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by drewbeck 3y ago
I can for sure see how the 'big board' approach isn't good (and it looks like they're attending to this to some degree with the new Dev Mode features). I'm curious what handoff experience you had before that was bet
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Synesthesia! The app name is clearly inspired by that word, so it makes sense the wires got crossed
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> I remember the hype about ARkit and that it has been presented as a general purpose UX pattern, when in practice I saw it get popular only in specialized areas. Once Vision dropped it was clear to me that ARkit was always meant to be u
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Synthesia [0] [0] https://synthesiagame.com/
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by drewbeck 3y ago
You can now sort your playlists in the sidebar and if I’d had that years ago I may have actually used their playlists effectively to organize my music! Not sure if I have the energy to get back into it tho.
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by drewbeck 3y ago
You can want whatever you want. It’s not a failure of apple that they don’t serve your specific need, however. They just built a product for different people.
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> not geared towards productivity? The fact that to run VSCode Productivity !== coding. Coding is a subset of productivity, but most jobs do not require coding. I get that you want this to be something else, but a lot of people are incre
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> I’m not the only one to catch this seeming contradiction in messaging. The contradiction being introducing a new product with a screen? Guess what, watchOS will still suggest you go outside, whether you use a MacBook or a Vision Pro. T
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by drewbeck 3y ago
There's a reference in this developer video [0] to using VR controllers [0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10088/?time...
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by drewbeck 3y ago
There's a reference in this developer video [0] to "using VR controllers" – I don't think they're going to disallow them, just not make their own. [0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play&#x2
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> (I would keep the battery pack plugged into the charger most of the time). This sounds like the battery can be charging while using the headset, right? Which imo makes the 2 hour battery life much more understandable – if you're s
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by drewbeck 3y ago
So tasty. And useful, to remind us what “smart” “sober” commentary looks like in tech — mostly negative, mostly missing the mark. > What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Fixies haven’t been hot out here in 10 years (or more) but I get your point. However I was providing anecdata as a corrective to the parent comment, in order to suggest that such observations aren’t sufficient to build an argument on.
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> technologically it looks about the same as a hololens, which seems like the same 'product idea' as already launched by microsoft whenever ago If I recall MSFT had demos of people jumping around shooting aliens in their living
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by drewbeck 3y ago
That doesn’t suggest it will apply to strangers at all, as I see it. Can you explain why you reached that conclusion? Imo that feature in fact makes me believe even more that it won’t be available on calls from people you don’t know — way t
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Yeah I was thinking this, too. Apple doesn’t do social networking in the modern sense, but they do have a connected and committed network. They could build some kind of publishing/feed app that leverages your contacts, group threads et
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by drewbeck 3y ago
This made me think that they may have put everything into v1 so they can really learn what is necessary for a successful experience – ie v2 may come with a cheaper version without the external display because they discover that the display
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Very weird, but I can definitely see this becoming something you can capture on your phone eventually (and view on your VisionThing). If these take off then I'll bet money that capturing things for AR/VR on your phone will be a pr
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Definitely going to be anecdotal here – around my neighborhood (brooklyn NY) I'm floored by how many Airpod Max's I see. It's by far the most common over-head wireless earphones I see.
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by drewbeck 3y ago
The issue I have here is that someone turning down a request to be on your podcast does not, actually, mean that "she refuses to engage on these topics"; it may seem like a major litmus test for you, but in fact people are busy an
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by drewbeck 3y ago
I'm curious what you're trying to get at here, and your intent for posting this. Can you elaborate?
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by drewbeck 3y ago
I try to never learn things from other country's experiences, too, or the past in general. These criticism are always invalid until the society in question goes full fascist. Only then can wring our hands and be sad, but until then it&
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Is there any surveillance that you think is too much, or do you think it's all worth it if it helps fight "crime"?
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Folks should read the article – the infringing act was NOT the creation of the art, it was the attempt by the Andy Warhol Foundation to license the image to Conde Nast. > Here, the specific use of Goldsmith’s photograph alleged to infrin
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by drewbeck 3y ago
The nuance required here is something that LLMs have not been great at, or at least not good enough to prevent actual homophobic jokes. See the general issue that LLMs struggle with negation. In fact alignment work is on some level about ge
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> The general public wants an AI that can role-play a character in a D&D game without pausing to go on a rant every five turns about how violence is bad and that it can't make "racist" comments about the Drow because t
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Local also solves any spotty connection issues. Your super amazing know everything about you assistant that stops working when you’re on a plane or subway or driving through the mountains is very less amazing. If they can solve it, local wi
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by drewbeck 3y ago
Techno optimism has always been naive about capitalism and about human relationships (especially at scale). If you let your disillusionment strip out the naivete and don't let it turn you bitter or resentful then you'll find there
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by drewbeck 3y ago
This chunking is also a big part of why singing the alphabet helps remember it, imo. There’s natural divisions in both the melody and the rhythm.
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by drewbeck 3y ago
> How do I get Siri to navigate using Google Maps? .... You can't > You can actually ask Siri to navigate with Google Maps by appending "using Google Maps" to a request. So for example, "navigate home using Google

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