- If "touch grass" was a hero's story
- Or measure their mechanic's productivity by number of hours spent on the car
- It's a misinterpretation of the work underpinning f.lux.
We went from "avoid blue light after sundown to help keep your natural circadian rhythm" to "blue light bad! Buy this product!"
Now we're too far down that path with customers specifically avoiding devices that give off blue light whether or not they understand why. Companies like that are just taking the safe bet by avoiding blue light
- “The best time to plant a tree is 25 years ago. The second best time is now.”
- Jumping in as I’ve enjoyed what we’ve had as well as wished for more.
Does your setup:
1. Back phone things up to the PC wirelessly? Not just photos but app data, documents, drawings, etc. Note: must all be in original quality/format
2. Allow your PC to update an app itself (in a way that can be scripted)?
3. Allow copy/paste between the desktop and the phone? (Though with LocalSend being decent this is less and less relevant)
4. Transfer edit history for photos, videos, and audio?
5. Allow you to install and debug your own apps wirelessly? (ok, this one is a gimmie bc linux to android does this natively through adb)
6. Allow your phone to mount drives from your PC so that you can access and transfer files wirelessly?
- Before someone argues that “this requires enough background technical knowledge to know which buttons to press to make it easy” there is a point there, but distro maintainers have had that point in front of them for decades.
There’s now only one prerequisite for new users: the willingness to format the hard drive. Everything else is trivial and for 9/10 distros the screens are welcoming, clear, refined, and non-technical.
- Pushed (“recommended”) content is a type of ad
- After reading this I went through all the OSM datasets I could see (including double-checking the layers) and none of them showed the tree. Now I’m even more curious.
- Can you point to which LIDAR dataset? I did not see any openstreetmap datasets with the tree present.
- A tall tree on my street was lost last year: it shows the shadow for it even though it’s not on the satellite image. Now I wonder where it gets the tree data from.
- One of my most-used apps is $2/yr and I’m very happy about it
- I think (hope?) many of the movie watchers are caught up on the tropes and the “always makes money” formulas that Hollywood has been riding for years. If they pay attention maybe they’ll greenlight genuinely new IP and try things and let creatives explore again. You can make a lot of “failures” for $160M and if two are hits you’ve made enough to pay for all the rest.
- While it had it’s troubles and closed recently, omegle was a modern way for people to connect randomly.
- Is google just handing the existing summary to an LLM?
- High-quality problems being touted as catastrophic.
- Counter-intuitively, I think this puts Johansson in a stronger position.
OpenAI did not want to copy her the actress, they wanted to copy HER the performance from the movie.
- I’ve been reflecting on Musk’s “roads are designed for two eyes” quote. I’m not sure on the exact wording but he used it to justify dropping lidar and focusing on front-facing cameras.
What got missed, I think, is that there are many cases where having only two eyes fails drivers. The most dangerous driving most of us will ever do is because of some quirk of the landscape, or some long-forgotten legal battle over where the road should be, or because people are cramming more and more in to very limited space.
An excellent example that comes to mind is a steep hill leading up to a dense downtown. At the very top of the hill is an intersection with a two-way stop sign. You can’t see to the left because of the edge of a building, and the hill is steep enough that you have to kind of stomp on the gas to get up it after you stop. “Two eyes” utterly fails us here. If there were cameras facing left and right on each corner of the vehicle the problem would be solve as you could watch the oncoming lanes while stopped.
Here too, two eyes fails us. You have to already know about the train crossing, or hear it, or intuit it’s presence some other way because once you see it it’s so late that you need to slam the brakes to avoid hitting it.
- After years in the tech space I now see this as “A single developer’s (or maybe designer’s or maybe even a cleaner’s) insane attention to detail paired with the time and effort it takes for an idea to get traction”.
It’s rarely ever been the company itself or even the policies/vibe of a company but instead it’s been the few employees who propose, communicate, and support the details that eventually get rightfully called “insane”.
- It’s wild to me that this has been the eventual consequence of file extensions.
MS decided that they were too advanced and hid them by default, thousands of companies tried to do automagic things instead of pushing for people to understand extentions, and inevitably the automagic stuff introduced exploits that were far worse than that education.
The AI listens as long as you hold the button, and the device is efficient enough to carry with you 24/7.