I’ve owned a half dozen VR headsets, starting with Oculus DK2 up to the Vision Pro. I currently use both the Vision Pro and a Meta Quest 3.

The software in the apple product is like nothing else on the market I’ve used. It’s not a perfect product, not even a great one really, but Apple have done a great job making VR/AR in their own style and I have a lot of optimism for this product line in their hands going forward. There’s a fair bit of new in visionOS that nobody else has done yet.

I don’t know what the BoM cost is for AVP1, but it’s almost certainly a lot higher than other flagship headsets on the market.

In what way do you feel like apple laptops are just fancy tablets?

Every time they do something to propel space exploration forward. . .

Musk is trying to build the Dune future, not the Star Trek future

One of those exceptions is to be 65 years or older. Guess who that disproportionately benefits?

The path to a viable third party presidential candidate has to pass through the down ballot races. If you want (for example) a future green party or libertarian president, you need a bunch of governors, senators, and representatives first.

Third parties struggle to get on presidential ballots because they are ineffectual on a national scale. They’re ineffective on a national scale because they barely exist in between presidential elections.

Expecting to change the political landscape from the top down is misguided and unrealistic.

What’s a tortoise?

I spent a decade as a full time Tcl developer and even I don’t use fossil.

ARStechnica has a nice write up of it

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/civilization-vii-preview-a-new-age-dawns-for-this-decades-old-4x-series/

Jill Stein is a Russian asset

Great news for Donald Trump

Puns are their own rewords!

Profit is created from the output of productive labor. The amount of profit varies depending on the efficiency of the market and the company.

Companies are force multipliers for labor. The company’s profit comes from that force mulitplication, not by withholding profit from the worker who generated it.

Profit can only be made by exploiting labour. There can’t be any other way

This is a bad take and suffers from overly-simplistic thinking. Corporations are force multipliers for labor and the economic value of your labor is increased by joining forces with others.

You know, the usual stuff. Cross-dressing men at libraries, “military age” migrant caravans headed towards our southern border, and how high the taxes are for the top bracket. Totally normal concerns that directly affect average Americans in this day and age.

I wonder what percentage of these sovcit chuckleheads is also strongly in favor of “mass deportations”

Nobody is surprised by this. The Harris campaign is aware of and is reminding people of this exact fact. It’s part of why the ad is compelling. Seems smart and effective to me. It’s made everyone stop to talk about how Trump is famous for firing people.

The triangle of rhetoric is appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, appeal to logic. They don’t accept any of it thay didn’t come from within thier social group so there is no convinving them and that is why Tronald Dump can say he could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and have them call it fake news despite being recorded.

This is spot on. Delve into the inevitable “Politics and Religion” section of any old school web forum for white guy hobbies and nine times out of ten it’s going to be knee deep in a loud circle jerk consisting of these exact guys whipped into a frenzy over nothing. Look, but don’t touch, it’s like a buzz saw in there.

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Crosswind stability and you need the larger bed for tighter turning with the gooseneck or fifth wheel hitch.

Towing, in particular with a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer.