duolingo seems to have figured out how to get people to drop what they're doing to perform a task

is there like a duolingo for books

like a bookmark that annoys you if you havent moved it in too long

There's also the fear of losing a streak one built for so long I'd say

yea a free candy bar for kids every 50 days for just reading sounds great

Most kids will correctly recognize up front it's not worth the effort.

Sure. But getting something free for something you'd have done anyway? There's many ways to nudge people/yourself into specific behaviors even though the rewards are not worth it when thinking it through

torrent some popular movies on an American home ISP and you may get some nasty letters too

every economy protects its crown jewels to a degree which seems excessive to its neighbors

It is no coincidence that a lot of piracy is now hosted in Russia.

Russia protects its crown jewels by blocking anything of dissent, including youtube.

This has resulted in a lot of them blocking VPNs because Russia blocks VPNs at the backbone level.

Always has been

> by the likes of Amazon, and they usually pick a time when I'm trying to order something quick

they have an algorithm that can predict the likeliest moment you'll not see or panic-hit the "ok" button in haste

I think it is simpler than that: they ask irritatingly often, and I'm often looking quickly to see if I can get something on next-day delivery, so the two factors coincide.

> "pinky promise, but with a label."

and that label is "pending litigation"

> Its unique power of self-healing and course correction is what makes it great

is it because each batch of immigrants is always rehabilitating it :3

(second gen)

> a viable desktop replacement.

xerox intentionally replicated what the typical office desk 'experience' looked like to create the 'the desktop'; this approach either isn't possible or just hasn't been explored by someone with a headset on

maybe we just need to think of work differently to be productive in an enviornment where we sacrificed horizontal and vertical fidelity for a third dimension?

3d desktops? workframes?

Given the current direction of technology it seems more likely that the need for highly precise and information dense UIs will be reduced, and we will do most of our work by directing agents through language. Where language is not enough we will use custom visualizations and purpose-built UI controls that contain and directly manipulate only the relevant information for the task at hand, constructed on-the-fly. We may not need highly general UIs based on abstractions and metaphors to the physical world anymore.

it's already taking me a lot of time to 'translate' the architecture diagram in my head to something that i can type for an ai, likely losing fidelity on the way

just let me TRON into the machine and show them all how it's done :D

makes me think of https://accelareader.com/

those LookUp Tables are the most difficult thing to get from a display manufacturer; never thought to let an AI tune one itself using image feedback, incredible!

Yeah...its taken a TON of hand tuning (with AI of course) to test all the LUTs on 15 different devices across b&w, grays, anti-aliasing grays, etc. Huge pain. Finally in a good spot after this recent set of PRs got merged in. I had some collapsed grays that I never noticed before that OP here helped me identify were missing.

that space is probably sold to the same ad network by both OSs