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At this point I feel like it’s a feature of the simulation.

I would hope that in future this would be a part of the tech on a well-rounded pair of smart glasses which could do more than only this. Hopefully this co would be open to licensing if that's what it took.

Bird interest will find you once you cross 40 whether you were into birds or not. It just happens.

I use Jev in production. Hype or no hype it’s working.

Is this our new AI daily reality?

Humans think in text? You should be studied.

They made it more of a tourist trap.

The thing that made the design of the original Tesla cars successful, before they went all in on this "future looks like the future" idiocy, is that they just looked good. Tasteful. All that crazy new tech was put in a package which hid it and it just became a sleek, good looking car on the road. Now Tesla design is obsessed with it cosplaying a Ridley Scott 80's wet dream and it looks stupid. The cars look like a show at universal studios theme park. When you do the "future looks like the future" it's always a sci-fi author's idea of "the future" which is cheesy and outdated as soon as its done. This is a boomer's idea of "future" aesthetics and it's not what the actual future looks like.

Chapter 1 was the chapter about why you shouldn't use Typescript for this.

I like it, but, I think the original didn't have its CUTE slider turned all the way to the max like this new one.

The original was dialled-in to be small (obviously), dignified, reserved, charming, practical.

If you look at the original through the eyes of the late 40s, early 50s French consumer then it wasn't leaning so heavily on the Cute factor. That only came out later as we look back on it with nostalgia.

So I don't think the new one is a faithful representation of the original's ethos.

Very cool. Could you add base64 encoding to the query part so that it doesn’t hint at what the screen will say from the link text. Kind of gives the joke away sometimes.

The most poser, performative "engineer" I've worked with still posts their desperate, attention-seeking thoughts on LinkedIn Posts. I wish I had the guts to tell them how sad it is.

To me (a total physics layperson with just an interest in it) space and time HAVE to be emergent and not fundamental because of the real phenomena of spooky action at a distance and dual slit craziness. All spacetime surely has to be connected is what it’s telling us.

I do this with the screensavers on the Apple TV device. They’re amazing.

It's not only the World Cup, it's everything, everywhere, all the time. We are drowning in marketing messages. It's gross.

People don't ignore anything. Everything is absorbed one way or another.

"We Weave Fabric by Hand" - Weaver, England, 1812

There is evidence that systems reduce crime, yes. A system is probably the only thing which has ever meaningfully reduced crime. A law. A strategy. A process. I think you're meaning digital systems though. I'd say digital systems are part of every system now.

Oh no, my Haribos aren't full of artificial colours.

Really great work.

Making any external thing one's identity is a recipe for disaster when it goes away.

> I miss is the copy/paste from iphone to the computer sync

Such a key feature and probably the one thing that keeps me locked into the Apple ecosystem

I hope sarcasm is working well for you. To clarify: it would be abused without systems, therefore add court warrants to access any personal information. Criminals are already abusing society by knowing that most of their crime will never be caught.

Yes that should all require a court warrant based on probable cause.

If abuse can’t be eliminated then it’s about what ratio of abuse to crime reduction is tolerable I guess. If we find 100 taken children while a dirty cop stalks his ex - is that tolerable? I’d say yes. If it became more abused I guess that’s when society needs to decide.

> make sure they're used legally and bad apples don't ruin a good thing

The unedited comment shows he used it correctly using “and” to mean “so that”.

Video is useful in keeping people safe. Including from the cops. It’s about remaking the system to require court permission every time they access it, process and transparency.

Surely access to footage can be gated behind some sort of expedited digital court warrant?

I always think of that scene in Minority Report where 3 judges are conferenced in live when a “vision” arrived.

Because if used properly and lawfully these cameras can be useful to keep people safe. Including from the cops.

This is mostly the UN’s own fault. Nation governments refrain from getting “hardcore” on this because the better options are expensive and they don’t want to be undercut by another country. The UN is supposed to somehow use its deep diplomatic negotiating and deal-making skill to find and enforce agreement between these states so we all adopt the changes together… and penalise the hold-outs (we all know who) together.

Our environment will collapse and the fat cats will still deny it and convince most of us that it was our fault and that nothing could be done and that we should just buy their anti-environment-collapse products to protect ourselves.