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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
I'm purging my brain of all the useless knowledge I've accumulated over the years and extending my cognition as far as it can go by relying on AI, and I've gained enough weight to survive the first round of famines. But I pro
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
People are definitely taking things too far, even here with the random and often baseless ‘this is AI’ comments. With that said though, I won’t order food off a delivery app if I see even a single AI-generated food image.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
Cloudflare offers a free plan that's fantastic. The free plan gives you effectively unlimited DNS/CDN traffic for a normal site, while the main practical cap is 100,000 Worker invocations per day, with 10 ms CPU per Worker request
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
I bet this is an attempt by Microsoft at trying to win back fans. I also noticed IShowSpeed and Kai Cenat promoting a Minecraft playthrough, which I would assume is paid for by Microsoft given what they’ve been saying lately: https:/&
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
For people who teach through writing, there are great tools out there like MATCHA: https://matchawriter.com . It's a secure writing environment that verifies authorship by recording the full writing process and, when needed,
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
I dunno what’s worse: having no data footprint when you apply to rent from this landlord who is doing bulk data purchases and de-anonymizing it to screen you, or having the wrong data footprint.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
I think the point is that if it's irrelevant, why mention it?
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
You’re right, maybe roughly circa 1930 across internationally recognized research universities? For some reason I thought Oxford was the holdout.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
PhDs only were adopted universally in 1917 with some resistance and apprehension. The issue here is that academia forgot what it was about a long time ago and is now having to face the consequences for a hundred years of bad decisions.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
Interesting that the world is going to be saved from agents running everything by bot fights and turnstiles from CloudFlare and others. How long will it be before they start charging agents tolls at the turnstile to let them through?
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
The little pencil effect is a nice touch.
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by speak_plainly 2mo ago
I love the iPhone Air. Apple better not discontinue it. My advice to all iPhone users who want better battery life: either turn off background app refresh or be very selective in which apps can refresh. Your battery life will improve but no
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Rest in Peace, John. It looks like Adam Curry and John’s wife Mimi will be hosting an episode of No Agenda tomorrow to share stories and anecdotes in remembrance. https://mailchi.mp/nashownotes/rip-jcd-no-agenda-newslet
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
It feels like AI is going to be the end of Google. The post-Schmidt company culture cannot produce consistent, consumer-friendly products that any sane person would want to use consistently.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
This is a good thing for travellers. In border security there are generally two camps, one that uses data and intelligence to go after the worst, large-scale criminal operations and networks, and generally makes travelling easy for the aver
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Thanks for all the links, I love feeding my RSS reader. I really like this: http://blog.beforemario.com updates are rare these days, but they cover Nintendo corporate history and products before the company got into video games.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
I wonder what Jony Ive is thinking about his partnership at the moment.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
I share your sentiment. I'm still paying for Gemini but it's almost useless to me. Google has some serious internal problems. Perhaps Gemini is merely being plagued by aggressive cost controls, or perhaps there are deeper flaws in
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
If you were being fair, designers typically don't decide the website strategy or write the copy. Ente's site seems heavily optimized for a search-driven funnel – they are targeting people explicitly searching for 'photo stora
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
I spend my days yelling at various AI agents for lying, misunderstanding, or misrepresentation of facts. It feels like a modern spiritual process.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Kinda unrelated, but the art direction on Ente's site is really top-notch.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
That would be ideal, but I think we're heading straight for Idiocracy's 'Ow! My Balls'.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
It's crazy that they sort of deprecated chat in the new ChatGPT app.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Yeah I think the absence of problems is one way to think about it but it's closer to half the equation. Quality is a set of characteristics that are ultimately decided by the user, and not every user will agree on what those characteri
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
You do realize that propositional logic, set theory, and mapping the limits of formal systems are philosophy, right? You're literally describing mathematical logic and philosophy of language.
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
The damage is done. The truly jarring realization isn't that AI companies made these predictions, but how eagerly countless corporations were willing to sacrifice their own people in pursuit of profit – even at the cost of economic col
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
What I mean by "interactive Hollywood" is a game with a $200M+ budget that relies entirely on high-fidelity graphics and cinematic stories to differentiate itself, while offering almost zero new gameplay innovation. Neither of you
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
At some point, the games industry decided it wanted to be interactive Hollywood, and the consequences are entirely predictable. Meanwhile, Nintendo just quietly shipped 3.8 million units of Tomodachi Life in two weeks, and 4 million of Poko
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by speak_plainly 3mo ago
Thinking about customer support as a ‘differentiator’ or a way to drive profit is depressing. You should simply strive to do what’s best for your customers. The sort of feedback you’re getting is golden and in the right hands can be put to

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