naravara

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by naravara 6d ago
I’d argue the fact that the hardware is still big and clunky means the tech isn’t workable. If it was about as light and easy to get on and off as a chunky pair of ski-goggles I think they’d have been onto something, but big and heavy with
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by naravara 6d ago
NICE! You should buy a lottery ticket!
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by naravara 7d ago
These things have usable lifespans of about 2-4 years before the batteries start to go (depending on how low a capacity you can tolerate). It’s more like you buy the one available at the time when your old ones wear out.
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by naravara 7d ago
I really miss the BeatsX headphones where it’s 2 earbuds attached to each other with a flexible cable that drapes over the back of your neck. It was nice to be able to take my headphones out without needing to hold them and they just fall o
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by naravara 7d ago
This was a style thing that tended to ebb and flow. The trend in the 2000s was to have really big watch faces but by the 2010s people were calling them “dinner plates” and it started to be viewed as kind of tacky and ostentatious. Smart wat
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by naravara 7d ago
The Vision Pro (and the folding iPhone Duo) involve developing a lot of underlying technologies that will be useful in currently popular or potential future product lines, even if the market they serve themselves is niche.
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by naravara 7d ago
If you went back in time to 2006 and showed a cellular Apple Watch and an iPhone (with no apps for either) side by side I think a lot of people would assume the former would be the ubiquitous consumer product and the latter would be a niche
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by naravara 12d ago
Regulations do prevent murder, you just put consequences on doing murder to deter people from doing it.
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by naravara 14d ago
A slot machine that rolls sentences based on statistical weights isn’t a “messenger” and it’s output isn’t a “message.”
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by naravara 14d ago
Yeah as soon as I hit the gaucho section my clanker alarm started going off like crazy.
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by naravara 15d ago
I don’t think there’s inherent virtue in zagging just because everyone else zags if zigging is better. There’s trade-offs, but in most cases the Apple call has tended to err on the side of ease of use and ease of access to the mass market a
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by naravara 19d ago
Co-sign. This is one of the reasons I’ve always loved NetNewsWire as my RSS reader and few things have been able to displace it. Everything is doable by keyboard, and the keyboard commands are extremely logical and intuitive. You can FLY th
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by naravara 19d ago
I feel like video game logic would be useful here where a view like this would replace the main view and the “macro view” would be a minimap in the corner. I think where the actual distraction is comes from the level of detail. It would act
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by naravara 27d ago
Stay-at-home moms/housewives were the load bearing pillar for that whole lifestyle.
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by naravara 27d ago
My best situation was a commute to work that was about 45 minutes door to door and involved a 30 minute bus ride. I mostly got to read novels on the bus. It was nice. I was childless and petless then though. The thought of squeezing everyth
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by naravara 28d ago
I will say I dislike remote work in terms of how much I enjoy work or how effective I am at my job. But having a 100% remote job has made me far more able to maintain my house and be present for my children when they’re still very young. So
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by naravara 1mo ago
I’ve long believed that making companies liable for paying damages if PII is leaked in a data breach would be the best way to stop excessive tracking. If you force them to have to manage user data like they’re handling radioactive waste the
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by naravara 1mo ago
How nice of the EU to have determined for the rest of the world that the “cultural expectation” should be that every business do the design equivalent of wearing clown makeup.
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by naravara 1mo ago
There are, like, two countries where TFR is even close to 6. And there’s about 20 where it’s higher than 4. And since those countries also tend to have sky high infant-mortality rates, the global average population growth rate is somewhere
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by naravara 2mo ago
I didn’t mean home schooling specifically but the assertion, and the general sentiment, that parental input is the only determinant that matters when it comes to the development of children into healthy and well-socialized adults. The famil
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by naravara 2mo ago
Back when smoking was more normal we basically did leave it up to Big Tobacco to determine how best to tackle underage smoking and they would literally say insane things like “Oh course we’re not targeting elementary school kids! We’re not
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by naravara 2mo ago
You’re trying to engineer a social interaction. Stop that! People remembering your handle is persistent, and people remembering if they had good or annoying interactions with you is persistent reputation that exists in the minds and interac
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by naravara 2mo ago
Just put your kids in a bubble so not a single adult is the slightest bit inconvenienced by having to exercise any social responsibility for their well being. Easy.
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by naravara 2mo ago
I feel like you must have a very restrictive definition of what constitutes “raising” kids if we’re omitting the place where they spend the majority of their waking hours and the people most of their social universe is based in. We’ve had a
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by naravara 2mo ago
You don’t need IRL identity, you just need persistent reputation. That reputation can be attached to a pseudonymous identity or an IRL one. But the design of most modern social media is to detach the “content” from the context of the author
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by naravara 2mo ago
> The problem is not just with people who want to walk places, but people who want to mug/murder/rape those that do. This is a completely irrational (though commonplace) fear. Criminals aren’t hiding out in bushes in desolate p
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by naravara 2mo ago
I’m a minority who, despite visually fitting the stereotype of a plane hijacker, have found our passport control people to be nothing but professional and courteous. The overall system seems to be pretty efficient about moving people throug
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by naravara 2mo ago
The Steam Deck is basically a way to play PC games on mobile. You can imagine a world where people can just plug their smartphone into a KVM and just use it as a gaming PC. Modern phones have enough computing power to play most games being
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by naravara 2mo ago
These are basically different markets that only compete with each other because there are finite hours in the day to engage with media, not because they’re offering variations on the same thing. It’s similar to comparing Netflix to the Crit
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by naravara 2mo ago
If you can hold it in your hands you still might not necessarily own it. Remember DivX? (The medium, not the codec).

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