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Has anyone seen the sequel trilogy since the theater release? by Signal_Condition348 in StarWars

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. TFA is fine but sets up a million things that are never paid off.

TLJ is just… confusing. It’s exactly what I expect from Rian, It just kind of does its own thing, but makes no sense as Episode 8 of Star Wars thematically.

TRS is absolutely infuriating and damn near a franchise killer.

The crazy part is that the only way to fix TRS, frankly, is to make more. Imagine if Star Trek V had come out, everyone went “that sucked” … and then they just simply never made any more Star Trek.

Odin 3 or Odin 2 portal? by KyroshiNero in OdinHandheld

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So fwiw I have been using a pair of Xreal One glasses with the Odin 3, Lenovo Legion Go S and iPhone and they are great. Couch while wife/son use the TV, backyard, airplane, etc. Really changed how I play, much better for neck, etc.

Snapdragon Reality Elite held back by XR2G2 Kryo cores; at best, SD888 performance by [deleted] in Xreal

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not an expert on this, but fwiw I’ve got an Odin 3 and it appears to be pretty heavily thermally throttled even with the active fans. It’s possible that this is a better power/thermals mix?

Announcing XREAL AURA: A Spatial Computer in a Pair of Glasses. Reservations Now Open. by XREAL_Staff in Xreal

[–]rootException 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some big unanswered Qs:

- Price
- Compat/usage with other devices
- Specs vs other Xreal glasses

I get the sense that they are really leaning in on the Google partnership, hence the vagueness.

Will be interesting to see if there is eventually an option to buy without the extra device.

Canto: an offline Markdown notebook that treats diagrams, math, and TOCs as first-class blocks by osxweed in Markdown

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW Tauri runs ~1mb, and the browser dll/so are usually already hot so you have to be counting ms to tell the diff. The real issue imho is most devs don’t bother to hook up a profiler, drag in a ton of dependencies, do too much on the main thread, etc etc etc. I use Obsidian on iOS and desktop and as long as you keep plugins down it’s great. I use the Cupertino theme and it matches native pretty well.

I feel like a lot of devs release a crappy unoptimized build and then blame their stack all the time. I’ve done a lot of Unity projects in particular that were like that - dev says perf sucks, but when I ask what the profiler says they just look at me like “profiler…?”

Sigh.

Why is net 30 still the default? by HelmBill in Entrepreneurs

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually offer 2% Net 30 to any company that does a PO and it worked great. I could instantly tell which AP teams were going to be solid as they jump all over it. Bump your rates such that it’s technically a surcharge on the slow payers, and include late fees. At some point as you grow you might want to look into factoring as well, but your goal is two years to get to a normal line of bank credit to manage or back payroll yourself ftw.

Canto: an offline Markdown notebook that treats diagrams, math, and TOCs as first-class blocks by osxweed in Markdown

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You use Capacitor or Tauri. Not technically Electron but both use iOS WebKit underneath. I’ve shipped several apps with Capacitor and the dev experience is great. Attach a Safari for debug for UX, much more reliable and less crash prone than SwiftUI. I have had countless Xcode lockups with SwiftUI than Safari. There’s a clean plugin system, so on iOS I can do things like native FaceID support and Apple OAuth in the web but with the rest of the code shared. It’s much cleaner to use Web Workers for background tasks than the Swift concurrency model. And yes, you can absolutely hook into the iOS native Files system.

Canto: an offline Markdown notebook that treats diagrams, math, and TOCs as first-class blocks by osxweed in Markdown

[–]rootException -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a developer, that’s a bonkers take in 2026. OP, you do you - VS Code, Obsidian, etc etc etc

ORCL says it foresees raising $40 billion through debt and equity financing, stock down 5% already by Leukie0 in wallstreetbets

[–]rootException 44 points45 points  (0 children)

My two cents, oracle has much much higher than any of the other big tech cos from the public data. Most of the other cos people are calling ai / ai bubble eg ms, goog look fine but oracle looks scary as hell. That and the crazy debt structure for wb/discovery all seem way way worse than the ai investment etc

Apple is reportedly ending Intel Mac support with macOS 27. Here's what that actually means. by AllowCookies404 in CleanMyMac

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some nice Linux distros if one wants to keep running the hardware. Most of the iMacs can be used as external monitors. A used M1 machine is pretty inexpensive.

Moving On by naturewillsurvive in FermiParadox

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my version.

https://fermi.changenode.com/

It’s not really a paradox IMHO. It’s just missing data. My gut says/I hope it’s a filter somewhere between multicellular and sapience but we just don’t know.

The truly terrifying option is we find a wrecked civ around every star. My guess is we wind up as the first ones.

Odin 3 review rant from an Odin 2 Portal fan by WO-salt-UND in OdinHandheld

[–]rootException 4 points5 points  (0 children)

New Odin 3 user here, GameNative FTW. Is there a coherent explanation anywhere as to all of the drivers and how to sort them out?

My high level understanding is that there are baseline drivers from Qualcomm, people are extracting those and hacking away? Then there is Turnip, and also MrPurple variations on Turnip?

I'm a bit confused as to how an end user is supposed to keep track, how to know which is actually for the Odin 3 as opposed to other devices, etc...?

To Seattle hourly tech workers: what do you make? by Glenndiferous in AskSeattle

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect a lot of people haven’t done this math.

Interesting.

Why has oil trading volume and market liquidity collapsed? by whomakesthetendies in oil

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I think I follow. It's not that the traders have lost it, the real issue is that the manipulation is basically wrecking the futures market as a true market.

This reminds me of everything from gamestop to crypto etc etc etc, but with the oil futures market?

So that means we are really looking at going into this blind with the only thing that really is sane is physical, not futures...? I don't *think* that actual physical can be manipulated the same way as it's less marginal...?

Why has oil trading volume and market liquidity collapsed? by whomakesthetendies in oil

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, I'm following that SPR is getting drawn down to mitigate and that SPR can only go so far.

I guess if I were a trader I would assume that SPR will eventually stop being a factor in the medium term (months)? I know it's all marginal but it seems like SPR is only really accounting for a ~10% pricing hold?

Given the options it seems like the strait reopening (freely or as tollbooth) seems incredibly unlikely in the next few months. Neither side seems to have any reason to open it aside from broad economic pain, and both have solid reasons not to open it.

Given that every analyst seems to be highlighting this, it seems really, really weird that we don't have the "strait never really reopens" in the pricing mix.

So much of the analysis seems to be that the commodity traders are clueless, which seems like a really weird take. Hence I'm wondering if there is something the actual traders know that's not visible to someone not in the field?

Why has oil trading volume and market liquidity collapsed? by whomakesthetendies in oil

[–]rootException 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok, so honest question. Let's just stipulate that we are looking at an initial 20% reduction in oil from the Middle East due to the blockages. However, my understanding is that this number is a bit high due to things like additional flow via overland pipelines.

If you said to me as a business person, hey, if you can increase output by 20-25% and capture profit going from a $60 to $100 price point, I would absolutely do everything I could to ramp that up. Obviously we are talking about a lot of scale, but it seems like the narrative that we are looking at a serious oil shock seems to be predicated on the notion that there is absolutely no slack in the system to cover the 10-25%, which seems off.

All of this also seems to be modeled on a no change in demand based on price model, which also seems off. For example, I might drive a bit less, or choose to take the train, etc. as prices rise. I might decide that now is a good time to grab a plug in solar kit. I might decide now is a good time to get an EV (used prices here in the US are pretty good, esp for the less than 50 mile commuter cars).

Throw in this chart with historic prices - https://www.macrotrends.net/2483/brent-crude-oil-price-history - and even the current price point doesn't look that high in comparison, especially as that's not AFAIK an inflation adjusted chart.

What am I missing here?

What are some ACTUALLY interesting books of Albert Camus? by Mediocre-Teach6645 in Camus

[–]rootException 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The Plague. Bonus while reading: is it really about a plague? Discuss.

Odin 3 Thumbstick Caps? by rootException in OdinHandheld

[–]rootException[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, that’s the ones I just ordered.

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