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by sandspar 4mo ago
zelon88 is being earnest and trying to help you in good faith, and you are mocking him, in public and for an audience.
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by sandspar 4mo ago
We're all just birds displaying our plumage.
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by sandspar 4mo ago
Common sense is gold. It's also hard to find. Ask yourself where, if you were interested, you might find a book full of common sense about say, the airline industry. It's a hard question, right? Most stuff will be either too techn
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by sandspar 4mo ago
I find this phenomena happens with viral posts on Reels and TikTok. The first time I see an example of a trend, I'm delighted! I've never seen anything like this before, and what a great idea! But then I see a second example of th
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by sandspar 4mo ago
The web comic XKCD built a brand around this, I think. I'm not sure whether the creator did this intentionally, but much of XKCD's success is based on saying things that we all think but haven't articulated. On Reddit, it&#x2
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by sandspar 4mo ago
Eddie Van Halen is interesting to read about. It's tempting to dismiss him as a "hair metal guy", but he was actually frighteningly intelligent. Read up about his equipment experiments.
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by sandspar 5mo ago
I think the quest thing works because it gives you both roles: you are the Quester, they are the Helper. Both of you know what's expected of you. You are supposed to ask questions passionately, they are supposed to answer helpfully. Ra
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by sandspar 6mo ago
Normalcy bias is human nature. If human nature bothers you then you're going to be annoyed all the time.
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by sandspar 8mo ago
One example I like to use is schadenfreude. The emotion makes us feel good and bad at the same time: it's pleasurable but in an icky way. So should social media algorithms serve schadenfreude? Should algorithms maximize for pleasure (s
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by sandspar 8mo ago
I switched to iPhone from Android six months ago and still can't handle this iPhone keyboard. The iPhone keyboard aggravates me literally every single second that I use it. I hate it passionately. The iPhone keyboard is so bad that eve
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by sandspar 9mo ago
Do you mean VR "in the cockpit" or in the stadium? Flight simming has a robust VR community. I assume ultra technical car racing sims like iRacing are fun to spectate in VR. Geoguessr seems like a natural fit for VR as well, as lo
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by sandspar 9mo ago
Joke answer but it would be fencing, if only we could convince people to turn their phones to landscape.
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by sandspar 9mo ago
I assume the learning curve will get shallower over time. Onboarding is better than ever and will only improve. Lots of 70 and 80 year olds on Facebook now, and future Facebooks will verbally handhold you as you log on. "Press the red
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by sandspar 9mo ago
Personally I hope we land on "widget" although I'd settle for "thingamabob"
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by sandspar 9mo ago
Somewhat similar but I love my niche Instagram ads. Meta serves me endless ads for diecast miniatures, art toys, obscure manga etc. Stuff that I love and would never have found otherwise.
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by sandspar 9mo ago
You don't need to disprove an underpowered study. You can just default to ignoring it. Especially in a field as notorious for replication issues as fitness and nutrition.
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Hundreds of millions of users is a big ice cream scoop, and 1% of people will have a psychotic episode. Hard to avoid an overlap.
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by sandspar 10mo ago
>Caffeine increases pareidolia I like that coffee is clearly a drug, a mind-alterer. But it's mostly harmless so it's been boosted as a sort of society-wide mascot. Humans really love drugs.
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Perhaps human-like creatures are so common in drug hallucinations because we're human, social animals, creatures who are maximally interested in other humans. If you gave drugs to dogs then perhaps they'd see human-like things mix
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by sandspar 10mo ago
What subjects or style do you like to draw?
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Note that these are different than what Geoguessrs typically see. Geoguessr players are familiar with Google Street View's "odd but ugly" images: tropical forests in Russia, tank convoys in Turkey etc. But TFA photos were sel
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by sandspar 10mo ago
I got a Page Not Found
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Probably in part, yes! Since it’s a pet peeve, I must be making extra special note of it every time I see it. So it’s probable that I’m overweighting it! That being said I’m quite sure that it’s being used more frequently recently. For exam
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by sandspar 10mo ago
It’s definitely a useful word! Modern tech rollouts often do happen without fanfare. And the word alerts readers to a kind of story shape. So I can see why people use it! Its usage reminds me of when competitive video games develop a new me
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Totally unrelated but what’s up with the word “quietly”? Its usage seems to have gone up 5000%, essentially overnight, as if there’s a contagion. You see the word in the New York Times, in government press releases, in blogs. ChatGPT 5.1 it
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by sandspar 10mo ago
You might want to look into workprints! They're versions of movies that are shown to test audiences, executives, or internal screeners. They're often pre-sound mixing, pre-editing, pre-VFX. So you get stuff like clip art explosion
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by sandspar 10mo ago
In a way I actually prefer these versions. I love seeing how the sausage gets made. It turns the show into a quasi making-of documentary and that's a neat opportunity.
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by sandspar 10mo ago
Many of the comments are AI bots as well. "This was such an eye-opening breakdown. Most people only see the big retail win, not the insane operational load, cashflow pressure, and forecasting stress behind it. Really appreciate how tra
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by sandspar 11mo ago
I hate to say this but the indie game developer community is in some local minima where tribal in-group signaling takes precedence over thinking about the consumer. The industry has developed a siege mentality and is entering a "rootin
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Replying to my own comment several days later: I regret writing this. I know nothing about this woman's life yet I attempt to rip her to pieces, and I wrote the comment mostly to show off.

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