Wat is an AI window?
That's part of the marketing tease... sign up to find out, or move on if you're not interested. Or get the pitchforks if you hate being teased.
Readit NewsTempest1981 commented on Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control firefox.com/en-US/ai/... · Posted by u/bkma
Tempest1981 commented on Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control firefox.com/en-US/ai/... · Posted by u/bkma
They could ignore it. Why not? I switched from Chrome to FF and FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now. Force quit, start over. Is an AI window going to stop me going back to Chrome? Who cares if FF has an AI window if FF is too janky to be a good web browser... It's just lipstick on a pig.
Damned if they do AI, damned if they don't.
Tempest1981 commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
I don’t know, I see a lot of people excited about it and many others trying hard to imagine a use case. Many comments from people saying they’re ordering one.
Commenters are discussing the design and usability. Not all of that is going to be positive.
If you’re looking for a positivity-only environment where no critical questioning is socially acceptable, maybe try LinkedIn or Product Hunt? There are forums where negativity is not allowed or not socially acceptable, but those forums are not good sources for actual critical thinking or discussion.
Ouch...
Tempest1981 commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
Reading this thread on HN made me sad. Massive negativity/cynicism.
Where have all the hackers gone? Those who enjoy discussing technology, or appreciate something clever. Discussion of CPUs and sensors, or miniaturization and packaging.
Any other good forums where people discuss engineering and technology? Or even design and usability?
(I'm not against sustainability, but long discussions on EU regulations get tiresome. Yes, I collapsed them, leaving almost nothing.)
Tempest1981 commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
I mean on one side I can see using it for to-do lists, but on other, why would I want another device in addition to smartphone and smartwatch ? Especially that talking to your smartwatch looks slightly less crazy in public than to your finger
Au contraire, you'll look like a Secret Service agent talking into your wrist.
Tempest1981 commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
I'm not a watch person, and the only reason I occasionally wear one is because it's a Garmin and I'm recording an outdoor activity with it. But while cycling, when the phone in my backpack makes a notification noise, it is kind of handy to just be able to look at the watch to see what kind of notification it is - the kind hardly worth looking at or the kind worth stopping and pulling out the phone to reply to. This particular gadget doesn't have a microphone and any app interaction on it involves a multi-button dance. But if there was a single button audio recording app, I can totally see myself using it. Especially as you get older (I'm guessing - can't interview younger me) fleeting thoughts can be awfully fleeting.
> if there was a single button audio recording app
Would the watch require 1 or 2 hands to record audio?
The ring seems easier to use while biking. Or driving.
Tempest1981 commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
> Our product is designed to be refurbished, but not user-replaceable.
Why?
Design inherently involves trade-offs. Size, weight, cost, water resistance, etc.
Tempest1981 commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
> It should be an expected price of public service that you remove yourself from most other ambitions.
Countries like Singapore already figured out that if you pay public servants very well you can attract high quality people to government jobs.
If you make part of the job requirements that you sacrifice your retirement and financial well being for the good of the country you’re just targeting a type of politician you wish existed, not real people.
> I'd hope that if they were required to live off of their (rapidly depreciating) savings and income
The problem with your line of thinking is that “they” is not a fixed set of candidates. If you forced them to have “rapidly depreciating” financial states to take the job, you’d lose a lot of candidates. I know you’d like to imagine they’d be replaced by perfect utopian candidates who only have your best interests in mind, but in reality if you make people financially desperate they’re actually more likely to look for ways to commit fraud for self-benefit. Imagine the desperate lawmaker watching their family’s retirement “rapidly depreciate” who gets a visit from a lobbyist who can get their kid a sweet $200K/yr do-nothing job if they can just slip a little amendment into a law.
The populist movement to punish lawmakers is self-defeating.
> requirements that you sacrifice your retirement and financial well being
Holding index funds seems reasonable (Total Stock Market, S&P 500)... not a huge sacrifice imo
Tempest1981 commented on DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?... · Posted by u/minki_the_avali
Terrible headline. I’m not going to click that link because I won’t encourage ridiculous clickbait.
Original, for the curious:
https://web.archive.org/web/20251203002619/https://lenowo.or...
[id Software was Lazy - DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music!]
Was hoping for a way to filter on "technical", for when I need my dose of hacking and technology. (Filter on category could also help, but I assume there are many technical categories.)
And maybe reverse sort, for when I'm tired of controversy.