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by pbw 4y ago
That’s really interesting. Thanks for all the details. I think every mega social media site has serious problems such as these that stem from the fact they don’t have enough humans in the loop. TikTok is so different though it has surely cr
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by pbw 4y ago
I agree TikTok is doing something different from the other guys. The amazing thing is that it's been out for 5 years and no one has copied what it does. Although I'd guess the algorithm has gotten a lot better over time as well, s
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by pbw 4y ago
I don't know how it all works. However one thing I will sometimes do is like a video but not watch it to the end. What I'm thinking in that case is this is good content, but not something I really want to watch. Like a musician
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by pbw 4y ago
OP here. My guess is the vast majority of TikTok users don't realize how much control they have over its contents, and thus they end up watching mostly attention-grabbing fluff. I think even they will stumble on good meaningful stuff,
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by pbw 4y ago
What I'm mainly saying, I think, is that it's possible to find good content on TikTok, but it takes discipline and effort. You are saying McLuhan would disagree and say it is not possible to find good content on TikTok? I'm l
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by pbw 4y ago
OP here. That's great to hear. Yeah it's kind of interesting when people complain "TikTok only has teen girls dancing" or some similar niche, without them realizing they are basically revealing what they tend to watch. A
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by pbw 4y ago
> Trained or not, there is nothing good about scrolling through stuff for every moment when you're bored. OP here. TikTok doesn't mandate you use it every moment you are bored, that's a choice made by the user. However I a
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I trained my TikTok to find worthwhile content(metastable.org)
8 points by pbw 4y ago|2 comments
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I Trained My TikTok(metastable.org)
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by pbw 4y ago
I don't think you are arrogant but you sound very rigid and simplistic in your view of work and life. Strive to do better and strive to help those around you do better. You don't need to have fixed standards and then freak out whe
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by pbw 5y ago
> Nothing is more frustrating than having a slow experience while browsing the web. This seems a bit tone deaf with a war going on?
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My experience as a Software Engineering Radio host(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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Teaching System 1(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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Superhot: Thinking Fast and Slow(kmeme.com)
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by pbw 5y ago
https://archive.is/yZSyv
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by pbw 5y ago
The metaverse was an open standard in Snowcrash. The villain L. Bob Rife was distributing a mind virus in the metaverse and in real life using a drug, but he didn’t create or own the metaverse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by pbw 5y ago
I wrote an article a while back arguing that "7 plus or minus 2" implies objects in OO software development should be decomposed to have 9 or fewer members: https://tobeva.com/articles/brain-oriented-programmi
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The Coming AI Content Storm (Movies)(kmeme.com)
2 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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The Coming AI Content Storm(kmeme.com)
3 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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Feature Flags in ToneStone(tobeva.com)
1 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's Subliminal Scroll Stoppers(kmeme.com)
2 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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Billionaires: Our Single Point of Failure(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 5y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 5y ago
One thing I find really awkward with podcasts is if the guest has better audio quality than the host. It skews my mental model of who is "calling in" and it makes the host feel much less authoritative.
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by pbw 6y ago
Using the word “wrong” here feels click-baitey when he admits many of the principles are right in certain cases or certain ways. The opposite of every great truth is a great truth. If a principle were true across all space and time with zer
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Careers in Simulations: Post-AI Takeover(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 6y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 6y ago
This is how AirPods might work in a few years. In any environment you will be able to turn up/down the different sound sources around you.
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The Seam Metaphor in Software Architecture(tobeva.com)
2 points by pbw 6y ago|0 comments
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The Joyful Bear: Seams in Software Architecture(tobeva.com)
2 points by pbw 6y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 6y ago
I vividly remember playing this game on my friend's older brother's Mac. We loved the sounds, but I had no idea there was so much work behind them, or that they were that ground breaking. The article is great writing. Looks like h
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by pbw 6y ago
With dark mode it's hard to read the Bird's Eye View diagram: https://imgur.com/a/pJwZP9v I guess a consequence of dark mode is you should not use transparency in your diagrams if you have black lines.

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