kemayo

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by kemayo 5y ago
> People demand mediocrity and are furious when they don't get it. Remember that people have different preferences. Those objecting to Wolfram tend to be those who appreciate a "quiet confidence" style, which lets your wor
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by kemayo 5y ago
I'll confess to having a flat policy of downvoting any comment I see that says "I'll get downvoted for this", regardless of whether I agree with the rest of it...
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by kemayo 5y ago
Ah, I see what you were going for. It's a bit confusing that you didn't put this in the thread about Cyberpunk 2077, so I assumed you were commenting on the article itself.
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by kemayo 5y ago
> When Gibson penned his opening line ‘the sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel’ he merged reality and the digital in a way that seems almost prophetic today Tangentially, I find the generational aspec
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think you're being too specific. This article, I'm pretty sure, is about the aesthetic of the entire genre of cyberpunk, rather than the video game Cyberpunk 2077.
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's impressive because it's ~3 years before Neuromancer, and in many ways it's a better predictor of "the internet" as a cultural thing. It nails a lot of the social aspects of online forums, for instance. It lacks
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by kemayo 5y ago
I did a cursory search, and there's certainly "What I tried to do was give people a future that is the world of the Reagan ’80s carried five steps forward and the volume turned up 20 clicks" in an article[1] from 1994. [1]:
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by kemayo 5y ago
The port arrangement on the front/back of that looks identical to the Kensington and Sonnet docks mentioned upthread, so I'd suspect that Razer are another vendor of a skinned reference design. (Though they're on the cheaper
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by kemayo 5y ago
There's a distinction, though, which I think would matter to people. Smart assistants are things you choose for yourself -- they don't get put in your home without your involvement. Google Glass was something someone else chose fo
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by kemayo 5y ago
It does make sense to not control for that, mind you, since you're trying to compare a broad set of societal factors. You can imagine a society in which people with the same occupation+education receive exactly equal pay, and yet one g
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by kemayo 5y ago
It makes a fair difference if you add a fan into your headset: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/a-fan-for-the-valve-in...
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by kemayo 5y ago
There's (topically enough) a NYT article about Hough's incident[1], which I will briefly excerpt: > “In a series of now-deleted tweets, Lauren Hough exhibited what we believed to be a troubling hostility toward transgender crit
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by kemayo 5y ago
I did actually skim through other apps that've been linked in the thread, and I didn't see one that seemed like a direct competitor with the combination of emoji + automatic face detection. Granted, this could be me defining the m
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by kemayo 5y ago
Yeah, unless Liss explicitly said he was working full-time on it, I'd very much assume this is a "the thing I was fiddling with around my other responsibilities" project.
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by kemayo 5y ago
True, but it's honestly pretty fiddly. If you want to do exactly-this, adding an emoji is a pain because you have to jump through a few hoops to resize it -- pinch-dragging doesn't work.
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by kemayo 5y ago
Mind you, given that Liss is on a bunch of Apple-focused podcasts, writing and publishing and marketing an iOS app really is giving him useful brand-related experiences. Being able to pull out recent personal anecdotes is very handy, even i
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by kemayo 5y ago
This is a little strange to hear, since it's genuinely not possible (as far as I can tell) in the main part of the app . Stories, yes, but not in the feed. It's as if people use these things in wildly divergent ways, I guess.
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by kemayo 5y ago
The announcement post does mention "better battery life" a bunch. No explicit numbers, though.
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think you're both right, but sort-of arguing different issues. Here's two points: * Covid deaths per-day are at-or-near their highest ever levels * the current wave is less dangerous These sound contradictory, but aren't: d
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by kemayo 5y ago
My understanding (which could be wrong!) is that the current absolute death amounts are high, but the actual rate of deaths per-infection is low. This is because the trend in variants has (so far) been towards more-infectious but less-f
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by kemayo 5y ago
Not really -- you're only locked in to the extent that Obsidian makes those things easy If Obsidian went away, I'd still have a bunch of text files that I understood, and I'd know that I could find things tagged with #foo b
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's difficult, because the very thing that make AirTags specifically so useful for legitimate purposes -- the vast network they participate in, and the ease of use -- is also what makes them particularly usable for shady things. I mos
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by kemayo 5y ago
Honestly, speaking as someone who's pretty heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, I'd like iOS to (be made to?) allow sideloading in order to keep Apple honest. Assuming it works out the same as on Android, I very much doubt tha
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by kemayo 5y ago
I'm on day 1,805 of my streak. I find that this is well past the level where people just make fun of you if you tell them about it. ;-)
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by kemayo 5y ago
Very well, in my experience. Apple has been doing what it calls "retina" display for a while now, whereby it keeps the display's actual resolution at a high native level but scales everything it renders so the screen is effe
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by kemayo 5y ago
Since people are downvoting the parent, check out https://advisorsmith.com/data/most-dangerous-jobs/ Near as I can tell, there are good statistics available from the BLS about fatal on-job accidents, but not so go
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by kemayo 5y ago
You can opt out of the "Find My network" part separately from the overall Find My system. This does mean that you'd not be able to find your phone if it's fully powered off, of course, but that seems to be a fair trade-o
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by kemayo 5y ago
Okay but, and hear me out here, I hate talking on the phone. I cannot stand the difficulties of mutual accent-interpretation and talking over restaurant crowd noise. I will always use an app/website to order if it's an option, e
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by kemayo 5y ago
> Then again, from my experience it was hard to find true Italian pizza in the US. A useful keyword to look out for if you want something (similar to) Italian pizza in the US is a restaurant that's marketed as "wood fired"
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by kemayo 5y ago
I remember being amused that they advertised the change pretty heavily, and the tone was pretty explicit about saying "we don't suck now!"

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