Apocryphon

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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
The Moon landings invented the Tang dynasty
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Since it's popular among youth on social media, maybe this is like Helen Keller skepticism? https://www.perkins.org/qa-a-factual-look-at-helen-kellers-a...
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Not bad, though based on the screenshot Lake Merritt in Oakland looks not to scale. https://watchdogs.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Bay_Area
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
> You want to decouple from them but you obsess about their politics. It’s a transnational world, despite all that’s happened. Leftists in America obsess about Corbyn and Sheinbaum. Right-wingers supported Bolsonaro and now Milei. Libera
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Telling what? STEM academics are busier than Pokémon fans to contribute to Wikipedia? Or they care less about the cause of Wikipedia? That as a society we produce more of the latter than the former? There’s no definitive rationale to be tol
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
I thought GPT was the model that spoke most like blog clickbait? Isn't Claude somewhat better about it?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Google was also characterized by their infamous data-first 41 shades of blue A/B test. It seems like they went into an extreme where design was informed by user behavior, by empiricism, rather than by the taste of the designer. https:
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
I think the distaste is more against feature bloat. This sub-thread is reacting to dedicated e-readers succumbing to becoming full-fledged app-running devices. Is the refresh rate on an e-ink display even suitable for general computing? Plu
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Product/design-first vs. engineering-first orgs
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
That was before it was discovered that every single counterculture could be marketed to and commercialized.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
There are attempts to make stylized "coolness" in tech. That's how you get the Cybertruck, or RGB lights everywhere in custom desktops. Be careful of what you wish for.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Those aesthetics are only "cool" in the sense that stylized comic book / military sci-fi conceptions of tech are cool. Also '80s nostalgia, and satire. In reality, none of that could exist practically in the modern day.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
More of a John Brunner future, really.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
I only read the "Do this instead" section and it sounds eminently reasonable, if not common sense.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
It's fascinating history and theorizing but didn't Jobs kill many, many moribund product lines upon his return?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Well, at the extreme end of free market, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert drew from Objectivism and had his company's divisions internally compete with one another: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/0
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Presumably those who eat it find the form factor the opposite of wasting time, given how quick it is to consume it.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Also didn't pretty much every tech guru from that time (if not from all time) drop acid? Gates certainly did, and more than once.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
But people are working harder- they’re simply working harder at their jobs. It should also be noted that the birth rates in China are not increasing, either, despite the end of the One Child Policy. Partly it is also because the younger gen
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Maybe he didn’t know that you knew how to get onto the motorway, or that it’s straightforward to do so. Try driving I-80 in San Francisco during rush hour and make the 4th Street exit without getting forced onto the Bay Bridge, without eith
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Technology becomes a way to hedge bets. Maybe the demand for egg freezing, IVF, surrogacy will rise, and associated costs will drop.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
The difference likely there is in the ‘40s you were seeing improvement after the Great Depression and employment during WWII, followed by the postwar boom. Whereas the past two generations have seen precarity increase while living standards
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Easy to prescribe, hard to implement for the last two generations or so
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Presumably for some who are under specific exercise or diet regimens, it makes tracking macros more easy.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
It still belongs in a library! At least a digital one.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
His last major work was on Epic Mickey, over a dozen years ago. I figured Spector was de facto retired like many ‘90s game designer icons.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
There’s also a Beta Decay.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
So it turns out your organization didn’t need so many donated books. The ideal outcome for your discards should still be sent somewhere to someone who wants to read or possess them, or barring that, to be scanned so their contents are at le
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
This is about optimizing a commute with realtime info. There are other cognitive training methods beyond being Jamie Foxx in Collateral .
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And you know this how

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