adamc

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by adamc 2y ago
I would say smartphones and tablets are new devices, not, per se, PCs. Smartphones did bring something huge to the table, and exploded accordingly. But here we are, less than 2 decades from their introduction and... the pace of improvement
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by adamc 2y ago
Too vague. How would it replace Windows? How would it replace search? The latter is more believable to me, but how would the AI-enhanced version generate the additional revenue that its costs require? And I think a lot of improvement would
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by adamc 2y ago
What do you think hasn't been? I think the big game changer in the PC space was graphics cards, but since their introduction, it has all been incremental improvement -- at first, pretty fast, then... slower. Much like CPU improvement
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by adamc 2y ago
MSN version isn't paywalled, though.
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Enterprise Philosophy and the First Wave of AI(stratechery.com)
2 points by adamc 2y ago|0 comments
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by adamc 2y ago
The experience of something like Walmart is so much degraded from, say, the Marshall Field's I grew up with in Chicago, that... no. They are nothing like classic department stores. They are more like a modern K-mart.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't buy google devices anymore except for Pixel phones. Everything else tends to be disappointing over time.
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by adamc 2y ago
No, that demonstrates that the monetary delta wasn't a good incentive. But I challenge you to find a lot of people working jobs without pay. There are some, if they have independent means, but not many. Likewise, most fiction authors e
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, that all makes senses. But having legacy software that you support has been a big advantage for x86 for, basically, forever. For a lot of purposes, that is way more important than performance per watt.
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by adamc 2y ago
Compare to, say, "A Wizard of Earthsea", where magic is explained in a different way that points out that while a wizard could transmute one substance into another, no wizard would, because of the far-reaching ramifications. The
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by adamc 2y ago
Money is a powerful incentive.
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by adamc 2y ago
Totally a tangent, but he's right about that. It was a flaw in Harry Potter as well. There was no logical system to how magic worked; spells did whatever plot requirements said they did. And it detracts from the sense of realism in a w
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by adamc 2y ago
I like this and find it interesting, but at an organizational level, it strikes me as trickier to do. A lot of the things we discover about projects and technologies have to do with its feasibility at whatever scale our real projects operat
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by adamc 2y ago
In the short-term. But google is training a whole generation that everything they touch is shit. I know a lot of engineers who won't touch chrome if they aren't testing something. I have the same feeling about android games. They&
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, but it might be a satisficing approach. Most of us don't really need to optimize an appliance purchase, just not get screwed.
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by adamc 2y ago
Some of it (judging from myself) might be that companies have been pouring resources into graphics for 20 years and the benefit to me, as a gamer, has been modest. Sure, escaping PS1 graphics was good. Better graphics make it possible to re
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by adamc 2y ago
No, that isn't the problem. My 70 year old brother plays video games.
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by adamc 2y ago
Maybe so. But the part of the article I resonated with is that it just doesn't matter. I don't care. I buy games for gameplay, and better graphics -- which once opened up kinds of gameplay -- just doesn't matter anymore.
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by adamc 2y ago
Sure, and I've seen comparisons before, but the truth is that I don't care. It doesn't change the game. Visual improvements between PS1 and PS2 made the characters look less bizarre and helped me recognize things. At this poi
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by adamc 2y ago
There's all sorts of anecdotal evidence that google searches have gotten steadily worse, and google has stopped supporting parts of its search "API" that mitigated this. So they've been the market leader but haven't
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, there are so many examples. It's one of the reasons I was unwilling to jump on board Google Stadia... I kept thinking "let's wait and see how it does". Particularly since you had to buy non-transferable game licens
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by adamc 2y ago
Something I've been thinking about, and then I noticed this essay.
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Asking the wrong questions (2017)(ben-evans.com)
203 points by adamc 2y ago|134 comments
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by adamc 2y ago
Nope. Pay or fuck off.
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm not. I want authors and artists to have some ability to make a living.
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by adamc 2y ago
Nope. Don't trust the carvers, given the current state of campaign laws. Thank the SCOTUS for Citizens United.
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by adamc 2y ago
I liked it, but... is there a way to script it? Clicking on notes gets old fast.
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by adamc 2y ago
For me, the results weren't even stable, but varied from run to run according to what colors were shown. And the first time, it randomly showed me a bunch of blues and I thought it was broken. It told me my perception was bluer than 99
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by adamc 2y ago
Thank you for this kind of note... helps bring the humanity back to the faceless internet.
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by adamc 2y ago
Computer science is much, much more marketable than typical PhDs.

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