FiddlyPack

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by FiddlyPack 16d ago
Tbh I want my 3GS form factor back. That design was the "right" one imho, and we lost it due to market pressure for bigger screens and better cameras, when what we needed to do was keep the utility but largely stay off our screens
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by FiddlyPack 17d ago
Dan Ariely was one of the biggest disappointments and betrayals of my intellectual life. I found the "research" he did to be mind-blowing, groundbreaking stuff at the time, and I told many people his work, sharing his papers and p
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by FiddlyPack 27d ago
How? I tried but got forced back onto 5.
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by FiddlyPack 27d ago
That's a sharp insight, and it reveals something core to communication that I otherwise wouldn't have considered- HN item 6b translocates reliospacactivity of our medium. Shall I engage the tachyon beams, sir?
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by FiddlyPack 1mo ago
That's the fun part. We don't. Could have happened 10 years ago without us noticing. I don't expect my skin cells to be able to recognize "me" anymore than I expect we will be able to recognize a superintelligent AG
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by FiddlyPack 2mo ago
I was writing slop grenade essays in Slack before LLMs were a thing. To everyone who had to put up with my overly verbose style: I am sorry.
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by FiddlyPack 2mo ago
I'm trying to take your comment seriously, but it's very difficult. My partner is a physician in the US. People are ending up in ERs because it takes a year for them to see the specialist who could have prevented the same problem.
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Gotta find some way to keep the population occupied with something “meaningful” as you automate away their jobs while providing longer lifespans!
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Multiple cursors has been supported for quite some time now in VSCode, as well as related useful default editor shortcuts like jump cursor by word, beginning/end of line, etc, that are especially useful when moving around multiple curs
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Once you have audience _capture_, worse UX becomes a valuable dark pattern because it requires _investment_. Have you ever seen a modern slot machine? There seems to be a pattern to winning, if only you study it a bit longer...just put in o
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
I’ve been a bike commuter too and if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I just want to let you know that if you see me with my cell phone on my steering while driving, it’s because I have my navigation app open and I want it in my peripheral
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
If it prevents two or three cars from making the light you were both in together, you’ve needlessly made those specific cars wait for an entire additional cycle...in heavy traffic, it’s bad for everyone when as many vehicles as possible don
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Regarding McDonalds, correct, the innovation was not in the franchise. The innovation was in creating the corporate and logistic structures necessary that every single McDonalds, everywhere, even though owned by franchisees, would deliver p
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Innovate means to make changes in a thing that is established. The innovation here is that the thing is the same everywhere, you don’t need to know the local errata to rely on it. I say this as someone who was downright flabbergasted that t
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
...the innovation is a consistent more reliable and timely experience, consistent across geographies, where it did not exist before. McDonalds didn’t have the first burger franchise, the innovation is very much in the reliability of an expe
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
I didn’t think I suggested this necessarily went “more than 40,” only that “on” time might be hard to differentiate from “off” time, and that some activities that look like “off” (having dinner with teammates) might have real value while ot
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Oh, yes, I hear you on being present for 10 min of a 1 hr meeting. Your presence is absolutely valuable for the entirety of the hour meeting, even though it’s not clear from the outset where precisely during that time those 10 min will be v
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
I think this is a pretty good definition, except that in creative work (like developing a novel application), sleeping often produces some of the best epiphanies/solutions. The truth is this: we have patrons, and our value is not calcu
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
The confusion is because many of us work many days remote, and/or have flexible hours. For many of us, our entire existence is oriented around improving a bottom line...so when we have down time, we are recreationally reading about how
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
No shade here, but how can you possibly be on HN right now? Or do you consider this kind of commenting activity to be part of your job? I consider myself to work maybe 15 hr per week, but according to my contract I work 40, and sometimes my
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
I think the argument is that all of our personal servers should be treated as such (that is, not appliances that require zero maintenance), and that this is a step in that direction. All the router hacking of 2018 was possible because we tr
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Not sure where “and nurses” is coming from in your comment. Nursing research is predominately on long-term patient outcome, whereas MD education is predominately on the disease / underlying cause. The nurses I know are more focused on
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
This is actually kinda what the person you’re replying to is talking about. You have a piece of software that replaces some knowledge workers’ task. At first it seems like you are saving money, but the specifics of the task require an adapt
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
“Lying without malice” is called “tact.”
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
...huh. Interviewing in VA/MD, only once had a candidate wear a suit. Nice shirt and blazer with jeans/slacks seems to be the norm. I wonder if it’s micro-regional to DC? Or something about the specific software industry you are i
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
This is a surprising perspective to hear. All the really smart people I know happen to struggle with a variety of difficulties in this area, and I think it’s related to a paralysis of choice, not just in terms of choosing between outcomes a
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Semver _allows_ non-breaking changes on major release. It also supports tagging which could be a date tag. The entire spec is like a 10 minute read. Anyone using semver should have at least read the semver spec. Anyway, the bullet on taggin
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Take heart! All culture, and especially music, is about retracing steps. “Pioneering” in music is about capturing the Zeitgeist in just the right manner and with extraordinary expertise to be undeniable, which then creates a new normal. Tha
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
:part and :theme CSS puesdo-selectors will help address these issues
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by FiddlyPack 7y ago
Exactly so. The use case of Local Storage is usually “application cache.” When you’re building out features, it may not even be obvious that you’re injecting application state _that originated in localStorage_ into the DOM. That’s why this

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