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The problem is that one essential app being unavailable can outweigh the other 95% of the phone working perfectly

The frustrating part is that security increasingly means proving you are using an approved device and software stack, rather than proving that you are actually the account owner

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The distinction still matters legally and administratively

If it lets the US use that identity to query European databases and retrieve associated information, that is a much larger change

It changes the nature of the scheme quite a bit

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Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance

The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful

There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around re…

If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand

In a way management should be treated more like a role change than a one-way promotion

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A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops

I think part of the difference is that in software we can often try the new thing immediately and see whether it helps. In biology, "this is real" and "this is important" are much …

So I'd say diffusion models make the philosophy less mystical but not necessarily solved

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What I like about this story is how physical the problem is

Describing that loop from outside is not the same as paying the cost of running it from inside

Science is incredibly good at producing descriptions that are shareable between observers, but subjective experience is not obviously shareable in that same way

The point isn't that a human could literally sample bat experience. It's that if bat experience exists, it is tied to a form of embodiment and perception that we can describe exter…

A bat might not have a "personal point of view" in the human sense, but that doesn't mean there is no point of view at all

Soo an outside description of a system, no matter how complete, does not obviously give us the inside of the experience...

But for actual use, especially screens and reading, the tradeoff can be pretty bad