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I wonder if this will eat into their Beats market. What is Apple’s long term play with Beats anyway?

These are beautifully designed and no doubt they will pair seamlessly with other Apple devices, but that price tag seems...audacious to put it nicely.

C++ is, quite rightly, considered an overly-complex and bloated language. A lot of newer features are papering over poor design from the beginnings of the language.

But..

There is something about the use of destructors, RAII, and even smart-pointers that just feels so...elegant? I'm not sure what the word is I'm looking for. I feel like there's a kernel of a beautiful language hiding in c++ and those features are the integral parts of that.

Please, for the good of this site and the wishes of his own family, don't post baseless conspiracy theories like that.

Edit - as the original post I was responding to has been removed I have edited out my response to it delving into more information.

Bill is often used as shorthand for William.

I believe Mixed Reality was a term coined by Microsoft to differentiate their products, basically a marketing term.[1]

[1]https://www.vox.com/2015/7/27/11615046/whats-the-difference-...

Very interesting. I loved both but for some reason I did enjoy the short story better (I'm definitely not always a "The book was better"-type person either), and I think this explains why. I'll have to go and check them both out again and keep this in mind.

I'm always impressed by those who follow their more creative side. Best of luck to you in your endeavors.

If you're undecided on reading Chiang's work, I would suggest checking out the movie Arrival based on one of his short stories.

I found it to be a wonderful adaptation and inspired me to dive into his works. I've found a joy reading his work that I haven't experienced in reading sci-fi since coming across Philip K. Dick when I was much younger.

I’m sure this is a dumb question to anyone with knowledge in this field but is there any reason to not use all three together?

"Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who has now also taken over the company’s legendary design studio."

This might be a dumb question, but does the COO usually manage design? Our COO is very much a supply chain, logistics, procurement and day-to-day administration type manager. I can't imagine him having any sort of sense of good design.

I'm sure he's (he as in Apple's COO) not there in the design trenches on the daily, but he would have final say on overall design, unless I'm misinterpreting what it means in the article.

To be fair I probably would've said the same thing for a CEO before Steve Jobs came along but he's proven himself to a be very rare exception.

Now give me the option to opt out of amp results in my search and it'll be perfect.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if another species had survived and developed alongside us. They would be humans but....not quite what we conceive of as human(basically our species). What would their culture have been like? Music, art, language, etc.

As tribal as our own species is I imagine we would have gone to war eventually and one exterminated the other (assuming no large difference in population, technology, etc.). I think that might have been what happened to Neanderthals?

But still, the thought of going about day-to-day business alongside, let's say homo floresiensis, has something intriguing to it. Perhaps it's the same reason we imagine interaction with extraterrestrial life - it's really just a reflection on us and our own humanity.

Wow! Thank you so much the time and effort you put into your response. I really appreciate it.

I've been going through Unity but it's been a lot harder than I thought. I'm hoping to get to a point where I can participate in a game jam soon.

Hey,you sound like you know a lot about this topic. I'm really interested in learning about it, do you have any recommendations for resources (books, youtube channels, etc.)? Thanks!

Seems like the vast majority of those who make the 'we are a republic not a democracy' type have misunderstood both terms and conflate republic as representative democracy and democracy as only direct democracy.

Is there any prediction on the future of stand-alone gaming consoles with 5G and streaming games(e.g., Google Stadia) coming soon?

While I'm not really much of a gamer now I spent a lot of my childhood playing video games and the thought of dedicated home game consoles going the way of arcades makes me sad.

I think I'll finally pick up that Switch I've been planning on...

Just some casual observations from someone who doesn't know a lot about city planning, zoning laws, and other things like that but...

I have spent a lot of time in various cities in eastern Asia, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei.

I was always amazed at how much more efficiently space was utilized. Dense, high-rise housing. Smaller apartments for single occupants. Vending machines and convenience stores near ubiquitous so one did not have to go far for basic necessities.

Also, the public transportation was wonderful. Whether subway, taxi, or bus one could get around without any need for a car.

I always wonder why our cities can't be "denser". Perhaps we are too used to our cars and driving everywhere? I'm sure there are a myriad other reasons though.

Maybe I'm just in the HN bubble, but it seems AMP is pretty unpopular. I've found numerous requests online asking how to disable it from others, though again, only anecdotal.

Is it unpopular? Or are most users ambivalent? And if it is unpopular why does Google continually try and push it?

Edit: grammatical mistakes

That's very clear. Thank you for your response.

>He contends that there likely isn't a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable.

How do we know an advanced technology would absolutely use Dyson spheres?

I'm not asking to challenge but in serious inquiry. Off the top of my head it just seems a highly advanced civilization might be able to come up with something completely different to meet their energy needs.

He basically spends a week in VR, though allowing himself a passthrough - which is, from what I gather, a video stream from a camera within(?) the headset that allows him to "see" his room.

He does various games and activities and interacts with people through various chats. He has his peaceful moments and energetic ones, such as working out, but grows bored and lonely by the end of it.

Interesting to think if there were more immersive/interesting things to do within VR would he have felt the same way? Or at least not as quickly?

Any recommendations for newsletters pertaining to typical Hacker News interests, e.g. programming, start-up business, cybersecurity, technology, gaming, etc.?

Surprised at Zuckerberg/Facebook's response to all this. The cynical part of me says it's only due to the negative PR all this has generated but I hope this works out for better privacy for all those who continue to use Facebook.

I wonder if other tech companies will be called on to testify, Dorsey, Page, et. al.