> about 20 percent of the commenters herald this as the future, and the other 80 mock it with vehement derision
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> very few of these people reacted to me in any way. I got one cursory stare, but otherwise, my fellow pedestrians didn’t stop, didn’t say anything, and usually didn’t even look at me any more than they normally would any other stranger walking by.
A good reminder that internet comment sections are full of people unusually happy to volunteer their opinion, especially if it's negative. But they're actually rare in the real world.
This lesson seems to be difficult to internalize, though, since you can just imagine the comment section where there is none:
> Even though I didn’t see any outward evidence that others were judging me, I was judging myself. I felt self-conscious. I couldn’t shake the thought that even if the people around me weren’t saying anything negative, they were thinking it.
As for the title, it seems like the reason walking around with the headset makes no sense is that open windows stay in one place instead of following you around and the maps app is just another of those floating windows instead of having a tighter integration to show directions.
But people definitely do judge. Try wearing a face mask these days - even if you're sick and wanting to protect others, some people will frown at you, or even ask you to take it off.
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> very few of these people reacted to me in any way. I got one cursory stare, but otherwise, my fellow pedestrians didn’t stop, didn’t say anything, and usually didn’t even look at me any more than they normally would any other stranger walking by.
A good reminder that internet comment sections are full of people unusually happy to volunteer their opinion, especially if it's negative. But they're actually rare in the real world.
This lesson seems to be difficult to internalize, though, since you can just imagine the comment section where there is none:
> Even though I didn’t see any outward evidence that others were judging me, I was judging myself. I felt self-conscious. I couldn’t shake the thought that even if the people around me weren’t saying anything negative, they were thinking it.
As for the title, it seems like the reason walking around with the headset makes no sense is that open windows stay in one place instead of following you around and the maps app is just another of those floating windows instead of having a tighter integration to show directions.
There's clearly no alternative solution that satisfies this use case.
Acquiring early field results from prototype-grade A/R:
It's a dirty (and embarrassing) job, but somebody's gotta do it.