Finally, someone who sees the writing on the wall and isn't afraid to positive thinking themselves out of it.

...and that will come to fruition during a subsequent administration. It was one of the many time bombs set up to make the opposing party look worse come election time.

I keep seeing this complaint but I have never reproduced it locally. VSCode runs at a buttery smooth 120hz on my MBP. What are you doing that causes such poor performance?

It's extensions. Some of them can drag a machine to its knees, with unbounded CPU usage. The worst is the C++ extensions. Gets stuck at 100% CPU if you open a file it doesn't like, which is most of them.

VSCode with no extensions is very fast and light. VSCode with 30 extensions you've accumulated? Not so much.

I think that's why you see such conflicting experiences - people have different extensions.

I think I have like, 50 extensions though not all of them are active at the same time (that's how vscode works I think) and I don't really see the lag. I have a high refresh rate screen, I'm pretty used to differentiating between laggy and non laggy graphics, etc and still nothing stands out. Maybe some extensions are resource hogs but I think vscode provides stats about extension resource usage and how much an extension slows down the editor so people can easily check what is causing their slowdowns.

Yeah, that god damn cpptools intellisense scanner seems to grab one core and peg it for 10’s of minutes after deigning to break an include. I don’t get what it’s doing in there that it can’t at least get spread out over more cores; as-is, it spools up the fan because you’ve got one cpu melting while the rest of the processor is just chilling.

I absolutely love vscode and think all of the people complaining about it being sluggish are ridiculous, but the cpp extensions really are genuinely annoying.

I regularly must sit and wait for vscode to catch up rendering the text I just typed. I suspect the main culprit is the vim extension, but unfortunately that's one of the few extensions I cannot go without.

Ah yes the vim extension is known to be an issue. IIRC the problem is it works by hooking into every key press and blocks VSCode in a way that no other extensions really do.

Actually I think Rust analyser had a "smart enter" feature that worked in a similar way and was similarly slow.

Basically if an extension overrides typing then it's going to be slow.

Burying your head in the sand out of some sort of false piety is not the answer.

It should be relatively simple with a QR code or similar physical marker in the real world.

With yeah I agree. Without though it seems difficult

why do you guys say this? Amazon's "View in your room" feature does a decent job of placing a furniture in AR. We can even walk around/towards it. And that tech is just Apple ARKit right?

I don’t think it’s that good. “Decent” is accurate

right.. so maybe Apple just thinks it is not good enough yet. They must be stretched on onboard compute capacity already.

And some might argue you just switch apps to find that "screen".

Personally I would put something interesting on the ceiling and look up at it.

Is it possible to track your position that accurately in an arbitrarily large space?

This almost seems like a personal anecdote somehow

Perhaps, but that doesn't make it untrue and I feel like it's at least worth a thought.

That's a lot of words to say "I agree with Elon Musk's Twitter shenanigans"

Yeah but it’s high quality because it uses a lot of words.

The guy who suggested the AI was sentient was clearly wrong, and strange in a bad way. ChatGPT enthusiasts are just having a good time with a text generation AI. How did you even come up with this comparison?

I recently read an interesting book that's picking up traction among managerial types, called "The Infinite Game" by Sinek

One of the main points is about this view that "companies must always make more short-term profit at any cost". Sinek says this is just a mind-virus that took hold after Milton Friedman started pushing it, and not only is it not actually true in any legal sense, it's a toxic philosophy that eats away at companies and slowly destroys them. He outlines how it's a big part of why Microsoft keeps losing out to Apple again and again.

(Another point it goes on about is how much more productive your workers are if you treat them like human beings)

So hopefully this book will keep getting more and more traction, and eventually we might not live in a toxic corporate dystopian hellscape