blah_humbug

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by blah_humbug 5y ago
Let's repeat that survey, across all age groups, and for the current month. I'm especially curious what the eponymous "granny" has to say about it. I'm also very curious to hear what parents have to say about their
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by blah_humbug 5y ago
You don't need someone sitting next to the phone the entire time to perform that service. Besides, you've swapped that perceived unpleasantness for another - some poor soul in a 3rd-world coding sweatshop has to scrape together so
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by blah_humbug 5y ago
We need bloat, and more than that, we need necessary things to be bloated. Otherwise, how will we keep the tech sales treadmill moving? Conversely, it may be that only bloated tech will survive, as bloat drives sales, and sales means su
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by blah_humbug 5y ago
I've found that true of other everyday things (eg, booking a session my local gym), and find it incredibly depressing. Not only have we devised a world where impersonal, digital communication is the way things get done, but we must als
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by blah_humbug 5y ago
Sorry, I don't understand how strapping some screens very close to our eyes will bring us back to the halcyon days of pre-1970 (which were absolutely dominated by the discovery of cheap energy in the form of oil and coal, and in the ca
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by blah_humbug 5y ago
>From Iron Man to The Minority Report, our Sci-Fi has been promising us for decades a future of always-on spatial computing and omnipresent screens. This is the Future we deserve. Assuming that this is serious and not parody, then you ha