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kokken commented on Meta has sold nearly 20M Quest headsets, but retention struggles remain (2023)   roadtovr.com/quest-sales-... · Posted by u/mgh2
kokken · 2 years ago
I think the main issue with VR is that it is fundamentally different from both gaming consoles and computers. I bought a meta quest 3 last year specifically to play table tennis, I play it every single day until my muscles are sore. The other apps and games, impressive as they may be, are just gimmicks. You get awed for the first few hours and put the device away never to be touched again.

I would say the biggest hurdle is actually motion sickness. Every game or app that allows your avatar to move through controller usage, rather than moving around your room (such as table tennis) can not be used for longer periods of time. My wife who is prone to motion sickness can not wear the device for more than 10 minutes. Myself, who had never had motion sickness before in my life, can handle a full hour before being overwhelmed.

kokken commented on A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion   onemileatatime.com/news/l... · Posted by u/ghgr
kokken · 2 years ago
I’m sure the industry has standards for assigning blame, but it looks to me that ATC is clearly being assholes here.

Even from this article that clearly seems to think Lufthansa is in the wrong I walked away with a feeling that ATC and small town cops are one and the same.

kokken commented on Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling   geekwire.com/2023/hasbro-... · Posted by u/webmaven
kokken · 2 years ago
The market seems to disagree with the piece. The stock was in free fall from early October and recovered a bit after the layoff announcement.

Anyone have an idea why?

kokken commented on Find Legal Moves in Brass Birmingham with Datalog   blog.pzakrzewski.com/find... · Posted by u/gieksosz
gieksosz · 2 years ago
Did you publish the code somewhere?
kokken · 2 years ago
mai-shogi in GitHub
kokken commented on Find Legal Moves in Brass Birmingham with Datalog   blog.pzakrzewski.com/find... · Posted by u/gieksosz
kokken · 2 years ago
That was an issue I encountered when writing the logic for Shogi so that I could build my own engine. Writing Python to express the logical dependencies was surprisingly unintuitive.

My original attempt was clunky and I rewrote the logic from scratch 2 or 3 times until I could bear look at the code and not wince.

kokken commented on It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement   theregister.com/2023/10/2... · Posted by u/rntn
davidgerard · 2 years ago
If you have the temperament for it, consider switching to sysadmin. There's a lot less age discrimination there, and decades of experience is a distinct plus point. I'm 56 and my employability is fine.
kokken · 2 years ago
I’ve been thinking about that move. What do you think are the main skills that a SE should refine if they want to transition to a sysadmin role?
kokken commented on Japanese cyclotron has managed to create Sodium-39   twitter.com/ToughSf/statu... · Posted by u/latchkey
mrguyorama · 2 years ago
"This was thought impossible"

By who?

kokken · 2 years ago
Me, for one

u/kokken

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