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by pflenker 11mo ago
Tangentially related, the AI integrated in Google Chat is hilariously bad. Find a thread which starts with „Bug: (…)“ that has 90+ answers. Hey, an AI could be useful here! Click summarize. Wait. Without fail the result will be along the li
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by pflenker 1y ago
They should be. Articles have been gotten longer and longer over time, getting an AI summary instead is the logical consequence.
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by pflenker 1y ago
MAD magazine once printed a listing with some non obvious errors in it, introducing my 10 year old self to the concept of a bug. Maybe now I will have the chance to see a self-made Alfred E. Neuman!
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by pflenker 1y ago
I don’t see how your argument applies to Apple‘s transition to Liquid Glass. Apple only did incremental design changes for years, IIRC this is only the third major UI/UX iteration since the early 00s. UX is not timeless, features emerg
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by pflenker 1y ago
10/GUI did some deep thinking about the limitations and potential of the (then-fairly new) multi touch input method. I wished something more had come out of it, instead it stayed a niche concept art video that is mostly forgotten now.
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by pflenker 1y ago
Same as with other similar agreements. A doctor needs to declare your mental fitness. When in doubt, a court gets involved. As a rule of thumb, if you are able to understand enough to getter law involved you’re likely still mentally fit.
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by pflenker 1y ago
The same argument would apply to any other kind of will or testament. You need to update it frequently. It’s not uncommon for people to change their mind quite late, and (at least in Germany) that’s perfectly possible even until late. If p
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by pflenker 1y ago
You could express your wishes about how you would like to be treated in advance, while you are still clear in the head. That’s already possible for other situations, like when you are braindead and entirely dependent on machines to keep you
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by pflenker 1y ago
I find that I get most value out of less memorable notes in my Obsidian, because for the more memorable ones my brain is able to stay on top of it. I use LLMs to extract key points, make proposals or generate a short summary, but I personal
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by pflenker 1y ago
That's the thing, it's legally not broken.
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by pflenker 1y ago
It would be fine if you willingly buy stuff which shows you ads. But what happens is that you buy stuff without realizing it shows ads, or - even worse - it starts showing ads long after you bought it. Case in point, my echo show first sho
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by pflenker 1y ago
I've never heard of anyone thinking that they are keeping up a relationship with someone by watching them via social media from a distance. This sounds like a made-up concern to me. There is no difference to asking someone how someone
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by pflenker 1y ago
I don’t want to be limited to „meaningful connections!“ I stay in close contact with those who are dear to me outside of social media. I want to stay connected to some random coworker I enjoyed working with in 2011, because I enjoy watching
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by pflenker 1y ago
Find joy in the craft, don’t rely on the outside world to feed you excitement. A well-crafted wooden box can spark as much joy as a well-crafted piece of software or a well-written document. Taxes are boring, no kid at kindergarten states t
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by pflenker 1y ago
The article makes it sound like there was some ringing, but instead of looking out of the window or checking the door the residents called the police - probably because they were afraid of kids from across the road, which is a framing that
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by pflenker 1y ago
Gemini sometimes reminds me a bit of the turrets in Portal. Child-like, polite, apologetic and in control of dangerous[^1] tech it doesn't understand. [^1]: OK, the comparison falls apart here - at least as long as MCP isn't invol
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by pflenker 1y ago
Very good point - at the risk of being called insecure again, I really do not want my tools to apologise to me all the time. That's just silly.
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by pflenker 1y ago
> I'm not GP but I agree that it isn't universal, nor especially healthy or productive, to have the response you describe to being told that your issue is common. It would make sense if you could e.g. hear the insincerity in a
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by pflenker 1y ago
Not only is that a weird presumption about my ostensible insecurities on your end, it's also weird that the state of my own mental resilience should play any role at all when interacting with a tool. If all other things are equal and o
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by pflenker 1y ago
Gemini keeps telling me "you've hit a common frustration/issue/topic/..." so often it is actively pushing me away from using it. It either makes me feel stupid because I ask it a stupid question and it pretends
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by pflenker 1y ago
To be unfairly cynical here, the sentence you quoted sounds to me like "I chose to not have a front door. I didn't give it much thought at the time, but knew that I wanted my home to be available for people to learn from my interi
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by pflenker 1y ago
Recurring todo list entry.
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by pflenker 1y ago
I have set up my projects in a way that whenever I work ok it, all the context I need is available from one single starting point. My goal is that zero friction is needed for to resume work on any project, no matter how long it was paused.
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by pflenker 1y ago
He was a freelance contractor. Being available basically all the time is part of the job.
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by pflenker 1y ago
I remember a campaign to collect aol cds, which were a 90s form of physical spam, so that they can be dumped in front of their headquarters. I eagerly asked all my friends and family to pick up as many aol cds as they can and hand them to m
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by pflenker 1y ago
Yet these rules aren’t so radically different that there aren’t any common patterns. For instance, noticing people’s birthday and adding them to your calendar so that you can congratulate them is a small, yet very powerful tip that works i
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by pflenker 1y ago
Hm, that’s all a bit shallow, isn’t it? Can anyone recommend a more thorough source?
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by pflenker 1y ago
I have two separate points to add to this. Point 1. During the pandemic, I learned that meetings also support team cohesion. We experimented with less meetings, but quickly got to a point where we restored at least _some_ meetings to ensu
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by pflenker 1y ago
Besides collecting data, there are more obvious and less sinister reasons for asking people to use an app: Engagement and real estate. Keeping the users up to date is way easier with push notifications, especially with younger audiences who
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by pflenker 1y ago
I skipped the text and looked at the images and was unable to understand if they were supposed to be bad or good examples. I liked them. Then k read through the text and learned that they are supposed to be bad examples. But why though? I s

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