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pacifiedcitizenon X3D: Declarative 3D for the Modern Web

I'd much rather prefer A-Frame become this layer for HTML, if only for the fact that the component registry is already community driven and therefore populated.

pacifiedcitizenon The Mystery of Why Gas Pump Interface Design Sucks So Badly

My guess is patents.

pacifiedcitizenon Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?

If you don't mind wearing a Hololens all day, it orients itself by turning your entire surroundings into ~1m mesh blocks that serve as its internal map. As a bonus, you can retrieve the current mesh from the device's internal web server in order to visualize against it.

Cons: Wearing Hololens all day, spending thousands on a hobby project. :-/ Fascinating if you manage to borrow one though.

pacifiedcitizenon Ask HN: What's the best API you've worked with?

Mapbox in Unity. The API might lag behind updates to the JavaScript SDK, but I'll be damned if they didn't at least make the end-user developer experience a pleasure to work with inside the editor. So many SDK implementations in Unity are quite clearly just a layer of likely poorly implemented web calls being jammed into the editor GUI.

Thank you based Mapbox Unity team.

pacifiedcitizenon DigiTimes Says Apple AR Glasses Have Reportedly Been 'Terminated' – MacRumors

Regardless of if and when they are released, there is no way in hell that Apple has ditched on-face augmented reality. Inevitably the platform's goal is to get as close as possible to the user's raw attention stream (what the eyes are up to)...

Man, Jony sure got everyone all shook.

pacifiedcitizenon Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

I could not believe this when I realized it.

pacifiedcitizenon Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

So that's infuriating... but thanks.

pacifiedcitizenon Ask HN: What do middle-level managers do?

The Peter Principle applies here for any large-scale company that has been running for a good amount of time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

pacifiedcitizenon Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)

Finally had to stop lurking here to share the good news... if you get the CVS app, buried within app settings is the option to go paperless. Once you do so, the registers won't even try to print a receipt which seems to confuse 10 out of 10 cashiers when they're about to ask if I want my receipt. Bonus points, receipts go directly to email.

Can also manage your prescriptions completely as well, a surprisingly easy user experience.