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what is the business reason mcdonald’s (et al) are so dedicated to getting you to download their app? do they want the personal data? does having it on your phone make you go more often? all that and more?
notifications, data, even just having their logo on you home screen is itself a form of marketing.
No human being alone can discover anything for sure.
I recently added a fake progress badge to a shell script to give it more psychological heft. I’m the user. I know full dang well that it completes instantly. But it FEELS like it should take time. So I made it feel like it should
https://twitter.com/SubtleGradient/status/1796140584798699599
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David, a young man in his mid-twenties, looked at me warily. I had asked him how he knew that something crucial in him had changed. He was silent for a while, and then said, “When the sun burst.”
One day at school, when he was ten, he ran out of his classroom at break time and suddenly felt that something was different. He looked up, and the sun burst. He ran back into the building and hid in a closet. He could not be found for some hours, and when he was the teachers were very cross with him. How could he pull a trick like this?
He did not know what they were talking about. He told them they were all in danger. He screamed for help and ran, and they chased after him.
For David this was a defining moment. He knew he had seen the sun burst. It was impossible that they had not seen this; it could only be that they were lying to him. Why would they do that? It must be because they were in cahoots with the forces that burst the sun. So he had to shut himself up, remain still.
When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
advanced anti-information because plenty of people experience things like this (ref. 'The Arising and Passing Away' in MCTB) and probably more of do not become schizophrenics
people building startups based on any Current Thing hype cycle get destroyed by first principles thinkers every time
friends with consequences
“There is but one kind of unity possible in a world as diverse as ours. It is unity of method, rather than aim; the unity of disciplined experiment.” ~ Walter Lippman
https://mbernste.github.io/quotes/
there's another one: wanting more money / resources
Instead of algorithms, noplace leverages AI technology
Are you an iPhone® person or an Android® person? They are almost identical in form and function
you should be highly suspicious of any activity that isn't reading or writing code
Write your schemas in Typescript instead of config files or split across a dozen SQL files.
I think Triplit can make the best experience for developers by avoiding SQL
It also has CUDA, a software platform, which allows customers to fine-tune the chips.
“I believe that God was calling her home,” he said. “And I believe that there will be reasons for her death that will be revealed to us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/yosemite-half-dome-hiker-death
you’re not going to be able to help blind children on the outskirts of Jakarta if you have never left Ohio if only for the simple fact that your actions cannot affect them.
https://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/you-do-not-need-ethics-to-be-good
Why do high-end gaming PCs struggle to browse the web at 60 frames per second? Why does a simple calculator need a splash screen? Why does your phone's battery still die so quickly? And why does each update make the problem worse?
Why do we have to restart our language servers every twenty minutes?
https://handmade.network/manifesto
YouTube in Floorp plays fine at 60 FPS on my 7950X3D / 4090.
Haven't seen or used a calculator with a splash screen.
My iPhone 11 battery has been fine after 2.5 years (84% capacity), and unexpected drain is uncommon and resolvable.
Many updates make it better instead of worse.
I restart my language server after some issue maybe once or twice per day of programming, not every 20 minutes.
And, worse, incentivized to require users to use a "coordination server" which helps with the NAT and firewall traversal problem by being something you can reach from outbound-only clients. There's a lot of verbiage there, but the general idea seems to be that Tailscale sits at the middle of this as the means by which machines find each other.
There are other ways to do that.
There are dynamic DNS schemes, so you can give your machine which only has a temporary IP address a permanent name. That's been around for decades, and seems to have a bad reputation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080991
Dynamic DNS doesn't enable you to establish a connection between two NAT'ed machines. Why does John Nagle think it solves this problem?
20:57:54 <ivan> when you read stuff that would look trustworthy to some outsider, but you know it's nonsense because you have experience, what does that tell you about everything you read outside the areas where you have expertise based on doing things that worked
20:59:30 <ivan> e.g. I read about 'highly sensitive person' but I have no way to get clinical experience or probe people's brains, so really I am just learning what kind of thoughts some person of unknown epistemic goodness had about something a long time ago
21:01:05 <M-dash> gell-mann amnesia extends beyond journalism
21:01:44 <M-dash> anyway dynamic dns is a substitute for nat traversal because obviously you just configure your router to do port forwarding
21:02:05 <M-dash> that's what I did before I started using nebula
21:02:56 <M-PenguinOfDoom> Tailscale fried my brain, I completely forgot that two computers can’t just talk to each other
21:03:05 <ivan> yeah I thought about that but it's not really a thing because most people are behind routers with no control over the port forwarding
21:03:23 <M-dash> most people don't want or use tailscale either
21:04:56 <M-dash> so what he's talking about isn't nonsense, but he does rather skip over the downsides to the approaches he lists
21:05:43 <ivan> it is nonsense because that product would definitely lose
21:06:18 <ivan> people use tailscale and then make some normies or employees at random locations use tailscale
21:06:51 <ivan> hello AT&T Prepaid plz forward port
but you don’t have Windows lock-in anymore, unless you choose to
many things remain Windows-only (TurboTax Business, Office without missing features, industrial software, CAD tools, games with anticheat, tools for modifying how games do graphics, Directory Opus)
And we do it all without adding any latency or overhead
false
centralization is why we pay rent for every tiny little program we want to run
we don't, many run locally and have for a long time, e.g. BitTorrent
All progress is played out above the legal waterline.
To me it's weird that people need a history at all. It's always been disabled on my browsers and I never felt the need for it.
working any other way will feel like torture
Feel like class/tailwind works because it is in the end very agnostic, so you can copy tailwind from anywhere and it might just work.
oh i completely agree — the fact that you can just copy-paste stuff from <random site> into your app and it actually works is absolute genius
(people are good, be kind!)
But front end performance issues are almost never the most pressing issue to deal with.
Grass is a network of millions of people who share their unused internet bandwidth to create a more equitable internet.
With just three clicks, Grass lets you start sharing your unused internet bandwidth. Verified institutions use this bandwidth to enhance their online services, and your participation is tracked through Grass Points. These points help determine the Grass Tokens you may receive, along with factors like how your bandwidth is used and your location. Rest assured, your personal data is not accessible to Grass or anyone else.
Grass creates a system where everyone benefits - companies and users alike. Since you’re already paying for internet, why not put your idle connection to work?
In reality nobody can predict the future
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
$500-1000/mo is way too much
How do you intend to get any adoption with pricing like that?
A startup in the current YC batch was trying to choose between two strategies, and I advised them to choose the funnier one. This is not as frivolous as it sounds. The best startup ideas often seem a bit preposterous.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1891268875007762832
via https://x.com/disconcision/status/1891396693830041772
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