querulous

the number of doctors on j1 extensions the us is going to lose over this is going to seriously impact us healthcare. it's also not uncommon for doctors to practice on an o1 and they'll be impacted also

the passthrough quality is a real letdown given the marketing. it's like looking at everything through a grimy, unwashed window

i never expected it to be good as a productivity device because my own experience is while screen real estate is nice what really matters is the ergonomics of your work space and wearing a pair of ski goggles is never going to be ergonomic

it's also because they wanted to run it at night with all the casinos (and the sphere) on the route lit up. the miami gp started at 1230pm and the montreal gp at 11am (930am and 8am vegas time, respectively) but the las vegas gp route doesn't look half as good in daylight

the big risk with elixir imo is that it's runtime/vm is still owned by ericsson and there's no alternative. i know things like firefly exist but they aren't mature replacements (to my knowledge)

sometimes it's not your data

that presupposes that france wants to ban the phone. charitably they just want an accurate measurement so they can apply their regulations. the lab has no incentive to find either way

this is 100% it. there's a ratcheting effect in owning housing in canada. that recent study about how 70% of homes in canada are being bought be investors is completely bogus. 70% of homes in canada are being bought by people who already own homes. often this is "investment" properties like rental units but a significant proportion of it is second ("vacation") properties and parents using their own equity to fund children's home purchases

it also advertises news, music and apple tv (and probably all their services, those are just the ones i've noticed)

it's not as mysterious as it sounds. every data structure (including modules and anonymous functions) has a binary serialization and every erlang vm is also an rpc server that can receive arbitrary data -- including whole programs -- and execute them. your vm of course needs to know about the remote vms to do so but that's where the rudimentary clustering mechanism in erlang comes into play

fwiw this is from 2018 and i would say the conclusion from those who were around pinterest at this time and shortly after would not be nearly as positive

how does the type system handle `receive` in erlang/elixir? does it just require every `receive` clause have a catchall case (meaning every `receive` is any -> T) or does it only guarantee type checking in the absence of external messages?

the smartphone killer app was that it fit in your pocket and was useable almost everywhere you were

the current generation of vr headsets aren't useable for extended periods. too heavy, too hot and too clunky

losing peripheral vision is a bigger annoyance than i expected also

many table games and all sports betting i know of take a commission (the rake). they are definitely not zero sum

orders of magnitude more expensive than kafka tho. not feasible at scale