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by incongruity 2y ago
Yep. Part of me is terrified every time I go to sleep -- but the sleepiness wins.
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by incongruity 2y ago
Worse, still, unless the current me blinks out of existence, "old me" will still be around - unless we can replace neurons in-place with computational analogs, the original me is destined to die, almost no matter what, even if a c
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by incongruity 3y ago
“All models are wrong, but some are useful” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
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by incongruity 3y ago
How is that all that damaging? I’m sure those batteries are recycled in basically all cases and yes, I’d expect battery replacement does indeed forestall replacement for many phones.
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by incongruity 3y ago
So, in other words, perhaps what we have is a necessary component but not wholly sufficient on its own?
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by incongruity 3y ago
Enshittification is such a cruel thing. Arstechnica was a quality site at one point… not to say it has completely lost its value, but it’s sad to see the its decline, nonetheless.
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by incongruity 3y ago
Laws. We need the force of law protecting us when entire industries work against the public good.
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by incongruity 3y ago
We have familial ALS in our family. I lost my grandfather, two aunts, and uncle and a number of more distantly related family members to this disease. Thank you for posting this article – I'm lucky - my dad tested negative for the gene
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by incongruity 3y ago
That’s far from a unique value prop for self-checkout lanes. It’s also a hard sell at stores that have or had ~8+ lanes but only two are open… sure, the self checkout is the only solution to long lines… that happens frequently here and in m
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by incongruity 3y ago
The problem with most self checkouts is that the value prop for the stores seem obvious - lower wages - but the value for consumer is not obvious in most cases - because in most cases, it doesn’t exist. It’s not a better experience and it f
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by incongruity 3y ago
It’s so severe that even if they improved the terms, nobody would use them because US debit cards' reputation is tainted. Say what now? “According to the 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study1, “Debit cards, including both pr
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by incongruity 3y ago
I wish I could just buy the case (and have it work with my existing pros)
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by incongruity 3y ago
So, that kills a small part of me to hear - but also, I think it reflects this larger pattern of the UI/UX world’s seeming need to not just reinvent the wheel but large chunks of the history of the discipline of design rather than buil
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by incongruity 3y ago
I’d be amazed if one or more of the large EMR vendors wasn’t already developing some sort of diagnostic co-pilot. They along with insurers have unique access to critical data for such applications and both have motivations… having worked fo
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by incongruity 3y ago
As someone who works as a service designer and design strategist, I agree, 100%. I’ve seen a general decline in rigor in the field. Many are back to making things “pretty” with poorly done research (if that) asking small-minded questions ra
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by incongruity 3y ago
Give us a few years? Sadly…
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by incongruity 3y ago
The impact humanity has had on the planet is undeniable. Further, we really are the apex predator globally and we have caused the extinction of numerous species. By most measures it’s absolutely true that we have taken over the planet, imho
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by incongruity 3y ago
FWIW, I’ve always seen it best described as push vs. pull. You’ve expanded the idea a bit but I think it’s still a good distinction and useful for what you’re getting at.
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by incongruity 3y ago
This! Eye tracking is slow and not good - but does that just mean we need to “faster horse” it or is there another option for bridging the communication gap for people with ALS and similar diseases? I have to believe there are better answer
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by incongruity 3y ago
It was, arguably, part of the beginning of the end. Most of the most harmful strategies have consultants in their roots.
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by incongruity 3y ago
I find it really hard to deny that platform lock-in is a powerful anti-competitive and anti-consumer force - I think you’re off base in denying its impacts and the merits of addressing it.
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by incongruity 3y ago
Perhaps a foolish question but does “simulation” necessarily imply calculation or is that just an extension of our current evolution of computing technology as an analogy for what a simulation would be? I’m not convinced the one necessitate
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by incongruity 3y ago
The biggest question I see is insurance coverage. I could imagine insurers moving to not cover accidents during the use of aftermarket systems like this in the same way they won’t cover incidents during track use and the like.
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by incongruity 3y ago
The funny part there is the level of intellectual laziness in that answer itself. It’d be nice in some ways if it were that easy, wouldn’t it? Poverty would be easily ignored because it’d be chosen. Except, as noted above, even then, when e
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by incongruity 3y ago
Perhaps you need to examine the inequities which have allowed to you amass the wealth you fear being robbed of? In short, profiting off the exploitation of others, if even indirectly, shouldn’t be viewed solely as “earning things”. Further,
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by incongruity 3y ago
Well, for one, this isn’t just a two-party ecosystem. It’s not just the consumer and Apple. It’s also the app developers. App developers are largely the ones pushing things like PWA. Apple’s long-standing heavy handed take on design standar
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by incongruity 3y ago
It is also likely due to the people using it most right now. Wait until it’s more broadly used and you’ll have people anthropomorphizing it (rightly or wrongly). ‘
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by incongruity 3y ago
Also, shockingly, go back and look at the history of other game changing innovations - cars, microcomputers, even electricity. It took time for companies (and consumers) time to figure out how to use them. This will be no different.
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by incongruity 3y ago
I believe that was the biometric data lawsuit? If so, I was a member of that settlement and while the initial promise was as high as $395 (that’s what made the news), the actual checks people got were much smaller - I just found a picture o
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by incongruity 3y ago
I’m in my 40s - one of my high school jobs was working at a photo lab and studio - I even became a photographer there, taking kids photos and whatnot. It was fun - I almost considered a career in photography. The truth is, had I done so, I’

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