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961.
by gonehome 5y ago
It's not their job, but third parties have failed. It'd be nice for them to make one base level device (like a smart switch) which supports most of the use cases.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I have two smart switches attached to lights (since our apartment has no overhead lighting) and after a nightmare of setting them up (probably the hardware's fault, but homekit couldn't recognize them via normal pairing method) th
963.
by gonehome 5y ago
I use Apple home and want to like it, but it mostly sucks. I think the main cause of this isn't so much Home, but the available third party hardware. I wish Apple would make a smart switch (I know that's fairly out of scope for th
964.
by gonehome 5y ago
You can see them do this tempering process often when working with chocolate in The Great British Baking Show (in order to get the chocolate to be shiny).
965.
by gonehome 5y ago
He was dying as he wrote this (Pieter Hintjens died from cancer in 2016). I’m happy to see his blog here again, but I suspect what he was going through at the time influenced his writing.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure - I find this stuff super interesting and went from an open minded skeptic to cautiously optimistic (and have a positive long term view). I think urbit’s approach to spam makes sense. Non-zero cost IDs (cheap) in the form of NFTs that
967.
by gonehome 5y ago
The incentive structures enabled by web3 (in addition to distributed state) can solve the issues that led to the failure of the decentralized web. At least I see a path for this to be true.
968.
by gonehome 5y ago
If you can build a service that’s able to depend on protocols and user community incentives to sustain itself then that’s better. Centralized SaaS apps optimized for ads that could be shutdown, sold to languish at salesforce, or have consta
969.
by gonehome 5y ago
These chat SaaS companies are awful anyway, hopefully there will be some real Web3 alternative to them.
970.
by gonehome 5y ago
I think Unify setups are probably easiest: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-protect
971.
by gonehome 5y ago
The animals example is a good one, thanks for the thoughtful response.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure, but there are 4 billion years of selective pressure behind us that make us a lot more alike than different. Maybe this runs at a higher level in the 'brain software stack' that has more variation, but it seems like it'd
973.
by gonehome 5y ago
Imagined discussion is what I'm talking about. It's not narration like "I'm picking up the coffee mug now, I'm clicking the button now" - it's silent speech with oneself. Often it's trying to predict
974.
by gonehome 5y ago
A lot of therapy is also focused around self-talk and rumination too.
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by gonehome 5y ago
My skepticism probably comes in part from an anti-religion, anti-mystic reflex. There’s a lot of woo around this stuff so it often puts me on guard. Obviously nobody is claiming psychic powers here, but I wouldn’t expect brains to operate t
976.
by gonehome 5y ago
Thanks - something for me to think about. These HN threads do have a history of changing my mind (or at least softening my position) on topics where the true answer can be harder to know.
977.
by gonehome 5y ago
I think it’s trained. “Imagine writing an A” Then they look at what fires and record it. Instead you’d ask “imagine typing an A” and then do the same thing. Eventually when brought training happens to capture variation you start to get visu
978.
by gonehome 5y ago
Meditation is recognizing the omnipresent voice and trying to quiet it down. It’s partly why I suspect those that think they don’t have an internal monologue just aren’t recognizing it. I think you can get better at quieting the voice or le
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it’s different - there was an old post by an early FB employee who has no ability to visualize images after a head injury and has to adapt as a result for that. Thinking of images is also different than thinking of words (since all
980.
by gonehome 5y ago
If you don’t have language I’d guess a lot of things are different about how you think. If you can speak, read, and write though?
981.
by gonehome 5y ago
That kind of variation isn’t too surprising to me. The claim that there isn’t one at all though I don’t really buy.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m with you on 2, but it doesn’t seem like just me - it seems like vast majority except the occasional person claiming it’s different for them. It’s not a semantic distinction to me, since the mechanism underlying it would then be the same
983.
by gonehome 5y ago
My hypothesis would be yes. You need to establish the initial feedback loop somehow and imagining writing is a good way to do it. But once you have it I’d suspect you could get faster doing what you’re describing.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim. It’s just surprising to me that a base level feature would work so differently. I’d expect some variation in models (like that old Feynman video about counting), but if you can speak and
985.
by gonehome 5y ago
I wonder if it’d be faster if you imagined typing instead of writing (obviously would require the patient to be a proficient typist).
986.
by gonehome 5y ago
Ah gotcha - yeah that sounds right to me.
987.
by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - I'd be surprised. I hear European salaries are at best ~100k maybe ~120k and that's pretty much maxed out a decade in. Day 1 silicon valley devs do better than that. 150k is also out of date for mid-level FAANG total comp t
988.
by gonehome 5y ago
Europe undervalues their engineers - and it seems like it's some sort of cultural thing that favors management. Their tax structure isn't great either, there's a reason zero billion dollar companies were founded in Europe (wi
989.
by gonehome 5y ago
The best I can steelman is that they're sitting on data that shows users actually want the current behavior which is why it's there (which could be true? I don't know - I'm not the average user). They'd have to di
990.
by gonehome 5y ago
Google's incentives are not aligned with their users. They used to recognize that long term it's better to make the decision that the users would want even if it's worse short term. The company was founded on this principle w

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