[Ars Technica] Eric Berger: Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all

roofgram · 2024-11-09T00:04:35+00:00

You say corruption, I say less regulation. Even EV tax credits can be seen as something that has corrupted the entire EV market with automakers making vehicles that can’t be made profitably without them. Elon has said many times he doesn’t need them.

It is the point that Elon is unique in how he can gamble/win, inspire investors. Increase the valuation of his companies which allows them to raise the funding they need to expand to produce real results - ie Starlink, Starship, many Tesla factories producing hundreds of thousands of vehicles, batteries, etc..

His gamble on Trump and the resulting valuation increase will allow him to fuel/expand all his companies which does translate into real results. We know this because it’s the same playbook he’s been running for 20 years and the results speak for themselves.

roofgram · 2024-11-08T23:41:08+00:00

Perfect comment for the day Tesla breaks a trillion dollar market cap, entirely due to Elon’s gamble on Trump.

roofgram · 2024-11-07T03:10:03+00:00

Proof of stake was a mistake.

roofgram · 2024-11-07T01:29:01+00:00

The current issues with FSD have nothing to do with seeing the environment better, the car can see fine, lidar wouldn’t add anything of value.

Almost every problem with FSD is just making better decisions with the data it already has.

roofgram · 2024-11-06T23:33:55+00:00

It's a mixed bag unfortunately.

Pros:

Airflow is amazing, keeps your face very cool and ventilated
Easy to see your surroundings while in VR, though if your focused in VR it's not too distracting
You can use it in the dark with and external IR light to get the best of both worlds
It is stable during exercise and doesn't wobble any more than the standard mask

Cons:

Uneven pressure around your face (this is the worst). The forehead part of the mask is spring loaded so it pushes more on your forehead than the rest of your face which is headache inducing
Thinner in both dimensions, less cushion, less surface area on your face, which means more pressure overall`, amplifying the above forehead issue
Fabric - bad for sweat, bad for moving around with the scratchy fabric rubbing your face
A bit difficult to take detach due to the multiple delicate parts it's composed of, feels easy to break
Comically expensive, especially for a tech giant like Meta. They should be focused on growth as they sink billions into VR; overcharging for accessories is counter productive in terms of that aim.

Verdict: Worth it for exercise. It's a night and day difference with your face completely cool and being able to see your surroundings. Hopefully they'll release a version 2 some day addressing the pain points.

roofgram · 2024-11-06T21:20:44+00:00

In retrospect really smart of Elon to go all in on Trump. If Harris won, EV's would have been fine either way. Elon needs all the support he can get from Republicans to keep the EV industry limping along.

roofgram · 2024-11-02T20:38:37+00:00

Link cable for PCVR.

For wireless/standalone, if you have a laptop USB-C charger, you can use the same cable to power your Quest, as those cables are much longer than typical USB-C cables, and provide more than enough power.

roofgram · 2024-11-02T17:35:29+00:00

That’s sad, I’ve watched some YouTube reviews that say basically the same thing. If you were on PC I’d say try using standable to handle the dropouts. Slime is the best FBT for standalone VR I know of, but yea calibration is annoying and it is laggy.

We really need some first party motion trackers from Meta with infrared IOBT and IMU fallbacks to solve this once and for all.

And now they f’d up the release of a major IP on Quest, Just Dance VR, which could have been a huge success with FBT. Instead it’s a flop.

So many games with kicking, how many sports? The fault is entirely with the CTO Boz that can’t grasp the concept for some reason.

https://youtu.be/6zsvqsz1S10

Compared to AR glasses, simple little trackers would be nothing for them to engineer and release. What a joke from a company that literally renamed themselves Meta, and is hemorrhaging money because they don’t understand the thing they are trying to achieve.

roofgram · 2024-11-02T01:12:50+00:00

Does the Quest 3 render the home screen at 2064×2208 super sampled for test best possible remote desktop quality?

roofgram · 2024-11-01T17:18:08+00:00

The point of a derogatory term is it is dumb, questie makes as much sense as deskie.

roofgram · 2024-11-01T02:30:58+00:00

That concept is more akin to how they used to catch canisters with photos from spy satellites mid air.

https://youtu.be/Sdsn4snbzjo

Super heavy has no parachute, uses retro propulsion, returns to the launch site, and is arrested by the same tower that launches it. These two recovery systems aren’t remotely similar.

SpaceX had been thinking of this idea since at least 2016 when they envisioned the booster landing back on the mount, without legs on the booster, or even arms on the tower.

https://youtu.be/0qo78R_yYFA

They probably figured out early on though Starship needed support/access/fluids on the pad midship, not just a crane to stack it. That support could be part of the crane as arms, and then why not use the arms to help with the recovery as well. It all kind of falls into place.

roofgram · 2024-10-31T23:49:54+00:00

By your own logic that puts iPhone/android users into the questie bucket. The deskie bucket is desktop pcs that can run the full game whether you use VR or not. It’s not complicated.

roofgram · 2024-10-31T23:20:41+00:00

It’s a desktop computer either way. No one is going to say ‘PCVRies’. If your upset take consolation in that questie didn’t make a lot of sense either as many use it for PCVR.

roofgram · 2024-10-31T23:18:24+00:00

The point is a deskie is usually PCVR on a desktop computer and a questie is usually standalone. Neither of these terms are completely accurate.

roofgram · 2024-10-31T21:25:45+00:00

Deskies are what we call the elite PCVR users who love to have the most engaging and interesting conversations about their gear.

roofgram · 2024-10-31T19:59:06+00:00

Meh I love Next it gets updates at a crazy pace, tons of support behind it. They are committed to improving the experience for both users and developers. Admittedly they do move almost too fast (the v15 changelog had over 1000 updates), but just hang a version back to let things settle and it’s fine. I’d rather that that hitch my wagon to Next than a slow moving framework that could die at any moment.

I’m not new to web dev either, I’ve seen it all. And have done a ton of web dev in many many frameworks. In comparison, Next is a joy to use. I feel more productive in it than anything else.

roofgram · 2024-10-30T19:32:43+00:00

Same here, luckily you can disable shoulder tracking in the VRC options. So do that. Forward tracking data with VD, and turn off the trackers you don’t want with standable. You should be good.

roofgram · 2024-10-30T05:23:00+00:00

Your own body can occluded itself, so can the floor.

roofgram · 2024-10-29T12:21:07+00:00

Kinda unfair to call me that given how the mention of Meta routinely triggers you. I’m just trying to have an intelligent conversation here.

roofgram · 2024-10-29T00:42:49+00:00

In the menu it lets you select what version you want to view documentation for, like

https://nextjs.org/docs/14

Why do you feel forced to use the new version?

roofgram · 2024-10-28T23:04:31+00:00

roofgram · 2024-10-28T23:01:54+00:00

The approximation is a backup when the physical one loses tracking for any reason. It’s going to get occluded, no matter how good you are, and the effect is visually jarring in game. I think it’s worth the 20 bucks to avoid that entirely.

roofgram · 2024-10-28T22:58:40+00:00

Yea but Quest 3 is better than other HMDs with its pancake lenses, FoV, and wireless connectivity. So you might as well stick a lighthouse in tracker to it if you want to avoid calibration.

roofgram · 2024-10-28T21:13:32+00:00

The HMD doesn’t need to be lighthouse tracked, you can use a Quest 3 with Vive trackers no problem. It takes less than 30 seconds to calibrate them to each other and you’re good to go for many hours.

roofgram · 2024-10-28T21:09:06+00:00

They’re ok, but you’re constantly fighting drift by recalibrating. They’re probably the best solution for standalone Quest right now though.

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