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John Gruber craves the power of keyboard macros on his iPad. He apparently thinks that's not possible as iPad's main power is one-state mode (and it truly is a remarkable tool that way). There's always a learning curve with artificial interfaces. Standard way to bridge this is use of metaphors. The problem with iOs on iPad is that iPhone was it's metaphor...

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7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Couple of suggestions for prospective walkers (or rollers) out there. Successful walking is about fine-tuning yourself to your environment. In order to do so you need couple basics straightened out.

Do yourself a favor and get a flat footwear. Zero-drop shoes will help body realign your lumbar spine and neck (heels push the butt outwards, forcing the spine to compensate). Enthusiastic walking, like running, is a repetitive stress activity so you want your joints in their evolved alignment to avoid fatigue or even damage seeping in. Note, if you choose minimal (or the nowadays called barefoot) footwear- go gradually, allow your foot to build it's strength back up.

Be aurally aware of your environment. Apple earbuds (wired or wireless) are very good in this regard, as these'll let you hear stuff around you. Bone-conducting headphones are also a good option.

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7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The question’s framing precludes the answer. Plants do die from environmentally distributed host subversion that can eventually become a systemic failure. We insist on clear interdisciplinary divisions throughout science, so by necessity, we anneal such siloing with “object with forces” paradigm (appropriated from physicist’s tool chest) which in turn feeds back into “world as a collection of objects” (set theory) outlook.

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7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Does anyone else miss 'early' Ben Thompson?

Ben of Then would easily spend an hour meticulously crafting around the topic whilst carefully rationing his listeners' attention. Once listeners are thoroughly primed, Thompson would then proceed with a sudden, massive contextual leap shifting the laid groundwork (vertically) into potential energy, lifting us along.

Ben of today, writes mechanistically, with two main pillars: 1)catering to his technocratic subscriber-base 2)asserting himself as an expert historian of the industry.

Technocrats demand affirmation of their worldview (that is what they do), so static narratives provide an important anchor. The preeminent historian supports this rigidity as his main competitive advantage (over lesser historians) is his cultivated cache of (niche) interlinks.

In our (violently) changing world we need thermonuclear Ben not the historian Ben.

myt6fore

7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Just a reminder: George Carlin’s great sequence about ‘your stuff’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

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7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

If I may expand on the observation...

Spinning Jenny was a type of knitting machine (a multi spindle spinning frame) that brought multi-fold increase to operator's output. A typo f optimization if you will. It's inventor may have been altruistic (or not) in his motives but ultimately it meant: more efficiency- less workforce. Today's machines crave such leanness so programmers of today get hired to automate 'overhead' jobs away. Long term, the trend may prove either good or bad, the point is, such machines do not care. Much like in Buster's era.

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8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

We should probably expand on this notion of Clickbait that assumes readers are merely tricked into clicking. Catering to some 'lowely' urge is way we usually think about these, but there is more.

Traditionally, clickbait refers to a type of optimisation for more 'static' media outlets- those with more rigid publishing chain: writer <editor <owner.

Youtube's low barrier to publishing disrupts that, so we now have viewers assuming editor + owner role with their newfound power of directing attention. So now users demand to be catered to. Sense on entitlement is at the center of this thing.

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8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Perhaps wealth can be described as a measure of being able to adapt to new market demands. Acquiring new skills or refactoring existing ones takes effort, money, time. Those considered poor are devoid of that, bogged down...

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8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

This thing you describe comes from internal resistance (may also be called self-reactive filtering) where environment -say, groups of people that you may have some rigid bindings with,(like workplace)- display just the slightest (very toned-down) air of viscious but very real and directed hostility. It's the artifice that bothers you, but this stuff goes deeper. You can fix that by building friendships with open (foolish) people, you just need to find some good ones. Friendships do take some effort, though.

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8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Forcing a community out carries a host of side-effects, example: a group moves underground... Though knowing that, both reddit and youtube modelled their business around reinforcement and segregation of biased groups (echo-chambers), all the while promoting themselves as _the_ platforms of the free (speech) internet. Turns out ousting such groups is okay- just like axing a product, no?

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