I don't hate on Google, but the user highlighted some feature on Google Maps that are not desirable, and clearly knows more about map apps than me, so why not ask him what he uses? Google provides great value, I agree, but sometimes there's better stuff out there.

Reread GP, Google maps has gotten atrocious with highlighting random spots above your search. That's not hate, it's observable fact.

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Google is just good. You use it to get human answer to a question and find relevant information on a topic. Those are of human nature.

Google used to be good. Now the result you want is sometimes on the third or fourth page. They've cannibalized it.

Nah, social media is the status quo. It's impossible to 'refrain' from the status quo, unless you invent something an order of magnitude greater.

Personal web sites have been around for ages. Things worked better before when there was a proper search related to individual web sites and music blogs. There was also a lot less obsession with minute-to-minute updates from artists and scams to get on playlists and for likes and followers.

I'm a musician myself, and social media is totally overburdening the music economy with scams for musicians like paying for ads and bot services just to get visibility. Social Media overall is considered to be a wasteland dedicated to promoting only artificially engineered celebrity music and stories right now in the opinion of many.

You're right, but to the consumer like me I cherish how I'm able to connect to my favorite individuals like Andrej Karpathy and still learn a lot. I guess most people are likely the same, and spend an awful amount of time daily on this, whether they know it or not.

Have you even used TikTok? Facebook connects you with the people around you, and TikTok connects you with your favorite people on earth. That's the essence of the product.

Worst possible thing is that bozos learn the closed source model. The closed source model only worked because they had the Great SJ.

No, it's simply a faster way to operate a computer. Imagine if you didn't have to scroll and click using a mouse - that alone is a killer.

I don't think the world has invented a better pointing/control device than a mouse + keyboard: trackballs are nice, but the ball gets sweaty quickly, and they're not as fast. Touch interfaces are nice, but they're nowhere near as precise as the mouse. Trackpads are nice, but they stress the palm more than a mouse.

Similarily, VR interface would be nice, but I don't think it will be as precise as the mouse. Maybe the interfaces themselves will compensate, as they do now for touch controls, by making everything bigger and putting a lot of empty space, but will it be better? I doubt it.

Human hand has evolved to use physical tools, not by waving empty hands in the air to show abstract concepts. So I'm not sure why some people think the latter is some kind of natural behavior for humans. We use sticks, hammers, knives. Physical stuff. We have to know how it feels, what is the weight, the texture of the surface. By moving everything to virtual space we are depraving ourselves a large part of our senses. Is that better? Not for me.

A better way would probably something that would not depend on the eyes that much, and would provide the same/better control than a mouse can give. Not only this would use more senses, but also would actually improve the quality of life of all people with severe vision deficiences. Currently we all put everything related to IT to the eyes; and if our eyes fail, then we're f*cked. And technology should be there to support and protect us.

I use a Vision Pro for hours a week and keyboard and mouse is just faster than voice or eye tracking. I do see myself getting better at it but it's just slower inherently (you actually start moving your eyes away from a target before you click it, never realized this until I started using the AVP). I think the key for this is visualizing data and scenes in ways you just couldn't do on a flat screen

But at this point shouldn't we directly put chips/electrodes into our brain and not have to wear an uncomfortable device?

The vision pro is just an half assed middle point between regular desktop/laptop use and an almost telepathic way of interacting with computers.

And if you need a middle point, I mean at the very least build something that is actually bearable and that still make you look like a socially apt person like the Xreal air glasses.

Yeah, it's the future, and will definitely be buying it. That and neural interface will be the desktop off 2040 I think.

How many times have you been on a brink of death moment in your life? If none you have absolutely no idea how your brain will react.