jkestner

You’re right. It’s a luxury to have the space away from the problem to think about it systemically. Certainly, part of the work is to learn from each other.

Will surveillance cameras in low-income areas (if that’s where they’ll put them) mean that the police will be more responsive to crime in those areas? If the police are already not responsive in supposedly high-crime areas, what’s the underlying cause? Would the Black Panthers have felt the need to have armed patrols in their neighborhoods if the police could’ve put up a surveillance system?

It’s webscale

You’re right, and I could be more precise. It’s poisoned the narrative to give business psychopaths cover. That only works as long as people believe the law will hold them accountable, which the CEO of UnitedHealth discovered is no longer true.

That profit is an effective lever. I don’t have a lever in elections because of the electoral college.

It was the Dodge brothers back when they were minority owners of Ford, and it was the case that poisoned us with “fiduciary duty to the shareholder”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

! That's high-fidelity enough that I didn't realize it was a replica when I visited (but yeah, nagged at the back of my head that it was sitting out there). If it weren't for the cost of moving and admission and care, I'd say sure, Johnson Space Center deserves one of them. I'd rather spend the money on new probe launches.

We made a cooking thermometer that plugged into the iPhone’s headphone jack before Bluetooth LE took off. Did not run into trouble with the app review team.

I was led to believe that alerts are based on matching cars on a hot list. Is alerting based on behavior an advertised feature?

Amazon is bad, but as others note, it’s insultingly transparent more than anything. But the worst in my recent history is Duolingo. Constant pestering to upgrade your subscription, fine, but once you do, it frequently “forgets” the subscription (through the App Store) and goes back to nagging you, only fixed by digging a few screens into the profile and tapping “restore purchases”. Bigger issue when your family is using it and doesn’t understand you’re already subscribed. Paid for two family subscriptions this way.

There was a FTC rule about to go into effect that would require it be as easy to cancel as it is to subscribe to a service. A court struck it down on procedural grounds. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/click-to-cancel-rule-ha...

Funny you mention that. There's a lineage from one to the other: https://www.theverge.com/c/features/24191410/elgato-stream-d...

Makes sense that they moved from individual screens to one big one under a bunch of transparent keys.

Takes me back. https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-maximus/#51...

Think this was $1200. Honestly don’t think I would spend any extra money on dynamic keys- I never look at my keyboard.

They don’t have to do things better. They just need to stop changing things. Computer UIs used to be designed by HCI people. There were volumes of books explaining best practices. Then companies prioritized curb appeal and forgot their own heuristics that were backed by actual research.

Good thing I live in a big city! Only problem is finding one with an automated online process.

Try JawsTec for MFJ. Haven’t seen cheaper prices. Granted, I work in small scales, where the fine resolution is needed and it’s a low material volume.

The visual equivalent of the etiquette breaches when Bluetooth earpieces became a thing.

This is the way. Multijet fusion has ruined me for anything else and it’s cheap from print shops. I just need to find one in town and I’ll get the quick turnaround time that’s the only reason to have my own printer.

The fact that people were uncomfortable with simply having their pictures taken and shown without their knowledge gives lie to the idea that "You're in a public place—of course you have no right to privacy." It's great to be given the chance to face your principles.

I mean, that’s Montessori. Plenty of opportunities to get exposure to digital stuff outside of school.

We’re being force fed them. I’m an AI hater and I catch myself reading those sometimes.

Yes, people want the answer directly. Google wants you to stay on their site to read some mishmash. I think the ideal would be to immediately go to the source’s site.

I got a Honeywell Sensi thermostat that can do that, and also works without an internet connection. Better things are possible.

One of my professors in undergrad pioneered research into the eldery’s interaction with the world. Not just the physiological, but sociological aspects — she got a makeup artist to disguise herself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Moore

I personally like the ad-subsidized TVs. The money I save easily covers a used Apple TV on eBay, and I never connect the TV itself. Regardless of TV brand my interface stays the same. Bring back modularity!

You know who shows up every day? An AI head of AI.

  the US has the highest class mobility among western nations

Source? The rankings I see have the US behind most of Europe.

Imagine if they could block the banks of numbers that bad actors use.

Where are the good war stories on Keller?

That would explain why the nationalist is strongly looking at unlimiting his term, except any plan for re-shoring is stuck in the 80s with him.

Now they’re less subtle.

Flying things maybe, but birds are dinosaurs’ descendants.

They’re the same policy makers. Unfortunately looks like we’ll skip over the generation that remembers what an unfettered, decentralized Internet looks like.