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by aworks 3y ago
The article mentions Glenn McDonald's musical genre page ( https://everynoise.com/ , no longer refreshing with new Spotify data) as an example of a flexible graph-like exploration format, without being burdened by explic
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The appendix describing the individual search results is both entertaining and scary e.g. "Two of the top three hits are how to install the extension and the rest of the top hits are how to remove this badware. Many of the removal link
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Ignoring the creative work you mention, I do have some experience with browsing. Prior to my retirement, I read RSS feeds for maybe an hour a day and Hacker News for an additional 15 minutes. After 2 years of retirement, I probably still
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I had a relative who had a summer job at Ikea monitoring self-checkout: 1) the system and software were unfriendly to both users and staff, especially in error states, as you suggest 2) many people needed rudimentary help 3) no time to look
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Interesting. I live in West Menlo Park and often see planes overhead coming from the West or Northwest to the Bay. I didn't fully understand they may need to slot into a really long flow from the East and even the South. The prior Phil
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Just this week, I was thinking if I could recreate my use of Pipes... From each track in the RSS feed of tracks scrobbled on last.fm, do a google search and pipe the output back to an RSS feed into my reader. Neither chatGPT nor Google coul
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"The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer" As old, silent films go, this is quite good. In the past, this might mean a cheap DVD release. Not sure the signficance of public domain for movies these days.
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I regularly had 7am PST calls with Europe and Russia and 7pm PST calls with China and Taiwan. Calls with both at the same time were particularly difficult to schedule.
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I was a sofware director at a Fortune 500 company. I had engineers in Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz, Canada, the Netherlands, Russia, UK, Taiwan, and Wuhan (!) China. I also had individual engineers in Romania, Ireland, Portugal and Germany.
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For 11 years, I worked for a successful Silicon Valley company that had a philosophy of renting rather than buying. Their rationale was to focus on their business rather than in something outside their core expertise, commercial real estat
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"San Fran is 100% going to end up like Detroit." While Michigan and California both have had historicals booms and busts, I'm not sure the economic comparison is apt. Detroit lost much of its manufacturing base, particularly
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This is an interesting comparison. I've also had more magic time from ChatGPT than I did with cell phones, both before and with touch screens. Yet, cell phones are now in use by billions. AI may not have yet even "crossed the ch
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I still miss the Computer Literacy stores in Silicon Valley but that era is long gone.
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I'm from the Bay Area and I have little first-hand data about shoplifting or the ineffectiveness of reporting it. I do know that some Walgreens stores have more merchandise under lock and key than others.
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-visit...
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I wouldn't want to give up Spotify Connect across all my devices.
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I'm somehow the opposite. I'm fine with gmail and search. But I was disatisfied with my Nexus and Pixel phones, due to quality and support and with my Google Assistance device, which didn't match my use cases as well as Alex
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For me, the alternative has been reading more books. I'm happy with the results so far.
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I find Facebook groups good for my niche interests. I stopped using Twitter, though.
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I thought that Netflix and other services had permanently put me off watching movies with ads. For some reason, I started watching Tubi TV which has ads. If I turned off the audio during the commerical break, I found it was a reasonable exp
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By definition, a CFO focuses on the money. Creators and customers are secondary, if not a nuisance.
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I'm an old guy so I never made it past lists/usenet/forums/wikis (unless I was forced to use Teams or whatever at work). So FWIW: Threaded replies, in whatever form, have been the killer feature for me to grok more data
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There's an app for that (including stored previous orders).
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Yes, and it was glorious... https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/san-francisco-snow/
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For mechanical reasons as well. My dad was a resident engineer at the Chrysler automatic transmission plant. He would send early production runs of transmissions to cab companies in San Francisco for stress testing...
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1976 was the last time it snowed in San Francisco. I wonder if the Waymo software has logic for precipitation/temperature i.e. shut it down. I'm guessing it requires human intervention although hopefully in a timely manner.
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Although, not all elevators are autonomous, for now anyway... https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/08/goodbye-fine-arts-elevat...
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Although I have limited expertise in Boston, there, anyway, "pushing" is part of the driving protocol and expected.
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I think retail locations ebb and flow and it's hard to parse through other factors. I suppose I'm a data point by keeping my location and Nordstrom as a constant over time with neighborhood as a variable. 25 years ago, it was par
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"Suddenly, the Golden State, so proudly aware of its popularity, finds itself having to rethink its identity." This strikes me as a silly sentence, in multiple ways.

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