the_snooze

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by the_snooze 11mo ago
It's a lot of complexity and engineering just to avoid giving food the ol' sniff test. Tech bros need to stop inventing problems for which we already have time-tested solutions.
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by the_snooze 11mo ago
There's really no difference. If a company must subsidize costs with ad revenue, it clearly shows that they don't want paying customers to be the sole judges of the product's value proposition.
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by the_snooze 11mo ago
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." It's an outdated way of looking at tech. Many classes of paid products (e.g., cars, streaming services, IoT, operating systems) double-dip into tracking and ad
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's not even just children in safe situations like bedtime. I regularly see adults crossing the street typing on their phones while having headphones on.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
So much modern tech is just about capture and extraction, not actually empowering the end user. It's as if guitar companies found a way to make more money in claiming royalties on musicians' work instead of building good guitars.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's a political challenge, not a technical one. There are constituencies that reap concentrated benefits from the current system (e.g., tax-filing services) while imposing disperse costs on everyone else. Also, there are those who bel
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's about integrity, not confidentiality. Without HTTPS, anyone between you and the server can mess with the content you're receiving. It could be injecting ads, or make the website upside-down [1], or replace downloads with mali
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's a slot machine. Everything social media and e-commerce is a slot machine. Each scroll is a pull of the arm, hoping that the algorithmic gods will smile kindly on you and give you some sweet content or deal.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
Steam is great, in no small part because Valve isn't beholden to quarterly earnings numbers. But I'm worried what will happen when Gabe Newell retires. Valve has been a pretty good (though at times imperfect) steward for PC gaming
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by the_snooze 1y ago
>ship a new feature and make sure people use it by making it as annoyingly in-your-face as possible, so you can show "impact". Modern consumer tech in a nutshell. It's less about serving the paying end-user and more abou
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by the_snooze 1y ago
They're cheaper right now because they're operating at a loss. At some point, the bill will come due. Netflix used to be $8/month for as many streams and password-shares as you wanted for a catalog that met your media consump
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by the_snooze 1y ago
I think "standing out" in a market of lemons is playing the wrong game. The winning move is to sidestep the market altogether and find a niche where there's a barrier to entry that's both high enough to deter most other
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's unclear how you'd even move the thing safely. The shuttle-carrier 747s are literal museum pieces now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft#Retir... I guess they can disassemble/rea
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by the_snooze 1y ago
>The ease of access to information has geared us towards efficiently looking up information instead of remembering it. Tech companies want us to be dependent on their information lookup services, while simultaneously not making those ser
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by the_snooze 1y ago
The thing is that professors and research groups aren't fungible. Each one that moves represents a nontrivial loss in expertise for the US in some field. There are only so many groups doing basic research into materials science for mic
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by the_snooze 1y ago
Another factor is if they're all from the same (sub)discipline. It doesn't take a lot of established researchers moving to shift a field's center of gravity somewhere else. When you start seeing research conferences that used
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by the_snooze 1y ago
If you're the one declining the invite, the onus is on you to clarify which it is, not for the initiator to guess your intentions. In my life, I usually decline with "That doesn't work for me, but how about ${ALTERNATIVE_PLAN
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by the_snooze 1y ago
I think the fact that so many people (myself included) interpreted it as Anna declining everything demonstrates that the article is poorly written. Even a quick signpost mid-piece like "parties obviously weren't Anna's scen
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by the_snooze 1y ago
If it's indeed specifically about party invites and not other things, then you're right and I misread it. I wish the author were more explicit about that beyond just a fleeting line at the beginning "We ended up hanging out q
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by the_snooze 1y ago
We're talking about different things here. In the linked article, Anna never accepts the invitation, nor does she propose alternatives. It's OK for someone to intiate contact more often than others, as long as the counterparty act
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by the_snooze 1y ago
Extending an invitation is indeed a kindness. But repeatedly declining them signals that the invitations are unwelcome and unvalued. It's really that simple. Relationships aren't one-sided.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
If agents are making value judgments ostensibly on my behalf, why should I trust them to continue to be aligned with my values if in practice they're almost always running on someone else's hardware and being maintained on someone
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by the_snooze 1y ago
You're missing a very important limiting factor: battery life. You can't fit a lot of battery in the space of a credit card, and you can't exactly count on unwitting carriers to properly recharge and maintain them. Given thos
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by the_snooze 1y ago
>It's not clear, but I believe the page content is only shared once a prompt is made intending to use the page's content. If it's only processing page content as the user requests it, then how would feature 4 "Find we
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by the_snooze 1y ago
There's something exhausting about having to fight against a tool that's constantly trying to undermine your intentions.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
Absolutely, classes were the magic bullet for me. I found a gym that offers small-ish (~15) classes, approachable instructors who emphasize good form, and a location and schedule that fits my lifestyle. Thanks to that, I've been a regu
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by the_snooze 1y ago
I like to take a tiered approach, placing way more importance on news 1s of miles away from me than 100s or 1000s of miles away from me. If there's a water main break or police activity or interesting new construction happening near me
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by the_snooze 1y ago
It's basically a cult at that point. Isolate the followers, give them the carrot of purpose in life, and give them the stick of getting cast out.
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by the_snooze 1y ago
I do most of my gaming in the single-player indie space these days. It's really where the fun is. You have a deep time-tested catalog of beautiful and complete experiences that don't try to nickel-and-dime you with drip-fed conten
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by the_snooze 1y ago
What's fundamentally different that initiative and strategically picking your battles are no longer applicable? I'm on the other side of the hiring table now. I proactively look for students that exhibit these traits. I'm not

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