Apps, browsers and "smart" features are disposable software, but a good panel can remain useful for a decade. Makes you wish manufacturers treated the smart layer as optional from the start.
I'm inclined to believe the shutdowns were a bug rather than an extremely patient friend waiting for the perfect gameplay moment. But modern TVs having enough remote-management machinery that the prank theory isn't…
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At that point network isolation stops looking like a privacy preference and starts looking like an adversarial relationship with a product you own
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I wouldn't sell yourself short on the last one... the comment itself is a decent example of it :)
Maybe the failure mode isn't the PhD itself, but environments where publishing becomes the objective rather than a byproduct of getting unusually good at understanding and building things
The irony is that universities are probably best at producing founders when they're not explicitly trying to produce founders. Teach difficult things, put smart people together, give them access to equipment and enough…
I suspect rare here often means out of print or commercially obscure, not unique
Copyright holders are certainly responsible for keeping unavailable works inaccessible, but shredding is mostly an industrial scanning decision, not a copyright requirement
A genuinely useful project would identify publications that are actually rare, poorly catalogued, or held by only a few libraries, then prioritize those for careful preservation
Bluesky trick exposes how strange the abstraction is
Once apps can present one thing to the user and another thing to the captured image, there are some pretty weird possibilities
Yeah, 2009-2014 feels more like the old social web to me
2009 is old web now, and this is how we find out we're old... Yet I think maybe "middle-aged web" is the more accurate term
HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
I think the audience could absolutely shrink back to something resembling the old web. I'm less sure the old web itself comes back
I think the revenue number needs a lot more context for exactly this reason
And I'm writing my comment to understand it better...
The really haunting part is that Europeans often arrived late enough to see the collapse, but not early enough to understand what had collapsed
A landscape does not become "pristine" a decade after millions of people disappear. The human influence would still be everywhere, but it would not necessarily look like European agriculture
Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms
Apps, browsers and "smart" features are disposable software, but a good panel can remain useful for a decade. Makes you wish manufacturers treated the smart layer as optional from the start.
I'm inclined to believe the shutdowns were a bug rather than an extremely patient friend waiting for the perfect gameplay moment. But modern TVs having enough remote-management machinery that the prank theory isn't…
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At that point network isolation stops looking like a privacy preference and starts looking like an adversarial relationship with a product you own
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I wouldn't sell yourself short on the last one... the comment itself is a decent example of it :)
Maybe the failure mode isn't the PhD itself, but environments where publishing becomes the objective rather than a byproduct of getting unusually good at understanding and building things
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The irony is that universities are probably best at producing founders when they're not explicitly trying to produce founders. Teach difficult things, put smart people together, give them access to equipment and enough…
I suspect rare here often means out of print or commercially obscure, not unique
Copyright holders are certainly responsible for keeping unavailable works inaccessible, but shredding is mostly an industrial scanning decision, not a copyright requirement
A genuinely useful project would identify publications that are actually rare, poorly catalogued, or held by only a few libraries, then prioritize those for careful preservation
Bluesky trick exposes how strange the abstraction is
Once apps can present one thing to the user and another thing to the captured image, there are some pretty weird possibilities
Yeah, 2009-2014 feels more like the old social web to me
2009 is old web now, and this is how we find out we're old... Yet I think maybe "middle-aged web" is the more accurate term
HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
I think the audience could absolutely shrink back to something resembling the old web. I'm less sure the old web itself comes back
I think the revenue number needs a lot more context for exactly this reason
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And I'm writing my comment to understand it better...
The really haunting part is that Europeans often arrived late enough to see the collapse, but not early enough to understand what had collapsed
A landscape does not become "pristine" a decade after millions of people disappear. The human influence would still be everywhere, but it would not necessarily look like European agriculture
Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms