ethbr1

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by ethbr1 15d ago
Functioning democracy seems pretty important, and a healthy shared reality and news is a key component of that. Social media, as currently implemented, directly harms that.
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by ethbr1 15d ago
This is why blunt legislation is needed. The existing parental control features are deliberately mis-designed, because there's a lot of money at stake and Meta / Google aren't stupid. Does anyone really think they didn't
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by ethbr1 15d ago
He was chosen as CEO in 2011. There's a bit of power difference between SVP for worldwide operations (read: component supply and international manufacturing) and CEO.
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by ethbr1 15d ago
Apple of Jobs' era also realized their price premium came from a combination of 'their devices worked for most users' and 'cool' -- Cook inherited an Apple that was already a behemoth, and completely ignored (or nev
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by ethbr1 15d ago
> I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business I did tech consulting early in my career, so got to see a large number of companies as I was working for them. Some
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by ethbr1 15d ago
> As games were pressured to be bigger and prettier and use 3D graphics, suddenly the lack of managerial experience (partly) caused the later games to spin out of control This generalizes to the industry, not just Origin. Corporate gam
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by ethbr1 15d ago
> Also, the Navy is using Ospreys to resupply submarines at sea because they have the range and helicopters don't. Afaik, modern submarines handle terribly on the surface, so I imagine direct ship-to-ship UNREP is rare. Also, too
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by ethbr1 16d ago
The relevant phrase is underway replenishment (aka UNREP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underway_replenishment It's been the basis for at-sea supply of long-endurance ships since ~1910 when refueling oil became a
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by ethbr1 16d ago
Hard to turn off when one's professional job/value is 'worry about things and find ways to efficiently minimize risk'
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by ethbr1 16d ago
Let's be honest, the number of people who are doing that << the amount of OpenClaw-preinstalled hardware that's being sold alone
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by ethbr1 16d ago
I'd assume anything empowered to read+send email from my personal accounts and read+modify my calendars to be security critical.
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by ethbr1 16d ago
OpenClaw is designed for people who are okay with "Don't worry about it" being an acceptable answer to "How does this work?" Which is why it's so big with the PM/PO-turned-vibe-coder crowd.
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by ethbr1 17d ago
> Security is not the only reason someone might want to use Graphene I was thinking about this and am curious if the Graphene team are specifically treating 'more secure than stock Android' as a non-negotiable for the purpose
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by ethbr1 18d ago
> People want high speed internet, good food, professional security and not having to put up their own tent. That's daycare for adults, not an experience.
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by ethbr1 18d ago
> fun/artsy people create fun environments, fun environments attract others who genuinely appreciate fun/artsy but are professionals themselves, professionals attract other professionals but shallower with more money. This. T
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by ethbr1 18d ago
The fundamental issue here is the same one that led inevitably to Google's corruption: profit motive. Flock's customers are data consumers. Flock has every financial incentive to knowingly over-represent the reliability of their p
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by ethbr1 19d ago
It's not the question of if objective physical green pigment is objective physical green pigment, but rather if what I see when I look at it is what you see (and not in the color blind sense, assuming neither of us are).
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by ethbr1 19d ago
Because the easiest way to boost profitability is to ignore laws and user rights via technologically constructed workarounds.
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by ethbr1 19d ago
A fascinating thing about dreams I realized as a midlife adult after getting into ML is how coupled brain storage : dreaming is. Example: If you appreciate a good sunset, have you ever had a dream about just a sunset? With the full color ex
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by ethbr1 19d ago
At the end of the day, it's the "Is your green my green?" question and is unknowable. You cannot describe something that someone lacks or has a substantially different subjective experience with, truly. The best we can do is
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by ethbr1 19d ago
Apparently first mover advantage (with about a decade head start?) still counts for a lot. https://www.chargeflow.io/blog/paypal-statistics-facts#paypa... That estimates PayPal still has 40%+ online payment market shar
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by ethbr1 22d ago
Read more solarpunk then?
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by ethbr1 22d ago
Loss prevention in retail is absolutely tailored to the store, in the US. Essentially, the corporate dept has a bucket of funding and chooses where / how to deploy it. So when you see {insert LP device}, there's metrics to back it
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by ethbr1 23d ago
> And I'm not talking about the difficulty of replacing a glued-in battery, but rather the cost and expertise required for component-level repairs on the motherboard, something no regulation is going to magically make disappear Fa
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by ethbr1 23d ago
> This issue extends beyond electronics as well. People often throw away clothes once they "go out of fashion," which these days happens exceptionally quickly. The same applies to furniture, appliances, and other consumer good
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by ethbr1 23d ago
That makes me want to read it. I can't imagine a better ending to the story than the SCP version: hard to beat.
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by ethbr1 23d ago
You have the wisdom and lack of ego to know when something should not be done. :) (High praise)
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by ethbr1 23d ago
I can't see much of their agenda that made it through into radical policy. Are there specific examples I'm missing?
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by ethbr1 23d ago
And if the goal is non-interactive solution finding. I used to do business automation work in day job, and there are surprising utility-to-humans differences between "manual" -> "helps interactively" -> "99%
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by ethbr1 23d ago
Imho, the problem the EU is trying to solve isn't necessarily utility to the original buyer. It's the large stream of perfectly usable e-waste modern practices emit. Anything that makes a significant portion of that stream reusabl

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