I am compelled to point out how much "For uint64_t and UINT64_MAX you will be waiting a long time" really undersells it.
If we assume that the uint32_t version runs in one second, the u64 version will take 136 years.
In reality, on the machine in my lap, u32 takes 0.6s, so we can expect the u64 version to take at least 81 years!
Statistically, "you" will not be waiting a long time, because you will die first.
"128 bit values? Even longer."
Yes, 2^64 times longer than u64, and 2^96 times longer than for u32! 2^96 just about 80e27. Age of the universe is ~13.8 billion (13.8e9) years, or ~435e15 seconds.
If we consider a more moderate 96-bit size, and I started at the very beginning of the universe, I will only have been able to run that program just over 25 times by now. That's all.
Disempowering deputies is how you end up with customer service that can't actually provide service to customers. Low-trust societies are a huge efficiency loss, and just a general pain in the ass if you are acting in good faith.
Like it or not, the Earth is a very low trust community. Old people get scammed by scammers from all over. This is a global problem, not a local problem
The global community is very low trust, unfortunately. That might be an unfixable problem
We are not all selfish actors here. Who have you surrounded yourself with in your life, that you would end up believing that we're all self-interested actors here?
It's better for five people to earn $100k than for one person to earn $500k and four people nothing. That is a societal negative that progressive and marginal income tax discourages.
If solving jigsaw puzzles with claude will enable the creation of tools that help the people I want to help (students with disabilities), then I would use it for that, without feeling any guilt at all for doing so.
Why should I regret that? Why should I care about your purity tests?
This is dishonest. Your quip was to imply that I'm reducing what is otherwise a fun activity to an automation, on the basis of a purity test.
> Some people merely enjoy programming more than engineering.
And I haven't said otherwise, so I'm not sure what point youre trying to make. My initial goal was to provide my own viewpoint on how to enjoy the process while taking advantage of modern tools, not to tell people they shouldn't enjoy programming more than engineering.
As a VRChat regular, Meta's VR world efforts have been hilarious every step of the way. So long and thanks for all the headsets! :)
Maybe not everything has to be the next big thing for everyone. Maybe it's valuable for smaller companies or sovereign divisions to find niche markets, and simply build products and services for modest profits for strong customer bases that will never hit hypergrowth. (And are therefore resistant to the cancerous financialization that hypergrowth invites/incites)
I hope they figure out how to make a modest but steady profit making headsets still. The Quest Pro is still my favorite headset, ever since I ditched the awful controllers and went back to Index controllers.
Then again, the Steam Frame is likely to deliver us from this reliance, though it would be really nice to keep having budget headset options.
VRChat came out more than 5 years before Horizon Worlds did, and already had an established player base by the time Horizon Worlds even came out. It was in early access for ages, but that didn't matter to the VR audience, who's used to there being jank. Not to mention that Horizon Worlds was probably never more of a finished product than VRChat to any significant degree.
If you've already got a VR social space, why switch to a different one?
VRChat was designed for people to hang out, Horizon Worlds was built as a platform for people to purchase meta services and desired corporate use which came with a lot of sterility (you don’t want half the people in your corporate all hands to be some form of anime girl, see the reactions that even just Anubis’ logo gets here).
This came in both world design and novel design where vrchat lets people import basically arbitrary 3d models with a wide range of expressiveness. VR went for corporate Memphis upper torsos which immediately makes the world feel more bland. Letting people import whatever would also eliminate the opportunity for meta to sell that, and have the risk that there might be too much breast for a corporate audience.
Add to that and the fundamentals just worked so much better in VRChat when horizon worlds tried to make its big splash and the fate was sealed.
You are not allowed to discard the more reliable source, but you're excused from, and basically forbidden from, asking for more info or for info from third parties.
We all demand Windows but without ads, but that doesn't cause the market to spit one out. The OS market isn't a healthy market, and government is stepping in here in part because of that market failure to provide a satisfactory solution here.
The smartphone OS market is not healthy precisely because manufacturers lock their bootloaders (among other anti-competitive tricks, like a proprietary IMS stack), which stifles market competition. The desktop OS market does not have this problem. There are many Linux distros and they're getting better everyday, they'll eventually replace Windows as Windows slowly enshittifies.
"128 bit values? Even longer." Yes, 2^64 times longer than u64, and 2^96 times longer than for u32! 2^96 just about 80e27. Age of the universe is ~13.8 billion (13.8e9) years, or ~435e15 seconds.
If we consider a more moderate 96-bit size, and I started at the very beginning of the universe, I will only have been able to run that program just over 25 times by now. That's all.