jkestner

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Rewild Physical Computing(blog.supermechanical.com)
3 points by jkestner 3y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 3y ago
Loved my Lumia 800 and 925. I actually considered the limited ecosystem a feature because I didn't want to be more addicted to the phone. And the concept of glanceable icons and all the stuff intended to keep you from getting lost in a
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Arduino for the Rest of Us(blog.supermechanical.com)
8 points by jkestner 3y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 3y ago
Yeah, that's not the problem here. Stewart can get good distribution on his show elsewhere, especially if he doesn't need to make millions. It's a problem for Apple TV+ if anyone. Apple will use their earnings from their hard
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by jkestner 3y ago
My children have put coyote urine in a cup they left in my cupholder. It's used as a deer deterrent, but aren't we the apex predator?
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by jkestner 3y ago
I only have a webcam that's pointed inside a chicken coop, so I roughly agree with you. But that's the open-source purity stance and it won't improve things — people do buy IoT, so how can the people who have a hand in making
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Deshittifying the IoT Starts with Me(blog.supermechanical.com)
4 points by jkestner 3y ago|3 comments
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Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic(pluralistic.net)
316 points by jkestner 3y ago|194 comments
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by jkestner 3y ago
How about we make something other than turds for people?
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Deshittifying the Internet of Things starts with me(blog.supermechanical.com)
7 points by jkestner 3y ago|4 comments
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by jkestner 3y ago
The sweet spot for me for a while was the iPod Touch. Could load stuff into Instapaper to read on the subway, take notes, write emails, and otherwise be left alone by the Net so I could peoplewatch instead. Now I think the main excuse to ha
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by jkestner 3y ago
Yeah, big companies (tech or otherwise) now have their ears up to prevent anything from becoming a success without them, and so nothing becomes a success because there’s no room for the users and startups around them to evolve to what the p
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by jkestner 3y ago
I think smart lights may be the equivalent of an Arduino blink-the-LED sketch. Humans like a little bit of control (over your environment/technology) for its own sake.
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by jkestner 3y ago
It’s a lot easier to make the devs move when you control the hardware too.
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by jkestner 3y ago
Obligatory reference to a sci-fi novel: The Mountain in the Sea. It rides all the zeitgeists to great effect.
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by jkestner 3y ago
I’ll know he’s a real person if he gives me a glass of juice.
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by jkestner 3y ago
I dunno, I'd take a glass of juice over cryptocurrency from a retina-scanning orb.
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by jkestner 3y ago
Dude needs to educate an audience on why they should buy a domestically built $400 fire pit.
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by jkestner 3y ago
Maybe "Like __ when it was great but paying for it" should be the new "Like Uber but for __".
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by jkestner 3y ago
Round to the even number, which eliminates a bias toward the higher number. This is the way Python does it.
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by jkestner 3y ago
Imagine if the most money you could have is $43 million (rounding!), and it rolled over to 0 if you exceeded that. You'd be paying accountants to keep you as close to the limit as you dare, instead of just cheating on taxes. But not pa
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by jkestner 3y ago
I'm going through this pain right now in helping my kid with homework in rounding and discovering my internalized rules are different from what they're being taught now. EXACT same pain as yours, depending on the precision and rou
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by jkestner 3y ago
That’s cool in theory. How is the onboarding for new UI? I already don’t want to learn any new widgets on my phone, let alone a deadly tool like a car.
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by jkestner 3y ago
Admittedly, the only thing I know about Jane Street is that the FTX sociopaths cut their teeth there, but I'm sure the rest of them are great. You're right that market bending is too abstract for most of us to appreciate the benef
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by jkestner 3y ago
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make money off the next financial crisis.
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What Russia Got by Scaring Elon Musk(theatlantic.com)
5 points by jkestner 3y ago|1 comments
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by jkestner 3y ago
A great idea in theory, but a large number of Americans wouldn’t trust the government with this (never mind they can do this with paper mail—this is a different scale). I don’t know why we trust corporations any more than that. Convenient U
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by jkestner 3y ago
I’m in favor of regulation, but that’s not happening now for the same reason that we have the problem in the first place. We’re all tied up together in capitalism, and anything that slows the acceleration of growth that our retirement funds
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by jkestner 3y ago
Thanks. Could you say more about why you’re grateful?
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by jkestner 3y ago
The reason we moved our kids from Montessori to public school is to throw our lot in with the majority of society. It’s made me active in the PTA and school library because up close it’s hard to ignore the challenges staff deal with, and wi

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