first let me say i agree its a solution looking for a problem

you can still take the glasses off. i dont own glasses but do use vr and the shift between putting on/taking off a headset feels more intentional than the glance at a phone. feels less addictive to me. maybe lightweight glasses and dark patterns will "fix" that eventually

anecdotally a couple of kids were hit by cars every year at my very small school of 300 people. pedestrians and drivers both acting recklessly

mccain seemed quite respectable and i liked the spirit of his campaign reform efforts. they were probably more strategic than altruistic. on the other hand palin seems like shed fit right in with the clown show conservatives trot out now

in contrast: the sport i know best, hoops, a common pattern for generational players is for them to be late bloomers because they grow up short, developing skills and competitive toughness, then get lucky and grow a half-foot late in puberty

who is that? Not Lebron, definitely not Jokic, SGA was 4 star recruit?

David Robinson was an example of this.

Denis Rodman started very late.

Hakeem Olajuwon famously started playing basketball in college. He had some … other gifts tho.

I don't think that's true.

mj had a growth spurt his jr year of hs (the rest of his family is < 6') scottie had a giant growth spurt in college (was a walk on point guard and was 6') kelly olynyk is a local example of a guy who grew late in hs (also a pg before growing). bill walton was normal tall, his brothers are 6'3"ish (nba pg height), but then shot up 8 inches to 6'10" his jr year of hs. many many examples. Robinson for sure the most drastic bc he grew in the navy

now that you mention it, you have a good point that it seems less common lately

definitely not cultural

now, imagine showing up to a hike and the person youre meeting whips one of these out and proceeds to blast rap music. its happened to me and it feels like Seinfeld but 2020s

It is absolutely a cultural thing.

Yeah, you're really not going to find many people blasting gustav mahler in the forest for example. It's always pop music.

this guy is a white cop and our mothers are sisters

so is this white guy culture, cop culture or what culture?

in my experience its nearly always college bros with fanny pack speakers. college bro who will grow up to be a white cop culture maybe

Be prepared to counter with Norwegian black metal!

some personal advice i recently learned is to show youre boss's boss if you really want to be promoted

ive been "trying to take my boss's position" for a few years and he really appreciates it. but during my last review my boss's boss pointed said he wasnt aware of any of this. i was leaving him off all my cc lists because i figured he didnt want the cluttered inbos. he said the opposite, he thought i wasnt following up and doing my job

all my effort was actually having a negative effect in the perspective of the decision maker. hopefully i knock his socks off this year since apparently the bars been lowered to the floor

im disappointed bc despite cost/weight/comfort, i think this was impressive hardware with a clear use and the first step toward something amazing. on the other hand i think wearable ai is pretty lame at the moment. input connected to a web api. please share any examples to the contrary

let me also put my opinion in its place. i completely get it, ppl hate strapping things to their face. this was going to fail eventually like every other vr. im quite surprised if apple earnestly launched this with higher sales expectations

tfa floated a possible shift to "wearable AI devices" which isnt as blatantly aggressive. while it seems impossible for any of these to be as immersive, their number and ubiquity seems more insidiously intrusive to me

pretty common with my crowd of fans to even get a little giddy when the play is so deceptive that it fakes out the camera man and they dont realize theyre focused on the wrong player until a second or two passes

That's the exception. not the rule.

So yes, in "trick" plays you can't see the ball. But neither can the defense.

Having watched hockey AND US football my entire life, you can't compare the two. Totally different styles of sports and thus comparing your ability to see the 2 doesn't make sense.

to add: There has never been a football in history that had the ball going from one end of the field to the other and back. And yet, this happpens in hockey regularly and within seconds.

maybe not the MOST valuable part of prompting an LLM during a task, but one of them, is defining the exact problem in precise language. i dont just blindly turn to an LLM without understanding the problem first, but i do find Claude is better than a cardboard cutout of a dog