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by pixelready 4mo ago
Oh, is that the guy that sold Loopt by claiming it had hundreds of thousands of users and it turned out to have 500 DAU after his exit?
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by pixelready 5mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment for details
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by pixelready 5mo ago
Pruning code is to software engineers what cancelling plans is to introverts :) I think I need to work up a Claude skill named marie-kondo, so that when it breathlessly presents its triumphant solution, I can go “yes, but does it spark joy?
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by pixelready 5mo ago
Remember that this is disclosed spend. There are many things players especially in the media and tech space do that can have far more impact on public opinion via undisclosed “in-kind” spending and agenda-setting, it’s just that their manip
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by pixelready 5mo ago
Yeah, it’s the same reason that Alex Karp goes on those unhinged apocalyptic rants about Palantir. It’s not for public consumption, it’s for defense insiders. The old logic prevails: a world destroying system is bound to exist, so WE must
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by pixelready 5mo ago
Sadly, polarization pushes people towards either wholesale “burn it down” anti-capitalism or full throated corporate bootlicking and I don’t think either tact is particularly useful. There’s a more subtle critique about our indoctrination i
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by pixelready 6mo ago
Here’s everyone’s daily reminder that the Luddites were an anti-exploitation movement that were retconned into knuckle dragging technophobes by Capitalist propaganda. It is, was, and always will be, about the fair distribution of returns fr
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by pixelready 7mo ago
Yeah, the more I learn about American history, the more I realize American elites were never bought in to the “moral project”, but were happy to use it as PR to a largely religious public. Though I’m not particularly looking forward to livi
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by pixelready 7mo ago
It would seem the best place to hide a real conspiracy is underneath a fake one.
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by pixelready 7mo ago
I’ve been meaning to get my power supply checked, but my robo-kid needs a memory upgrade and have you _seen_ RAM prices lately. On the plus side, plenty of employment opportunities in the US these days. They’re offering us all the former me
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by pixelready 7mo ago
I’m curious about the overlap between people that want a keyboard driven experience, but also would prefer a Mac-native GUI rather than a TUI or a vim / emacs distro. Seems like a very narrow audience to aim for.
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by pixelready 7mo ago
The case against GDP, by its own creator: https://gnhusa.org/gpi/the-case-against-gdp-made-by-its-own-... It’s not that GDP is a poor measure, just that it is isolated as the only measure most policy is based on improv
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by pixelready 7mo ago
If I apply the Purpose of a System is What it Does (POSIWID) heuristic, then the purpose of Flock cameras can not be cost effective law enforcement.
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by pixelready 7mo ago
I don’t totally disagree, insofar as a very low GPA is probably a countersignal of common sense and work ethic. The problem you get is by converting these things from measures to targets, and then putting them on a permanent record. Suddenl
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by pixelready 7mo ago
In addition to a class marker, high GPA is also a marker of obedience and conformity, both highly prized attributes when market consolidation relaxes competitive pressure. You don’t need innovative rebel types being all critical and making
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Yeah, I’m amazed at how far the western surveillance apparatus has been able to coast on plausible deniability. Folks, please don’t stick your head in the sand domestically just because there’s an even more obvious or egregious example abro
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by pixelready 8mo ago
100% this. I honestly can’t remember the last major feature of MacOS / iOS that didn’t feel like a solution searching for a problem, while I was bombarded by weird little bugs and semi-fail states in core functionality. At this point I
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by pixelready 8mo ago
I think there’s a lot of poor incentives at play here. Having to mash everything down into a handful of top line success metrics (annual test scores, attendance rate) is certainly one, alongside this obsession with one-size-fits-all age-coh
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by pixelready 8mo ago
I think this is just once again an example of the interests of corporate ownership running counter to creative culture ala “Everything is a Remix”. Music samples, fan fic, fan art, reaction vids, etc.. are natural artifacts of culture. Corp
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Ack, sorry, seemed like 9 years was past the statute of limitations on spoilers for a game but fair enough. I’d throw a spoiler tag on it if I could still edit.
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Isn’t this every “disruption” story in a nutshell? The value being converted into consumer benefit is always a temporary situation.
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by pixelready 8mo ago
The best reveal was not that he accidentally liquified the biosphere, but that he doomed generations of re-seeded humans to a painfully primitive life by sabotaging the AI that was responsible for their education. Just so they would never f
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by pixelready 8mo ago
There’s really two types of people that tend to be drawn to libertarianism at some point: humanists and narcissists. Those who are fundamentally humanist want to tear down systems of oppression because it pains them to see their fellow huma
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by pixelready 8mo ago
The current crop of LLM-backed chatbots do have a bit of that “old, good internet” flavor. A mostly unspoiled frontier where things are changing rapidly, potential seems unbounded, the people molding the actual tech and discussing it are en
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Yeah, this is one of my guilty automation pleasures alongside self-checkout. I hate that I am displacing a human, and I mourn for the handful of really pleasant taxi / Uber experiences I’ve had over the years, but damn is Waymo such a
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by pixelready 8mo ago
I’d worry about creating a perverse incentive to farm rejected submissions. Similar to those renter application fee scams.
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Oh, very cool. Just watched the YouTube on some of the porting challenges. Love the idea of a full fledged game dev environment the kids can graduate to from scratch Jr. and the like. Combine this with an Apple Pencil, Pixelmator pro and Bl
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by pixelready 8mo ago
Development focused on iPadOS as an export platform, or using an iPad as the actual dev environment?
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by pixelready 9mo ago
The undissmissable badges in settings irk me to no end. Using language like “finish setting up” in iOS to describe me opting out of Apple Intelligence by choice as leaving MY device in some sort of “unfinished state” is user hostile too. Wi
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by pixelready 9mo ago
I’ve always been quite sensitive to bright screens and get headaches from eye strain too. Dark mode has made a huge difference to me. I’m just happy that the mode switch is well supported across OSes and browsers nowadays, though it does ad

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