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schwbby

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Videogame Professor and Theme Park Researcher at Texas Tech; Cosmic Bartender and Affiliate of the Intergalactic Computer Network

#academia #gamedev #technology #themeparks #onebag #booze

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misc, to random
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There are so many map-based apps that should be pretty simple to implement and yet haven't been (afaik)

  • Chances of rain along your bike route for different start times
  • Given a route, best rated restaurants that don't take you far away from that route, for pick up orders
  • Best restaurant to meet up for two parties, that requires them to travel a roughly equal amount
schwbby,
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@misc when I teach my UX class I ask students to add features like these to an exiting app. And they’re so used to shitty apps it’s hard for them to comprehend useful additions. It’s like pulling teeth to get them to pitch a useful new feature.

clive, to random
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I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues

She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair

Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees

I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?

What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!

schwbby,
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@clive there have been a lot of references to Le Corbusier and Robert Moses in the replies. This article in a book I edited does a good job of making sense of the cultural moment: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2811094.2811124

clive, to random
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Behold Neal Agarwal's new game "Infinite Craft"

You combine materials and an LLM determines what the result will be

I stumbled upon it and soon my whole family was sending each other screenshots of what we'd created

"I somehow produced 'Shakespeare' and then had a blast combining Shakespeare with everything"

Item #7 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter 📬 , free to read and subscribe here here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-18-infinite-crafting-the-reverse/

schwbby,
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@clive This may be the best thing I've seen LLMs used for.

misc, to random
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AirDrop on Mac has the most cumbersome UI

schwbby,
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@misc It very much has a "oh, we should do that phone thing on our computers too, shouldn't we?" design.

clive, to random
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Excellent observation about self driving cars by Rebecca Solnit in her essay here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

The rest of the piece is terrific too, give the whole thing a read

(Via @kellan)

schwbby,
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@clive @kellan When I wrote my dissertation on video game cities, I identified how their coordinated traffic systems only work because they’re not autonomous. And NPCs and cars are either programmed to react to one another or they’re all just fumbling in the dark. The problem is that the world isn’t full of NPCs. We’re all the player.

misc, to random
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On ad supported streaming, are they generally good about lining up ad breaks to where ad breaks originally were, on shows that had them?

schwbby,
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@misc Nope. It would take “too much work” to do that because at some point between broadcast and streaming that metadata is not retained.

misc, to random
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I find it hard to believe that the doom spiral of journalism is unstoppable. I don't know what the solution is but it feels like there has to be one. (Or many.)

schwbby,
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@misc Some of the “fundamental” tenets of journalism need to change. Centrist journalism needs to be more editorial. (After all, everything else turned into that.)

macrumors, to random
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Is 8GB of RAM Enough for MacBook Pro? https://www.macrumors.com/guide/is-8gb-of-ram-enough-for-macbook-pro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

schwbby,
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@macrumors It is not.

misc, to random
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Welp, I fuckin got covid again.

schwbby,
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@misc Damn. Hope you can recover quickly.

misc, to random
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A really clever thing about the human body is how, the night before something really important, it makes sure you don't sleep.

schwbby,
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@misc I’d like to file a bug report for this one. Maybe it’ll make HumanOS 19.1

davesnider, to random
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I captured 17,000 screenshots as a designer since 2010. I've published more than half of them publicly on my website.

Introducing the museum! 😅 Built with @xata, Google Vision APIs and an Astro/Svelte front-end.

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/museum

schwbby,
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@davesnider This is incredible! I didn't realize just how much of the graphic design work for things like logs and shirts was your doing. The Flight Club shirt holds a special place in my heart (and still in my drawer).

misc, to random
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Everybody out here declaring themselves the next Bandcamp like it's Spartacus.

schwbby,
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@misc I’m Bandcamp and so is my wife!

misc, to random
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Wish there was an "apple store" to try hands on all the little niche e-ink / stylus devices that get sold online.

schwbby,
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@misc I agree. I would be so much more likely to buy one of these things if they had a 30 day trial..

schwbby, to random
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It has fully gotten to the point where I don’t trust any Google search result. A decade of developing elaborate SEO farm networks has made the whole internet unusable.

misc, to random
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The most impressive thing about Zoom is how janky it is 3 1/2 years into the pandemic. Usually with enshittification, there's a non-shitty phase.

schwbby,
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@misc It got lucky and never needed to be good to be widely adopted.

schwbby, to random
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Pretty sure @pluralistic 's "Enshitification" is going to end up as unit in my grad seminar syllabus this semester.

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