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@thomasfuchs just making sure, nobody is gonna mistake my post for actual thoughtleadership are they?

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the tech industry. Too many people resolving issues, not enough people issuing resolve.

@mattl St. Puddy’s Day

so the tech industry seems to be having a bad time lately huh

@thomasfuchs you should look in the kebab menu

@thomasfuchs fuck u dad i’m installing BSD userspace on linux

@thomasfuchs what if you install linux on a mac

I mean, damn. https://apnews.com/article/musk-tesla-electric-vehicle-steering-wheel-c69867f4eb15bc582d956c309aeba95b

I truly and genuinely do not understand why people _ever_ thought Musk was competent. Where did this even come from??? Why did people like Gruber actually think he was good??? (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/27/musk-twitter-open-letter)

It seemed patently obvious years ago that he was a predatory, conniving, grasping acquisitive animal of a man. A completely incompetent drag on society as a whole. With nothing to his name to contribute back.

I mean, the guy literally blighted the sky and set back the entire field of astronomy. (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01420-9)

Why didn't his horrible practices at Tesla and SpaceX get noticed? (https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376)

Why didn't people hold his shitty cars to account? (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/)

Why didn't the "full self-driving" bullshit raise an alarm? I mean, people DIED. (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/tesla-autopilot-crash-public-transit/)

I'm not even gonna get into his fucking Boring Company bullshit, his weird Grimes relationship, naming his children random collections of letters and numbers, the flagrant SEC violations and stock manipulation, and more than I can even think of.

Why did _Twitter_ of all things finally change public opinion? What the fuck???

@thomasfuchs this seems bad

@kf you know, if you set your mind to it, you could be one of those people who checks the weather before going outdoors

@thomasfuchs i miss space

The best way I can describe the visual experience is, if I got a set of binoculars, duct-taped them to a helmet, and then faced a CRT screen while it was trying to display an HD game. Also if you move the binoculars even slightly, they look like someone smeared vasoline on the lenses.

It’s just as disconcerting and uncomfortable as that description sounds.

This may be because VR just in general sucks? I have only ever used one other headset for a few minutes, and it also sucked.

I have *no idea* if what I’m seeing is typical, but I can see sharply IF and ONLY IF I move the headset to a VERY specific spot, from which it cannot move a single millimeter, or everything turns to shit again. Even then, I can only see sharply for a small area right in the center.

The definition seems to be bad in general, even if I solve the blur issue. Anything outside of the very center shows significant smearing and chromatic aberration (color fringes), no matter what I do.

The controllers are confusing, but I could probably cope with that. When sitting, the play area seems bizarrely small because it’s easy to break out of it just by extending my arm.

Tracking of my hand position seems to be busted, so it constantly looks like my virtual fingers are twitching themselves straight and bent constantly.

If Sony were serious about getting people into PSVR2, they might do a couple of things. First, they might show *some* way to know if your experience is visually “correct” or not (e.g., “can you see this shape without blurs?”). It would also be nice to get some reasonable idea of what to expect, because apparently VR just kinda sucks ass in general.

As it is, I’m just left wondering. How should this look? Is there any way to calibrate it or tune it? Does it matter? Am I doing this right? Because it looks and feels like complete ass.

I’m so mad.

Ah, I figured out why all this is happening. Not only why everything looks incredibly bad but also why it literally hurts my nose to wear.

I have long hair.

The PSVR2 is designed to kinda grip your skull from under the back in order to stay in one place. But the front is so heavy compared to the back that, on my head, it just slips forward until the whole weight of the headset is resting on my nose bone.

That puts it at the wrong angle and makes everything look much worse, prevents you from keeping it still, etc.

@thomasfuchs this story is literally “biden took a train”

Did we talk about how Tecent just put the whole series of "Three-Body” up on YouTube for some reason? https://youtu.be/YrLompD6e_k

The book Three-Body Problem must be wild because this show has turned out to be BONKERS

(no i have not read the book. i do not need input on this decision.)

Normies are just so fucked over by the Twitter bullshit istg

@thomasfuchs what an injustice

I already knew about syntactic shortcuts like:

[“1”, “2”, “3”].map(&:to_i)

But today I learned I could do something like:

[“1”, “2”, “3”].map(&method(:Integer))

Actually, this example is a bit contrived. What I really wanted to do was this accursed thing:

ENV[“NUMERICAL_ID”]&.then(&:Integer)

Which will either be `nil` (if the env var is not defined) or an Integer (if it is defined and can be converted safely). Anything else raises an exception.

No point to this. Just something cursed I almost did, but backed away from.