Co-Founder, Chief Architect at Common Room (@CommonRoomHQ) Co-host of The Downtime Project (@sevreview) Formerly Dropbox, AudioGalaxy, Microsoft, FolderShare.
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Joined February 2008
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I knocked out a few perf fixes today and am reminded yet again what an incredible tool @honeycombio is
If google wants to flex their AI muscle and avoid all these issues, how about a version of Maps that I can have a conversation with when it's navigating me somewhere? "Be quiet until I get onto I5", "how much slower is the 405 bridge?", etc, all seem doable and issue free.
I don't know about the details, but I do know that looking at the horizon / out the window seems to help people with it. I've even seen glasses that simulate the horizon, eg amazon.com/Hion-Sickness-Car…
I wonder if the Vision Pro has low enough latency to show a TV screen with a false horizon behind it that would let kids watch movies on car trips without getting motion sick.
@amplemarket how can I get my email out of your database if I'm not a California resident?
If you're really interested in this sort of thing, @jamwt and I did a podcast where we analyzed a number of outages a few years ago: downtimeproject.com/
My jokey solution to the Fermi paradox is that really great VR causes civilizations to plateau before they can figure out interstellar travel. But maybe not at $3500/pair.
