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by npunt 4y ago
I've discovered so much about myself journaling. Journaling allows me to listen to myself in a way I cannot otherwise do; it separates me from my thoughts & feelings, which gives me the perspective I need to see myself a differen
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by npunt 4y ago
This is the challenge of trying to do good - no matter how much better you are than the default, for some subset of users you will never be good enough, and they’ll complain just as loudly about you as they do the default (far worse) option
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by npunt 4y ago
I can't help but put on my PM hat and say well this is almost certainly a statistical artifact, but they should probably take a closer look at the last software update.
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by npunt 4y ago
Itanium was the OS/2 of chips, Microsoft used OS/2 to get IBM chasing a dead end while they baked Windows NT & 95 until their lead was secured.
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by npunt 4y ago
Visible microphones really take away from the naturalness that you get from a fancy camera, and they make workspaces feel cluttered to boot. Recommend getting a shotgun mic (AudioTechnica AT875R) and mounted it atop the camera, as these sit
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by npunt 4y ago
Agree, no 4X game I've seen does a kind of 'scale with scope' gameplay. Ideally the number of decisions and considerations would stay roughly the same for each turn throughout the game, regardless of how big the empire gets.
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by npunt 5y ago
Nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and advertising.
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by npunt 5y ago
Yeah we’re early on in really nailing the formula. Butts in seats staring at screens doing single player activities isn’t a particularly compelling education environment nor one children are accustomed to biologically. We need more embodied
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by npunt 5y ago
I don’t dismiss its value in the broader education system, nor for certain industries and jobs. But specifically in the context of K12 requirements & expectations in the process of applying for college, it’s hardly foundational knowledg
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by npunt 5y ago
I've never understood the cult of calculus. I think it comes from mistaking the importance of its discovery for the importance of teaching it. It was a huge unlock for science, but is in no way a huge unlock for most people's live
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by npunt 5y ago
Yep, tracking students into systems like high/low early on makes it very hard to ever escape that track, as they're a sort of self-perpetuating system. That has downstream effects for one's entire life. It's a crude meth
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by npunt 5y ago
Very interesting! Cool dream too :) That suggests to me it may not be some inherent lack of capacity but more so the path to accessing that capacity that is the issue. Makes me think that phantasia might be improved through frequent practic
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by npunt 5y ago
I wonder if study results would be different for aphantasics on psychedelics. I imagine aphantasia is like most other human differences and exists on a spectrum, so perhaps a mild psychedelic like THC may affect results.
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by npunt 5y ago
It seems a lot of people are responding to this from the 'allowable speech' and 'consensus is bad' perspective, which triggers the inevitable 'its a private platform' or 'its just one place' response.
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by npunt 5y ago
Macroeconomics really strains the definition of 'science'. Few economists would place their field's predictive or descriptive power anywhere near that of chemistry, physics, biology, and all the other hard sciences that are p
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by npunt 5y ago
Agree the special Mac feel was real & quite nice. But Apple was lost in the 90s in all the important ways besides UX because their leadership didn't even understand the business. Product marketing: they offered dozens of ever-cha
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by npunt 5y ago
It's amazing how short and selective people's memories are on this subject. The 'debate' happening right now is coming from an earnest place but very uninformed about realities of managing large online spaces.
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by npunt 5y ago
> Do human cultures just need kings and princes? It's an interesting question, and I like how you frame it as a duke's commissioning. The root of it I think is that we're deeply social creatures, so much so that we anthrop
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by npunt 5y ago
I've see this in ebay prices for vintage tech. Strong uplift in demand in the last 5 years for early Macintosh computers, as everyone starts to have nostalgia for their childhood and now has enough income to engage in the hobby. I woul
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by npunt 5y ago
ok but what about bar nazis
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by npunt 5y ago
Agree, and to add further to this, the medium of Twitter does itself no favors in the 'how the topic is presented' dept. Twitter's context-less, short-form, hot-take, free for all design is really great at priming people to r
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by npunt 5y ago
If you want to get theoretical, look up paradox of tolerance. If you want a practical example, look up 'how to deal with nazis at your bar' [1]. Basically you get stuck with the assholes as the good people get silenced or leave. I
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by npunt 5y ago
It's hard to go back to Duplo once you know Lego. Curse of knowledge.
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by npunt 5y ago
https://alex4d.com/notes/item/imovie-2013-is-consumer-ui-on-...
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by npunt 5y ago
The cool part about iMovie and Garageband is they're basically a more approachable UI layer to Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. They share a lot of the same core code, and teach you the same concepts just without the fiddly pro bits. I lo
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by npunt 5y ago
I mean it in the education and learning sense, that for knowledge to be understood it must be tailored to the person asking the question. Answering a question about physics ideally should look different for someone with a high school educat
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by npunt 5y ago
I'm not sure such a complex system of content moderation & process could so easily be federated; I'd love to see a federated system equivalent to Wikipedia out there or one that has successfully transitioned governance like th
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by npunt 5y ago
My sense is a whole chunk of the internet is going to just get washed out with the tide as it gets demonetized by search, and that's the stuff most likely to be ML-generated. Meanwhile search engines like Google will start to laser in
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by npunt 5y ago
I was part of the Total Annihilation community and a local LAN party scene with the Gamespy folks in 97-99, so got to meet some industry folks that way and learn what was going on. The big in that I got was going to a local 3d animation mee
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by npunt 5y ago
Yeah the Battlefront games were awesome! They were a bit after my time but built on the foundations of multi-vehicle combat that we worked on in Battlezone II, just supercharged with more open world capabilities and obviously fantastic IP w

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