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by jkestner 1y ago
But great for us who drive a car into the ground.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Hey, maybe he’ll pick up web UX next.
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New Work by Gary Larson(thefarside.com)
538 points by jkestner 1y ago|147 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
"the things I was doing for years" unfortunately involves several native apps. There's a reason I got a Mac, after all.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Good point. I remembered not getting Firefox to work but that was an even older Mac I was dusting off to run a birdcam installation.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Sure. But my needs haven't exceeded that RAM. I just want to keep doing the things I was doing for years on it happily, but security updates, broken services and website bloat have intervened.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Hadn't thought of doing that - I'm not a natural Linux person myself and I'm repurposing it for an 11yo. But maybe it's not so different from their school Chromebook for what they need. Just removes some of the nice Appl
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by jkestner 1y ago
You're talking to someone who's fixed their microwave several times to keep it going 20 years.
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by jkestner 1y ago
I’ve got a 2010 MBP that’s still perfectly suitable, but without OS updates, I can’t get a browser that websites will load cleanly on, can’t use Xcode, bunch of the Apple services the company hooks you on don’t work, etc. Used OpenCore boot
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by jkestner 1y ago
Smartphones exploded when devs were given a bunch of cool new I/O followed by rapid cost reduction. Shame that the startups doing the cool hardware don’t do that… can’t say it’s the funding. They sure had enough.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Best of all, their security through obscurity.
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by jkestner 1y ago
That was my one condition when an air fryer entered the house. No connecting it. When they’re putting WiFi on the cheapest models you know it’s a profit center in spite of you not paying for it.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Now, at the price you paid to retrieve that memory, is it a viable business model?
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by jkestner 1y ago
<HN voice>Technically, the motor car replaced the coach. A more accurate and enjoyable analogy would that car engines don’t look like horses.
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by jkestner 1y ago
I’m currently reading a book, The Way Out by Alan Gordon, on his research into this neuroplastic pain, which is when neural pathways carved by the pain remain after the cause is gone, and how he’s treated it in patients with mental exercise
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About DevDay and the AI Buildout(stratechery.com)
3 points by jkestner 1y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
You’re right. It’s a luxury to have the space away from the problem to think about it systemically. Certainly, part of the work is to learn from each other. Will surveillance cameras in low-income areas (if that’s where they’ll put them) me
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by jkestner 1y ago
It’s webscale
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by jkestner 1y ago
You’re right, and I could be more precise. It’s poisoned the narrative to give business psychopaths cover. That only works as long as people believe the law will hold them accountable, which the CEO of UnitedHealth discovered is no longer t
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by jkestner 1y ago
That profit is an effective lever. I don’t have a lever in elections because of the electoral college.
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by jkestner 1y ago
It was the Dodge brothers back when they were minority owners of Ford, and it was the case that poisoned us with “fiduciary duty to the shareholder”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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by jkestner 1y ago
! That's high-fidelity enough that I didn't realize it was a replica when I visited (but yeah, nagged at the back of my head that it was sitting out there). If it weren't for the cost of moving and admission and care, I'
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by jkestner 1y ago
We made a cooking thermometer that plugged into the iPhone’s headphone jack before Bluetooth LE took off. Did not run into trouble with the app review team.
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by jkestner 1y ago
I was led to believe that alerts are based on matching cars on a hot list. Is alerting based on behavior an advertised feature?
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by jkestner 1y ago
Amazon is bad, but as others note, it’s insultingly transparent more than anything. But the worst in my recent history is Duolingo. Constant pestering to upgrade your subscription, fine, but once you do, it frequently “forgets” the subscri
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by jkestner 1y ago
There was a FTC rule about to go into effect that would require it be as easy to cancel as it is to subscribe to a service. A court struck it down on procedural grounds. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/click-to-can
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by jkestner 1y ago
Funny you mention that. There's a lineage from one to the other: https://www.theverge.com/c/features/24191410/elgato-stream-d... Makes sense that they moved from individual screens to one big one under a
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by jkestner 1y ago
Takes me back. https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-maximus/#51... Think this was $1200. Honestly don’t think I would spend any extra money on dynamic keys- I never look at my keyboard.
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by jkestner 1y ago
They don’t have to do things better. They just need to stop changing things. Computer UIs used to be designed by HCI people. There were volumes of books explaining best practices. Then companies prioritized curb appeal and forgot their own
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by jkestner 1y ago
Good thing I live in a big city! Only problem is finding one with an automated online process. Try JawsTec for MFJ. Haven’t seen cheaper prices. Granted, I work in small scales, where the fine resolution is needed and it’s a low material vo

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