BetaCygni

Hi HN, in the past weeks I spent a lot of time videoconferencing. However, something was missing. Classical videoconferencing works fine with a small number of people, but when the group gets larger it becomes very static. I built this in my spare time to improve things. The positional audio (use headphones!) makes it easy to pick out voices, and moving around makes splitting off into smaller groups very natural.

This is built using the AFrame library, but I haven't enabled real VR device support. Mainly because hardly anyone I know has one. Also, the webcam images will become a lot less useful when everyone is wearing a headset.

Please give it a try and tell me what you think! Works great for informal gatherings, but if you really miss office meetings EveryoneVR has got you covered.

From the Dutch questionnaire (thanks for the link):

Q.: Kunt u, al u dat wilt, een deel van uw werk thuis verrichten? (Zowel incidentele als structurele mogelijkheden om thuis te werken tellen mee.)

1. Ja

2. Nee

3. N.v.t.

Translation:

Q: Can you, if you wish, do part of your work at home? (Both incidental and structural options for working from home count.)

1. Yes

2. No

3. N.A.

Not eating meat (or eating less meat) is VERY cost-effective and very easy to do.

As a non-mathematician, for a 2d circle on a flat plane:

- The edge of a circle is curved (convex)

- It does not matter how small a piece you cut of the edge, there will always remain a convex curve.

- The edge of a square has straight edges, so you cannot put this piece at the edge. This means the old outside edge will have to be on the inside.

- You cannot fit the convex edges to each other or to a straight edge.

- Cutting a concave edge from the inside of the circle to fit the convex edge from the outside to will not help as it will produce a new convex edge.

Ergo: there is no place to put the convex outside edge of the circle, so you cannot turn it into a square.

I trust the file signatures, but if you need to write a full article arguing something is secure then it can be made more secure by making the system simpler and more standard.

I don't care for home-brew security, I need something standard.

Also... the firewall at work breaks APT HTTP pipelining. Very very annoying. It would not be able to do so if APT was using HTTPS.

Interesting question. I never have. I just search for it if I need it. Usually on the web, but sometimes in the codebase.

I find the idea of a personal library of code snippets quite weird. The thought never crossed my mind and I know nobody who uses something like that.

> I do not differentiate between agnostic and atheistic thought.

I find it very interesting that in de US there seem to be a lot of gnostic atheists (they know for certain there is no god, and are very vocal about this), while in Europe most people would be agnostic atheists, and they don't care as much.

Isn't evolution random chance + selection? That's how I've always seen it.

To be honest, we don't know either, so the agnostic viewpoint (compared to atheistic) would be that it is equally valid. Either you believe in random chance or you believe in God.

I'm always perfectly happy when someone calls the big bang the moment of creation. It could have been.