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  • I mean the hype has died down but I think it’s rather that VR is too expensive right now. I want VR but I don’t want it $500 much to get a novelty item.

    I think using it as a big ass screen would be nice and I really want to Serious Sam and Subnautica on VR. The immersion is really good for VR and I’ve liked it a lot every time I’ve played it.

    Still, you need a decent space in the living room. A good graphics card for the frame rate and the expensive headset and motion trackers to get the full experience. That’s a lot to ask for with the current economy.


  • More or less the same but the user gets passed as a method parameter each time. Validators would be in my opinion a long function inside the service also with named variables like this because it’s just easy to read and there are no surprises. I’d probably refactor it at around 5 conditions or 30 lines of validation logic.

    I recommend trying out using the constructor in services for tools such as a database and methods for data such as user. It will be very easy to use everywhere and for many users and whatever

    const passwordIsValid = ...
    if (!passwordIsValid){
      return whatever
    }
    








  • I always thought of the “how” being better explained by the code itself where you can see string.replace(" ", "\ ") as the actual fix while the message says the “why”.

    I would still have “Fix a bug where strings containing whitespace break CSVExporter” as my go to message.

    I guess our viewpoints are different based whether we want the commit messages to represent tasks or changes. They both have their uses of course. Looking at changes to a file to know what people have done to it is better with a “changes” type message but looking at the history to check “did we actually complete this or was it just marked as completed in the issue tracker?” is better with a task based message.

    Task management where every issue is put on a ticket and tracked would my type of messages obsolete but at my current company theyre very useful.




  • I absolutely love heat pumps. They’re great, massive efficiency and all that. The article says it works in 100-200 °C range which shows a lot of promise but that’s not enough for a lot of use cases that are very energy intensive.

    Clinker, the main CO2 emitter for cement creation and metals such as steel production require >400°C to produce as an example. If people figure out a way to clean up aluminium then we can potentially use a thermite reaction to create steel and there are already alternatives for clinker.

    The real solution is a carbon tax which is going to be economically painful in the short to medium term and with the current economic situation there’s not a lot of political will.

    Heat pumps are a game changer for residential and low-temp industrial heat. Shit’s going badly right now in the grand scheme of things but at least we’re heading in the right direction.