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by perardi 4y ago
Aye, I have some history in software development as a UI designer. Including for something with natural language processing. So I have some heuristics for what and how to ask. But I feel like “add [x] to my Shopping list” where [x] is a fai
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by perardi 4y ago
Is it time to complain about Siri again? Sure is! I am an old-school Apple fanboy. I learned HyperCard on a Macintosh SE/30—I am that old. I still appreciate the Apple ecosystem, and I do like certain aspects of my HomePod mini…but Sir
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by perardi 4y ago
You know you’re old when you still reflexively flinch just a bit when you see PNGs mentioned, as you have battle scars from working with PNG-24 files in IE6. https://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6
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by perardi 4y ago
On Saturday, which is probably the quietest news day of the week, a post talking about a fundamental aspect of humanity that helps give us some context into what it’s like to simply be present and full of awe instead of complaining about El
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by perardi 4y ago
I am always a smidge skeptical about the Times and trend pieces, especially about the kids these days. Culture is so atomized and fragmented that I don’t know if we really have fads now. But if it is a trend: yeah, that won’t last. I am an
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by perardi 4y ago
So, as fastaguy88 already described in another comment, this paper is a fairly arbitrary quantification of “disruptive”. (Also, can we just stop using that word? Such a though-terminating cliche at this point.) But let’s accept that we ar
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by perardi 4y ago
Oh don’t be so serious, it’s a playful article, I was being playful too. And the parties I go to are…well, they have some novelty outside of sex and memes. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/ Plenty of sex, t
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by perardi 4y ago
…well, as the kids probably don’t say, “seen”. Very much an older millennial.
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by perardi 4y ago
…I realize this is an extreme parody, but if this is even close to a Bay Area party, I’ll stick to my Chicago scene, thank you very much. Less AI alignment discourse, more house music and ketamine.
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by perardi 4y ago
Because I’m waiting for the delivery of this… https://www.caranddriver.com/kia/ev6 …which looks better, is relatively affordable, has a dealer network behind it that can actually do repairs, and isn’t so… boring . A Te
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by perardi 4y ago
While I think the idea of colonizing Mars is a fantasy, I also disagree that your problems are “easy”. Because all those problems are human problems. Humans are short-sighted and selfish. Climate change stands out here. Sure, we know to fix
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by perardi 4y ago
Yes, on that one I should have said “within a ship or station”. But within that domain, my point still stands. We have no plausible way to construct such a ship or station that produces significant pseudo-gravity by rotating. Building such
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by perardi 4y ago
the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain Is that a basic urge? The actual glory of exploration? Or is it the need for resources? You reference the Donner Party, which was on its way to California, which had actual u
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by perardi 4y ago
Which, to me, seems like the closest real-world-on-Earth-world training simulation you could develop. You’d be totally reliant on one power source, sealed inside a pressurized tube, with totally disrupted circadian rhythms. But at least on
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by perardi 4y ago
We are not even a teeny tiny bit close to being able to replicate an environment like that in space. Waterfalls? With what gravity? Insects and exotic plants? You mean the invasive species that came to dominate Biosphere 2? And even if we c
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by perardi 4y ago
I’m gonna disagree just a bit here, because it loops back around to the possible end of the “tech” hype. Cars have been tech in this finance and investment bubble. Tesla, obviously, but then lots and lots of electric vehicle and autonomous
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by perardi 4y ago
Sort of related… So, you’d like to animate the display property: https://css-tricks.com/so-youd-like-to-animate-the-display-p...
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by perardi 4y ago
This is frustrating, because I think it’s a near certainty marijuana will be legalized federally. If I was a betting man, which I’m not, certainly not enough to mess with prediction markets, I’d call myself 95% certain. All this ambiguity
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by perardi 4y ago
Also, NeXtSTEP could reliably print stuff. Which, given that publishing was the niche that arguably kept the Mac alive during those years: kinda important!
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by perardi 4y ago
As someone who has used RSS since NetNewsWire looked like this… https://ranchero.com/images/nnw2/nnwtoolbarhidden.png …get off my lawn, kids. And then let grandpa here hitch up his britches even higher: people sti
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by perardi 4y ago
I wonder how much the end of syndicated reruns has hit revenues all across the TV industry. If you were a network TV affiliate, you had your Simpson’s hour, your Friends hour, your…ugh I guess King of Queen’s hour…you had all this good cont
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by perardi 4y ago
It’s going to be Jason Calacanis, isn’t it?
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by perardi 4y ago
Bit tangential, but hey, the theme is nostalgia… I don’t believe I ever heard Leo Laporte before podcasts—can’t recall Tech Guy Show being syndicated where I grew up in central Illinois. But this prompted to see if Kim Komando is still on
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by perardi 4y ago
Print Magazine had sumptuous paper. I can’t seem to find the price per issue for this, but it must have been ridiculous.
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by perardi 4y ago
This is meta-vintage for me, because I have not looked at Print magazine in years . This was a staple when I studied graphic design in college, but as I transitioned to UI design, it just slipped out of my mind. And here I see at the top o
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by perardi 4y ago
I’m…old now? Old enough to be shocked how much car prices have gone up. And I follow the industry. Why, back in my day, you could get a “stripper” model of a truck (my dad’s term for the most-basic-possible model with crank windows and a st
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by perardi 4y ago
Probably because, barring completely antibiotic resistant bacteria or some super-virus, if you live in a high-income area, you are either looking at dying due to your heart giving out, or your brain. https://www.who.int/news
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by perardi 4y ago
Well fortunately Tesla has a laser-focused CEO that is devoting his time to making sure a feature which he clearly stated was absolutely critical is being responsibly developed and marketed. Really grateful for that—I’d hate to think this p
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by perardi 4y ago
We have become an increasingly urbanized country. Lots and lots of people in massive metro areas—think of the hypersprawl around Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, LA… Living 10 miles away from where you grew up around Chicago can put you in a tota
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by perardi 4y ago
Yup, real exciting to watch Rivian trading at $100 less than its IPO. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RIVN?p=RIVN&.tsrc=fin-srch

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