Read the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.

Same, I thought they had discovered cavorite with their quantum computer or something.

Cool! On Chrome Desktop, I'm unable to sign up due to not being able to click the top T&C checkbox (overlapping content).

I wouldn't review it - bad engineering practice to submit this much work in one go - it puts too much expectation on the reviewer and makes it more likely that something gets broken.

Even 1000 lines is pushing it, IMO. Tell them to split the PR up into more granular work if they want it merged.

I'm increasingly reluctant to hand over more context from my life to OpenAI and Google etc. Giving Gemini etc access to all my emails, notes etc is just a step too far IMO.

The future of these products absolutely needs to be locally running, private solutions rather than cloud based, and if they can't provide that, I'll be using open source alternatives instead.

I'm taking one look at Elixir and I'm not sure how it's supposed to be an improvement from Ruby? The readability and syntax seems to be a step backwards, so I'll stick with Ruby/Rails, thanks!

"Visit your local cafe, now in VR. Meet your friends in local spaces, without leaving your home!"

Either way, I don't see this taking off. I'm surprised they're still pursuing VR.

Is it though? Zuck has a very coloured history and is not really the innovator he wants to think he is.

He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control.

"He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control" - can you give more context about this? Does he basically think facebook is shackled by iphone app privacy requirements?

I'm afraid to ask for this but I wish I could use something like this for work. Why are we all commuting? I'd like to put on a company issued VR headset and be transported to an office. Just literally recreate the office experience.

Why recreate the office?

I get that some people have a psychological mindset to "be in a place so as to do work" but offices are a compromise on so many things, most notably space.

Now you have tech to create entire wondrously imaginative virtual worlds and you want to recreate a bland little open plan box to cram avatars into?

I guess you could ask, why offices look like they do? they could already be imaginative spaces but companies mostly opt for "bland" spaces. Probably because if you're going to combine the preferences of 30 people in one space you have to settle for something pretty far down the common denominator tree, which is always going to be "bland".

True, but when each person is individually fed their vision and sound you don't necessarily have to compromise.

Set some specifics, like open space, chair, table/desk. And you could have Hogwarts theme while I have a viking feasting hall.

Because it's familiar and people already understand it? Virtual office? Why not recreate the office? Too hard?

I want a little virtual office and hallways and I can have hallway interactions and knock on virtual doors, etc.

There’s at least 8 of such work space apps on Meta Quest, they have whiteboards, you can do stuff together all while in a room in the middle of Alps or in space.

Except with the extra weight of a headset, eye strain, and the uncanny feeling of moving without moving.

kind of feeling like this too much skeuomorphism for my taste, why recreate the office experience when I can already do the work without the commute over slack and teams?

I do my work remotely via slack and teams, it's more for the return to office crowd.

I'm quite hopeful that anyone under 40 (arbitrary, mostly because I'm in my mid-30s) will get to LEV (longevity escape velocity) - there's a ton of anti-ageing and disease-curing research going on, especially now with the likes of DeepMind and others accelerating said research.

That's assuming you manage to avoid death from microplastics, climate change or AI-related societal collapse, etc.

In your perspective, why would these drugs be made available to the general public given they'd be arguably the most valuable thing every produced in human history? Presumably one or a few companies would own the IP, so they would of course charge massive sums for them because that's what corporations are supposed to do. So how does that not happen?

Yet another $149 course. The best online resources are free.

I really don't think everyone with a social media addiction has ADHD.

Yes, that's on the experts to decide. But still valuable to rule it out.

True but dopamine cycling is correlated with ADHD.

Last time I checked, most countries today, aside from Russia, aren't in the business of invading other countries and expanding territory or forming colonies. The UK will be just fine - it's doing as much as any other western country to keep it's relevance.