naravara

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by naravara 3mo ago
I think those games are mostly played on tablets these days. But there might be a generational change coming. Basically the entire cohort of parents in my kids’ kindergarten is much more intentional about what kinds of games they’re playing
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by naravara 3mo ago
Specialized graphics hardware hasn’t been the selling point of having a console since at least 2002 with the first XBox. The selling point of consoles is that they’re a software platform, with development incentives, standardized hardware,
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by naravara 4mo ago
Yeah but I’ve seen color e-ink fridge magnets that are like $30. I don’t think it ends up being more expensive or substantially worse for the environment than people buying cases made of fancy leather. Presumably the display module could al
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by naravara 4mo ago
The obvious innovation is to just make the back of the phone case an eInk display. No need for all the bulk when you can merely have an app on your phone that controls the case-display and the phone can output whatever reader app you want t
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by naravara 4mo ago
I think this will be isolated to highly specialized fields where training data will need to be selectively curated.
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by naravara 4mo ago
I don’t understand how one doesn’t. I need to do it to look up status on health insurance claims and to access the tax documents for my financial accounts. I guess you can avoid the email spam by just directly logging into the website when
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by naravara 4mo ago
I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the Flash animation splash pages I was forced to sit through before being able to look up hours of operation.
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by naravara 4mo ago
For an end user the “very difficult” repair process is to go to an Apple Store and either get it repaired under warranty or pay a parts and labor fee for it. It’s not actually planned obsolescence so much as tighter control over the supply
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by naravara 4mo ago
The iPad lineup has forked into two classes that seem to be drifting in the direction of “alternative laptop” or “portable television” respectively. A big folding phone would maybe eat into that second case somewhat, but I still view it as
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by naravara 4mo ago
Wanting those traits and asking about those traits in a self-reporting questionnaire are two different things. If it’s a questionnaire you are functionally just screening for liars or people who don’t know how to use the full spectrum of a
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by naravara 4mo ago
I go back and forth on this. Maybe it is the right inclination with software development where there is a strong drive to keep pushing more features and trade offs in terms of “technical debt” or footprint can get pretty abstract at scale.
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by naravara 4mo ago
Anecdotally it seems like anywhere I’d hop to pays about the same unless I can get to the next tier up. If you want to move up a level they expect you to have at least 3-5 years already being at that level so the only way forward is to get
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by naravara 5mo ago
A lot of those ‘edge cases’ in the definition of “knowledge worker” are probably the stuff that’s most likely to have significant parts of the work augmented or replaced by AI agents. Like, call-centers are almost certainly going to get tur
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by naravara 5mo ago
The company’s gone but the assets just got sold to other commercial real estate firms. Uber was basically only ever software to help people use their own cars so a very small part of their valuation was physical stuff to upkeep, it was just
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by naravara 5mo ago
The other frustration I’ve noticed is that they key in very heavily on artist and specific “genre” designation as what feeds the recommendation, which is actually quite bad for anyone who likes experimental work. I understand that if your r
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by naravara 5mo ago
I have been wondering recently that if the cost of just throwing everything out and building it from scratch again gets low enough, maybe maintainability becomes less of a priority? Can we just embrace the thing like those Zen carpenters wh
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by naravara 5mo ago
I covered this when I said “Pixar he was an investor but was mostly Lasseter’s baby.”
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by naravara 5mo ago
Funny thing about Steve Jobs is that he actually didn’t deliver a single home run until his return to Apple late in his career. The Apple II was Woz, the Mac was okay but mostly got shepherded into what it was by the other Apple leadership,
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by naravara 5mo ago
For people like Schmidt I think the hype is a true belief. You can see it in his posture and tone while being booed by the entire crowd. I’ve only seen that kind of self-satisfied smugness from evangelical religious nuts right before they t
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by naravara 5mo ago
I was about to say, it may not be fun for YOU to not be able to play any spells but making you submit by choking you out is fun for ME. Prison decks were always my jam.
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by naravara 5mo ago
How long have you been at it? Because some of us grew up writing letters with pen and paper, sending them to people in the mail, and getting something back a week or two later. You just have to actually sit down and READ closely what people
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by naravara 5mo ago
> Younger people would never understand how amazing the internet was back in the 90s. Particularly before ads and SEO became an industry. I don’t even think they’d value it to be honest. The culture of putting stuff out online now is to
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by naravara 5mo ago
Yeah when AirTags were first released there was a rash of articles about them being domestic abuse enablers, including multiple cases of people stalking strangers or surveilling their partners with them. It can get dicey fast.
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by naravara 5mo ago
For the context of a prototypical nuclear family unit it all seems pretty straightforward, but once you introduce extended families, blended families, nannies, or abusive parents or partners you suddenly get a lot of complications and a lev
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by naravara 5mo ago
More of what they want to view by showing a feed of largely inflammatory content that targets easily risible emotions that encourage commenting and interacting, which makes people keep coming back to argue more. The mob dynamics are part of
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by naravara 5mo ago
No they should have to pick every time whether they want to be in follower mode or discovery mode. Dismissing concerns as “the angry mob” is richly ironic considering the entire objection is that recommendation algorithms seem precisely tun
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by naravara 5mo ago
> This is some kind of a meme where people believe things can’t be defined in legal terms and therefore can’t be regulated. These people are usually not lawyers. No they’re engineers who think rules have to function as rigidly in every f
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by naravara 5mo ago
Why do you assume the recommendation algorithm should be the default? The algorithm is the dangerous thing, THAT should be the opt-in mode not the other way around. IMO they should not only be opt-in, but should actually be required to publ
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by naravara 5mo ago
Why is it that I discover the first decent baby feeding tracker right as my last baby has aged out of needing one? SMH
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by naravara 5mo ago
How many users actually care about those? Convincing customers to fork over money for an app at ALL is like pulling teeth. The only things I’d really miss on a phone ecosystem is like, game emulation and some more esoteric network data&#x2F

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