lrivers's comments

On: Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible

[lrivers]

This should become a verb. Mullenweged

On: The flu shot is different this year, thanks to Covid

[lrivers]

A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.

On: A History of Microwave Ovens

[lrivers]

I remember vividly the first meal I had made with a microwave. Early 70s. Went to someone’s house for dinner. Dinner was meatloaf. Cooked in a microwave. If you like steamed ground beef you would have LOVED this meatloaf.

On: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

[lrivers]

Boy, not from the outside, though. There was a guy wearing one on my last flight and it’s ugly and it’s super weird to see someone “doing stuff”. All the hand waving and stuff. I can’t imagine wearing one in public. But I’m old

[crooked-v → lrivers]

The Apple Vision Pro front screen feels like an initial clunky attempt at trying to make this easier by giving an obvious indicator when somebody is off in their own world vs actually looking at you... though as UX design it's a good 10 years ahead of the hardware, since nobody's ever going to be casually wearing AVP in a coffee shop.

VRChat, of all things, has some interesting experimentation going on in this space. For example, there are avatars that will link up with your other SteamVR apps to show a placeholder screen or other indicator on the avatar when you have an overlay floating window active that's totally separate from VRChat.

On: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

[lrivers]

Plus, “that person’s name is ‘jazzyjackson’” when you’re looking at them

On: John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams

[lrivers]

What a great use case for a 3D representation

On: No Salt

[lrivers]

Crying at work from reading something on HN was not on my bingo card. Godspeed Jake

On: Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas

[lrivers]

Fetch finally happened!

On: How to get 7th graders to smoke

[lrivers]

One way to ruin kids desire to drink is to offer them tastes of what you’re drinking from a relatively young age.

Whatcha drinking daddy?

A beer! Want to try it?

YUCK!!!!

This removes the rebellion portion from drinking to a degree.

[xboxnolifes → lrivers]

Unless they end up liking it, which I know some that applies to. Though, they did end up fine.

On: Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died

[lrivers]

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