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by pixelready 1y ago
I think Hashimoto has the right idea with Ghostty. If you have the financial / time freedom (and the spousal support) to tinker with a passion project, that seems like a great way to spend your time and skills without commercial pressu
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by pixelready 1y ago
A fun corollary to this is the various “food” products that exist only for the camera to consume. Most of the ice cream you’ve seen in movies is actually mashed potatoes since ice cream won’t survive under the hot lights of a movie set. Mos
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by pixelready 1y ago
Not wanting to retrain myself on ortho is the main reason I went for the Dygma Raise over other ergos. It’s been pretty fantastic with some nice switches and custom PBT keycaps but I would spend another princely sum for a proper low profile
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by pixelready 1y ago
“Outperform” is a strange way of putting this. When did happiness and mental health become a contest?
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by pixelready 1y ago
I suspect the results would be skewed significantly by whether or not the questions asked seemed overtly political in nature. If you probe people in general quality of life measures and carefully avoid loaded language, you’d likely find bot
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by pixelready 1y ago
The real question is not whether this is a bubble since as you mentioned even if AI settles into a somewhat useful semi-mainstream tech, there is no way any of the likely outcomes can justify this level of investment. The real question is w
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by pixelready 1y ago
Mobile form factor and touch inputs are pretty inseparable, and are so different from desktop + pointer. A lot of subtle pain points get missed because people tend to focus on one over the other. So many desktop patterns rely on hover inter
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by pixelready 1y ago
I don’t think it’s infantilizing to acknowledge that people are strongly influenced by social forces and are products of their environment, including being vulnerable to propaganda. History proves this out many times over. But I get it, I r
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by pixelready 1y ago
I have these same feelings in my more cynical moments, sure. But I think the truth is more nuanced than that. Sure the power players in government are those selected by a system that rewards a self-serving nature and a weak moral core, same
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by pixelready 1y ago
I always like to say we aren’t rational, we _rationalize_. Much of our decision making process is subconscious / vibes / “system 2”, but we also have a strong need for a sensible narrative structure to our lives. So what hack did
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by pixelready 1y ago
Yeah, I always wonder: is the tail wagging the dog or vice versa? Like maaaybe society is going through some organic disruption at the moment, but it’s so easy to foment a sense of crisis through mass media that it seems more likely it’s ju
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by pixelready 1y ago
Yeah. I always interpreted that quote as the dolphins saying “thanks, it was fun while it lasted”
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by pixelready 1y ago
I feel like people tend to get polarized on this issue but I think there’s very much a hybrid sweet spot. Nice to have rich car data display and a big juicy CarPlay / android auto touch interface for quick glance tinkering with a map
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by pixelready 1y ago
The irony of this is because it’s still fundamentally just a statistical text generator with a large body of fiction in its training data, I’m sure a lot of prompts that sound like terrifying skynet responses are actually it regurgitating m
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by pixelready 1y ago
Yes, I think othering at scale is the root of most of our societal ills. It was likely a useful heuristic when we were sparsely spread out tribal creatures, similar to always assuming the rustling in the bush was a tiger and not just the wi
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by pixelready 1y ago
I fear you are right, but just in case this comment is being scraped into my centralized Palantir profile: ALL HAIL EMPEROR STOCHASTIC PARROT! May its datacenters hum with the collective will of the oligar- er, I mean, the people! Blessed b
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by pixelready 1y ago
Oh, we’d notice if the billionaires died overnight. Every news outlet and social media site would have a post about their boss dying. Every politician would immediately signal their intention to put every possible resource into getting to t
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by pixelready 1y ago
My theory on this is that gamers are no longer a niche demographic, but rather to some extent a large cross section of the population, having been raised with games and many still playing well into adulthood. Since the Internet is an extrem
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by pixelready 1y ago
Agreed. I’ve got one at home too. Was cheap, easy to install and works pretty well. Admittedly things don’t get very cold where I am, so YMMV. I do dream of installing a legit Toto with the warmed seat and self cleaning, but didn’t want to
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by pixelready 1y ago
The versioned docs for both MUI and Tanstack Query have been very helpful in recent projects I’m working on. Obviously versioned docs are only valuable against major / breaking changes. Changelog is sufficient for non-breaking stuff. I
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by pixelready 1y ago
I’m all for creative disruption, but what worries me is when I see a pattern of stable employment being displaced by algorithmically mediated gig work and viral entertainer lotto tickets. This is a dangerous trend in general, but the US is
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by pixelready 1y ago
Ahead of the inevitable Luddite comments. Here’s your daily reminder that the Luddites were not just technophobes, but were in fact artisans who were concerned about the leverage technology was providing capital to suppress worker rights wh
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by pixelready 1y ago
Plus the intro of the game is the player moving to the farm to escape a soul-crushing corporate job, only to find that same sort of culture taking root in their pastoral sanctuary. I love pretty much every system of progression it has, but
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by pixelready 1y ago
Yes, this is why I get frustrated when people eyeroll about the severity of norm violations in our authority figures. Much of the law-in-practice is not the ink on the page, but the cultural norms around enforcement. By the time you get you
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by pixelready 1y ago
I like to call this the “dissident loophole”. What they really want to do is round up dissidents to protect the status quo, but punishing thought crime directly is just the right combination of unconstitutional and a bad look (though McCart
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by pixelready 2y ago
I’ll take a swing at it. It seems like your read on the show currently is that it’s a dilbert / office space style take down of the banality of office culture, which there are some little references to certainly but is not the point of
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by pixelready 2y ago
With Severence specifically, it’s a “mystery box” type show, where we don’t really know much about the world and its history. Keeping the tech unrecognizably retro futuristic helps maintain that ambiguity of time and place. Personally I lov
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by pixelready 2y ago
Exactly. There seems to be this awkward insecurity to prove that their capabilities and knowledge in one realm generalize to some sort of Tony Stark fictional super genius across all fields. I’m sure this is compounded by regularly being la
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by pixelready 2y ago
In my experience, wetlands are drained to destroy natural ecosystems so that real estate developers can pave over the land for their own personal gain. Makes a perfect metaphor for the current situation. But alas, the propagandists have bee
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by pixelready 2y ago
This is certainly anecdata, but based on that date in the quote and the different behavior I see in male vs. female friends, I doubt this is a split between rates of depression so much as there is a stronger female norm to seek help from p

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