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  1. Comment on Formula 1 2024 calendar announced in ~sports.motorsports

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    While they did try to do so, some of the circuits have existing dates agreed that they weren’t willing to shift, so it’s a work in progress. Regarding cargo, though, don’t forget that teams have...

    While they did try to do so, some of the circuits have existing dates agreed that they weren’t willing to shift, so it’s a work in progress.

    Regarding cargo, though, don’t forget that teams have multiple sets of equipment, so there may be one set in Europe and a second set in America, for instance - they don’t have to fly one set back and forth. (Personnel, yes, but not normally equipment.)

  2. Comment on Apple Vision Pro headsets will require a head scan and vision prescription to customize the headset for each user in ~tech

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    For the viewpoint of someone who does use glasses, the concerns are really overdone. With the Quest, while it’s possible to use glasses under the headset, using customised inserts makes it a...

    For the viewpoint of someone who does use glasses, the concerns are really overdone. With the Quest, while it’s possible to use glasses under the headset, using customised inserts makes it a significantly better experience. As Apple know this, along with knowing that the Apple headset doesn’t have space to fit glasses, it means that they’re going to need to cater for a significant proportion of their target audience needing custom lenses, which is what this is.

    Now, speculating here, but if you don’t need sight correction, it might well be a off the shelf process, while if you do, they’re probably just bundling the cost into the initial headset cost. As for changes in prescription, I’d expect that it to be possible to purchase later, but you’d expect the vast majority of eyesight prescriptions to remain “good enough” in the mid-range, which is what’s required here, for at least a couple of years.

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  3. Comment on Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff in ~tech

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    Hmm, unlike a lot of others here, I’m using it for its document management capabilities, but haven’t seen anything obvious to replace it, as yet… I’ve got it embedded into my scanning workflow,...

    Hmm, unlike a lot of others here, I’m using it for its document management capabilities, but haven’t seen anything obvious to replace it, as yet…

    I’ve got it embedded into my scanning workflow, such that a scanned document is converted to pdf and automatically sent to Evernote for import (and separately the pdf is archived to a cloud drive). In Evernote, it’s automatically OCR’d so I can search for string (and periodically I go through the Inbox to tag the docs). I don’t refer to it all that often , but it’s been occasionally useful to be able to find info that otherwise is in a pile of physical papers, enough so that I’ve paid for the personal subscription.

    Having said that, I’d be interested if anyone has suggestions of alternatives to take a look at?

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  4. Comment on Git branched on its own, WTH happened? in ~comp

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    I’ve often found that gitk —all is an exceptionally useful tool when trying to understand the state of a git repo

    I’ve often found that gitk —all is an exceptionally useful tool when trying to understand the state of a git repo

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