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New comment by sleepybrett in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:17:25 +0000

the steam frame will also have eye tracking cameras.

New comment by sleepybrett in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:15:01 +0000

i think the q3 and the avp have similar pixel density

New comment by sleepybrett in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:13:50 +0000

The main problem being that I'm not about to pay the cost of a pretty nice macbook for a vr/ar headset. I'll be interested to see what price the steam frames comes in at.

New comment by sleepybrett in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:09:29 +0000

Back a billion years ago a friend of mine tried to start up a company visualizing architectural plans in unreal engine (very early, like maybe unreal 1 or 2 .. he tried it in the quake engine first), years later but still a million years ago while working for a retailer I set up a demo with the early oculus rift dev kits allowing us to visualize new department store 'pad' layouts and new fixture (shelves, seating, racks) designs... using unity (the unreal vr support wasn't in yet).

I imagine at least the architectural stuff just happens now.

New comment by sleepybrett in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:07:13 +0000

It seems like you would only have to do this stuff once. So the main complaint is 'the settings menus need to be better organized'. That seems achievable.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Apple's hostile App Store rating system"

sleepybrett — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:01:30 +0000

As someone who has done quite a bit of development for the various apple platforms since ~system 7... what the hell are you talking about?

Compared to windows the documentation is better and clearer, the apis are generally clearer and the sdks are better put together.

That said I hardly interact with the app store, but when I have it's been.. fine.

Beats the hell out of the microsoft ecosystem.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

sleepybrett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:29:25 +0000

seems to be ok to talk about if you're elon musk.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

sleepybrett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:28:40 +0000

I only become real friends with my peers at a company AFTER one of us leaves the company. Oh I'll be friendly, grab lunch with you, talk about tame hobby stuff.. but that's the end of it. I'm not coming to your summer bbq, I'm not inviting you to my birthday party and the only time I'm seeing you on the weekend is if we're both in the office trying to get something done.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

sleepybrett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:08:56 +0000

yes, employment is exhausting. To do other that what the poster says is accepting risk.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Our position on open-weights models"

sleepybrett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:58:31 +0000

If you gate models for safety you aren't safe. There will always be actors with ungated models. Better that we use ungated models to improve our security. It's an arms race.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

sleepybrett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:05:18 +0000

clients used to have stuff on their sites, i used to keep a private portfolio, but its been years and i do platform stuff now. Hobby shit like this on the side for my own amusement, when i can find the time.

New comment by sleepybrett in "A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie"

sleepybrett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:53:05 +0000

... on redbubble.

New comment by sleepybrett in "NPM's release cooldown is security theater"

sleepybrett — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:25:21 +0000

This is ... not really true outside of some very big/popular libraries. Often it takes one person to be bit before you can find the snake's nest.

New comment by sleepybrett in "A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste"

sleepybrett — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:23:41 +0000

Why use glue at all, he should have done this using a 'stained glass' method. Build some kind of a frame for each area of color and then melt the filimant into it.

New comment by sleepybrett in "A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste"

sleepybrett — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:19:36 +0000

My printer is near a window so I just added an exhaust duct to the window, in the past when it wasn't close to a window I ran that duct through some filters (charcoal, furnace filter stuff) and left the end near an additional air purifier i had in the space.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

sleepybrett — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:16:28 +0000

This is interesting, i built similar for retail environments, oneoffs for events or windows or whatnot. I'm sure you could probably get away with a few terrible webcams per lane for ball tracking it's pretty much a perfect environment. A totally flat level lit are with very little noise with one circular blob moving through it. Might be an issue if you do the ever popular blacklight lanes night bowl thing, maybe just a switch to look for light blobs instead of dark blobs ;)

An NFC system for tap to play should be a pretty straight forward proposition as well on open hardware. Have tags, tie their unalterable ID numbers back to a credit card/account and you are good to go. Start it with your regulars, league players if you have them, whatnot. You can also tie that back to league scoring. A few lanes at a time.

I'm excited for you, this is a super fun project with endless sidequests.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

sleepybrett — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:50:57 +0000

To be fair the whole structure from top to bottom is unprofessional. 'Games are fun, guys who make games are fun! We don't need any structure or gasp HR...'

New comment by sleepybrett in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

sleepybrett — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:48:40 +0000

My roommate at the time and I both had jobs at the same webdev/hosting/isp place (oh how i miss the late 90s) and we got a deal on a shotgunned isdn connection (256kbps woooooo) to our place (working from home before it was cool). It was magical.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

sleepybrett — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0000

The ski-jumping spin disking was wild times.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

sleepybrett — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:54:46 +0000

If amazon suddenly banned this class of products temu and alibaba are there to take up the slack.