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by brimble 5y ago
(can't edit, but not sure if the DV was over disbelief or for some other reason—if the latter, cool, no problem, I take no issue with whatever your reason was; if the former, it's on YouTube and it's exactly what I've sa
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by brimble 5y ago
> Someone else mentioned the uncharitable interpretations of things he said. That was earned over years of such statements. It wasn't a new isolated incident. You're right to such a degree that I distinctly remember my first
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by brimble 5y ago
This definitely wasn't intended as a "medieval kings had it great by modern standards" call to return to the past, but rather to emphasize just how much world-class, hyper-stimulative entertainment we have available, dirt-c
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by brimble 5y ago
HN is extremely vulnerable to certain types of trolling (or certain types of bad posts that may be earnestly meant but are indistinguishable from trolling) and these can be coupled with a shitload of passive-aggression before moderators
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Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean. Otherwise, "curse of the mummy? LOL, yea
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by brimble 5y ago
I think media treatment of him was really weird. Some things were exaggerated, but something like suggesting, during the '16 campaign, in a plainly favorable tone, that his supporters might assassinate his opponent if she won, should
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I totally get that it works out differently for different people. Maybe I'm just getting old enough that I can smell when I'm looking at something that's gonna become an excuse to spend money, more than anything else (&
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I happen to also think we'd be, in some ways, more content and happier (and likely healthier) if we followed seasonal rhythms a bit more, including being much less active & productive in the Winter when there's the least sunli
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by brimble 5y ago
Same, my recollection was that that used to be the case but Apple told developers they could not, in this particular way, be deceptive assholes anymore.
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by brimble 5y ago
Reviews of the physical quality of the book are much more useful to me than reviews of the content, by the time I'm looking at it on Amazon. A poorly printed book should get a 1-star review. Packaging or mis-handling, I could even se
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I didn't stick with it (it's really hard to resist the temptation, including temptation to try to be productive at night) but because I tried it I do know now that I'm not a night owl, at all. I'm just a normal per
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Since you brought up apnea, I want to clarify that my post is not meant to explain all difficulty sleeping or dismiss all folks' situations. Some have sleep apnea or other medical issues. Some really might be built different in a way
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by brimble 5y ago
The parent post was a parody of a user story in a very common format, possibly intended to highlight how little concrete information "delightful" conveys.
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by brimble 5y ago
Imagine a medieval king who decided their castle should be lit up like day at nighttime, hundreds of candles in mirror-walled rooms, 365 days a year, and also that the entire castle save only the bed chamber would host the finest entertaine
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah my first thought was wondering what happens when "reduced hours" comes up against deadlines, stack-ranking (or similar), and game theory.
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by brimble 5y ago
What's kept me from trying this stuff out is a few interrelated factors: 1) There's no possible way setting up and managing this stuff manually is going to be worth it if it only controls a couple things. 2) Doing enough to overco
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by brimble 5y ago
Not related to the 3.0 release, just an example of a recent cut of an actual feature while spyware is apparently essential. IIRC 3.0 (might have been one of the 2 series?) was when the browser suddenly got a lot fatter and the UI less respo
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by brimble 5y ago
Thanks, that illuminates some of it, but the main thing that stood out to me was the extreme differences in slant on some letters. Those simply look like (very obvious) mistakes—but surely aren't? That aspect doesn't really make i
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by brimble 5y ago
> Holding a book, folding pages, the texture, the smell. This is the reason I can only tolerate reading ebooks in iBooks. If they ever remove the ability to idly mess with page corners in a way that feels almost like a physical object, I
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by brimble 5y ago
> Or that seatbelts lock if you pull them all the way out. Haha, I'd think only people who were never in a car as a child wouldn't know that. An adult might not mess with them enough to suss out that behavior, but kids loooove
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by brimble 5y ago
Good lord. Is there a reason it's like that, or is it simply extremely poorly-made? That looks like a not-very-good machine learning algorithm tried to make a font variant.
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by brimble 5y ago
This. That crap is significantly more disruptive and irritating that the actual paid ads in old-school free Opera (the largest feature-comparable browser when FF/Phoenix/Firebird first launched).
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by brimble 5y ago
Niche opinion, probably, but I think they took a hard wrong turn not later than 3.0 (yes, that long ago) and never recovered. Here we have this bug that's "not in telemetry" (strictly true) but for which telemetry increased t
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by brimble 5y ago
It has definitely, entirely ruined effects-focused making-of videos. How'd they do it? Computers. What did it look like? Someone using a computer. How can we show you the "behind the scenes" of that shot? Disable part of th
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by brimble 5y ago
A story about what happens when very accessible recording tech, automated plagiarism-search, dirt cheap mass storage & sharing, a relatively small set of combinations of sounds that people find appealing, and long copyright terms collid
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by brimble 5y ago
Krebs wrote (the single piece of support you have for your reading, right?): >>> Wow, this is gold. The post critiques the practice of displaying ads above search results , a method used by some of Google's competitors back
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by brimble 5y ago
Democratic socialism seems to be the label for the best mix of elements we've founds so far. "Capitalism" doesn't mean "anything to do with markets", and tells you exactly who it's for right there in the n
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by brimble 5y ago
Yes, you have it right: >>> Adrian Krebs @krebs_adrian Replying to @dannysullivan Thanks for clarifying this. I think the post leaves some room for interpretation. The intention was that ads should be more clearly differentiated fr
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by brimble 5y ago
I missed another Krebs post (sorry, I'm shit at using the Twitter UI, that is my fault entirely). Even my excessively-generous attempt to find your reading now fails. It ain't there. >>> Adrian Krebs @krebs_adrian Reply
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by brimble 5y ago
This exact thing right here is why I keep wondering if we're looking at totally different things. I assure you zero of my incredulity is "performative". I guess I'll just quote what I see when I click the link. Bracket

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