kowbell

The “when are we going to use this” question is about when “we” ourselves will directly use it - not when we will use something that uses it.

I don’t have to use any calculus to get a weather report, etc., because other people do that for me and give me their results - it’s part of their job.

Calculus is indispensable and is used in our everyday life - but most of us won’t use it ourselves, or need to know the specifics, or really even know the broader parts of it.

> It's not (in an almost literal sense!) a game anymore at that point

I’m curious what your definition of a game is?

It can’t connect to a TV, only streams if you’re on WiFi (is too weak to do much locally), and costs $50 more than a brand new Switch+Dock/costs just $50 less than a Steam Deck?

Who is going to buy this? What makes Logitech think this will sell?

Are you implying that if someone believes the universe has a plan for them, then they won't need therapy?

Can you elaborate on what about this is torturous? It sounds like the experimenter treats the rats well, got them acclimated to his presence/the harness/the treadmill over time, and only ran the tests with them for less than two weeks.

I've always been curious about the distinction between JPEG and JPEG2000. From what I can find online, everyone says that the visual quality is better than JPEG, it just flopped due to slow adoption. Could you elaborate on your claim that it's worse?

I'm curious why you and OP are equating "not monogamy" with "single-parent?" What about polygamy? Or even non-married but still-committed group partnerships?

I'm certainly not suggesting to eradicate monogamy and replace it with these, and it wouldn't make sense to say any one of these is holistically better than the others, but if we're focusing on just the "what's best for kids" angle... wouldn't it be better if kids had _more_ parents/very close adult relatives? More people in their life they can rely on for attention, advice, care, etc.?

I just downloaded it today. First thing you do when you open it is choose which of those three you want to pay (or start the free trial with a cancellable auto-subscribe for the yearly), do the 2-second Apple Pay prompt, then it sends you right to the camera.

That is to say, the one-time was immediately easily accessible.

If the user already has to manually opt-in to it, could you throw in an extra “we need your real email” step for Apple ID users? Then users still get privacy-by-default and you still get the email needed for this feature.

> Yes, this is the essential nature of real-time chat.

Discord can be real-time, it can also be slightly-slower-than-realtime; maybe as slow as a forum at times, but with different expectations (namely being closer to real-time.) Personally, that’s most of the Discords I’m in.

> The channel already serves as the demarcation of topic.

Channels are a broad demarcation. Example from my experience, a #general-development-help channel in a Discord about using mods for a game, developing them, and chatting with mod developers. Threads then become useful for a person asking a particular question to whoever’s online and anyone interested gets to discuss it in an openly accessible but politely/quietly aside fashion.

> This isn't clutter, it's literally the point of the tool.

It does serve the useful job of “hey everybody, this message is a direct reply to this other message, not necessarily the one(s) right above me!” In smaller groups this is cool and good, and I like the replies as they are. In larger scale chats where there may be multiple discussions simultaneously within a channel (and they can’t reasonably make enough channels to break them all up), I think threads help contain the discussions.

> What you're describing is a forum, a totally different modality.

There are a lot of Discords that do function like faster-paced forums. It has grown beyond a real-time text/audio/video chat app for a small groups of people.

> If I've participated in conversations on 5 different topics that have moved on, it can sometimes be tiring to have those old threads reopened with more discussions.

I reckon that’s more due to reopening old conversations regardless of whether it’s threaded or not. In fact, I feel threads make it easier to return to those conversations again: your message is there in that side-chats history and not in some global history where now people are scrolling back-and-forth to remember the prior conversation.

> It's like having 3 text conversations while also being out to dinner with friends.

Threads are like 3 text conversations + a vocal conversation. Not having threads is like 4 vocal conversations all over each other.

Forgot to mention: at my job, Slack threads have been super useful. Three or four people can discuss one topic in an open channel (so others can join in and we can search history) without spamming notifications against everyone else.

E.g. someone could put a message in #engineering about a bug. All the engineers get that notification so anyone who knows more details can chip in immediately. They then reply in a thread on the original bug message so they can discuss without everyone else getting bothered with irrelevant notifs AND without locking the conversation into a group DM where nobody else can chime in nor can we all easily search for it later if it’s relevant.

> Threads make it harder and weirder for people to chime in halfway through or to catch up on what people have been saying

I’m of the completely opposite opinion.

If I want to contribute to a prior discussion that happened a few minutes ago but another one is taking place now, then we have two separate conversations in the same linear chat stream. With a thread, I can respond to who I want without interrupting anyone else. Without threads, you’re reading through all the messages and trying to figure out which are relevant.

Most of the Discords I’m in are game or mod related, and I’m often using their help/questions channels. There’s usually only one or two of these channels, so if multiple people need help at the same time you get scattered conversations and it’s confusing to follow, especially if you step away for a second.

Direct replies to the messages help but they still exist in that linear main chat stream, so there’s still a lot of clutter that everyone has to navigate through. With threads, you can have multiple questions asked simultaneously and each one has all their discussion in their respective threads, making it very obvious which messages are meant for which question and making it easier to navigate.

Not WebAssembly related, but there are already VSCode plugins for "a nice shadertoy-style live-coding environment!"

GLSL preview: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=circlede...

Full on Shadertoy environment (preview panel, lets you use Shadertoy's uniforms): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stevenso...

I know this is comment in jest, but could you actually identify who touched a screen? Do people have different physical characteristics that would give them a detectable capacitive "fingerprint?"

I was taking a Game Engines class at my uni last semester and we had to add scripting to our C++ engines using Duktape (or it's C++ counterpart, Dukglue.) It was surprisingly easy to use Duktape once you figured out the initial boilerplate, and it was especially exciting and fun to be able to write a demo game using the engine in two languages (especially with one which didn't require recompilation!)

I had an S5 too, and actually still have it in case I ever need a backup (e.g. last week when _my_ Pixel started getting caught in an infinite boot loop!) Though I hadn't noticed the S5 being destroyed by software updates - the only reason I stopped using it is because they stopped updating it and it was locked from custom ROMs, which was a sad conclusion because it had still decent hardware. Could you elaborate on the villainous updates you encountered?

Definitely agree that configuration should be optional, not practically required. That's not just an annoyance to most people, it's a reason to avoid using something altogether.

> Needing to open up a package manager to get something as simple as an MP3 Player app is not the UX you want your customers to have.

This doesn't sound like a config issue though, that's more that the choices of preloaded packages could be better. A package manager isn't much different from an app store (assuming you meant one of the GUIs.)

Just curious because it's been a while, what were some things you had to configure? And were you configuring to get it feeling more like OS X/Windows, or to have software that's usable at all?

I've had great success getting touchscreen scrolling to work with https://superuser.com/a/1155441 (Surface Pro 3 running KDE Plasma)