naravara

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by naravara 9mo ago
I did it as a kid but I also understood that if my parents SAW me doing it I’d feel embarrassed and they might scold me. I think there is some character building benefit behind making sure that simulating or watching inappropriate behavior
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by naravara 9mo ago
I read an interesting argument the other day that, because of how memory and perception of time works, childhood ends up being something like 40% of your lifespan in “experiential” terms. The stuff that happens to you over your first 20ish
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by naravara 10mo ago
I’ve been thinking about setting up a family domain and just hosting my family’s pictures to it as a way to share internally. But the risk exposure of running anything online is just so bad now, it feels risky and a pain in the ass to both
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by naravara 10mo ago
I’m reminded of a Reddit thread long ago about a reconstruction of Roman garum by some American scientists. In their paper they conclusively declared that it tasted foul and a Filipino Redditor replied saying “This actually sounds a lot lik
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by naravara 10mo ago
If you already have a NAS I’m not sure what this does for you that just getting a bigger NAS wouln’t?
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by naravara 10mo ago
The only data point I referred to is the dramatic rise starting in 2015, and the divergence by gender. I don’t think anyone seriously disputes that, just the presumed usage patterns he thinks go along with those. The criticisms of him are b
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by naravara 10mo ago
I think 70-80% of it is the business model, but the other 20-30% might just be baked into how it is. Jonathan Haidt talks about how once social media usage became ubiquitous among teenagers around 2015 mental health problems began to skyroc
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by naravara 11mo ago
What do you mean? Nylon and polyester can be extremely durable, that’s always been their appeal. A knitted pocket is very likely to be a BIFL item even moreso than typical cotton or wool fabrics unless they’re specifically designed to be ha
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by naravara 11mo ago
Hey now. If they allowed you to simply enjoy the stuff you have without butting in to remind you of everything you don’t have, you might actually feel a moment of lightness and happiness. If they want you spending money they need to cultiva
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by naravara 1y ago
Yeah Apple’s evolution over the past decade has been very frustrating and disappointing to see. It seems like whatever scraps remain of the company’s core values now exist solely with a handful of old heads at the company and will likely no
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by naravara 1y ago
Surely the fact that the current ruling party has an influential faction who explicitly reference Nazi Germany as an ideal worth striving for is relevant to setting the current moment in historical context. Yes we're not LITERALLY Nazi
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by naravara 1y ago
> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be? When the ridiculous approva
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by naravara 1y ago
They stacked almost ALL the actual stuff, like the camera system, SOC, etc. inside that little plateau and the rest of the slab is basically just display and battery. If I was going to make a clamshell phone, experimenting with miniaturizin
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by naravara 1y ago
It’s pretty instructive to compare an iPhone to a consumer product that’s priced for affordability first, like a Nintendo Switch. The differences in build quality are very evident.
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by naravara 1y ago
The screens could definitely break, they were just very small so the likelihood that they would suffer an impact that would break them was comparatively small. In fact, the reason for the flip form factor was to protect the increasingly fan
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by naravara 1y ago
This tends to happen a lot with news of regulatory policies in the global south where Western commentators will hold them to standards of libertinism that don’t even really apply in their own countries. It’s some combination of ignorance ab
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by naravara 1y ago
You might be good at making whisky but not that great at marketing. Either way the market has a desire for generic, unlabeled product and people go in to fill the need.
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by naravara 1y ago
I know distilleries will often contract with one or more other distilleries to create a custom blended whisky to sell under their label to get some revenue while they wait for their first batches to mature. There are distilleries that basic
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by naravara 1y ago
It doesn’t surprise me if they found that the emergent behaviors didn’t change given their method. Modifying the simulation to make them behave differently would mean your rules have changed the model’s behavior to “jump tracks” into simula
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by naravara 1y ago
The weight loss mechanism largely just comes from suppressing appetite though, so it still lines up with the penance for sin narrative. It’s not that different from wearing a hair-shirt and whipping yourself if you find yourself having lust
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by naravara 1y ago
It’s a shame the evolution to DVD and later Blu-ray went with the VCD/CD size rather than Laserdisc sized discs. It was the right call for the time, that makes them much easier to transport and store and allowed the players to double a
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by naravara 1y ago
The existence of the LLMs will themselves change the profile and proclivities of people we consider “programmers” in the same way the app-driven tech boom did. Programmers who came up in the early days are different from ones who came up in
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by naravara 1y ago
If interactions with your AI start sounding like your conversation partner shilling hot cocoa powder at nobody in particular those conversations are going to stop being trusted real quick. (Pop culture reference: https://youtu.be
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by naravara 1y ago
If you own a car and use it to get around in Manhattan you’re not “poor.” The poor are riding the bus.
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by naravara 1y ago
It’s classist to not want pedestrians in cities to die and get asthma from traffic? Got it.
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by naravara 1y ago
Yeah all these “save your time and attention from your smartphone” value propositions run into the problem of just being shitty phones that end up being quite expensive. This goes for eInk phones as well as things like the Light Phone or th
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by naravara 1y ago
My kid was recently gifted a Yoto Box which plays aIndio and he loves it. I can’t help but think that putting ebooks on scannable cards might be a seriously underrated form factor. At that point you don’t need a file browser, networking, or
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by naravara 1y ago
Yeah my impression is that Kindles last basically forever. They’re like typewriters where you should just buy the nicest one you can afford when you need it and use it until it can’t be repaired. IMO Kindles were best when they had hardware
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by naravara 1y ago
One of the most popular eReaders with the BookTok crowd is the Boox Palma, which is an eReader with the form factor of a phone. It’s actually just an Android phone with an eInk screen, so you can run any android app on it. It’s just that eI
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by naravara 1y ago
I also don’t understand the anxiety. One of the reasons eReaders are expensive is because they’re designed for durability in light of how people actually use them, which seems to be getting thrown around loose in a tote bag or in environmen

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