We get it. You don't like Beyonce. Neither do I, but I'm not making a scene over that fact.

Around 1990, I worked for a couple months on an embedded device that had an 80186 and a megabyte of RAM. At one point, I had access to a huge pile of 1MB SIMMs and took a stack home for the evening and using memory boards that allowed you to stack up to 8 of them into one SIMM slot in your computer to figure out just how little RAM Windows NT 3.5 really needed to boot. It booted successfully with 12MB of RAM. It really wasn't usable, but it did boot up. Nowadays, Windows is probably only marginally usable with 12GB of RAM.

They work for Meta. I would expect them to be miserable.

The company has been dumping 10 figures a year into trying to build a VR world no one wants, with nothing to show for it after the better part of a decade. At some point, you expect morale to decrease.

They'll use the same excuse when AI perfects the Torment Nexus, I'm sure.

Oops. I thought I was responding to the story about the grossly insecure White House app.

Still, it's incompetence all the way down.

Although I'm not as big a fan of Hanlon's Razor as I used to be, I'd be willing to chalk this up to typical government incompetence, farming this work out to the cheapest bidder in a way where no one involved in any decision-making has any technical expertise whatsoever.

Nothing is going to get better as long as the U.S. education system is captured by ideologues whose priorities are _not_ an educated, literate and thinking populace.

It went to the same place that Winamp 4 went to.

I loved Hack 1.0.3. At some point between then and now NetHack got unreasonably difficult for me.

Multiple instances of a name with a non-ASCII character and of course /. can't display it. Is it still 1999?

I'm referring to Erdos, of course, but I replaced the non-ASCII o with a diacritical so it would be displayed in my message.

I rarely see _any_ subtitles that are not appallingly bad, including YouTube.

Apparently your blue sensing photoreceptors in your eye are super sensitive to blood sugar, and you could do a blood sugar test with a color calibrated phone app having people compare two shades of blue side by side. If you can't tell them apart, your blood sugar meets/exceeds/is below a certain threshold. It's not hyper accurate but useful for diabetics.

All of Engie's plants use standard designsm there's no shortage of staff who know how they work and how to maintain them. Standardization is a major pillar of why France's nuclear costs are so low and so safe.

In our neighborhood all the kids (who look like they weigh about 75 lbs, so about 2x the hp/weight ratio of an adult) have these borderline dirt bike looking things and they're constantly doing the "ride doing a wheelie for 500' in a mostly straight line" except when they wipe out and slide into oncoming traffic. A couple of kids this year have already gone to the hospital in my area for that sort of thing. I dunno how fast they can go but seems like at least 30mph with tweaks which is street legal scooter territory. Ebikes are nice because there's no license or registration so the cost is low, but they're commuting 3-5 miles each way 5 days a week on public roads, so they're definitely part of normal traffic, and they're absolutely getting in a ton of very messy accidents.

The disorientation goes away for most people after ~1-2 weeks, but yeah, you have to be really committed to the product. I am very resistant to motion sickness but I recall a couple times in the first month where I was in some ultralight airplane sim (like pilotwings type thing) and looking down while banking sharply and almost threw up.
 
Mass consumer VR is a fucking dumb idea though, I'm stunned apple was still shipping hardware updates, they must have contracted for a million of the displays or something and were hoping they could limp across the finish line without sending too many off to the landfill.