jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Has he never heard of a humidifier? Good lord.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

will automate millions of jobs if it works, might kneecap the economy

will kneecap the economy if it works, too. Because companies certainly aren't going to keep people employed in those millions of jobs.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.

I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.

Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn't notice but it was discontinued in 2008.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

The Auryn project has a sub-project called North Star, founded by a VC partner, and a Bain Capital veteran, among others.

The whole thing gives me the ick.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

Perhaps that's part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All you need to know about Gruber is in this claim of his about phone photography, in a critique of a NY Times tech journalist who deigned to acknowledge that readers could just use flash to get better low-light photos:

A mainstream technology columnist should be explaining to readers why they should not use flash, and how best to capture low-light photographs without it. “You could always just use flash” is technology malpractice.

In reality, a mainstream technology columnist's job isn't to encourage readers to cough up hundreds of dollars to buy the newest phone for the sake of something that might be of negligible importance to most of them.

Gruber clearly thinks his job is to always encourage readers to buy the latest Apple phone. At least when his job isn't to sniff his own farts.

Flash is also technology! Most photography and videography is done using artificial light! There aren't many people walking around with spy satellite lenses like fucking Kubrick to do natural light camera work.

Also I think he's a bit of a fancy watch douchebag.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

• came in a deck of cards

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