Daniel Jacobsen

Started a game company. Made Dungeons of Dredmor + another game. Made a banking AI to help normal people. Making new stuff. Constantly experimenting. He/him.

[Daniel Jacobsen @Citizen_Daniel]

No product survives first contact with the customer.

[Daniel Jacobsen @Citizen_Daniel]

do we even tweet anymore, or is it, like xeeting?

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If your library offered "cloud" resources (eg compute, storage) for non commercial projects, would you use it? And what would you use it for?

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@vogon Thanks, i'll check it out :)

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Anyone know of any decent AI upscalers for photos?

I have some personal photos that I'd love to have higher res versions of, but the search results for "AI image upscaler" are 100% sus.

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@xemu @Pentadact DOOM is on my list too, along with anything synthwave (e.g. Dance with the Dead)

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Listening to this new track "Separate Ways" by an artist called Journey. It's an absolute banger.

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Everyone saying the 90s are back, but I haven't seen any zoomers playing Starsiege Tribes while listening to Underworld CDs on loop.

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Not enough people take competitive quiddich seriously.

When humanity is colonizing the stars, you think we're going to play football in space?

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Sometimes it's quite clear that he knows how pretty he is.

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Good execution vs. bad execution, in 10 tweets:

Bad execution:
Pick two—time, quality, or cost.

Good execution:
Thoughtfully choosing the scope such that things are built on time, on budget, and at a high level of quality.

1/10

[Daniel Jacobsen @Citizen_Daniel]

@amosolov Yeah, absolutely. And dealing with tonnage of old circuit boards would be very challenging and probably need to be subsidized. And they'd need to lean into the "budget version" brand they're building more for refurbs.

It'd be pretty complicated.

But my parents would love it :D

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I wonder when Apple is going to have a hardware subscription service.

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@amosolov Yeah, it'd be more like $2k per year and you get the latest macbook, iphone, ipad, iwatch, and ear things forever.

It'd be like old dvd by mail netflix. They send you the new ones, you send back the old ones.

Someone else pays $500/yr and gets 2nd gen refurbs.

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@amosolov Someone must have businessed this, I wonder what the hang-up is.

You'd think that being able to predict demand, and to have one consistent method of recycling / upcycling old tech would be incredibly valuable.

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@amosolov Why not just say "For $100 per year we'll keep giving you all the cool stuff and make sure it works really well"?

It'd actually be pretty attractive to a lot of people, and it wouldn't have to be weirdly shady like the obsolescence thing.

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Are there actually any companies that do a really good job of building trust around their governance of personal data?

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@MOOMANiBE Usually to help the creator to gauge interest. It's not great data, but it's something at least.

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@briecode An exercise that helps for me is the writing prompt "this company exists to make as much money as possible, but..."