Well, ED in VR on linux works... okay. With eye tracking disabled it's mostly fine. Definitely some iffy link stability on the streaming, it occasionally freezes for a bit while it figures things out. Usable, but needs work. I think I read somewhere that there's some wifi power management buttons I should push to help with that, and allegedly there's also community patches for VR that do... something, not sure yet.

Still, even with a little jank, it's just as fun as I remember doing cargo runs in a Type 9 Heavy. The cockpit has a 180 degree view, and my goodness it's a cool sight when you pull into spacedock in the giant sky truck.

ok well Elite Dangerous launches, but I think I need to disable the eye tracking or foveated rendering or whatever, because it's fine as long as I hold my eyes perfectly still, if I move them the rendering glitches out quite hard

Even when I try to forget about the day job and play some videogames, cursed networking problems follow me around like an angry little leprechaun

hahaha FML it was the fucking firewall on my desktop, it was denying steam link streaming connections. Added an allow rule for it and boom suddenly SteamVR is like oh behold a headset do u want to do a virtual reality

Don't get me wrong I'm super grateful to all the people who developed the linux 3D and VR software stacks to the point where this could even plausibly work! And I'm definitely playing in hard mode by trying to stream from a linux OS, and streaming a game that has no linux builds and so somehow has to persuade an entire pretend-to-be-windows stack to do VR properly.

It's so close, I feel like if I could just get the stderr from both the PC and headset sides of this I could figure out what's up, and it's going to be something stupid like some 32-bit library isn't installed and it poops the bed in non-obvious ways or something

Me, a naive idiot: oh I should go play some Elite Dangerous in this swanky new VR headset of mine

Current status: attempting to debug a Quite Large stack of software that spans my host graphics stack, the Steam Frame's graphics stack, both OSes, multi-channel wifi streaming, and a game that runs through a proton compatibility layer.

So far I've achieved a VR launch that put the game in the headset once. Unfortunately, steam decided to stream the game launcher window instead of the actual game.

This is apparently enough of a known issue that someone wrote a whole-ass custom .Net launcher for Elite:Dangerous that doesn't do that, and also supports launching a bunch of plugins and integrations at the same time.

Oh and there was a frame OS update, so who knows maybe that helped. I still give this about a 5% chance of working right now. Seems annoyingly close though...

And no the standard doesn't say why they decided to call the smaller form factor ID-000 instead of ID-0. ID-{1,2,3} don't follow any obvious scaling rule, I suspect ISO just wrote down what a bunch of people were empirically doing.

I kinda want to take calipers to all my cards now and see if they're in spec. But instead I'm going to be sensible and go to bed.

Weirdly there are two different sets of dimension specs, one for blank cards and one for cards after "personalization", meaning after your face and deets get printed on them. Personalized cards have slightly looser dimensional tolerance, I assume to allow for in-spec blanks to be smushed slightly during the personalization process without going out of spec.

Huh, though here's a surprising requirement: ID-1 cards have to be opaque to IR light in some wavelength ranges. Apparently for compatibility with scanners that use said IR light for card presence.

Interestingly though it says nothing about how poisonous, or indeed venomous they can be...

You'll be pleased to know that ISO has your back, and requires that ID cards should not be toxic when used normally.

I mean sure I guess it doesn't hurt to write that down, but which country was making asbestos passports before this standard?

Oh hey look at that Anna's Archive has a copy. Thanks Anna!

And of course ISO would like $115 for me to browse this stupid document. I'm curious, but not _that_ curious.

I also wonder what happened to ID-0 and ID-00. Are the sizes defined as proportional scaling of ID-1 maybe, and so to get down to the empirical size of micro-SIM they had to shrink ID-1 three times?...

TIL ISO 7810 is why debit/credit cards and a bunch of ID documents are all the same size. Turns out they're all the ID-1 size from that standard. My quite old French ID card used the larger ID-2, and passports use ID-3.

And, preposterously, the same standard also defines ID-000 for mini-SIM cards. According to wikipedia, because the OG large format SIM cards were ID-1, so I guess when they started shrinking ISO wanted to name the new standard.

Looks like they gave up for micro-SIM and nano-SIM though, there's no ID-0000 or ID-00000. I guess writing those out, I can see why they didn't, it's quite silly even for ISO.

Arright, it has been zero days since I made the mistake of trying to use clever parser combinators to parse a thing instead of just writing my own damn lexer and recursive descent parser.

Oh and I forgot the hat trick of hard to use parser combinator libraries

Every parser combinator library: using parser combinators makes parsers that are much easier to understand!

Inevitably, every time: *produces completely fucking incomprehensible parsers when applied to real languages*

Ink is a really interesting/wacky DSL for creating dialogue based branching stories. With my programmer hat on I find some of the PL design choices it makes to be quite spicy (in particular around typing, which is a very odd mix of static but sometimes dynamic with implicit coercions and also some types are also variables??), but it also has enough domain-specific weirdness to make my brain fizz slightly at the novelty.

Oh and it has a couple bits that made me go "wait this is continuation passing style, how did that get into a programming language for non-programmers"

Anyway, I don't think it'll win any PL theory design awards, but I find it charming and kinda neat.

https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/