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Why are you moving from Flutter to RN?

They are moving away from FlutterFlow, specifically. That could be a good idea since FlutterFlow is going to have a tough time versus agent assisted coding in Antigravity. However, going to RN is debatable. Flutter has a lot of advantages.

Refal is an interesting functional programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refal

Experts Exchange is still with us :)

Why not have a battery externally, attached with a long cable?

The Vision Pro battery is already external, isn't it? But the device is heavy anyway, I think because of the used materials like glass.

Maybe they should add a helium balloon. Like this guy did with his bag:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fvfvUzy64sw

Not sure how convenient it is when working in an airplane, though. Maybe airplanes could be fitted with elastic straps that pull your VR device up?


Balance presumably.


It's not a matter of "can" you do it, it's a matter of needing to do it. Do you make a habit of carrying a gallon of water on your head? You probably don't need to. I don't need to either. I certainly don't need to spend $3500 for the privilege of carrying a gallon of water on my head. Doing so is not necessary or beneficial to my life in any way. I could do it if my life depended on it, but it doesn't.

If the Vision Pro was balanced on top of the head, it would definitely be easier to sustain for a longer period of time, but the weight is attached to the front. That means you're holding it up with your neck muscles instead of straight down your spine.

Is it evaluated lazily? How about APL?

> you are incentivised to do things the slowest possible way...

Not when you have long-term (multi-years) clients. It's basically a very flexible permanent job, where you are free to bill from 0 up to full 40 or more hours per week.


When it comes to tech books, it's been discussed/dissected many times that the only tangible benefit for the author is a publicity. This is not due to "piracy", but how publishing works. E.g. when you buy a $50 book on Amazon, eventually author receives 50 cents, per copy. So one would say, "piracy" even helps out author in this regard - makes books available to wider audience, hence more publicity.

> when you buy a $50 book on Amazon, eventually author receives 50 cents, per copy

Royalties are much higher than 1%. Royalties are very high with eBooks (the closest analog to pirated books)

> So one would say, "piracy" even helps out author in this regard

Oh the mental gymnastics people will do to justify not paying people for their work.

> makes books available to wider audience, hence more publicity.

You downloading a pirated book does not do this. You just get their work without them getting any money in return.

“Do it for exposure” ignites justifiable outrage when we are asked to work for free. Why would it be a good thing to apply to authors?

Even if it was true, you cannot deny that exposure + payment is better than exposure plus nonpayment, right?


Ok, if we fallow that line, it's about worthiness in a certain region. And authors/sellers rarely implement regional pricing. Would you pay your one-month or even half-year salary for a random book? Same goes for software. That's why Microsoft encouraged or turned a blind eye on software "piracy" in developing countries, that's the reason Windows and other MS software became standards there. Most of users who "pirate" things won't pay a dime if you restrict it, they will just go find something else, e.g. Linux :)

> Would you pay your one-month or even half-year salary for a random book?

What on earth are you talking about? Books do not cost a half year of salary.

If they did, nobody would buy them.


Regional pricing... For you no, but for some kid in the middle of Africa, yes.

Are you a kid in the middle of Africa? Or are you just using them to justify your own decisions?

What is the typical percentage for tech books?

They can add support for Chrome and Edge extensions marketplaces.

There is a creational aspect in math - definitions and rules are created.

And this is one of the many issues with invoking the logical positivists here...

I'm not even sure why they were invoked. Even disregarding the big techinical debunks such as two dogmas, sociologically and even by talking to real mathematicians (see Lakatos, historically, but this is true anecdotally too), it's (ironically) a complete non-question to wonder about mathematics in a logical positivist way.


On the other hand, why would we need apps anyway? We could just directly use LLMs/AI for everything :)

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