1. Networking and keeping contacts. Not LinkedIn which I have found to be completely useless and full of lunatics and weirdos. Good old fashioned email and exchanging details when you work with other people. Check in with people occasionally to remind them you still exist. I have to turn work away.
On the contrary, I get a decent chunk of my work through LinkedIn. I only get a few messages a month, most from recruiters, but occasionally there's decent work in there too. Maybe two or three opportunities a year, which, if I took all of them, would be all I needed.
I don't actually use LinkedIn except to update my profile every year or so, and to make follow people in my industry.
"Hey James, I see you are working at Microsoft in Azure Compute and I am interested in breaking into that too. Would it be possible to go for coffee or catch up on Zoom?"
You may have to remind them how they know you if it has been a while :).
Keep it short. Unless you know they like a long email!
Why would anyone respond to that? I haven't talked to you in 15 years and barely knew you. Looks like you are working at Google, I want a job there too. Lets catch up on zoom.
If any past coworker I liked wanted to get lunch I'm up for it. For me it's not yet exceeded 8 years back so I guess I can't demonstrate that yet :). I also get a referral bonus so I do want to refer people!
We live in a world full of uncertainty. When someone you know is in a current need, helping that person is one way to hedge against the uncertainty of the future. Who knows, one day you may need such help too...
That's why this advice is common. It's important to be clear about the reasons for reaching out.
I've made a habit of just cold calling my friends because I thought of them. I'll usually end up talking to them for an hour or more, even if I had nothing I specifically wanted to talk to them about. Just "hey I was just thinking about you and thought it would be good to catch up, how've you been?" Something like that.
The market already answered for the time being: none of them. This is space is an R&D sinkhole, all what companies do is make land grabs for an imagined future.
They inferred it because those companies were left out of your category of the "last thing you'd want". Anything left out would be categorized as "not the last thing you'd want" when there are parallels in the omitted yet well known offerings.
You don't have to make a statement about ranking them when you said "the last thing you'd want". Figure of speech or not. It seems telling to the reader when discussing XR to leave them out, that's all. You could have just clarified and called it a day.
The fact that we're being so pedantic now instead of discussing our actual opinion is making me more certain that your purpose was not to have a discussion so I'll shutup now.
My initial point was a really that there are terrible privacy implications and poor track record of actually treating the customer well, as if that wasn't obvious.
As for the rest, I'm just pissed off with people throwing their words into my mouth. Oh there we go again.
The vast majority of people in the world don't own any VR device as of today, and likely never will. I don't see there is a "be forced to" thing happening.
I can't see that happening at all. The idea gives little utility over the top of the last big leap (smart phones) with a lot of additional costs and problems.
Yeah it’s super cheap if you use the pooled service. Back in the 90s it was $1000 for 3 eurocard sized boards if you wanted them in under 2 weeks. This was a big problem for us so they built a PCB lab in house and it’d still take 3 days.
Now I can get the same to my door in under 2 weeks for $60. And they actually test the boards!
Not sure where my DNS from my ISP (Zen in UK) but nothing is ever blocked or broken. I’ve stayed away from the big providers because of their target size.
Chip on board has been around since the 1970s or 80s in some consumer stuff. Putting them on a PCB isn't the same and they were wire bonded, but still the idea of connecting directly to the die was there.
They fucking suck too, I miss when the collectibles shelf at game stores was filled with a bunch of cool looking action figures, now it's a wall of funko pops and maybe 10 non funko figures somewhere else.
Got a 9 year old iPhone 6s here. Actually still perfectly usable and annoyingly fast compared to my 15 Pro. Was getting patches until July 2024 as well.
When one phone falls off the bottom of the stack another one goes on the top of the family stack. In service we have a 15 Pro, 13 Pro, 12, XR, 8 and the 6s. I'll push Pro phones down every two years now. Occasionally something needs a new battery and that's about it.
As for usability, there are a couple of problems but once you get used to it and why, meh. Safari+AdGuard (free) is excellent and a lot less dicky than Firefox on Android.
50/50 on that. Had a near miss there. Borderline type 2. Blasted weight down from 115kg to 65kg and changed diet.
Now I still eat pizza, pasta, bread and chocolate all the time. Just reasonable amounts of it as part of a balanced diet. And not the crap shovelled out by fast food restaurants.
GJ! Insulin resistance is much more a function of total caloric load and expenditures than composition. It's called metabolic syndrome, not high glycemic index syndrome. You reworked your lifestyle and metabolism and came back into the "zone" before you fell off the cliff.
2. Mostly bullshitting people then winging it.