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The PS3 had a PowerPC main core cpu and a 8 core cell chip. Of the 8 SPU cores, only 6 were available to developers as one was reserved for OS functions and the other, ironically enough, was held back for yield purposes.

> Why do sales always need to grow, why sustaining is not enough?

I wonder this often myself too. It's unorthodox, but I wish more companies focused on staying sustainable rather than trying to grow continuously (or making growth the only goal of the company). A good book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Giants-Companies-Instead-10th-A...

> On the social front too too, European pay and ownership is more concentrated in the hands of the leaders and is less evenly distributed than American counterparts.

I would be very surprised if this was the case. Could you please back this statement with data?

If you're self-employed, working and living abroad you must pay self-employment tax regardless of the foreign tax exclusion amount. It's ridiculous.

Congrats on the deal, been following STRIVR's work for a while. Your sports training looked really promising.

"On devices without 3D Touch, touch and hold the keyboard Space bar to turn your keyboard into a trackpad"

This is subtle but huge. One of the main reasons to get a phone with 3D touch is/was the ability to easily move your cursor when typing. This makes the XR model (which lacks 3D touch) a lot more enticing.

iPhone SE started at $349. iPhone 7 starts at $449, so somewhat more expensive.

It is really slow in places. Robinson loves to flesh out the environment of Mars. Beautiful trilogy, really enjoyed it, but it is an occasional slog.

Can't find the final court decision but the Utah Harvey/Keane case didn't look so good a few months after that article came out.

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=54163714&itype=CMSI...

> In accusing Keane of negligence, the Sedgwicks, their lender and title insurance company pointed in court documents to a recent article in Harper's magazine that quotes remarks from Keane at a dinner with the writer during which he made outrageous and sexually explicit remarks about his role in the case.

Yes, same here. I used Yelp during a US West Coast trip and always found good too great places to eat near any place we drove through. The highlight was finding an amazing, fresh Vietnamese on a concrete island in some random part of Fresno.

Their coverage is not uniform across different countries (Germany is not bad but still occasionally spotty) but it's a great filter of the crap restaurants.

The Macbook Air still has two USB ports. Perhaps you meant the Macbook?

> For the Rift, the hand controllers are wireless input devices refreshing at 1,000Hz;

Could you share more info on this? Is it actually possible to poll the devices at that resolution from code?

Aren't all the grids in US/Canada also connected? My understanding was that they are all connected and that the grandparent visualization was showing the frequency differences across major portions of the US/Canada grid. Or am I getting this wrong?

For those affected, Oculus now has a patch to fix the issue: https://support.oculus.com/217157135500529/

That's a really cool visualization. Do you know if anything like this exists for the European grid?

Are there any real-world examples of this? The wikipedia article only seems to reference theoretical discussions of it. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kein-Mann-GmbH

I feel like just executing an old idea correctly is as worthwhile as coming up with something new.

Maybe in the US. In Germany I've been stunned at how thriving the flea market is for used clothes, especially baby and toddler clothing. In my town, there are two major flea markets on a weekly basis. Every neighborhood in town will have at least one yearly "Hofflohmarkt" (courtyard flea markets) and there are countless smaller and specialized flea markets organized by local kindergardens and churches.

The amount of high-quality pieces of clothings bought and sold is staggering. For baby clothes, in particular, pieces that have been worn once or twice, easily worth 15-20 euros selling for 50c a pop.

I compare this to the experience of my siblings raising their kids in the US and the general difference in mentality to second-hand clothes is shocking. I'll admit to being (culturally) shocked when my partner first suggested buying "used" clothes on our newborn but we've must of easily saved 1000s of Euros on children clothing, without sacrificing quality. It blows my mind. This mass flea-market system should be much more prevalent imo.

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense now.

Thanks for the explanation. Why do transactions vary so much in relative size?

For those like me wondering which states (pulled out of the pdf above):

Illinois, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oregon, Vermont, Washington

My big pet peeve with the German language is that there are three freaking genders (masculine, feminine, neutral). Which means you only have 1/3 chance of getting it correct when guessing.

My second pet peeve is the various different (and unrelated) meaning of the word 'ihr', which can mean in turn you (plural pronoun), her (pronoun), her (possessive determiner, as in "her book") and their (determiner). Why in the world would you reuse the same word for so many different meanings?

My favorite thing about German is that things are pronounced as they are spelled and vice-versa.

Thank you for sharing this. I had read about it when they were still building it and marvelled at the scale and ambition of the project. That structure is so large it apparently has its own weather system inside.

It's not. Or at least not anymore. Market shares seem to be equalizing at least according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey: https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-rift-closes-in-on-steam-majo...

It reminds me of this incredible HBO documentary from 2009 chronicling the daily life of a (pretty crazy) rural family called "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA

This is exactly the sort of 'social' experience we are trying to achieve with our game (http://lateforworkgame.com). The VR player controls a giant gorilla and faces off against up to four local friends controlling tanks and planes.

I think asymmetric VR games are going to be a big niche within the space. If you like these types of games, there's a big list of them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/67f9sv/list_of_asymme...

Great technique recommendation. I make it a practice to never copy-paste an answer from StackOverflow. I always type it out by hand to grasp the meaning of each line of code properly. It's anecdotal, but I strongly feel it helps me absorb new languages and frameworks faster (and deeper).

Regarding point 3, Apple has implemented something called Emergency Medical ID which basically lets you set a couple of visible contacts to reach in case of emergency: http://osxdaily.com/2017/01/07/use-medical-id-for-emergency-...

What kind of useful curated datasets do you imagine could be created by a game? Like driving data from a GTA-like game?

Check out Tooth and Tail (http://www.toothandtailgame.com/), it's an indie-made RTS with high production values.