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by wpietri 2y ago
I mean, I do! But I see plenty of people listening to stuff from their phones or mono Bluetooth speakers, so I don't think it's a strong preference. Heck, I'd rather have stereo, but my workshop speaker is mono and I don&#x27
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Oh yeah, I totally believe there are niches. And I know the simulator crowd has some people who will go to great lengths to get more of the real feel. E.g., the multi-monitor setups: https://help.realsimgear.com/en/arti
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think there's a much simpler explanation here, one that covers all of the other failed stereoscopic 3D products: It's a cool novelty effect, but people's brains are already pretty good at reconstructing 3D from 2D, so there
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In the older ones, it's almost all AC. One giant transformer, a couple of different voltages. Possibly with "high tap", a way to compensate for wall current with lower than expected voltages. The past is another country.
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The thing that really gets me about this one is the extent to which the people involved were promoted. I would like to believe that a story like this was just a statistical fluke. Some unlikely coincidence, or maybe a particularly bad apple
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by wpietri 2y ago
What a lovely and well-written piece. I think the dev vs ops divide has caused so many problems like this. We just write systems differently when we have to run things versus when it gets thrown over the wall to other people to deal with. M
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by wpietri 2y ago
Yes, and it's those people we might best learn from. But that's hard to do, because they're the ones not writing about what they're doing. Possibly because they don't want their sincere views reflexively dismissed f
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by wpietri 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is a real problem for developers. Nobody gets into software development without a pretty high pain tolerance. I think the tricks here are a) developing a sensitivity to particular kinds of pain (e.g., duplication), and b)
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think this applies at a variety of levels on a project, too. I used to give my love of imagining futures and my love of building things free rein. But that meant I ended up building a lot of stuff that never got used, or had a bad ROI. Lo
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I'm not saying people shouldn't add breakers. I'm saying your talking like people are scaredy-cats and comparing it to working with toys or hello world is exactly the kind of of macho nonsense that leads people to do shoddy e
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by wpietri 2y ago
Ah yes, the "move fast and burn your house down" school of "engineering".
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For sure. Banks writes most of the Minds as quite proud of the Culture as a whole. Of the Minds, of the drones, of the humans. They are up to something together, with a profound sense of responsibility to one another and the common enterpri
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That doesn't seem right to me. The closest I could come is seeing humanity, or perhaps the human species, becoming NPCs in their own story. But I think individual humans have always been narratively secondary in the story of humanity
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by wpietri 2y ago
Again, your failure to even understand my point, or to even ask questions that might lead you to understanding it, makes me think you are not interested in having a serious discussion, but instead are riding the hype train.
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by wpietri 2y ago
You are making up your own definition for "illness" here, so you can cherry-pick. The whole notion of "repair" in relation to bodies doesn't make much sense. Bodies self-repair. All medicine is just aiding them in t
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by wpietri 2y ago
Again, your failure to even understand my point, or to even ask questions that might lead you to understanding it, makes me think you are not interested in having a serious discussion, but instead are riding the hype train.
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Thanks! I hope you do too. Good luck in your search!
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Is this some sort of definition game? I'm using illness to mean "an unhealthy condition of body or mind", and treat as "to do something to improve the condition of an ill or injured person", both dictionary definiti
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by wpietri 2y ago
Oh, I certainly believe they're talented at creating software and products. But those talents aren't well correlated with building businesses. If anything, I think it's negatively correlated. I hope they make it, though!
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by wpietri 2y ago
Again, your failure to even understand my point, or to even ask questions that might lead you to understanding it, makes me think you are not interested in having a serious discussion, but instead are riding the hype train.
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by wpietri 2y ago
I have no idea why you take any of that away from what I wrote. I am in favor of both repairing electronics and people's health. I'm just saying that the right-to-repair framing for medical stuff is not a great way to look at it.
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by wpietri 2y ago
You're conflating being sustainable with turning a profit. I don't much care if Bluesky is ever profitable, but it sounds like it's pretty far away from being sustainable. I think Twitter is a bad example in a few other ways.
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I think you underestimate the extent to which companies try to do both. I know Twitter and Facebook both spent big for years and years on increasingly sophisticated ways to automatically recognize problematic content. Even they couldn'
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That is a pretty glib response, and disappointing in that you aren't grappling with the negative externalities of this approach. I also think the reflexive dismissiveness is a sign that Bluesky is not really taking the problem seriousl
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I am saying his cherry-picking of antibiotics specifically while he make dramatic claims is ignoring all of the over-the-counter mediation sold in the pharmacy. There are quite a lot of illnesses one can treat without ever talking to a doct
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Yes, I think most people feel the same way as you. The question then is what to do about the societal harms enabled by the platform. I think that's a question for society, but also for the people working at the platform. For example, i
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Not sure why people are downvoting this. I think it's a good question for any startup, but especially one with millions of users that are going to be real sad if it turns out to be unsustainable.
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I'm sympathetic, of course. I was part of a startup that iterated for a couple of years on a social thing looking for revenue, so I know the semi-delusional level of hope that any startup requires before you find product-market fit. I
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That is a common novice take on the problem, but it only makes sense if the only way harm happens in the world is by people accidentally seeing things they didn't want to see and that can be easily filtered out.
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That's some very careful cherry picking you've done there with your example. Maybe next time you're in a pharmacy you'll take a look at the aisles and aisles of over-the-counter medicines and devices available and do som

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