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by naravara 3y ago
The medium is the message so I don't think you'd have a McSweeney's for GenZ. GenX was the -zine generation, so satirical papers and magazines were kind of your thing. Millennials got a bit of it, but we were mostly a blogger
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> (like creating a good UI/UX) will never happen. Ivory is a fantastic UI for Mastodon. Mastodon's only big hiccup really is the confusion around picking an instance. But that will go away once a few "normie" instance
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Funnily enough, learning how to computer from Chromebooks and tablets have made modern kids incapable of understanding the spacial metaphor at all. Their navigation is entirely search-centric.
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Honestly it's probably more to do with the weakness, short-sightedness, and incompetence of their opposition. It's a mark against them that they aren't winning landslides considering who they're up against.
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You don't need a surveillance system you just need a framework for people to sue for damages.
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It's dangerous to assume phishing vulnerability is solely a Boomer thing. Tech literacy is unevenly distributed even among younger generations, and the upcoming generations that grew up on Chromebooks and tablet computing aren't t
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> Exploration seems like a natural way for civilisation to live, but that's because exploration is needed to expand knowledge and grow more intelligent, we as a civilisation mostly became obsessed with intellect dozens generation ag
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Also this basically already happens, except instead of artificial intelligence it's just SEO spam sites that are curated and maintained the old fashioned with, with cheap off-shore labor. The examples of clothes is pretty glaring. Ther
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It gets real bad if you listen to music in a language other than the language you have Siri set to. It's attempts at deciphering Japanese punk or Bollywood song titles are terrible. It also has a habit of invoking whenever I say "
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by naravara 3y ago
It's an additional potential point of failure that will be expensive to fix. Phones generally have a usable life of 2 to 5 years before people start hankering to upgrade. Cars ought to last at least 8 to 10, and ideally closer to 20. I
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I can't help but feel like we've made a mistake by concentrating so many of the people who design our standard software UX patterns in California. From Tesla designing car interfaces that don't understand how wipers need to w
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> Physical buttons cleanly resolve all of these major problems. It depends on how the physical button works. You functionally don't get tactile feedback if the response time isn't good. You don't actually always know that
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> But the whole appeal of social networks is that everyone is there. No one likes to check 20 different apps to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people, or to follow 20 different celebrities they like. The nice thing about a feder
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> This mindset will limit your advancement, teaching and mentorship work becomes increasingly key for senior and senior+ roles. Yes but there aren't enough of them, and they're not being paid to teach fundamentals to fresh face
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Yeah your choice of the word "practice" is the important part. A lot of people imagine that developing skills is like plugging into the Matrix and downloading knowledge into your brain. But it's about cultivating a style and
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> I tried warning people- here on HN the sentiment was 'we are indisposable'. Maybe if you were actually any good. I reckon at least 60% of these bootcamp alumni were just dead weight. I've interviewed so many people who &
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by naravara 4y ago
There is some weak evidence out there that periodic fasting can induce a host of salutary changes in the GI-tract microbiome. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/fasting-gut-health-science
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What makes something entertaining or not isn't necessarily a property of the topic. I think you just need an expert who is a good communicator and really enthusiastic about the thing to help you understand why it's cool or importa
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> There's not enough newsworthy things to cover in that time There is seriously no end to the number of newsworthy things to cover. The problem is that there are limited resources for coverage. It's expensive to staff a desk fu
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> I find it fascinating that people defend censoring "misinformation" because people (supposedly) cannot discern it from "real" information. If we cannot trust the judgement of the common folk, why have a democracy at
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I know of a couple: - https://indieblog.page/ - https://cloudhiker.net/
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Even aside from the good point Gigachad also made, it's not really under Apple's control to make web and app developers be more efficient. People just develop and scope for the power envelope the hardware can provide. It would be
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> The issue is that the hardware often works fine for 10 years or more. I don't know about that. It technically still works, but you will feel it being slow because developers keep updating their apps to take advantage of new techno
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I'd say it's probably more of a canary effect. They'll just be the first ones targeted by the type of general obnoxiousness that Musk's moderation pivot fosters. Everyone else will be put off by it too, albeit less sever
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> Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away. It's no wonder that all the companies are immediat
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I don't follow that much of the sports world, but the celebrities are definitely shifting more towards Instagram. I feel like Twitter is rapidly distilling down to LinkedIn type hustle-culture influencers.
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> There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views Most of the people I follow have moved off it. They use Twitter largely for announcements w
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> whenever there is a misconduct it will be handled by the review board. The core problem is that this very important part hasn’t been happening.
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The talk page seems to suggest the controversy is around a "breast tax" section of the article that has since been removed. Evidently there doesn't seem to be any historical record of it happening and most reports are based o
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> The meaning of “controlling” in this context has a long legal precedent that is not overridden by this bill. Thank you. I am not a lawyer but watching all the internet panic over this bill has had me wanting to smash my head against a

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