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  It's hard to overstate how disappointed I am by the recent #Apple products (except for the Duo which, playing around it it, seems like they did an excellent job). The HomeView is a confusing product that shouldn't exist. It's an iPad Mini that isn't an iPad (and actually runs for some unknown reason CarPlay apps). It exists to basically say that it exists. The new MacBook Pro with touchscreen though is the most distressing product to me, an Apple fanboy, that I've seen si...

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  After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary. Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber optics and some enthusiasm. Start swinging and you’ll hit something valuable pretty fast. The "secure cages"? Chain link. The lobby's got badges and mancatchers and a guard w...

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  Sometimes I’ll be annoyed at my desk job and then I’ll remember some of the apeshit stuff people did to me in service roles. One of the grocery stores I worked at sold very fancy pies that sold out instantly. People would line up for these pies around 4th of July. They were like staples of fancy dinners in the area. So one Saturday morning a random woman came in and told me that she was reserving two pies and handed me a business card. I laughed and said “right that’d be great if we did that”...

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  Wrote a Friday casual piece about how art doesn't scale. https://matduggan.com/art-doesnt-scale/

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  I’m all good thanks #slack

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  I love how #copenhagen metro was like “obviously we gotta have a stargate”

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  Wrote about my midnight train ride to Stockholm: https://matduggan.com/midnight-train-to-stockholm/

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  I’m a little shocked that #germany is requiring workers to get a doctor’s note for any sick leave. It’s such an insanely high barrier for people. I’m sad to see such an important member of the EU go in such an anti-worker direction. I can say as an American who has had jobs with that requirement, the result is “people come into work sick all the time”. Truly the sickest I’ve been in my life have been places that mandate that, to the extent that one of the two that did ended up rolling it back...

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  What do you think “holiday” tastes like?

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/116533644389477677 To say I’m excited about this is the understatement of the year.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DreamStationcc/116535054931424991 Dislike is not a strong enough word for the emotion this frog evokes in me. I am unnerved by it.

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  Downside of working at LEGO is you end up just giving your salary back to them when you visit the store. These are gonna be my weekend project.

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  RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116536443386384572 Replace “nonprofit hospitals” with “every business ever” and you’ll have a good summary of how I feel about consultants.

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  Someone posts something I wrote to Hacker News. It reaches the front page. And I feel that pull. That specific, stupid hunger to open the comments. I don’t. Because I’ve been around long enough to know exactly what’s in there. But it’s like standing outside a door while people talk shit about you. Some part of your brain, the same one that will randomly ask “what if this time we touched the stove?”, says “don’t you want to read the mean comments?”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sethmlarson/116534405807214892 This is a super good point I had never considered.

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  RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116546450694576976 Like Oracle, I’ve never met someone who works at Meta that seems to love it. Best case they seem to like the paycheck.

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  Dear podcast hosts. I have been a loyal #podcast listener since the iPod was a rectangle with a click wheel and ambitions. I sit through the ads. I use the promo codes. I have purchased mattresses and downloaded VPNs. I am doing my part. So when I say this, know it comes from love. Ad revenue is down and you desperately need more monthly subscribers in order to keep this your full time thing. You got paid a full time wage to talk into a microphone in your spare bedroom for two hours a week. T...

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  The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

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  RE: https://retro.pizza/@outofprintarchive/116538067127652139 Absolutely amazing even if you don't read any Japanese. I loved looking at all the ads.

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  Someone called John new-CEO-of-Apple “John Apple” and I was like oh no I have immediately forgotten his actual last name. So congratulations to John Apple which is how my brain will forever remember him.

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  At some point all my Macs stopped being able to receive iMessages. They could just send. I tried signing out, nothing. I tried signing out and restarting, nothing. They continued to work on iOS devices, just not the Mac. Then I removed the email addresses from iMessage and that.....sorta fixed it? Now I get the messages but I get them hours later. Console shows "MessageProtection failed to decrypt with ngm identities - fail to unseal message {error: Error Domain=com.apple.messageprote...

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  There’s a new younger woman in our #warhammer40k group. She has now smoked all of us middle aged dads. Bullgryns were was better at holding objectives than I thought. She ran the board effectively the entire game. Still a great matchup. Super excited for 11th edition.

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  I watch true crime to relax, which is its own problem. But nothing pulls me out of the moment like a detective gravely announcing that the evidence has been “coowaborated.” Sir. There’s a wabbit. Regardless of where the crime takes place, the detective will gravely announce a murder and then insert a goofy pronounciation of what you’d think is a commonly said word.

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  This is a Very Good website. https://gitperf.com/

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  This morning I was asked “what does magnesium do to you” and I realized I have no idea. So I googled it. Somehow between the AI overview and another snippet overview the page has become completely unresponsive. I can’t scroll or tap anything on this view. So the design that Google has settled on for their crown jewel product is: first you see an AI summery that is so often wrong that I have to now ask people “did you click on a link or just read the summery” when they tell me they looked somet...

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  RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116507306078640762 Pedometer++ is such a crazy good app for iOS and watchOS. It’s one of those apps where the thing you want to see is somehow magically always there.

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  RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116508584045446133

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  One of the perks of working at LEGO is sometimes you take a break to just make a flower.

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  The forge I would like to make if I was Very Wealthy. If I Could Make My Own GitHub https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/

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  This is the funniest thing I have ever read. https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/ Imagine a roaring arena packed to the rafters with pathological liars. High above you in the nosebleeds are podcasters, screaming that you'll die if you don't buy their skincare products. Below, on the floor, imagine demonic battalions of super-influencers physically forcing people into home fitness devices designed to dismantle their bodies bone by bone and reassemble them into a gr...