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New comment by MarceliusK in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

MarceliusK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:25:07 +0000

Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance

New comment by MarceliusK in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

MarceliusK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:23:24 +0000

The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful

New comment by MarceliusK in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

MarceliusK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:18:38 +0000

There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around replacement

New comment by MarceliusK in "The truth about being a manager"

MarceliusK — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:56:22 +0000

If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand

New comment by MarceliusK in "The truth about being a manager"

MarceliusK — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:52:29 +0000

In a way management should be treated more like a role change than a one-way promotion

New comment by MarceliusK in "The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory"

MarceliusK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:30:55 +0000

A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops

New comment by MarceliusK in "The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory"

MarceliusK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:29:01 +0000

I think part of the difference is that in software we can often try the new thing immediately and see whether it helps. In biology, "this is real" and "this is important" are much harder to establish because the system is noisy, the experiments are slow and the implications may not be obvious until other pieces of the puzzle show up

New comment by MarceliusK in "The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory"

MarceliusK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:26:00 +0000

So I'd say diffusion models make the philosophy less mystical but not necessarily solved

New comment by MarceliusK in "The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory"

MarceliusK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:19:33 +0000

What I like about this story is how physical the problem is

New comment by MarceliusK in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

MarceliusK — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:13:23 +0000

Describing that loop from outside is not the same as paying the cost of running it from inside

New comment by MarceliusK in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

MarceliusK — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:02:08 +0000

Science is incredibly good at producing descriptions that are shareable between observers, but subjective experience is not obviously shareable in that same way

New comment by MarceliusK in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

MarceliusK — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:56:41 +0000

The point isn't that a human could literally sample bat experience. It's that if bat experience exists, it is tied to a form of embodiment and perception that we can describe externally but not fully inhabit subjectively

New comment by MarceliusK in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

MarceliusK — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:54:43 +0000

A bat might not have a "personal point of view" in the human sense, but that doesn't mean there is no point of view at all

New comment by MarceliusK in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

MarceliusK — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:51:39 +0000

Soo an outside description of a system, no matter how complete, does not obviously give us the inside of the experience...

New comment by MarceliusK in "Aging and Eye Problems"

MarceliusK — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:07:00 +0000

But for actual use, especially screens and reading, the tradeoff can be pretty bad

New comment by MarceliusK in "Aging and Eye Problems"

MarceliusK — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:04:21 +0000

The camera analogy is a really good one

New comment by MarceliusK in "Aging and Eye Problems"

MarceliusK — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:01:45 +0000

What struck me here is how much "good UI" changes with age

New comment by MarceliusK in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

MarceliusK — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:56:10 +0000

For that use case I'd probably optimize less for "best keyboard" and more for "least annoying thing to pack and set up"

New comment by MarceliusK in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

MarceliusK — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:53:00 +0000

I think the remaining friction is mostly ergonomics and integration

New comment by MarceliusK in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

MarceliusK — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:51:05 +0000

Most folding keyboards I've tried felt like travel compromises first and keyboards second