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   by npunt 5y ago

   You might want to read up on them. Getting people to go 'oh its all the same' is pretty much the mission of these types of outlets. RT works by seeming like just another news source while subtly pushing the agenda on key issues of
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   by npunt 5y ago

   Hi, love the idea! Two quick points: 1. At least to me the name Culdesac is strongly/exclusively associated with suburbs, which is really the opposite experience of what your target market wants. I almost didn't click to learn mor
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   by npunt 5y ago

   > discord is a casual discussion app One way to keep that reputation is to not deploy features that enable more professional use cases. Perhaps they want to be more than a casual app? I personally like threads, they are a very minor bump
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   by npunt 5y ago

   The link to the NRDC pdf with methodology is right there in the NYT article. Here it is, page 8. I edited my comment to show the study/quote was specifically about northern california https://www.nrdc.org/sites/def
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   by npunt 5y ago

   Yep. According to Natural Resources Defense Council via NYT, "about a quarter of all residential energy consumption is used on devices in idle power mode" in Northern California [1]. Huge opportunity for efficiency improvement thr
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   It’s been that way for years and has nothing to do with the touchbar, it’s in the menu. Agree it’s hardly discoverable.
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   by npunt 5y ago

   Ah thank you for the clarification! Keychain is truly the 'Mac-assed' solution isn't it? I know it's kind of a feature/property of HN to not implement notifications or other attention driving features but it'd
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   by npunt 5y ago

   Looks good but needs text zoom (cmd =/+ and cmd -). I'd also consider the sidebar include 'My Posts' and 'My Comments'. Maybe it has those, but I couldn't tell, as I turned off outgoing network access to f
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   by npunt 5y ago

   This is an exciting project! Been hoping someone would build a decent modern MUD creator - I played MUDs a long time ago but have been disappointed to see the medium largely stuck in 90s conventions. At least from my perspective telnet is a
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I believe they've only increased the height once with the transition to Big Sur. And they reduced the height from Mavericks->Yosemite, so it's back to where it was during 10.1-10.9 days, just with one UI row + tabs instead of t
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Your eyes deceive you. Prior MacOS versions have more overall padding (50pt) but it's put entirely within the tab itself. The new tabs have some margin between each tab and a much smaller padding within tabs, for overall what looks t
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I didn't love Fleets personally, the medium was mismatched to Twitter's niche of a public social network. Ephemeral media is ideally paired with a small/private network to maximize personal expression. The next question is wi
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    by npunt 5y ago

    You've got the order reversed. Mac pretty much defined the modern WIMP UI and was the only real game in town for consumers & professionals from 1984 - 1990 when Windows 3 was released, and during this time an entire industry (DTP)
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    by npunt 5y ago

    This was a four year study involving 2500 participants. You may feel the evidence is insufficient to make the policy changes they did as a result, but if you feel this is fluff dressed up as science it might be nice to understand what you f
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I wonder if this heat dome effect contributed to Venus' eventual fate. My #1 fear is we're just going to get into some runaway cascade of warming and turn into something like Venus much faster than we realize.
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Yes, the absolute values being seen here are breaking past records by up to 10*F. This isn't media just making something of nothing.
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I'm not actually sure if you polled westerns that they would assume protests alone are the impetus for change, this may be a straw man. A more generous line of thinking would be 'do peaceful protests help bring about change?&#x2
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Incredible! They finally built a tool to 'Draw the Owl' [1] [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
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    by npunt 5y ago

    One thing I learned after tracking key life criteria for a few years is it's easy to be hyper-focused on tracking at the detriment of living your life. If you sample more than a few times a day, you'll wind up 'living to trac
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    by npunt 5y ago

    This was my experience as well. In SF and got symptoms mid Feb, doctor visit two weeks later concluded pneumonia and gave me antibiotics, no covid tests available, took 2+ months to recover. Later got Abbott Architect antibody test and it w
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Microsoft should number their Windows releases by when support will end for them (eg Windows 25). That’ll make it super clear to enterprise that they’ve got to get with it and update, rather than obfuscating and delaying these dates. (Being
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Thanks for the practitioner perspective Keith, this makes me feel a lot better about the approach Stanford is taking (and makes me want to return to the farm!) Honestly the ethical questions being brought up are some of the most interesting
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Interesting, thanks for the context. I get that its tough to find the right dividing lines on these in a university context, though I admit I'm partial to more integrated approaches. Like, I can't help but imagine teaching ethics
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I like your approach here. As strange as it sounds the path to ethical action in tech requires cultivating the kind of imagination required to think of all the ways tech can be used for ill (sometimes called 'design noir'). I&#x27
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Ah good to know, happy its at least a soft req!
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    Thanks that's really good to hear, embedding and repeating the theme throughout different courses really is the best way to build ethical awareness and mindset.
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    by npunt 5y ago

    I agree that most ethics courses aren't well done and scream 'mandatory training' rather than 'interesting subject'. The required two week one I took at Stanford GSB was pretty weak, despite business ethics being ex
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    by npunt 5y ago

    Given the power tech has over the daily experiences of billions and how many questions of values and ethics it is now directly confronting in society, I'm a little surprised there's just one ethics course and one law course that c
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    by npunt 5y ago

    The simple answer is people with more disposable income buy iPhones. Smart of Apple to position themselves this way in the market and build a product good enough to sustain that position, but I don't think that invalidates Marco's
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    by npunt 5y ago

    There's a lot of sunlight between 'barely targeted brand ad' and 'i was just talking about this exact product yesterday and now its in an ad'. It's the latter that creeps people out, especially combined with a)