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by gdubs 2y ago
I mean, John Saves Energy is one that comes to mind. He shared tons of info about his solar power rig, interesting data, vibrant conversations. Music accounts like Rare The Nanas who put me to sleep many nights with amazing VHS finds of obs
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Reels doesn't provide a true alternative because it's not about features and functionality it's about culture. The culture on Meta's Reels is really not it. And it's not just the user base but also the way the app i
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I think a lot of people on here never spent much time on TikTok and it shows. It wasn't just for young people and it wasn't all brain rot. There were vibrant communities, subcultures. Real issues were aired there. Real people conn
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Are they not allowed to sell books in the United States? How about guns? Can they release major motion pictures? Video games? We have freedom of speech in this country — and for the boogeyman that China was somehow weaponizing their platfor
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FWIW since so many people here seem set on the idea that cursive is archaic / useless today, Montessori schools still teach cursive before print because the flowing letters are easier for kids and more similar to drawing, and all the e
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My theory on burnout is that it arises when the effort you put in doesn't have a meaningful impact because of misalignment or a lack of autonomy. It's like pushing on a lever but the gears are jammed. You're asked to push and
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I saw the world premiere in Edinburgh, Scotland when I was 18. Audience really had no idea what we were getting into. I had met a girl at a summer art program in France and she invited me to the festival so I got a eurorail pass and headed
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It's a multifaceted problem that includes development decisions, but Climate Change plays a large role in all of this.
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In the Palisades? Nearly everything. Homes, the iconic Pali high school, the shops, the bushes — it's reportedly devastated.
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Agreed – they've even said as much. But some of the marketing is conflicting there, and I've had friends IRL confused that their new phones don't contain all the Apple Intelligence features they've heard of.
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Honestly? I don't know! The central idea of "measure what matters" is good if you actually do the meaningful soul-searching involved. But most good ideas can turn into just a lot of rules and process to follow over time.
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I mean, Apple Intelligence looks good ha. Yea, I'm not saying it's great or that this is the preferred approach. Just highlighting that it's not the end of the world as many frame it every time something like this happens.
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So far it feels very unfinished, but having followed Apple for a long time I've seen many products launched and iterate over time. Maps, for instance, had a fairly disastrous early period but eventually became my preferred navigation a
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The problem with OKRs and just about every corporate process is that something that began as a good idea gets diluted over time to the point of being nearly meaningless at best and super distracting at worst. The reality — having worked in
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Ice Moon: Creating an Immersive Experience on Apple Vision Pro [video](youtube.com)
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Thought experiment here would be: what if simulation theory is correct? Than there'd be a deep irony here, because traditional photography would itself be operating in a kind of generative latent space.
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Specifically regarding the activity of the past month, assuming for a second that the early reports of what's been flying over New Jersey are credible – acknowledging that as this becomes a bigger and bigger story the number of misattr
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When I started at Google it has a very Montessori-like atmosphere. Really brilliant people there who were given a lot of autonomy to go and figure things out. By the time I left, almost nine years later, the culture was dominated by fear an
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It was also incredibly on budget. I think Sagan says in the book it cost the individual American taxpayers in the single digit dollars.
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Good question but I have a fever at the moment so unfortunately my brain is not fully functioning :/
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Mastodon is also confusing for a lot of people and when you point it out techies will appear to yell at you and tell you that "no in fact it isn't." Whereas Bluesky has a familiar consumer app feeling to it. Each of these sit
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I'm reading Pale Blue Dot to my kids at night currently so this is really awesome. (The Voyager missions are described in excellent detail in ways that I never appreciated fully before.) It blows my mind that these are machines from th
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The ultimate re-org
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Re: grid: Rules are meant to be broken :) Visual weight sometimes dictates a slightly less than perfect alignment.
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Well, totally fair because I also did not read very carefully. You said 'distribute' – and in that one word is where lawyers and judges earn their pay :)
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I mean, we don't have to guess – this is what current copyright law protects against. The question is whether it should be illegal even if you never profit from it, or somehow dilute the IP owner's brand.
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It's unfortunate, though completely predictable, how Generative AI has divided people so solidly into camps. On one side you have people who use the word "theft" as a kind of shibboleth. On the other, you have tech leaders sa
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So, we just launched a website for a project which we're calling Solarpunk school – a learning center we want to build at our farm, where we've been doing a bunch of conservation work. Hope y'all don't mind me sharing th
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People are so used to the zero interest rate period of tech that everyone expects the pricing model of VC backed startups that can burn money forever and maybe figure out a business model at some point. Software costs time and money. People
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The Art of Immersive Environments: Making Vibescape for Apple Vision Pro [video](youtube.com)
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