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   by disqard 2y ago

   I'm using a Garmin Forerunner 55 -- it has a 2-week battery life, and is great for regular running.
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   by disqard 2y ago

   s/men/edgy twelve-year old boys/g
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   by disqard 2y ago

   I like that you used the word "uneducated" -- many of these folks probably happen to be literate, which implies nothing about cognitive abilities.
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   by disqard 2y ago

   Either this thread is full of "temporarily embarrassed billionaires", or there's a lot of arguing in bad faith going on. One human having a billion is like somebody weighing 1000 pounds. It's hella unhealthy for them (do
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   by disqard 2y ago

   You're doing it wrong. You need to be a billionaire, and then you need to threaten to sue anyone who dares to ask you to pay.
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   by disqard 2y ago

   I think you are (rightly) pointing out that "quantity has its own quality". As an analogy, this is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit . To GP: It's less "no one should have
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   by disqard 2y ago

   Kentaro Toyama wrote that "Technology acts as an amplifier of human intentions". We really are very susceptible to living in "default mode".
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   by disqard 2y ago

   Thank you for writing this, and making it available online! When researching+writing this, did you find it useful to look through McLuhan's "Medium is the Message" lens? If so, what are the "message" implications of
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   by disqard 2y ago

   TIL, thank you for sharing that. Btw, I'm trying hard to think of places (today) where "Voice" works. For instance, in a corporate setting, I can personally attest that it does not. Perhaps there are some "small-scale&qu
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I checked out the links in your profile -- kudos to you for building useful things and putting them (and yourself) out there! Getting from 0 to 1 is the hardest part, and you're at 6 already. I hope you keep at it, for years, and see m
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I see you engaging in good faith in this debate. I'm also heartened by your self-awareness about how HN hijacks your brain. FWIW, I'm in the same boat, and I still come back here. I'll share something that might mitigate some
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    by disqard 2y ago

    A bit late to this discussion, but your comment really reminded me of this Stewart Brand quote from his 1985 interview with KQED Focus magazine: "Computers suppress our animal presence. When you communicate through a computer, you comm
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I liked your analogy, and it sparked a thought -- employees are like fingernails: tools to be used, and trimmed/filed down when not needed. Of course, your analogy is better, because when corporations conduct layoffs to save money to d
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Eric Schmidt said so, and it caused a giant uproar. To me, it's just "more of the same", but apparently he said the quiet part out loud, which was somehow verboten. (Edit to add: I'm not saying "I think this is okay
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    by disqard 2y ago

    It's a step change, for sure. I'm seeing signs that they might be propelling us into a post-literate society.
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I think you can s//g that in various ways, and it would be true: * Music, musicians * Publishing/journals, academics * (and more that I can't think of right now)
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Maybe they're referring to TFA (where the person did DIY an effective solution)?
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I'd like to believe you, but has there actually been any "official" capitulation from Meta on "the metaverse"? AFAIK, they have not publicly announced any pivot/shift in priorities.
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Not sure if it'll help you, but do read this: https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history Perhaps all you need is a perspective shift. Wishing you luck with your personal writing journey!
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Corporations are "people". Corporations "eat" money. Entities that can feed a corporation, are treated as peers, i.e. "people". Thus, on shitter, if you can pay, you are a person (and get a blue checkmark).
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I just checked out your website -- what a beautiful labor of love! Thank You For Making And Sharing :)
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Indeed, this is what I likened to a "Dark Forest": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42459246
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I'm with you (I use Claude Sonnet, but same difference...). I do wonder if we're the last generation that will be able to effectively do such "course correct" operations -- feels like a good chunk of the next generation
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    by disqard 2y ago

    This is an amazing feature! Thank you for sharing it!!
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    by disqard 2y ago

    > 4 year olds don't even need a prompt, they'll ramble on and on until they get tired; if you listen in, you may even notice they seem to have a context window that's about 30 seconds worth of tokens wide :) As the parent
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    by disqard 2y ago

    Your comment sparked a thought -- maybe this is the "Dark Forest" of the Web: Either your site's content stays hidden behind discord, or an LLM's bot/minion scrapes all your content and makes visiting your site supe
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    by disqard 2y ago

    On mobile, that page loads up a ginormous ad, covering >50% of the page. Garbage.
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    by disqard 2y ago

    This is, IMO the kind of "Accelerationism" that I can get behind :) System is broken, therefore let's make it 100% obvious that it's broken, so it can be totally rebuilt.
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I discovered (and thoroughly enjoyed reading) the book thanks to that interview! Thank You So Much :)
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    by disqard 2y ago

    I really don't understand why you are being downvoted. I'm baffled at folks wanting to overlook that a Chinese-controlled brainworm is even more dangerous than a US-operated brainworm. Yes, we should steer clear of all brainworm