"Yoke" is pronounced like "yo K", not like the control wheel of an aircraft.
(Then again, seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon, I guess striving for accurate pronunciation is a lost cause)
Readit Newsneedle0 commented on Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 relativty.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
The problem with accelerometers and gyros is they drift badly if you try to derive absolute positioning from them alone. They need to be fused with some other form of tracking to anchor them in absolute space, which in the case of the Quest and Vision Pro is done with multiple outward-facing cameras fed into a SLAM algorithm.
Maybe Cardboard could have attempted to use the phones camera for SLAM, but a single lens would only have got them so far. Dedicated VR headsets have at least four cameras pointing in different directions, which are sometimes augmented by IR projectors and/or LiDAR.
To be pedantic, two cameras were enough for the headset to track itself (eg. Lenovo Mirage Solo). The reason that headsets nowadays have 4 cameras is for it to also track the hand controllers that are being held by the user and being flung around nearby...which this also seems to lack.
needle0 commented on Internet Artifact Museum neal.fun/internet-artifac... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
> When someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture, there was a debate about whether they should be called emoticons or emojis
[citation needed].
The history of the word emoji isn't some mysterious thing - the wikipedia article linked in your parent post has it all laid out.
Emoji is a Japanese word meaning pictograph, it isn't derived from the word 'emoticon'. They were developed by Japanese phone companies as an idiomatic expressive addition to Japanese writing, not because 'someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture'. There was no time when they might have ended up being called emoticons.
Right - the fact that Emoji and Emoticons share the first 3 letters is a complete coincidence; The word Emoji is a portmanteau of the Japanese words É (絵; picture) and Moji (文字; letters).
How many "____, the Japanese ____ of ____" exist?
So, whatGate is the scandal's name this time?
needle0 commented on A basic guide to using Asian names asiamediacentre.org.nz/fe... · Posted by u/bear_with_me
As a Japanese native I'm torn on this. On one hand, respecting the local ordering & notation seems to be good manners. On the other hand, this creates an ambiguity where some people are writing Asian names in local notation and some others writing in western notation. (This is even true for Japanese people themselves, as mentioned in the other comments.)
At least things were consistent when everyone wrote them in western notation; now we can't be sure which part is the family name and which part is the given name, especially if it's from a country that you're not familiar with the order/notation rules. There's the "write the family name in all caps" rule to assist with it, but not everyone follows that rule either.
Not covered here: fonts and glyph appearances, which will nearly always end up displaying wrong in certain Asian languages -- https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/
needle0 commented on Why even let users set their own passwords? devever.net/~hl/passwords... · Posted by u/hlandau
We probably will stop one day, but that day isn't yet for many services. There are people who would be unable to use those services if that can't set the password to either the same or a variant of one they always use.
In the tech wold we often forget that there is a wide disparity in people's ability to use tech. Take my father, there is no way he could use a password manager, or two factor, it's just never going to happen. He has a notebook of passwords, that's how he works and he won't change.
We cannot change everyones behaviour, no matter how much it would be better for them. That's a very well learnt lesson, over and over.
The world in 30 years time will be very different, the eldest generations will have grown up with passwords and the internet. Many will have been using password managers, 2 factor, other authentication systems and devices for much of their lives. It's going to be a slow, trickle down change, from "high tech" services down to everyday sites and systems.
Gonna be eagerly waiting for the time when we can finally change our behavior at will, be it neural implants or nanomachines or whatever other method of direct intervention to the brain.
needle0 commented on So you want to write a GUI framework (2021) cmyr.net/blog/gui-framewo... · Posted by u/eatonphil
Only one paragraph for l10n and i18n? A GUI framework written only by people speaking English is 99% most definitely going to get font display wrong ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/ ) and will have a plethora of locale-specific behavior bugs ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/... ).
What does monetization look like? Can you ship standalone games? Source 2 licensing requirements? Is this closer to Unity or closer to Roblox when it comes to publishing?