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  • They're going to have a bad time in jail. Everyone gets the same portion size which to them will be like being starved because it looks like they used to about 17 meals a day. Plus snacks

    They'll be wondering what happened to second breakfast.

  • I actually did do that, the advantage of having rich grandparents. It's amazing how once you get a bit of money the system just throws advantages at you. Capitalism really is broken.

    Because I was able to get together enough money to be able to buy a house and put down quite a lot in collateral, my mortgage repayments aren't very much, considerably less than I was paying monthly in rent, even when you take into account that the rent included water bills.

  • Quite a few European countries including the UK I believe are starting to develop policies that would help highly educated Americans get citizenship on a fast track scheme. We don't want a lot of scientific knowledge to go away just because America has decided to fall apart. Come work on our particle accelerators, experimental fusion reactors, or join the European space agency. It would be nice if we could have human space flight independent of Roscosmos and NASA. Maybe we could even beat NASA back to the moon, since I can't really see Artemis making any progress anytime soon.

    I don't think anyone's got as far as actually implementing any of these policies yet, but they're on the way.

    I'm sure China would also happily accept Americans, but you might not want to go that route.

  • You don't need machine learning for this we've had perfectly good server-side anti-cheat for a while now and none of it's been AI-based until recently. If we know the top speed the game should allow players to move any movement greater than that speed must be a cheat or lag, either way it shouldn't be allowed.

  • And genuine hackers and cybersecurity professionals have got way better things to do than cheat in Rust.

    The cheaters are all obnoxious 12-year-olds who couldn't land a single hit without the cheats, that's why all the compilation videos of cheaters falling foul to fake cheat software are so funny. They'll spend 10 minutes trying to go through a doorway without it ever occurring to them that something must be wrong.

  • Is there any way with steam to verify those player numbers because 0.01% seems very low. Market share is about 3% so I would expect numbers more in line with that. Obviously it's not going to be a one-to-one match up but two orders of magnitude different than from the expected number.

  • I've said this before about wall hacks. The only reason they are possible is because the positions of all players are being sent to the client and then the client just doesn't draw them to screen. It would be extremely easy to simply not send the data for players you shouldn't be able to legitimately see.

  • Because they've been forced to implement server-side anti-cheat because they can't implement it into the game because they don't control the game and mojang don't seem interested in adding much in the way of anti-cheat to Minecraft.

    These other companies actually control the games they're running the servers for, so they can go the simple route and put kernel level anti-cheat in the game, and then call it a day. Corporations will always take the easy cheap option, even if it's not very good.

  • I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything's all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it's one million car parking spaces.

  • I feel like any company that seriously wants an employee doesn't want an answer to either question.

    I do not have a TikTok account because I'm not 6 years old, and do not care about what the current trend is.

  • My point is that no one really cares about the cameras because this is a VR headset, it isn't trying to be everything to everyone. I also don't really think anyone cares about apple's "spatial computing" (AR), perhaps if they actually had more applications people would be interested, but they don't.

  • Yeah but he can't possibly know that. Valve wouldn't be drawn on the price so that's not based on something they've said to him that's just what he personally thinks.

    I feel like Valve are more than smart enough to know that a $1,000 headset won't sell. Especially in the US, internationally they might be able to get away with that price, but even then people are going to be comparing it to the index and asking why the index has been EOLed and replaced with a headset of the same price.

  • It's a VR headset so no one really cares about the cameras. The only headset with cameras that are any good is on the Apple Pro which is ludicrously expensive. The quest 3s cameras are fine but you can't really read a display while wearing it so they're basically useless for AR stuff.

  • The Vision Pro isn't available outside of North America, has barely no apps and doesn't support gaming, so I don't know how Apple expect this to become a major product for them.

    The frame fixes basically all of those issues, much wider availability although still not global, supports games and it's basically a PC so you can edit an Excel document in VR if for some reason that's what you want to do, has controllers so you're not relying on finger tracking exclusively, and actually has a decent store of content. Oh and the battery is both larger in capacity and more sensibly designed so that it's actually part of the device rather than this weird dangly thing you always have to have.

    The only downside is an inability to allow me to see my office at the same time. It's not like the vision pro lets you actually keep the laptop display on anyway so being able to see it isn't a huge advantage.

    It would have been nice if it had colour pass through, but I also don't really care that it's not present.

  • Apparently OLED has issues with brightness. VR lenses tend to cut out an awful lot of light (I've seen a lot of unhelpful diagrams with lines on them that try to explain the problem) so you need a system that outputs a lot of light or you need to use much more expensive lenses.

    My guess is valve had a price point and using the better lenses would significantly cut into that.

    It's worth pointing out that I'm pretty sure the PlayStation VR uses the same lenses. I've never had a problem with that so I doubt it'll be a major issue.

  • Yeah I don't get nauseous in VR I don't know why some people do. The only thing I have noticed is that if there's a lot of spinning around particularly in ultra wings I tend to fall over.

    I actually find that things like the vignette that you get when moving in some VR games actually makes me feel uncomfortable so I always have to go into the settings and turn all that stuff off.

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