naravara

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by naravara 3y ago
People often try to talk to me while I'm walking the dog and I keep having to tell them to repeat themselves after I pause the audio and turn off the noise isolation.
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by naravara 3y ago
How much do gamers actually value immersion though? Seems to me the satisfaction of solving puzzles or executing strategy and the sort are the real drivers of satisfaction with games. Immersion is nice, but unless the interaction mode provi
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by naravara 3y ago
I expect fps will still require a controller/kbm rather than relying on the eye tracking/gesture input. For one thing, I don’t know how else you would move and perform actions at the same time.
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by naravara 3y ago
You can just flip the goggles up if you’re talking to someone. That’s often what people with tinted safety goggles, like welders, do. Having to take AirPods out of your ears is more obtrusive I think.
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by naravara 3y ago
> Well, what you describe does actually have clear winners and losers -- just not between the US vs GB. The settlers are the winners, and the natives are the losers. True. That is often disregarded in how we talk about nation-state compe
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by naravara 3y ago
That's a pretty one-sided description of the War of 1812. The whole thing was a bit of a fiasco and an attempted land-grab of territories controlled by Native American nations allied to the British by hawkish Senators from border state
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by naravara 3y ago
> By your logic, is there no individual right to protest? I'm not sure to what extent there is one to be honest. We don't really have concerns around enforcing public nuisance statutes when someone is being a public nuisance. I
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by naravara 3y ago
Why would we do QR code payments in a world where NFC payment flows exist and are well established?
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by naravara 3y ago
It's less about PDFs specifically and more about normalizing the behavior where people just scan QR codes off stickers and then download and execute whatever arbitrary file the page wants to serve them.
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by naravara 3y ago
> A website? You had actual websites? We got mostly PDFs of paper menus. And they would often give you an actual paper menu if you asked. Not just any website. Often it sends you straight to some online ordering portal like Toast or Door
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by naravara 3y ago
> Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like). You have the right to an attorney. The state hir
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by naravara 3y ago
There is no individual "right to own guns" in the Constitution. When the second amendment talks about the right of "the people" it means as a collective. It's talking about curtailing the Federal government from res
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by naravara 3y ago
> The main difference between cooking and process chemistry is that the latter actually cares about quality of the end result. Do home cooks not care about how the food tastes? This seems like a strange take. People started cooking by ro
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by naravara 3y ago
> But books are not, overall, that much better! Whatever testing was done was often done ad hoc or in professional kitchens, or on a much larger batch that was arithmetically scaled down to home sizes. This often works fine but not alway
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by naravara 3y ago
What you're calling "MBA-ification" sounds more like private equity infiltration.
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by naravara 3y ago
Ooof that sounds bad.
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by naravara 3y ago
> you get what you pay for No amount of money will make up for the erosion of manufacturing expertise and deprioritization of the perspectives of people who actually know how to make stuff being involved in corporate strategy and staffin
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by naravara 3y ago
> Companies are relocating out of China for cost and for political risk of further US decoupling. Also concerns over IP theft. And furthermore, I don't think American businesses have caught up to thinking this way, but they've
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by naravara 3y ago
Hundreds of thousands in the Chinese context doesn't seem like very much? Presumably they can all get other jobs no?
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by naravara 3y ago
If anything parents are as bad or worse than the kids now. I'm about 40 and am constantly having to remind my own parents to put the phone away and be more present with their grandkids when they come to visit.
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by naravara 3y ago
A lot of British television is popular on streaming here, and there is very little Australian television. Canadian accents are largely indistinguishable from the generic American "TV accent" aside from a few specific sounds and vo
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by naravara 3y ago
Is that still true of new cars made in the 2020s? I assume the emissions difference between a 6-10 year old ICE vehicle and a brand new ICE vehicle are probably pretty negligible in light of the footprint required to produce and bring a bra
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by naravara 3y ago
People will still drive, they will just buy and drive used cars instead of new ones. Since the cars themselves are more durable, they will last longer and create less of an environmental burden to produce. (Assuming they are properly and ad
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by naravara 3y ago
This may not be the worst thing honestly, from an environmental perspective. The cars themselves have much longer usable lives now so it's for the best that cars move down to new users instead of needing to build more and more. The dow
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by naravara 3y ago
"Libertarianism" was originally an adjective used for the more anarchist-leaning socialists. It was later appropriated by right-leaning property fetishists.
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by naravara 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when "blue hairs" referred to old people. It's young people now?
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by naravara 3y ago
I think they viewed the transcription itself as a form of meditative/devotional practice and didn't prioritize efficiency as much. The illumination on some of these manuscripts can get pretty elaborate and, sometimes, kind of whim
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by naravara 3y ago
> The Catholic Church is interesting counterpoint. Their religious teaching still openly draws upon tradition, institutional church authority and individuals like the Pope. IIRC this was their main contention against the Protestant refor
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by naravara 3y ago
> Each seeing themselves as a logical peak of the progressive arrow history, especially post-enlightenment I'm not actually sure this is the case of pre-modern civilizations. I don't think they really had a conception of histor
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by naravara 3y ago
He was a cricket legend

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