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by jkestner 4y ago
I'm less worried about what a Chinese surveillance device will do in my house than an Amazon one. Only the latter has the ability and history of turning over data to those who can arrest me.
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The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters(nytimes.com)
4 points by jkestner 4y ago|0 comments
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View a SKU(pluralistic.net)
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by jkestner 4y ago
It’s hard to create a two-sided marketplace when both sides have to buy hardware.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Sir, have you tried picking Matt up and putting him down, narrating your actions for Siri?
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by jkestner 4y ago
> I’ve been told there’s a follow up that concedes some of this and argues for emotional design. Another excellent short book on evoking emotions in design is The Ice Palace That Melted Away, by Bill Stumpf (designer of the Aeron chair).
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by jkestner 4y ago
Since we don’t see any details on the precision, it’s hard to make the statement that others can’t see your information. If this is a lenticular display, then anyone standing in your line of sight will see what you see. I’m more concerned a
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by jkestner 4y ago
An old sentiment, but I liked that it defines the difference between a product (even connected, you own it) and a “service artifact” (an object that exists as an interface to a service).
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That Thing You Bought Isn't a Thing, It's a Service(cantina.co)
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That’s not what they did on the actual iPhone.
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by jkestner 4y ago
This thread illustrates the problem where reporters rely on sources on one side of an issue. If it isn’t pushing an agenda, it’s extremely lazy journalism: https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/153316800914091622
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by jkestner 4y ago
Workers can’t afford to live close, and they haven’t moved elsewhere. Why? Perhaps moving costs money while they never have an opportunity to save for it.
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Apple’s Cement Overshoes(doctorow.medium.com)
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by jkestner 4y ago
A big note of appreciation for the writeup. These are the service manuals of the future.
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by jkestner 4y ago
The SpaceMouse is a great piece of interaction design/mechanical engineering; makes CAD much less painful. (Never tried it on a spreadsheet!) The key is the mechanical springs in it which provide just a bit of resistance without impedi
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by jkestner 4y ago
This school has in fact more than doubled their security spending in the last five years, including hiring their own security force, for what good that did them. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-texas-sc
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by jkestner 4y ago
A 25-year hiatus on funding research on gun violence didn’t help. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/politics/gun-violence-...
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by jkestner 4y ago
The quality of the story, yes, but the filmmaking (and each episode _was_ a film by the end) got better. Someday I can hope that they do a writer’s cut, right after Martin’s contracted writer finishes the books. That was a damn good show fo
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by jkestner 4y ago
And what are people who feel the need to defend the world’s richest person projecting? Could the average American in 1995 give a $28,000 loan to his kid? Median net worth was ~$100,000 in today’s dollars. If ‘privilege’ has negative connota
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by jkestner 4y ago
I looked for a source other than a tweet from Musk, who like many entrepreneurs is known to stretch the truth. Couldn’t find a definitive source, but it’s mentioned going as far back as the 90s according to Google, with not enough detail to
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by jkestner 4y ago
He got a $28,000 loan from his father when starting Zip2. The biggest privilege is having your family's security net, even if you don't use it. Musk has also had luck, being in the right time and place for the dot-com boom. Unlike
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by jkestner 4y ago
Many ways, but the way I do it is with a Drobo. Easy to maintain and upgrade.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Once it settled down, agreed. But iOS 7 initially swung too hard at a look that was not as discoverable or accessible. Thin font, UI elements that were hard to distinguish, low contrast. https://www.macworld.com/article&#x2F
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Behind the Handmade Visual Effects of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’(indiewire.com)
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by jkestner 4y ago
My daughter uses a couple of block-programming browsers environments. One is Frozen-themed where you direct the characters to draw by skating as directed. Modern turtle graphics.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Yes, longer fridge life is a nice benefit. I have some heavy cream for baking, but use soy milk fine in most sweet recipes. There's more variation in alternative milks, even within one type, than cow milk. We're mostly soymilk (be
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by jkestner 5y ago
Not to be confused with the Pixy vision sensor. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/254449872/pixy-cmucam5-...
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by jkestner 5y ago
The pro apps are probably paying for themselves, but their purpose is to sell hardware, both directly because you want that functionality, and to serve as a benchmark for other pro apps especially when you have shiny new silicon to take adv
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Deliveries App Loses Functionality as Shipping Companies Refuse to Participate(macrumors.com)
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by jkestner 5y ago
Yes, being a billionaire doesn’t qualify you to run anything. Great Man theory abounds. What’s anti-Asian about AAJC? The only thing I found is that management treated its unionized employees like shit.

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