nicbou

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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   That's a very unpleasant tone to take.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   ChatGPT just because, then Gemini because it loads much faster. I don't have to wait a few seconds for the web UI to be ready. The frequent ChatGPT downtimes are what got me to look for alternatives.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   My iPad Mini from 2020 is also surprisingly good today. It's one of those devices that just quietly do their job forever. They are a dying breed.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   There is a thread from February with more credible use cases from real users. As someone said, it does what everyone expected Siri to do by now.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   I'm a little surprised. How do you manage to remember small, changing bits of information so easily? I'd lose my page every few days.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   I can hear them from my window. They're really happy. Lots of honking, revving engines and shouting near Zoo.
7. 457.▲
   by nicbou 8mo ago

   Google had "don't be evil" and even that bar was not low enough.
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   by nicbou 8mo ago

   The hardest step is usually getting started, at least for me. Reducing the cost of getting started feels like half the job. This usually means having the supplies ready and the tools out.
9. 459.▲
   by nicbou 8mo ago

   In Germany at least the routes are a lot prettier because they go through forests and villages. It's what got me to cycle more and ride my motorcycle less.
10. 460.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    What if they’re just good for a while and then you go back to the old way?
11. 461.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    The winner that deserved to win might turn into the complacent monopoly pf tomorrow. It might vow to Not Be Evil for a while, but the investors will demand that it does whatever it takes to grow.
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    My website is just text on a page, for the most part, but the text solves a problem really well, and requires a lot of infrastructure to surface important knowledge that isn't already on the internet. So far most competitors just repea
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I appreciate their sacrifice
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I left Canada 11 years ago. It has been even longer since I bought from CT. I am in the breach. I wonder which address they have.
15. 465.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I have had ad blockers for so long that I forgot how the unfiltered web looks like. I don’t know how people do it.
16. 466.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    Black tea feels like that for me. A nice cup of Earl Grey in the morning is a good way to start the day when I don’t want to be locked in.
17. 467.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    In other words, live below your means and decouple your happiness from your income.
18. 468.▲
    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I might not be writing code forever, but it's only a small part of my job, and an even smaller part of my identity. I will eventually lose my business to AI, too, but even if that happened tomorrow, it would still have been worth it. I
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I find that I mostly use AI to compensate for Google search becoming unusable. I use it more and more as advanced API documentation and writing code snippet. It made me a little bolder, and reduced friction from coding. I will test Claude C
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    It's hard to keep it all together. I use Obsidian for journaling across devices. My work notes are in a Markdown folder under the project. My personal notes are in a paper notebook and scanned when I run out of pages. Links are bookmar
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I'm not sure I'm buying this. Software is a packaged experience, business logic that gets refined over time. You pay for the likelihood that the logic is correct, a server that someone else manages, and hopefully someone who will
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    German immigrants can’t get an ID, sometimes for years
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I shudder when I think of how effective the Stasi would have been in the digital age. The only thing checking them was the labour demands of surveillance.
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    Immigrants do not have an ID for up to a few years when they move to Germany. Just this week the Berlin immigration office stopped issuing plastic residence cards for budget reasons, so people get a sticker in their passport. Passport recog
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I use lists because I have terrible memory. When I pack for a trip I reuse a list I have been refining for years. When I buy food I use the list I have been filling all week. I have a dozen lists like that. It’s not sharper thinking. If any
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    Yes, but that person owns their website, its content, and the address it lives at. They can publish anything they want, in any format they want. Hosting on GitHub is merely a convenience; they can up and leave anytime.
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    TRMNL seems like a good option. I found it in another comment here. https://trmnl.com/
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I always saw it as being multiple subtasks deep into a problem, or opening too many parentheses. Yak shaving does not imply that you're wasting time, only that the task involves solving problems that feel remote to your initial objecti
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    I'm quite happy with Markdown. It powers the website I live from. I like that it's human-readable, supported by so many editors, and generally easy to work with. I have made a few extensions to make my life easier: - Constants lik
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    by nicbou 8mo ago

    Same, same. It's just awful. A decade of very carefully choosing my words, and I'm competing against shittier AI summaries of my own work.