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by brailsafe 3mo ago
Politicians also like to pat themselves on the back for things like zoning density "particularly along transit corridors" as if only the immediately stroad-adjacent parcels are viable for accessing the bus and anyone who makes les
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by brailsafe 3mo ago
> is estimated at 10 months by Anthropic themselves, and it's growing. How is this different than any business with something to lose saying a competitor isn't as good? Not saying it's false, but it would seem to me that i
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
There's a subtle difference between what each of us is describing I think. It seems you're arguing that wearing headphones in public isn't generally inherently rude, and you have a selection of anecdotes to support it, and I&
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
You're still not saying anything specific, what about it wouldn't look like that and why? Again, looks pretty legit to me, and all I'm using is my eyes and exposure to people in the world.
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Ya that all sounds about right. Crazy times. Ironically, I followed a similar progression with slightly different variables. Maybe intermediate engineer in 2020—certainly not fresh anyway—but because of the volatility in the job market I co
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> Driving is also something (nearly) everyone does and benefits directly from, so negative externalities are easier to accept. This reads a little too close to driving being an inherently good thing or some sort of objective requirement,
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Surely this isn't as stupid as an SUV trying to take light rail though right? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/how... Maybe Seattle is the problem ;)
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Shhh don't forget we have a water shortage. But it is nice to have electricity wrapped into my relatively cheap basement suite rent ;)
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Because of the proportion of the two critical component increases as a part of the whole. It's not like a screw, more like the propeller or something. I just bought ram at retail price, and in my currency it went from $100 to $600CAD f
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I don't see where you're hoping to take this. Looks like a pretty normal scene to me. What substance are you adding to the thread?
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Funnily enough, ostensibly for creating more work for others, I was just fired... before my day started. I'm not sure what failed or why, but because some of the team was on the opposite coast, they found out sooner and had to roll som
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Seems like a tragedy of the commons. People don't have a right to your attention necessarily, but you also don't have the right to be unbothered arbitrarily.
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> I feel like your conception that “ignoring people either consciously or through technology is rude” makes more sense in higher social trust situations. Yes, but I meant that the more people who block everyone out by default, passivel
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Cool, but the UI could use more vibing. Seems unusable on mobile because it's not responsive and the controls can't be hidden or collapsed
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> You’re not interrupting my focus for me, you’re doing it for you. While it may be selfish and pointless, it's the default expectation that in public space people can be spoken to, but it costs something to remove that possibilit
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I also have ADHD, but the onus is not on others to compensate for that; it wouldn't be labelled unless it prevented us from being compatible with the conplexities of daily life unaided by stimulants. People envy the way I can banter wi
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> But the minute you step into the suburbs, this habit disappears. This is exactly the feeling I get in the suburbs of most places, and I think the nature of car-centric suburbs serves as a decent analogy for the Airpodsification of othe
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I think it's a mistake to conflate passive signaling with asserting oneself, and whether you like the interaction you might have otherwise had or not (as long as it's not clearly harassment or something) it would be rude to ignore
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Surprising amount of hostility to what was a speculative anecdotal observation. I'd be surprised if many people under the age of 17 would be buying a $2000+ phone anyway, but given tough economic situations, decreasing opportunity, and
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I'd be curious as well.
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I think that's the unfortunate cycle of iOS and iPadOS. Their hardware more or less served its purpose eons ago and there's little reason why it couldn't still, aside from OS compatibility. Even as a mac user, I've only
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> I'm with you on that, but that's not the point. The point was that if there was a time when people who'd otherwise be buying the latest smartphones for relatively mundane purposes—spending arbitrary amounts of money fo
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Frankly I don't think I've ever heard of this being claimed for prior generations at a scale that any other generation would notice. There was always that kid who kept their CD collection or their dumbphone longer than most, but i
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> But that cheap $200 chinese smartphones will need have to hike prices by about the same amount, which will decimate that market. Hmm. Even if iPhone users can theoretically stomach the increase, they have many other options available,
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Imo useful long-term innovation comes about during the conflict of fighting for and against the rate of technological change, and whatever proves inherently better is what's left after the dust settles. There's a point at which th
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Imo it's a symptom and the cause of the entire incentive structure of a hierarchical company; success in that system is defined as doing exactly what one layer above you expects, no matter how rational or connected to output it is. Mos
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Apple's "New Coke" moment?
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
> sadly that's a non-starter for a lot of people in this economy. doubly so if you have kids. Seems to me like if it's the option on the table, and you have a family to take care of, then it would absolutely be a starter. If th
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
Not sure that I've had it yet, although hypothetically I'm sure it would probably be something similar to the examples of writing new software for old hardware mentioned ITT. The idea of resurrecting useful but unsupported gadgets
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by brailsafe 4mo ago
I agree, but throughout those earlier steps as well, there's a sizable contingent of people who just never seem interested in asking "why" or "how"

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