But when you look at brain organoids they quickly find themselves able to play video games as complex as Doom.

To each their own, but I do it every day, nearly. I’m using wifi 6 though, so that might be the difference. 2.4Ghz might not be sufficient. There’s also very likely local faking on the device (Quest 3) that can rotate your vision before the new data arrives.

Either way, it’s pretty alright nowadays, at least in my experience.

Though time in the seat *might* be making it easier for me.

I regularly wear a Quest 3 for 4-7 hours at a time. Before that, I used a Focus Vision for the same.

I have a battery pack I put in my pocket for the Quest 3 and I’m generally very happy with it.

is that 4-7 hours with the Quest 3 mostly for working or entertainment?

Mostly entertainment. Oftentimes with lots of generalized movement, including head turning, tilting, etc.

The Big Screen Beyond and WiFi-enabled video streaming like for the Quest 3 and upcoming Steam Frame disagree with you.

Yes. This is how various headsets are made. The HTC focus Vision is one example, and there’s an addon (not sure if third party) for the quest 3 that puts a battery back there.

So yes, this is done and it can help.

Cutting and/or other randomizing activities makes planning for everyone involved very, very hard.

Congrats, the funding came back that time; but jobs were already cut, people already got deported whose college time depended on it, the professor got axed because the college couldn’t afford it anymore, etc.

Stability is worth its weight in gold in some areas. This isn’t that.

If it runs faster than the windows ones, who cares?

The game developers that use Windows, with Visual Studio, to develop such games.

This is, admittedly, the great anomaly.

In truth if AMD or nVidia put their mind to having decent profiling tooling on Linux, and the AI wave suggests they will have no option, then this could readily become a thing.

While I strongly agree that heavy LLM usage in industries that actually collect customer data, or make important decisions is INCREDIBLY harmful (with quite a bit of unfortunate regularity), democratizing coding “for all” especially in small, narrow niches, is similar to democratizing art, singing, music, general creating.

As long as it’s “for you” or “small time”, there really isn’t a problem at all.

The only real downside so far to LLMs (ignoring environmental concerns) is when they’re heavily used and left unrestrained to go play with financial data, healthcare data, PII, anything with real consequences when it breaks. If a person is using it to automate their life. If a father is using it to help their kid with accessibility issues speak. If an artist is using it to help them write code so they can make a game. These are all good things.

You might think it’s shovelware; but the creator of those things is now super excited that their vision was made or their niche issue was helped, when no one else would.

I have no issue with people creating things, but if you're going to ask strangers to look at it, I think it's reasonable that there's a bar to clear. I think the bar should be adjusted based on the influx of stuff. Right now there's too much stuff that isn't good, and it drowns out the good stuff. There are plenty of places where people can publish amateur works for their friends to see.

Kotlin, Java, Python, C#, Typescript. Anything that has a trustworthy and consistent pointer between code.

Ruby would be the one exception I’ve worked on in my head, and for they language, ctrl+f *usually* (but not always) finds the rest.

Ruby is particularly magical with being able to evaluate methods from dynamic strings into running, production code[0]; but otherwise, languages and capable IDEs, like IntelliJ and Visual Studio just support that. I don’t happen to use VS Code, but I assume it has basic refactor, too.

[0] Devise. https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/main/lib/devise/co...

It's a game you play over one minute. They probably saw more prompts than you.