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by canadaduane 2y ago
> or at least none has been outlined so far I love this, thank you for specifying the condition under which you might be convinced otherwise. I respect your position more for this. (And unfortunately as a Star Trek fanatic myself, agree
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by canadaduane 2y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Hacker News Guidelines: https:/&#x2F
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Incredible. This sounds like an ideological decision rather than a design decision. > In The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman discusses how poorly designed doors—often called "Norman doors"--fail to communicate whether the
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by canadaduane 2y ago
I appreciate this alternate diagnosis :) At what point would you say the "flu" becomes a more virulent strain that is dangerous enough to do something more than tolerate? For example, more and more sexualized content in advertisin
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by canadaduane 2y ago
These are good. But I think there is a tipping point where the asymmetry of power (millions invested in databases, information gathering, algorithm development, etc.) pushes against the tiny power an individual has. There is no agent on the
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by canadaduane 2y ago
How do we know if "this level of speed and content online" is net good?
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by canadaduane 2y ago
See https://media.ccc.de/c/DS2024 for inspiration and ideas.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
This is such a great, succinct insight. I've heard various pieces of it, but you put it all together, thank you. Now I wonder, are there historical exceptions to this general rule? Also, does the "lead time" grow and shrink s
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by canadaduane 2y ago
I like the thought, but if it becomes an "oh, that light's always on, just ignore it" kind of experience, that might train people to think it is not an important signal.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Sounds like there could be a niche business here. "$300 and we'll send you a new on/off switch, shipping included."
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Seth Kaplan, professor at Johns Hopkins University and frequent contributor to UN and World Bank efforts to shore up community in difficult countries has written a book called Fragile Neighborhoods that I highly recommend.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
This is a very important issue. And I also have a weird dystopian sense when I read this article embedded in the context of options to buy shelving units on Temu, barefoot shoes that "Leave Neuropathy Experts Baffled", walk-in tub
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by canadaduane 2y ago
We need technology to be either so stupid it's easy to adapt, or so smart it adapts to us. But not smart enough to betray us.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Just writing to add my similar experience. L. reuteri strain has been particularly helpful to me.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Personally, I've always thought of "X-driven" as a mechanically derived metaphor. This shaft drives that gear, which drives that wheel, etc. It's a short form for "what is the most powerful mechanism of this complex
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by canadaduane 2y ago
It is messages like this that revealed to me a culture of learned helplessness at Microsoft, and I made a decision to switch to Linux.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
Using MacWhisper (or other similar whisper.cpp app or utility), you could do it all on-device for a free or one-time fee, too. note: I have no relation to MacWhisper, just a happy customer.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
I know there are many much smarter devs than me out there, but I dedicated 5 full days over Christmas break last year to NixOS, trying to configure it and use it for development, and I failed.
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by canadaduane 2y ago
We put 3 years of development and art into Relm and open sourced it about a year ago when we couldn't make it commercially successful. It's been a wonderful journey, and if it's helpful to someone, we hope it brings people to
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Relm: A spatial platform for meeting, playing, and working(github.com)
2 points by canadaduane 2y ago|1 comments
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by canadaduane 3y ago
I built a spatial platform similar to gather.town called relm.us in 2021 (now MIT-licensed open source [1]) and was hired by an edtech company in 2023 because of the expertise I'd gained in overlaying audio/video for participants
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by canadaduane 3y ago
This article is from 2017. Here is a short 2019 update: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/j-k/villages-in-la... 2023: "Kulum village, a remote high-altitude #mountain community facing the effects
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by canadaduane 3y ago
I showed it to my 13yo daughter. Her first question was, "Can you share it with people?" (Her favorite aspect of Scratch is the community). I said I don't know, then clicked on the Try a lesson button. She saw the page and sa
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by canadaduane 3y ago
No, this is an embedding model, not a text completion model.
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by canadaduane 3y ago
Patents are from 2010 - 2014. For most people, I guess the technology would be available to use in 2034?
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by canadaduane 3y ago
https://halecraft.org/mindspace Code: https://github.com/canadaduane/mindspace I love mind mapping as a tool for exploring ideas, feelings, and connections. But I needed it to be fast, and get out of t
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Crank.js, the Just JavaScript Framework(crank.js.org)
3 points by canadaduane 3y ago|0 comments
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by canadaduane 3y ago
Out of curiosity, are there alternatives to this that are already well established or distributed? For example, something you'd get in debian linux?
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The Vastness of (Online) Identity(medium.com)
1 points by canadaduane 3y ago|0 comments
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by canadaduane 3y ago
That conclusion may be too early to reach with confidence, based on the limited data!

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