conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

$1500 if you don't count any development time at all.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They can't be that selective. There's an insane amount of shovelware on there.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. You'd think with the two things they're really competitive on being raw flops and memory, they'd be a viable option for ML and scientific compute, but they're just such a pain to work with that they're pretty much irrelevant.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They own all of the Pokemon characters. Any art using Pokemon characters is copyright infringement. Non-profit fan art using those characters is almost never fair use; it's just not worth addressing until it's more significant than a fan drawing Pikachu.

They probably would have sent the takedown regardless, but putting it behind a paywall was a huge red flag begging to be shut down even faster.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

How do they expect developers to make apps for it without actually having it available? This is the dev-kit. Yes, they fake it in software so you can do the basics on a MacBook. But that's not really testing. The device in your hands is testing.

I recognize that it's expensive. Being an early adopter isn't cheap. But it's sincerely priced insanely aggressively. The resolution is a huge difference from everything else available. It's the difference between 10 seconds of text making your eyes bleed and actually being able to work on a screen with text. You can't get just that for meaningfully less than the Vision Pro.

The passthrough, same deal. Your alternatives are higher latency while also massively compromising the image quality just to get something passed through at all. And that's before the fact that it has a genuinely powerful SoC in the mix, and high enough quality cameras and processing to be controlled fully with gestures.

There's a reason all the tech enthusiast "media", who have their hands on a lot of these devices regularly, talk about the rest like they're not anything special, but had their minds blown by the Vision Pro. It's a huge step. And, because of their great development tools and relationships with big players, there will be a richer ecosystem than any of the others. Solo developers already could, and have, made real apps with ARKit for phones. They'll make real apps for Vision Pro, too.

Other platforms are "more open", but nobody democratizes app development like Apple. I understand the complaints about the arbitrary limitations they place, and don't like all of them, either, but the bottom line is that they really do make it perfectly reasonable for a single dev or small team to get something high quality published and support themselves on, and all of that vibrant ecosystem is going to add a lot of value to Apple headsets.

Just not day one. Because people need hardware to develop for.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Looks like I can only upload images for actual posts? Here's screenshots of the mods you can do on No Return.

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

It doesn't necessarily have to be.

It could be that Walmart was planning to start winding down physical game sales and made that clear to Microsoft, but Microsoft made a deal to foot the bill for extra inventory to keep supply available during the holidays. Even with packaging and distribution, the actual cost per game to Microsoft isn't really that high.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's just a computer (or program, depending on context). It can do whatever you want it to.

If I want to write/modify a mail server that watches video feeds from 6 different beaches and only bothers accepting mail when beaches 2, 3 and 5 are empty and beaches 1, 4, and 6 have 500 people, nothing is stopping me. It's stupid and a waste of time, but it's a computer. It can run arbitrary code.

That's ignoring that if you read what he wants, it would be a client to the actual recipient mail server and only needs to actually serve the web interface so that he can access his email from various browsers.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're just protocols. There's nothing preventing a program from interacting with both. Webmail isn't some mystical art no one's ever thought of before.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You understand that computers can use more than one port?

There's nothing abnormal about what he's requesting.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

This doesn't make sense.

A website is basically just the responses a server sends to a browser. That server has any functionality you want it to.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I know there's a custom run mode. I don't currently have access to check what you can change.

If I remember I'll try to get a screenshot later.

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