Even as an admitted Java fanboy, this just makes me cringe.

I watched a talk several month ago where someone was still beating the dead horse of jigsaw, and even they were forced to admit multiple times through the talk that there are still significant problems that make actually using these features completely impractical.

At this point, the community has already solved most of the problems that the java module system might have helped with. Its a poorly thought out feature that doesn't really work and doesn't really give us anything any more.

Well sure, in fact the ability to package up some of our legacy stuff (and importantly the way we built said legacy stuff) into a box that we could easily work with was one of our main use cases.

That said, I think its not uncommon for folks maintaining a legacy project to become somewhat disconnected with the cutting edge of technology. That was really the sort of image I was going for.

I think the difference is that with Google+, the vast majority of its users only had an account to access other unrelated services. Much as I hate Facebook, they do have a fairly large pile of users that use Facebook for Facebook.

This move makes sense. It sucks, but it makes sense.

I think the appeal is for people like me who are passively interested in VR, but don't have and are not interested enough to drop the kind of money you need to build a capable PC in addition to buying a more expensive headset.

One of the things that was keeping me from pulling the trigger is that gap of what I could do with a PC connected version vs something like the Quest. For someone not in the weeds of the VR scene, I found it frustratingly difficult to get a general feel for this. Then Facebook entered the picture and pretty much all interest just went away.

This was actually one of the first big "oh thats nifty" moments for me when I jumped from Docker.

Prior to that we had been doing stuff like prefixing our containers with our usernames, but it was clunky and easy to accidentally screw something up for others. We had piles of scripts to automate setting up the appropriate networks/volumes with the right aliases and all that (and yes, we used docker-compose as well). It was a royal mess that is totally solved by what seems like a really obvious feature.

Docker takes a lot of shit, but I see this as one of the reasons they lost ground so quickly. Docker got all this rolling, and it has a lot going for it. It is stupidly simple to use, and generally works. That said there are a few key features that just never happened, and it allowed others to make ground quickly when they could deliver and solve those use cases.

Yup, minikube was my gateway from Docker.

I already babbled on about this in another comment, but I feel like a lot of these technologies are fairly intuitive once you dive in. It can seem like a huge wall if you have been maintaining a c++ monolith for the last 10 years, and thus all these "get up and running quickly" are trying (and I think succeeding) in solving this. Run a few commands and you've got a mostly functioning environment. Over time, you can figure out what is actually going on under there. In the mean time, you can see what this stuff actually gives you and how you actually work with it.

As someone who made the jarring leap, I'll say it isn't as daunting as it seems on the surface.

The core concepts driving all these technologies are fairly easy to wrap your head around once you make some initial inroads, and the tooling has become very intuitive. The driving factor in a lot of these recent trends has been simplification and re-use, with the goal being to let you focus on the part you actually need to and have the rest more or less just work.

Personally, I went (at a very high level), docker -> podman -> k8s -> istio. This still seems like a common progression. Docker is falling out of fashion, but it is very intuitive and user friendly. I view it as kind of the MySQL of the container world. Not as powerful, but you can get going with it really quickly and it is a good way (imo) to learn the basic principles. Podman and k8s are built on the same ideas (and use a lot of the same underlying tools), but are more flexible. Istio looks really daunting at first, but it is actually pretty straight forward once you dive into it.

There is a tonne of terminology around this stuff too, which I think also can make it seem like a huge barrier if you've been hacking away on a c++ monolith for the last 10 years, but once you start using it, it kinda just clicks (or at least that was my experience).

I actually think that is the problem stuff like this tool is trying to solve. Get users up and doing something so they don't feel like they are staring at a wall with no clue where to even start. "Hey, download this, run this, congratulations you have a service mesh!"

This is where I'm at. I lost my account years ago. As far as I can tell, there is basically no recourse to get it back. It just isn't in their business model to have a human review account issues.

This was perfectly fine back when you were losing access to a free website, but now people are going to be losing access to a physical product that they bought. I'm sure the TOS will have enough legalese to protect them, but I wonder if the bad PR will force them to improve their user support. Cynic in me says probably not, they'll figure that the few extra sales they get won't justify the cost, and bad press doesn't seem to hurt them much.

Either way I don't really care. Any interest I had in Oculus died when Facebook bought them.

Big fan of Medlife Crisis (on youtube). He has done a number of really good videos on over diagnosis and testing, including one on the apple watch in particular.

His focus is usually more on the harm to the patient then any harm to the hospital or finances. If I wasn't on mobile I'd dig up a direct link because he makes some really good and by his own admission non-intuitive points.

I managed to get my account banned years ago. I basically created the account on a whim for who knows why (probably to see a link someone posted), then forgot about it for years until it randomly got stolen one day and used to send spam.

Since I was dumb enough to use (some of) my actual info, I basically can't create a legit account now.

From the brief research I did, it is notoriously difficult to get an account unbanned. It is not in Facebook's business model to pay support staff to handle appeals and such, so if you get banned you are basically done. I spent a little time trying to get my account back and yeah, my experience pretty much met this expectation.

I personally don't care (I lost interest in Oculus pretty much the second Facebook bought it), but this does raise an interesting question of how that will be handled for others. Get banned, lose access to the Oculus headset you've paid good money for.

Its unfortunately used by a lot of HR types, and can be a legitimate way to find a better job.
That said, almost everyone I know that uses it, does so because they feel like they have to or should and not because they want to. No one enjoys using it any more than one would enjoy writing a resume. Its just something you do to further your career.
Which is of course probably why this feature is going to flop hard.

Hah, as a former fatty, that analogy is entirely apt.

I didn't need to go on an all meat or all fat or all grape-leaf smoothie diet or have a doctor cut my stomach in half or any of that nonsense. Basic Calorie counting and getting some exercise was all it took. Yes, people love to point out that not all Calories are not created equal but that is where common sense comes in. Calorie counting works as a good guideline when you combine it with some common sense. Less frozen pizza, more baked chicken and veggies. If you're not striving to be an athlete or have some underlying medical condition, it doesn't need to be any more complicated then that.

I think people seek out quick credit fix solutions for the same reason they follow diet fads. The proper fix is boring and takes awhile to work. A shortcut is appealing.

They best way to have good credit is to just be financially responsible. Pay your bills, don't max out all sources of credit, check your credit report occasionally just for accuracy and the rest will usually sort itself out.

Trying to game the system by maxing out your available credit to reduce utilization and other shenanigans are imo just silly. You also don't need to pay a dime of interest to build your credit rating up, and doing so is unlikely to build it up any faster.

About the only "gaming" type thing I would recommend is to get a few lines of credit going early (even if you don't need or really use them). When you go to buy a house, most lenders are going to be looking for something like 3 open lines of credit for at least 2 years or similar. If you've not so much as signed up for a credit card by that point, you may have some difficulty.

I don't think it would be that disastrous in most cases.

I mean first off, they probably aren't kept forever because, well, why would they be, so you probably at any given time only have so many stored.

Then, how often do you leave sensitive voicemail? I'm sure some people do, but most of the time I leave someone a message its like.. "hey, the meeting moved to 2pm and we had to change to the 5th floor conference room" and not "hey, let me read you our sales plan".

There is a _very tiny_ subset of websites where this might be useful. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is online brokerages.