Why wouldn't you just use random abandoned forums or web article message threads? Iirc this is what teenagers used to do when schools banned various social media but not devices. Just put the URL in a discrete qr code that only a person in the neighborhood could see.
"'Amazon Not-too-bad' store" sounds pretty reasonable. Maybe a too-clever work around for the 5-Star problem would be to call it "100-Star," which would be 4 in binary notation. Or they could call it "5th-Star" since 4 stars is the fifth number of stars b/c the range of starts is zero indexed.
Its interesting to see "turbo encabulator" get love that "builder ... don't know how" doesn't get anymore, even though the former is a much more intrusive copypasta. Maybe its a function of recency and "builder" has had more recent use in various places than "turbo?"
Vervaeke makes a claim of parasitism explicit in the Meaning Crisis series.
We call this Parasitic Processing because it's like a parasite in that it
takes up life within you, and it takes life away from you! It causes you to
lose your agency. It causes you to suffer. And here's what's important. This
capacity for your cognitive brain to be self organizing, heuristic using,
complexify, to create complex systems and functions with emergent abilities,
has a downside to it.
This is a complex, self-organising, adaptive system! If you try and intervene
here the rest of the system reorganizes itself around your attempted
intervention. It can adapt and preserve itself as you tried to destroy it.
Why? Because it's making use of the very machinery by which You adapt, and
make use of the things that are trying to destroy You!
My apologies, I use an ad blocker and did not notice. The website is a transcript of the YouTube lecture series and can be found there if people wish to delve further. Unfortunately I no longer have an edit option on the comment.
An interesting related recent podcast is The Answer Is Transaction Costs episode
Parts is (Not) Parts: The Life Cycle Problem for Heavy Equipment. Part of the discussion is orienting a biz to what is actually being sold. Is the equipment-time being sold or is the capability being sold? When the capability is sold the story becomes more of a total supply-chain rather than simply static capital good.
We trace how Alex Schuessler, the once and once-again President of
SmartEquip--also a scholar of expressive choice!--built a platform that makes
machines more profitable by erasing the friction between parts, service, and
uptime. The rental economy, Japan’s utilization model, and IoT diagnostics
reveal why transaction costs, not price tags, decide who should own and who
should rent.
I looked that up. This does not have the smooth textual UI of an iPod. It does seem better than many things. AFAICT those are buttons in a circle, not a jog dial, which is the key affordance.
I'd be awesome if ModRetro made an mp3 player that mirrors the iPod similar to the Chromatic's GameBoy.
CW: Have you ever been in an eating contest?
GG: Yeah, a long long time ago. I did a mashed potato eating contest at a renaissance fair back in Georgia.
I saw plenty in corporate environments but I think people mostly wanted to use a larger and better screen than what was available on a laptop at the time.
What I never saw in the wild but which was neat was the Powerbook Duo dock that pulled in the laptop like a front loading VCR tape, peak Sculley-period pointless complexity. It totally enclosed the laptop in a closed configuration, the idea being that you would put a monitor on top of the dock.
I had a dock for my Thinkpad X200. It was a chunk of plastic the same size as the laptop but it also had a bay for a disc drive (since the laptop didn't have one) and also had a pop-out connector for charging a second battery. Since it was the same footprint, it didn't take up any extra desk space and still allowed you to use the laptop's own ports too (except for power), it just made the laptop thicker. And you could even take the dock on the go if you really needed the extra I/O and disc drive. Pretty innovative design when docks at the time were just a big box at the rear of the assembly.
> I saw plenty in corporate environments but I think people mostly wanted to use a larger and better screen than what was available on a laptop at the time.
Certainly with some of the older Thinkpads (going back 10+ years or more) it was only possible to connect two external monitors via one of these docks. (Then USB-A monitor adapters started to appear...)
Do we not all stand on the shoulders of giants? Will "big next" not take up where "big tech" leaves off one day?
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