thewebguyd

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by thewebguyd 8d ago
They are just stories, but narrative stories work really well for human brains when it comes to psychological transformation. I like to think of religions as psychological technology. One doesn’t have to believe the stories are real for the
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by thewebguyd 19d ago
People complained there was no SDK or way to install software on the iPhone outside of web apps.
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by thewebguyd 19d ago
It's weird to me how so many people just put up with crappy, low quality software. If you buy a physical good and its defective, you return it, stop buying that brand, maybe even leave a negative review or contact consumer reports, etc
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by thewebguyd 19d ago
Even Apple, before caving in, didn't want apps. On the original iPhone there was no SDK, Jobs' "sweet solution" to expanding functionality was web apps pinned to the home screen. Everyone complained, loudly, and they cav
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by thewebguyd 19d ago
> gratuitous over-use of technology. That describes silicon valley tech culture to a tee.
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by thewebguyd 20d ago
> If you tell me to imaging an equilateral triangle, I can put it there in my mind's eye, and if you tell me to attach another equilateral triangle to it I can see the resulting parallelogram. For me, I can't. With the Apple ex
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by thewebguyd 20d ago
load-bearing was/is used frequently on the ops side of things, I assume the LLMs picked up from physical engineering texts or sysadmin type blogs.
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by thewebguyd 20d ago
> parking lots This would do a lot on its own. Remove parking minimums and pull out the parking lots. This is why transit is important, and single occupancy vehicles as the primary means of human transport in urban areas is just not sust
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
Or go super old school and send a handwritten letter. We've stayed in touch with eachother's social groups via various means of communication since antiquity without social media algorithms. We need to re-normalize not knowing w
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
There's a controlled experiments that did show a pretty significant benefit to being outside in a forest vs. in an urban environment. The Japan one on forest bathing from Chiba University saw a 12.4% decrease in cortisol, 5.8% decrease
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
The problem is when every neighborhood is NIMBY, something has to give or the problem will never be solved. At the end of the day, valuing aesthetics, parking, or quiet is a preference. Having shelter near jobs, schools and public transit i
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
Thermal performance degrades too. Paste breaks down over 2 to 5 years, you'll thermal throttle more often and more quickly than when new after a few years. Phase change thermal pads help with this, extending that timeline out beyond 5+
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
> based on how much love OSX gets from some folks I can't speak for others, but my preference for macOS basically boils down to "it's a *nix system that can run the commercial software I need, with a lot of nice little att
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by thewebguyd 21d ago
> Or am I just too impatient and this is all coming? I doubt its coming, at least not within the timescale OpenAI or Anthropic would like to believe. If we were close, then we'd see the fruits of that, which like you said, we are se
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Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30T in potential revenue(reuters.com)
23 points by thewebguyd 22d ago|13 comments
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by thewebguyd 22d ago
> I had an MP3 player on either side of 2000 that was slightly smaller than a deck of playing cards that could use Smart Media flash memory cards. The largest card at the time was either 16 or 32mb and was enough to hold 1 album at near
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by thewebguyd 22d ago
I'd imagine most are on longer than 3 years for computers. Most (non developers) I know hang onto their laptops and computers until they die or get spec constrained, and that ends up being around ~6 or 7 years, so in this case the comp
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by thewebguyd 22d ago
Apple also just can't give up the idea of selling games through the AppStore either and you end up with situations like with AC: Shadows where it was ported, but you must buy the macport via the app store. Your copy on steam does not i
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by thewebguyd 29d ago
That'd be an interesting future for sure but first we need Google to stop their power trip of needing to ID you before you can install an app on your phone, and likewise Apple will never allow that either without paying the Apple tax.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
I suspect the filler comes from RHLF and the amount of web marketing content that was ingested. "Not X, but Y" is all over marketing copy, as is the triad of concepts "By doing X, Y, and Z...." because it mimics TED-talk
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
We also need to stop immediately dismissing certain writing tropes as being automatically LLM generated. I'm re-reading an older fantasy series, and the amount of em-dashes in the text and similar tropes (you know, normal good writing)
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> "Apple’s position is that it should be permitted to charge fees on in-app purchases made by users of its devices as a means to recoup its investments in the tools, technology, and services that allow it to maintain its App Store a
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Yeah that's what gets me. If, according to them, "software development is a solved problem" then there's no reason they can't make native, efficient, well integrated apps for each platform. If the problem is solved,
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Because Microsoft screwed up their native UI story. They are slowly starting to go native again with WinUI3, but Microsoft went through a rough period with UI frameworks, I mean how many do they have now all still "supported"? Win
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Flutter is solid choice, and Canonical seems to be putting weight behind it for Ubuntu as well. Canonical is also now the new lead maintainer of Flutter Desktop.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Series 9, which I'll probably be upgrading this fall anyway.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Yeah, Apple Watch definitely needs faster charging. It wouldn't be as big of a deal if it both lasted longer, at least 3 days to get through a weekend, and could charge to a meaningful level in 15 minutes or less so I could just throw
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Online advertising is less and less about forcing a pitch to conversion in the moment its viewed. Even if someone with an ad blocker would never click on the ad anyway, repeat "impressions" build implicit trust just through exposu
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
It's a bit more of a gray area in the US, where expectations of privacy in public spaces has been ruled against many times over. When in a public space, you are allowed to film or photograph whomever you want. This likewise extends int
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> Why do we treat these cameras like they can do only one thing? Because its useful messaging to disarm the populace. "License plate reader" sounds less alarming than "Internet connected camera" or "Mass surveill

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