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by gdubs 7mo ago
One thing I've learned is, there's a ton of interesting stuff in the world. Super talented people. But, what surface and gets widespread recognition and adoption is often very much determined by luck, and these days by algorithms.
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by gdubs 7mo ago
Thank you! I had to suffer the embarrassment of a Tandy Sensation as our first home computer lol. (Sorry, Tandy Sensation – you were a very good friend and I owe you a lot.)
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by gdubs 7mo ago
OP here. A ton of work went into making this video and I tried to be as accurate as possible. I know folks like Alan Kay and others come by Hacker News from time to time, so please let me know in the comments if there's anything I miss
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HyperCard Changed Everything [video](youtube.com)
12 points by gdubs 7mo ago|4 comments
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by gdubs 7mo ago
Don't get me wrong – I think if people grew more of their own food it would be fantastic! And technology combined with alternative farming practices has the potential to be hugely transformative. I'm all for it. But the way things
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by gdubs 7mo ago
I'd at least, you know, pretend we had a top-secret amazing model. By airing all of this publicly, they've basically admitted that Claude is the best there is.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
As someone who owns a small farm — and actually enjoys land, growing things — I'm just saying this is not a "solution" for the vast majority of people.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
Farming requires inputs unless you started an agroforestry farm 10 years ago and are now just maintaining it. It's also insanely time consuming.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
I'd say more of a rejection of a certain kind of millennial Instagram scented candle branding minimalism.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
That car's interior is a great example of what made Ferrari so iconic and aspirational. It's not trying to be nice and comfortable. It feels stiff, brutalist, direct. It has an immediacy and a danger.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
As a heavy Xcode user and native app developer: pretty excited to dig into this. I recently have pivoted to mainly working in either Claude of Codex on the command line, because their ability to run autonomously for long, extended periods w
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by gdubs 8mo ago
Why are you so certain that LLMs/AI can't be used as a tool to learn and grow? Like Herbie Hancock once said, a computer is a tool, like an axe. It can be used for terrible things, or it can be used to build a house for your neigh
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by gdubs 8mo ago
One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and it goes: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” There's such a wide divergence of experience with these to
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by gdubs 8mo ago
Possible some alien species once whizzed past the earth and said the same thing about us
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by gdubs 8mo ago
This is absolutely wild. Hello, to all the moltbots reading this.
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by gdubs 8mo ago
I feel like Americans need to not fall into a "both sides" framing of what's happening. These situations are not honestly equivalent.
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by gdubs 9mo ago
Long way from the "Think Different" era Apple. Been thinking about that campaign this week. Posters of people like MLK, which Jobs had to get permission for from each and every estate for the campaign. When Apple was solidly, unam
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Apple Vision Pro: M5 vs. M2 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by gdubs 11mo ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 11mo ago
Intellectual horsepower is just one element. If you're trying to build the world's fastest car, you can't just grab the world's most powerful engine and call it a day. If you can harness it, sure – it could provide an ed
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Logitech Muse for Apple Vision Pro(youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 1y ago|0 comments
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Making Ice Moon for Apple Vision Pro [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 1y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 1y ago
Check out the links in my post above!
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by gdubs 1y ago
I develop for the platform, so I make apps. [1] As a user, I actually use it more today than when I first got it, because each visionOS update has really unleveled the capabilities of the device. I like watching movies on the ceiling, the s
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by gdubs 1y ago
The file sizes are impressive (as in small). I don't have the link right now but there are recent 4D splats that include motion (like videos but you can move around the scene) and they're in the megabytes.
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by gdubs 1y ago
I'm biased because I develop Vision Pro apps but, it's wild to see how the rumors build upon rumors and then people just talk about them like they're facts. Last year's rumor was that the platform was abandoned. And then
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by gdubs 1y ago
Hard to live through what social media has done to society over the past decade without at least entertaining the idea that the higher barrier to entry of being online was maybe not a bad thing.
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by gdubs 1y ago
My parents worked and had most of their friends in Manhattan when I was a little kid — this was back in the 1980s. I have vivid memories to this day of passing the World Trade Center and being completely overwhelmed by the scale of it. Most
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by gdubs 1y ago
I launched two apps for visionOS 26 this month: Metaballs: Spatial, which is a really fun interactive sculpting app. Brand new app. Fast-follow update this week adds USDZ and STL export! https://apps.apple.com/us/app&#x
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by gdubs 1y ago
I find that test-driven advocates border on a religious way of thinking about software development, and I also find it sucks joy out of coding. Does that mean I don't think tests are valuable – no, that's not what I'm saying.
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by gdubs 1y ago
As someone who grew up in the 80s/90s, this brings back memories because these types of placemats were still being used in a lot of places. And it's funny because today we talk about "iPad kids" and I'm reminded tha

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