drive can be a 60 minute drive depending on traffic and there are 3 viable routes I could take.
Traffic changes while I'm driving and it automatically updates. An accident can occur on a bridge I'm approaching and I can get detoured and save actual time that I can spend with loved ones instead.
If I'm driving later at night, construction may block off my normal route and I can still get wherever I'm going.
I also get notifications for hazards like objects on the road, disabled vehicles, or events that are going to cause traffic. (I use Waze)
And the cost is zero. When I get into my car it automatically syncs and off I go. There's no reason to NOT have it.
The cost isnt zero, previously you were exercising your brain and spatial awareness, you've now offloaded that critical thinking. Repeat this often enough in all areas of your life and you'll start to see impacts down the line on brain and memory function.
Taxi/ambulance drivers who are required to memorise large parts of their city have the lowest dementia risk out of all (studied) professions.
Malaria is one that comes to mind. We can prevent it, have eradicated it from many countries, but the long tail will take a few more decades to reach planet-wide success.
There are charities that specialize in analyzing climate data to see where outbreaks may occur next. There are charities that just do government outreach to leaders that don't believe medicine is real.
Not every engineering effort is a product in search of market fit or a community.
Some things are already very useful as just a one shot. I just made a quick app to help me pack for a trip, it updated forecasts every day, let me know when rain entered the forecast at one of my stops and gave me a checklist that helped me quell my travel anxiety.
The greatest thing that LLMs have done is allow many to achieve things that they couldn't have before. I'm incredibly disinterested in "I can do the same thing I was already doing x% faster"
> gave me a checklist that helped me quell my travel anxiety.
it's truly fascinating how many positive descriptions of AI gesture at emotional management. I think that's the killer feature of this technology -- it makes people feel good, capable, reassured -- without the risk and vulnerability of interacting with another human.
I use Google Weather for my forecasts btw, no need to vibecode an app for that
Gathering forecasts for each leg of a trip only on the particular days for the particular location is tedious. Anyone can do it with google weather but why spend the time when you don't have to.
I can keep track of my expenses on a napkin but i'd much rather use a spreadsheet or dedicated app especially when that app is effectively free.
I asked Google Gemini to generate me a basic expense estimator to paste in ... Google Sheets. Every single formula needed editing. At least it generated the basic layout for me.
> Not every engineering effort is a product in search of market fit or a community
I think you misunderstood my point: by "legitimate stand-out products", I meant exactly that, with no connotation of commercialization. Maybe you can agree that having a high signal-to-noise ratio for (open source) projects is a desirable goal?
> Some things are already very useful as just a one shot.
I agree. I too have made or forked about a dozen apps and tools in the past few months. It would be dishonest not to consider the flipside, that this software is overfitted to the needs of a single person. Further, this hyper-bespoke software typically feature-complete within moments of the final prompt, and I have,on occasion, completely forgot about the tool/app I spent a weekend created, it clearly wasn't worth the effort I put in.
> The greatest thing that LLMs have done is allow many to achieve things that they couldn't have before.
I disagree; but see where you're coming from. I'm chuckling at the irony of my word-choice: I initially had used "project" but nixed it because of its frequent association with Open Source. I instead opted for "product" as a broader term. For the sake of clarity, my original comment is referring to commercial and non-commercial software projects/products.
Spending 1 day vibecoding or modding an existing app to fit you better and not using it is much better than spending, 2 weeks and then using it from sunk cost falacy.
Also it teaches you that what you think you need and want is not what you need and want. This is why you are not using it
> having a high signal-to-noise ratio for (open source) projects is a desirable goal?
It’s not obviously true. A higher number of attempts, a larger talent pool, typically doesn’t change the average much (or it might even make the average go down), but tends to produce higher peak outcomes.
We see this everywhere (science, startups, sports, chess, etc).
If you want the best spreadsheet, game, or whatever app you want, you’re only interested in the few highest peaks.
So you do actually get better signal to noise with a larger wasteland of discarded attempts. The higher peaks make it easier to filter out the noise.
The goal you’re intrinsically motivated by seems different than this. That seems to be the whole disagreement.
Considering Microsoft wasn't allowed to use SkyDrive as a name for cloud storage because Sky is registered for unrelated purposes, I would assume using the same trademark in a directly competing product would not be allowed.
Yeah, I think you're right. It's like when you ask it, "which weighs more, 10 pounds of feathers or 100 pounds of rocks", and it's like, "obviously they both weigh the same, I've heard this one".
There are totally some political correctness effects in LLMs. Like, the last part about "along with a small lecture about gender biases" totally tracks. But the riddle switcheroo itself isn't showing much.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted? Of course an LLM will return the answer to a widely known and commonly cited riddle that exists because of the far more rigid societal gender norms 50 years ago?
LLMs are just statistics based on vibes. Switching the gender of the character in the beginning of the story, but keeping all else identical is going to be a huge signal into the noise, and that response is going to be wildly likely to occur.
Then why do the original Command-R, Command-R+ and WizardLM2-8x22B (taken down because Microsoft forgot to run safety checks) get it right every time?
But the newer models get it wrong?
I’m not saying it’s a “political conspiracy”, it’s the alignment tax.
I went through the multi-step process for the bananas last year. It failed to validate me during the purchase window. Their support never responded to me (it's been 9 months now).
It was a stupid flow that sent me from email to computer to phone and had one-time links that didn't transfer between devices.
I have no interest in going through this much effort to go to an event.
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