blunderchief

There's an immersive viewing setting on the Vision Pro called Cinema that's very close. It puts you inside a theater-like room without seats and gives you a pretty convincing feeling of looking at a movie screen — way better than any of the stupid immersive viewing rooms in Disney Plus or whatever.

Also, there's an IMAX app that actually simulates being in an IMAX theater. It's silly, but having the seats and railing and being able to look to the side and see the dim IMAX sign glowing on the wall goes a very, very long way. But for now there's not much you can do inside of it. I really,

The only thing that's really missing is the sound. The built-in speakers sound fantastic, but lack that low-end, guttural rumble that you can only get in a theater or with a very fancy home theater setup (which I don't have because I have a family, with a partner who's very noise-sensitive, and a house that's just not big enough to watch movies in without waking up my kid — I'd just never get to use it).

I haven't actually tried watching it hooked up to my homepods, which I'd guess would help. But yeah, the visual experience is remarkable. They can get there if they keep putting effort into it.

This actually helps me a little bit. I've also seen people say they can read screens, and that's not my experience. I also have the lens inserts, and I suspect that part of the problem is how they implement the prescription. I'm not knowledgeable enough about lenses to say this with confidence (please correct me!), but I wonder if this is because Apple prioritizes a farther away focal point for the inserts, so you literally can't focus on anything close up.

I've noticed that I can almost read things if I hold my phone a little farther away, but I wouldn't call it usable by any stretch. I've considered getting contacts for the first time just to test all of this, but I'm extremely turned off by the upkeep of them (to say nothing of the idea of touching my eyeball to put them in).

The author put it wrong. You don’t have to be unique versus billions, just unique enough to make a few rounds of judicious cuts. By the time they’re ACTUALLY looking at yours in detail, they’ve whittled candidates down to like 10 people (estimate — I’ve only been a hiring boss once and it was an indie pizza place, where the job requirement was basically “are you friends with someone I know and not drunk right now”)

See, this gets at the root of my problem with the post. It makes total sense that a recruiter needs to make some adjustments to how they sift through resumes when faced with hundreds of them. They can be as overworked as anyone!

But the tone in the guy’s post is all wrong. That “I can tell you want this job” bullshit. Like, my friend, I just want A Job. Yours isn’t special, they’re all shit we can acknowledge that.

That’s where my mind goes, anyway. Framing this instead the way you do (and the author seemed to try to but couldn’t help putting in a little “tough love” garbage) makes it much more sympathetic and understandable. I’ve read so many of these screeds over the years and the ones that I don’t nope out of immediately don’t come with the sense you’re being talked down to.

I can speak to this, at least anecdotally.

Some of my family are conspiratorial thinkers, trumpy types. They’re in Texas, where the power grid is continuing to slowly buckle, and they will happily agree it’s hotter than it used to be, even getting too hot. They also agree that pollution is bad.

But they simply don’t connect the two. They don’t think we can possibly be the sole reason for climate change, but why they think that is fluid — it’s gods creation and we can’t mess with that. Or if we can it doesn’t matter because we’re destined for a heavenly kingdom and this planet will pass away. Or they say more “grounded” things like we’re getting closer to the sun or the sun itself is hotter. Or they buy into the idea for a while that it’s just a natural oscillation. We’re actually headed towards an ice age!

My theory is they’re inconsistent because they do accept it, but accepting it means they have to understand consciously that shit is bleak and it makes all the work they’ve done in their lives potentially meaningless. They don’t want to face the reckoning of disillusionment so they close their eyes to it.

Or maybe they just don’t believe it. I don’t know, I’m not in their brains.

I was all the way out the first time he wrote “dark money”

Yep. Journalists' questions can be very direct, and very pointed. It tends to make them sound callous, but it's necessary to get the best answer.

Consider a minivan. Seriously. I’m also in your shoes. I bike or walk most places I need to go, but I use the minivan when I need to get large things. The rear seats fold into the floor and the middle seats come out if I need the extra space. It’s about as long as a decent truck bed with those seats out, my cargo is covered, and it gets great gas mileage by comparison. I don’t really give a shit if the interior gets messed up, and I’m sitting lower to the ground with great visibility. You might not be able to haul certain large appliances, but otherwise, it’s all the benefits of a truck and then some, with few drawbacks.

I’ve owned two minivans and three trucks, and I’d go minivan any day.