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Comment I thought Magic Leap was over hyped until I tried (Score 2, Informative) 15

I donâ(TM)t fall for hype, and I always believed Magic Leap were burning through crazy amounts of money, I almost put them into the category of that juice bag squeezing startup. I didnâ(TM)t think much of them. But then I tried Magic Leap and I understood. I played the game demo created by Weta Studios, it blew my mind. The problem with VR is that it takes you out of this world, you find it hard to balance and itâ(TM)s generally just awkward. With VR you canâ(TM)t interact with others or the world around you. I see that AR removes a lot of the VR issues, you can actually move around without fear of bumping into things, balancing is not an issue and you can interact with others. Yes, the kit I used was pretty massive, massive glasses around the head and a battery pack that clipped into my pocket.

Comment LSD microdosing (Score 1) 90

I've microdosed on LSD before, but I voted no. As a developer that sits in-front of his computer all day, microdosing on LSD made me very restless and slightly anxious, although microdosing is supposed to be sub-perceptable (you are not supposed to notice the effect). I took 1/10 of a tab of LSD and I could feel the effect enough to disrupt my work, only at 1/30th of a tab was the microdosing experiment not perceptible. Going for a walk while microdosing was beautiful and mildly profound. I can see that if I was working in a more physical environment with creative outlets microdosing with LSD would have enhanced my creativity.

Comment This is why I recently switched from Android to iP (Score 2) 114

Iâ(TM)ve been a long time Android user and was dismayed by all the manufacturer environmental records. Apple rate along side the Fairphone (https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/greener-electronics-2017/) on Greenpeaceâ(TM)s guide to green electronics. Apple is definitely not a perfect corporate citizen, but there are some things they are doing much better than the rest.

Comment It's like a Venn diagram (Score 3, Informative) 226

They are not all the same thing, but they have components which are similar, like overlapping circles in a Venn diagram. DevOps is the result of Lean IT. If you need to make things such as release cycles go faster, then you will end up with automation of manual and repetitive tasks, hence DevOps. Lean IT is largely about reducing waste. So if you reduce the size of the development cycle, you reduce the likelihood of a large amount waste occurring. From that comes Agile, small bite-size chucks of work. Although lean IT is not just about development.

Submission + - Re:scam uses chatbot to waste scammers time (stuff.co.nz)

rgbe writes:

Scammers could soon get a taste of their own medicine, from a new chatbot designed to waste their time, diverting attention from potential victims.
Re:scam (https://www.rescam.org/), developed by Netsafe, engages with scammers over email, asking them a never-ending series of questions. It imitates real human tendencies, complete with humour and grammatical errors.
The aim is to turn the table on scammers by wasting their time, and ultimately damage their profits. Re:scam will continue the conversation indefinitely, or until the scammer stops replying. The would-be victim's email address is not used.

It works by simply forwarding a scam email to their email address, me@rescam.org.

Comment Mine (Score 1) 298

I started with Debian back as my primary desktop in 1998, but have been using different flavours of Ubuntu since it arrived. Currently using Ubuntu GNOME have used Xubuntu extensively too. Keep up the good work. Although, I have tried Debian again and may go back if the Ubuntu experience does not get better (unlikely). Biggest gripe is the state of screen rendering on Linux. Wayland is so important to get going. Web Browser: Firefox for personal stuff, Chrome for work. Email Client: Gmail for work and personal. Terminal: Tilix recently, but Terminator for sometime before that. IDE: Atom (if you call that an IDE), sometimes Eclipse or WebStorm. File manager: midnight commander, then default gnome. Basic Text Editor: vim. IRC/Messaging Client: web based clients only. PDF Reader: default gnome. Office Suite: Libre office, then Google Docs. Calendar: Google Calendar, integration with Gnome using online accounts. Video Player: vlc. Music Player: Rhymbox. Photo Viewer: Default Gnome, gThumb. Screen recording: For snapshots default Gnome app, for videos I use recordMyDesktop.

Submission + - Rocket Lab's first rocket launch, almost makes it into orbit (radionz.co.nz)

rgbe writes: The Silicon Valley-funded company held the maiden flight of its battery-powered 3D-printed rocket at Mahia Peninsula at 4.20pm today. Earlier launch attempts were delayed due to wind. In a post to Twitter, the company said, "Made it to space. Team delighted. More to follow!" Although the 15m rocket, Electron, did reach space, it did not quite make it into orbit. The American-New Zealand company said it would be investigating why not. It said this was the first orbital-class rocket launched from a private launch site in the world. "It has been an incredible day and I'm immensely proud of our talented team," Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck said.

Comment I like GNOME (Score 1) 386

I've been running Linux almost exclusively for almost 20 years on my primary desktop. I've tried many many desktop environments, but I've come back to GNOME 3 and I actually really like it... once I got used to it. It's not cluttered, it's one of the most polished DE's available and relatively bug free. There are a few small issues, but not nearly as much as other DEs.

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