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FiddlerClamp commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
FiddlerClamp · 12 days ago
Reminds me of the 'interactive' video from the 1960s Fahrenheit 451 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOs8U50T3l0

For the 'you're right!' bit see: https://youtu.be/ZOs8U50T3l0?t=71

FiddlerClamp commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
FiddlerClamp · a month ago
My Google feed (the one that shows up on some Android phones) is 90% articles that could be answered in the headline: "This one ingredient improves the taste of your potato salad." Of course you have to click through and read, read, read till you find it.

It's why things like /r/savedyouaclick exist.

FiddlerClamp commented on Chicken Eyeglasses   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
FiddlerClamp · 2 months ago
I remember these! A board game I played as a kid in the 1970s, "The Inventors," had chicken eyewear protection as an invention.

Pic available at: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/817261/the-inventors

FiddlerClamp commented on We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing   substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/softchaos
FiddlerClamp · 4 months ago
As a kid, the main thing that never occurred to me was 'why' - why were they holding this contest? Why offer this service for 'free'? Etc. Once I realized that generally businesses don't do things out of the goodness of their hearts, it was a lot easier to find the business reason and incentive behind their behavior.

The question is whether this can be taught without turning kids into cynics.

FiddlerClamp commented on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic   theatlantic.com/games/bra... · Posted by u/brgross
FiddlerClamp · 4 months ago
I was wondering what had happened. Suddenly it was much too easy. It was really hard at the start.
FiddlerClamp commented on Hybrid e-reader game console design puts a delightful twist on a retro format   creativebloq.com/entertai... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp
FiddlerClamp · 6 months ago
E-ink handheld game console. Looks suitable for things like gamebooks and casual turn-based games (Solitaire, anyone?).
FiddlerClamp commented on I do not want AI to "polish" me   thebloggess.com/2025/01/2... · Posted by u/doodpants
FiddlerClamp · 7 months ago
OneNote now shows the Copilot icon right where I start writing on a blank page. That's infuriating (as much as I see some uses for AI). Fortunately you can turn it off in the 'connected experiences' setting.
FiddlerClamp commented on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s   dfarq.homeip.net/microsof... · Posted by u/rbanffy
breadwinner · 7 months ago
General Magic and Magic Cap [1] are not mentioned in this article.

If you know anything about Microsoft, you know they don't innovate. That was true in the 90's when Bill Gates was running Microsoft, and it is true under Nadella. Anything they do is ALWAYS in response to a competitive threat. So what was the competitive threat that spurred Microsoft Bob? It was the "social interface" of General Magic's Magic Cap operating system. When that flopped Microsoft cancelled Bob.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap

FiddlerClamp · 7 months ago
I think General Magic might've been onto something. From what I've seen, BOB looked so childish that it was likely insulting to adult users. General Magic had a crisper UI (partly because of the b/w nature of the devices) that felt more like the iconography of a late-80s copy machine.

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