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by npunt 5y ago
This internal tension between chasing AI tooling and avoiding AI-generated content is just a prelude to the bigger shift of search engines getting reinvented around generated results instead of found results. Fast forward 10+ years and for
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by npunt 5y ago
Oh man the memories of this time. Around 97-98 was when workstations were on the way out and workstation cards were on the way in, but regardless these SGI boxes were just so lustworthy - the style, the performance, the otherness and clea
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by npunt 5y ago
Even Intel flirted with RAMBUS and paid for it. When I was at Pandemic Studios in 99-02, we'd get lots of prototype hardware from Intel and they sent us PIII's with the RAMBUS-exclusive i820 chipset. The things were impossible to
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by npunt 5y ago
I think you're missing the point. You're talking about transparency, which is important, but it's not user experience. We know how to make edit buttons that have transparency, just have an 'Edited' link and make the
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by npunt 5y ago
Big picture, USB-C is set to considerably reduce ewaste given that more and more consumer electronics products are standardizing on it as a charging solution, eliminating custom chargers and letting manufacturers get away with not including
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by npunt 5y ago
Alternately, defaults really really matter. Of 100 teams that adopt Slack, only a fraction will know about, let alone enable, let alone write custom bots. If you're in a position like Slack where you have control over defaults, small c
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by npunt 5y ago
Part of the reason Slack culture is hugely variable as organizations change is precisely because there are few easily available, broadly understood default tools to reduce that variability. One could say the same for code style - it's
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by npunt 5y ago
Rather than just tell / hope people follow some etiquette, I'd love Slack to build more etiquette enforcing features that operators could enable. This isn't the 19th century where the best we can do is tell people to read a b
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by npunt 5y ago
I'm mildly concerned in the next 20 years Russia will blow up a few satellites and cause a huge amount of LEO space debris that makes it harder for everyone else to launch, just because they can't compete. I imagine something like
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by npunt 5y ago
'Their upgrade path is your opportunity' to paraphrase Jeff Bezos, for any of the competing analytics offerings out there. Seems like a good time to make a break from GA and do your part to reduce centralized surveillance on the w
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I'm responding more to the point that gas taxes are some kind of effective solution and that category-based comparison is even relevant. Climate change demands we think outside categories and see what kinds of 'jobs to be done&#x2
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by npunt 5y ago
Apples and oranges. Something being driven 10k miles a year is being used for daily life activities, something being driven 100 miles is not. Consider what job it's doing, not what arbitrary market category it fits in.
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by npunt 5y ago
Entitled, difficult, immature, higher return & damage rate, undervalues 'just works', etc.
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by npunt 5y ago
Not sure about game developers, but gamers are a low-margin, high-touch, low-satisfaction-score, garish-aesthetic, speeds-and-feeds market. Pretty much antithetical to Apple's core focus and I think they rightly avoid them. Despite per
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by npunt 5y ago
FWIW, Apple's been helping define CPU specs in-house since the 90s. They were part of an alliance with Motorola and IBM to make PowerPC, and bought a substantial part of ARM and did a joint venture to make Newton's CPU. And they&#
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by npunt 5y ago
SE/30's are the best. Here's a summary of some other modern and contemporaneous upgrades available: https://nickpunt.com/blog/se-30th-anniversary/
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by npunt 5y ago
I wish Amazon would try different shopping experiences online, versus the hellscape of overoptimization that is Amazon.com. Part of the appeal of a bookstore is to have a different shopping experience than what you get online or even at oth
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by npunt 5y ago
Procedural generation is going to be fantastic for personalizing language and explaining ideas; it's pretty obviously the future for anything written that is learning & information oriented. However I'm concerned these persona
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by npunt 5y ago
"Quantity has a quality of its own"
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by npunt 5y ago
Hey Jake, great job on the text selection fix! As far as the jumpiness, its the gestalt of the experience, from a ton of papercuts big and small: 1. I often have the sidebar closed, and whenever the mouse passes over anywhere on the left
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by npunt 5y ago
Agree, I really like Notion but even after a bunch of great updates the text editing and a few other parts still feel off, e.g. the UI is really jumpy and makes the whole thing feel physically unstable, there's huge margins at smaller
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by npunt 5y ago
HN has been an amazing resource for my own personal development, and remains a reliable source for high quality content and discussion in certain topics. I think that has a lot to do with its smart design decisions and approach to moderatio
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by npunt 5y ago
Good news! I hope the focus can shift to the ecosystem now. Two friends of mine have big projects that are stuck on Vue 2 because of Vuefire.
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by npunt 5y ago
I doubt you're arguing to quite this extreme, but just to explore what focusing solely on the outputs side looks ('only results matter'), this can have some unintended consequences. A great example is surgeons deciding not to
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by npunt 5y ago
I think it's more that the cultural opportunity has passed for local-first digital experiences, where the world's affairs are far away and local affairs are close. Let alone the increasingly challenged defaultness of the physical
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This reminds me of the Nortel Displayphone [1], a similar all-in-one computer with 1200bps modem and keyboard. By the time I got mine from a friend in ~1992 it was already way outclassed by PCs, but I loved the hardware integration and the
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by npunt 5y ago
This is both a high enough number and an important enough issue that it feels like Amazon should just outright prohibit the sale of KN95s, or that regulations should fall on Amazon to police it. I'm sure other stores that have third pa
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Makes sense, times are indeed hard.
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I'm surprised winds and currents weren't mentioned. To a sea traveler, I imagine distance is more about time than miles, which varies considerably based on what direction you point.
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Nothing wrong with taking away what you want from art, but uh.. you're exactly describing the 'blue pill' (the comforts of escapism), so there is some irony in that with regard to the Matrix in particular. That's one of

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