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  • An unpopular opinion can have more or less thought put into it and be genuinely interesting and get up- or downvoted accordingly. Just like a photograph in a photography sub can have more or less thought put into it and an interesting or boring subject and get up- or downvoted accordingly.

    Genuine photograph and the people downvote it... In a community named "photography".

    Sounds like utter nonsense doesn't it

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto
  • Yes, because infrastructure, subsidies, education and social spending still need to happen and not paying your taxes will erode those things long before they stop a genocide. If you don't care about getting in trouble with your government, there are more effective things that can be done.

  • More Than 50% Of Fortune 100 Companies Are Already Using Apple Vision Pro
  • Mind you, I'm not saying vision pro is not promising or useful. I'm saying, that in a corporate environment, it's very hard to find a business case where you'll be able to justify the >3500€ price tag to your manager.

    The best business case I can think of right now, would be for development teams that want to get started developing VR apps. Likely that's also what all of these companies bought one for.

    But you state a lot of things as fact, so I should ask, have you used one at all?

    Unfortunately I have not. It hasn't been released where I live yet. The closest I have gotten is my Quest 3.

    You dismiss "editing videos" as if that's not an incredibly useful to be able to do that.

    It is really useful. But if you're already editing videos professionally, it needs to be an upgrade over what you're using right now. An upgrade big enough that it makes back the cost of adjusting your workflow and the 4000€ investment.

  • More Than 50% Of Fortune 100 Companies Are Already Using Apple Vision Pro
  • Classical VR use cases like simulators and 3D design are better served by competitors. Most of the software runs on Windows or Linux, and you'll likely want the most ludicrously powerful graphics card(s) you can fit into a computer, which an M3(?) chip is notably not. Also proper controllers are generally useful for professional VR applications.

    But at least it's good for productivity, right? Wrong. For productivity purposes, it's effectively an iPad Pro with an infinitely large screen, awful battery life, that is somewhat bulky to transport and costs at least 4000$ by the time you have a keyboard and a reasonable amount of storage. And all of that for a device on which you, as of now, can effectively only write emails and edit videos on.

  • Which GPU or GPU brand would you buy for gaming these days?
  • Supposedly Nvidia has become a lot better on Linux lately. They finally dropped their weird framebuffer API or whatever (the one that was the reason for horrible Wayland compatibility and also caused a heated Linus Torvalds moment), and I think they even made their linux drivers open source.

  • ELI5: What kind of security mechanisms do software companies use to ensure that the source code of their products will be practically impossible to discover?
  • For most of the code, I don't think anything special is used.

    Compiling the code already obfuscates it enough. Most function, type and variable names are removed, the compiler does some optimizations and what you end up with is already pretty indecipherable code soup.

    There are obfuscators that make the resulting binaries even harder to read/decompile, but further obfuscation also makes your code run slower.

  • Insomnia
  • If you have vitamin deficiencies, fortified food can also cause you to run at 120%. In some countries (e.g. US) Noodles and flour are fortified with B-vitamins. Maybe that's what you're experiencing? It happened to me a few times.

  • Am I using devDependencies wrong or is everyone bad at explaining it?
  • I think it makes more sense if you think about backend applications: If you write a Webserver with ExpressJS in typescript, you need typescript only to compile it (dev dependency) but once compiled, you only need ExpressJS in your node_modules for the app to be able to run ("regular" dependency).

    Frontend development is a bit strange in that respect, because often everything gets bundled into your dist/ directory, so technically there are no runtime dependencies? In that case it's more of a hint to let you know "this goes into the bundle" vs. "this is part of the compiler toolchain"

  • NATO gives Ukraine the go-ahead to cross Putin's red line and striking targets within Russia's borders
  • The title is essentially click bait, absolutely nothing changed. Random comments from a NATO secretary general don't change international law or contracts. They still can't use any of the weapons provided by other countries on Russian territory, because it was part of the deal(s) they were provided under.

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    started to feel headaches and such from headphones, measured how many microteslas it emits or whatever, is this safe?
  • Considering MRTs use 1.5-7 Tesla, I can't imagine microtesla will be doing anything, unless you have a piece of metal in your head. Maybe it's an ear infection or a migraine or something like that gets worse from the cup pressure. If it's a problem, ask a doctor.

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