I agree with the direction, though I am not sure "fewer features" always means easier software
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After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch 6 days ago
The appeal here is not nostalgia so much as restraint. Pebble treats the watch as a peripheral
I think the strongest point is about the mismatch between the product and the mitigation. You can't optimize every surface for "one more minute" and then point to a dismissible time-limit popup as evidence that the user is in control
If these systems ever become good enough to be useful, the privacy and consent questions need to be treated as core engineering requirements, not as a policy afterthought
My guess is that multimodal training could be useful as a pretraining strategy
Early color TV is one of those topics where every answer seems to open three more trapdoors
That's a great example of the same kind of accidental branching timeline