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yeah, that elevator pitch is BASIC as we’ve known it for 25 years. it has some other neat QOL features though like the C-style string printing

his genuine reasoning sounds like the kind of exaggerated strawman i’d use to mock AI supporters. if he only had a brain!

yeah, i’m intrigued by the idea of a pseudo-“dumb” phone to reduce mindless usage, but this is too restrictive to really work as a phone for a lot of people. those banned work and social apps have and will continue to supplant the phone features of a modern phone. if i got one of these, it would have to be a supplementary device, defeating the whole point! and for those of us who can use a “dumb” phone, they can just got get one for a fifth of a price

i don’t know the full story but iirc that was how the band Supertramp stayed afloat until they were successful, patronage from some rich guy

that’s how you end up on a chair zip-tied to the outer hull

it’s like that old IBM slide days. “A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” i find that quote meaningful in a lot of contexts but it’s especially relevant when we’re actually talking about management

intelligence is knowing the AI is the tool, wisdom is knowing the user is the tool

The company shared that it would go “all-in” on the mobile version of the platform in February.

TIL there’s a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn’t the whole point that it was VR? what’s even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?

hey there were a lot of big words ok!

AND one lays eggs!

unfortunately age verification is now required to touch grass

i personally find bananna audio the most appealing

i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn’t much of a point, let alone a big one

wild how far technology has marched on and yet we’re still essentially using the same basic idea behind technicolor. but hey, if it works!

ooh duly noted thank you

the only integration i want between my phone and my car is a 3.5mm audio jack. i’m driving a 2016 right now and am dreading replacing it because i doubt i’ll be able to find anything without this “infotainment” crap. i thought i had read that those were being phased out because consumers unilaterally hated them, so reading the opposite here is a huge bummer

a close cousin of the recorder is the tin whistle, and listening to a minute of mary bergin’s whistling will quickly shatter any illusion that fipple flutes are toys

i’m suprised no one seems to have point-blank asked him who his parents were in court, or if they did why that wasn’t the beginning and end of the case

+1 for Bandcamp. they often run a “bandcamp friday” event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp