Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.
Readit Newsomni commented on ZType – Typing Game zty.pe/... · Posted by u/lwhsiao
Good? I've got gigabit symmetrical and I'd much rather stream just what I need rather than have to dedicate an entire hard drive to storing a planet I won't see 99% of. And if it replaces some of the god-awful updating procedures from 2020 then all the better.
omni commented on Apple AirPod Pro 2s can now work as hearing aids theverge.com/2024/9/12/24... · Posted by u/pwthornton
Where did this article title come from? Last I checked, "soon" isn't "now," the feature isn't actually available yet
omni commented on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own bold-edit.com/wrote-my-ow... · Posted by u/redman25
The author could try forking and patching VSCode to fix the annoyances manually.
Years ago I had an issue with VSCode: it was missing a small feature that was very important to me, with the GitHub issue stuck in limbo.
I ended up going into the source and implementing the feature myself. It took a few hours after bugfixing, I think the fix was ~100 LOC. Then I used the locally-built version. I recall building took a while, and the source and artifacts took a lot of space, but no other problems.
I also created a PR referencing the issue and it got merged rather quickly. Someone else ended up finishing the work since there were some problems (I think relating to coding conventions, and possible edge cases I didn’t need or handle).
Maybe I was lucky for the feature to not require much edits, and probably for the PR to get taken over and then merged fast. But it seems like the author's issues are also small, and it would be easier and more ergonomic to patch VSCode than to create an entirely new debugger.
I had a near-identical experience. I looked into switching in 2019 and ran into this 2016 bug which was a showstopper for me. Fixed it myself, grand total 4 line diff. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10643
omni commented on Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/alphabetting
Can someone please help me understand why this is useful? The article mentions malware scanning applications, but if I'm sending you a malicious PDF, won't I want to clearly mark it with a .pdf extension so that you open it in your PDF app? Their examples are all very obvious based on file extensions.
omni commented on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird ifixit.com/News/90137/vis... · Posted by u/zdw
This is like saying your Toyota is superior to a Lamborghini because Lamborghini's suck for road trips. After all, they're cramped, run out of gas too quickly, don't have enough cupholders, and it's hard to find repair shops on the road.
Yet if you made that argument people would look at you funny, and rightly so because when you're comparing Lamborghini's to other cars you usually talk about things like car performance, air drag, etc.
Likewise, on a technical level the Vision Pro is superior in pretty much every way except the FOV is slightly smaller and it has an external battery pack. The last of which is debatable because being external makes it swappable and upgradeable.
Otherwise, the vision pro is an incredible piece of tech. Better lens technology, better eye tracking and foveated rendering, better passthrough, superior display quality, far higher pixel density, superior hand tracking, real-time environment mapping with LIDAR, higher quality build materials, etc.
All of those things add up and push the boundaries of AR/VR tech. Is it pricy? Obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if the build cost is significantly higher.
Alright dude, you clearly just want to enjoy your $3500 toy, don't let me stop you. I love and support you, brother. Meanwhile I'll keep doing a ton of stuff on my technically inferior VR headset that the AVP can't do at all, like actually playing games.
omni commented on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird ifixit.com/News/90137/vis... · Posted by u/zdw
This comment screams "I just want to be right about something".
Yeah the fov and the weight leave something to be desired so my comment isn't 100% accurate, sue me.
But you're purposefully ignoring the boatload of other things that ARE better.
I'm not ignoring anything, but if my Lamborghini got out-accelerated by a Toyota I'd be upset about that, too. There's all sorts of other things to be upset about, again compared to the Quest 3. External battery pack and weight issues. No PCVR support, so you can't use the established ecosystem of games. No controllers at all, even for what could be an emerging ecosystem of Apple games. No headphone jack (I can't believe we're still doing this). The EyeSight thing doesn't work and it seems like all the marketing for it was simulated images.
The parts that are better end up not mattering. Why do I care if the resolution is better if what I want to do with it is play PCVR? Why do I care if it's great for watching movies if I'm not a loner who lives by myself? Why would I ever want to be represented by some nightmarish Persona thing?
Again, there are just way more compromises here than is justifiable for something that's literally 7x (at minimum!) the price of the competition. I want the iPod of VR/AR, this ain't it.
omni commented on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird ifixit.com/News/90137/vis... · Posted by u/zdw
And a Lamborghini is the same as a Toyota because they both have engines.
You can point to pretty much every part of the Vision Pro and see something taken to the next level compared to existing headsets.
Blatantly false. The FOV, which is one of the most critical performance characteristics of a headset, is inferior to the Quest 3. I'd _expect_ every single thing to be better if I'm paying 7x, but it just isn't.
omni commented on X-Wing is video gaming's Greek Fire aftermath.site/x-wing-luc... · Posted by u/serverlessmom
I feel there is still a lack of "realistic casual" flight Sims like "strike commander", TFX and "US Navy fighters" that fit the spot between the extremes of Ace Combat (not even a flight Sim) and DCS (too hard core, sorry) though.
It's VR-only but VTOL VR is incredible and I think matches what you're talking about here? I haven't played those older ones you mentioned though
omni commented on X-Wing is video gaming's Greek Fire aftermath.site/x-wing-luc... · Posted by u/serverlessmom
Everyone plays with thumbsticks. The only people dumb enough to try to control a real vehicle with humans in it with dual thumbsticks were disintegrated somewhere in the vicinity of the Titanic wreck last year.
XBox and Playstation killed the joystick, and now flight mechanics in all games suck.
We are in an absolute golden age of PC flight sims, especially with the immersion that we can get from VR, so when you say "all games" you mean "console games"