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2024-09-20 16:01:42

“The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed tunnel under the Thames connecting Kent and Essex, runs to 360,000 pages, and the application process alone has cost £297 million. That is more than twice as much as it cost in Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.”
390,000 pages … too many tokens for even a modern AI to summarize :(
(yes, I'm making a dad joke about AI, because the situation in UK is otherwise pathetic)
https://ukfoundations.co

2024-09-19 01:38:10

"I hope this email finds you …” is the bane of my existence, but some people that's how they work, and if you need an automation to make your email life more super, this looks pretty affordable ($99/mo is peanuts for a sales team)
https://supersend.io/
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2024-09-18 14:17:05

In other news, Tupperware still exists
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy

2024-09-16 18:22:06

“undecided” voters
“There’s a part of me that longs for Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain,” Faith said.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-09-16/column-how-can-millions-of-voters-still-be-undecided-between-trump-and-harris-here-are-their-reasons

2024-09-13 16:51:21

so it's a race car that's real size, actually drivable, yet made out of 342,817 pieces of Lego???
(I'm not going to buy 342K Lego pieces and try to build one myself)
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/lando-norris-drove-lego-mclaren-p1-supercar-around-silverstone-1235858724/
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2024-09-12 18:54:23

3. Firecrawl: an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown.
https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction
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2024-09-12 18:03:58

I think there's some other thing Japan could do to get more woman to marry and raise children, but obviously fixing gender roles, work habits, and child-care costs is a bit more complicated than dumping money at the problem
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3277909/low-desire-society-japan-shelves-cash-incentive-city-women-wed-rural-men-after-backlash

2024-09-10 17:36:45

so white supremacy is a fairly new concept that's rooted in christianity …
“Spanish anti-Judaism started to include ideas about the purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) in the 14th and 15th centuries, framed in terms of whether someone was Christian or not”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory-of-scientific-racism/

2024-09-09 22:33:53

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on the Apple store?

2024-09-09 16:56:05

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2024-09-08 20:23:15

Helicone is LLM-observability and it does look quite interesting — I just started using it, so far pretty good
https://www.helicone.ai
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2024-09-08 18:42:09

Spooky
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2024-09-08 17:30:21

“The publications were related to three issue areas—health (14.5%), environment (19.5%) and computing (23%)—with key terms such “healthcare,” “COVID-19,” or “infection”for health-related papers, and “analysis,” “sustainable,” and “global” for environment-related papers”
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

2024-09-07 19:36:53

You can now bet on US elections 🤦
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/are-you-ready-to-bet-on-u-s-elections-a-judges-ruling-opens-the-door-556abc73?mod=RSSMSN

2024-09-05 15:42:18

so The Mushtery Machine was parked just outside my house …
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/085/706/050/885/817/original/79a6419dd34dba7f.jpeg

2024-09-05 01:39:31

this is pretty amazing
Brainybear promises to build a chatbot for your website in just 3 easy steps:
"Instantly answer your visitors' questions with a personalized chatbot trained on your content.”
and in just 3 easy steps it will be utterly useless and can't answer even simple questions 🤦‍♂️
https://brainybear.ai/
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2024-09-04 17:30:54

surprising to whom?
"When officers of the state Department of Cannabis Control swooped in on a neighborhood in the Bay Area city of Antioch this spring, they found what they were looking for — about $1 million in illegal marijuana — and one surprise.
One of the three houses they raided was owned by an officer of the Oakland Police Department.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-03/oakland-police-officer-home-illegal-weed-grow

2024-09-04 01:30:05

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yeah; I got one of these yesterday, although their Google Maps photo was pointing at the opposite side of the street, I think maybe low-hanging bug

2024-09-04 00:04:17

when you run a dictatorship and claim you "won a democratic election”, spreading lies is a feature not a bug, hence why not relocate x-mas to a new schedule?
Venezuelan President Maduro moves Christmas to Oct 1 amid post-election turmoil
https://japantoday.com/category/world/maduro-moves-christmas-to-october-amid-post-election-turmoil

2024-09-03 16:17:23

does this count as dress for the job you want?
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2024-09-03 00:36:15

This scam email …
“I suggest you read this message carefully. Take a moment to chill, breathe, and analyze it thoroughly.
…
I feel your worry and confusion. Genuinely, I want to wipe the slate clean, and let you continue with your regular life and wipe your slate clean. I will offer you two alternatives.
…
Other Option is to pay me, and be confidential about it. We will call it my "confidentiality tip”. … You need to make the payment by Bitcoin only.”
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2024-09-02 21:27:21

Captain South America
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2024-09-01 23:15:19

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even in 1968 when Stanley Kubrick does 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is a movie about the future, space, alien life, it is very obvious they're travelling on Pan Am which back then was the epitome of luxury international travel

2024-09-01 23:06:47

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oh no the story was about how you drove your Ford to the grocery store — it was about the new and improved grocery store but also told how your Ford allowed you to get there in 15 minutes instead of walking 4 hours
or it was about your trip to Paris but it starts with how you go to the airport, found parking, presented your ticket, boarded a plane, got a delicious lunch and champaign! and nice set of blankets to sleep through the night

2024-09-01 22:56:10

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One, they're about $29 a pop. Cheap enough to own a few, not so cheap that many would use them to track their trash.
Two, they're not GPS trackers. They’re bluetooth signals, so need devices nearby for them to advertise their location. Throw it in the desert and you’ll never find it.
Three, this is the most ordinary thing ever … in ten years. But right now it’s kind of new and different. It’s like owning an automotive private in 1920, or flying transatlantic in 1950.

2024-09-01 22:33:15

oh that makes sense
the Exxon Heat Wave is because Exxon’s "advanced recycling technology” doesn't actually work, the recycling factory is "just an empty husk without a single piece of machinery in sight”, and the plastic you send to recycling doesn't even arrive at the empty recycling factory, it just gets "stacked more than 10 feet high” in some waste management center
and you need an AirTag to find that out
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled
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2024-09-01 18:20:37

this looks really interesting — it's an paper display device (e-book reader) that’s 10" and full color, 4.5 hour battery life, 60hz refresh rate, runs Android 13, support a stylus for writing, and weights only 350g — so basically two iPhones
if you need something that's better and more useful than a Kindle that looks like the perfect fit
currently sold in EU and UK (~ $350)
https://www.hannspree.com/hannsnote2
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2024-09-01 16:23:25

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yeah I know :) I warned my neighbor about Brave earlier this week — but when it comes to search we don't have many options

2024-08-31 02:21:00

“Everyone who is building something really cool is either here or is going to be here,” Hilmi said. “This is the place to build. You can’t find this community anywhere else in the world.”
100% agree with the sentiment. I think SF is the perfect place to launch a startup.
though I wouldn't say Tan has “controversial opinions”, and I think if you're in Y Combinator in 2024 that says something about your politics, but that's just me
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/30/y-combinator-gen-z-founders-garry-tan/

2024-08-29 18:49:41

it's a dumb phone but not because it's a $130 Barbie phone:
"The firm is seeking to capitalize on an emerging trend in recent years among mainly Gen Z consumers embracing so-called dumb phones, which lack internet and offer only basic text, call and camera features.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/28/nokia-brand-owner-launches-barbie-phone-with-no-internet.html
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2024-08-26 18:13:53

damn this game is challenging!
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2024-08-24 20:16:59

Author-Paid Publication Fees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
yes that is true but I wouldn't say that this is a good way to put that information in front of people in our year of the Web 2024
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3ez9v
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2024-08-23 20:46:44

"Sadly, in my world, greed all too often shapes how we live, just as it’s shaped the world of… yes, the Supreme Court. And for that you can thank the magnates who so generously gifted lavish trips and perks to Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito while they handed down morally devastating decisions on so many issues, gun control and abortion among them, that will determine the nature of life and death in this country.”
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/22/america-the-unwell-the-corporate-greed-threatening-our-stability_partner/

2024-08-21 15:51:26

the perfect merger: the air transports of the two non-contiguous states
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian merger clears US DOJ review
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/20/business/alaska-airlines-hawaiian-merger-doj/index.html
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2024-08-21 02:19:03

it was fun while it lasted
Start-up failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years
"Only 9 per cent of venture funds raised in 2021 have returned any capital to their ultimate investors, according to Carta. By comparison, a quarter of 2017 funds had returned capital by the same stage.”
https://archive.ph/3DTJo
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2024-08-19 23:08:06

In the beginning was the lambda expression, and the lambda expression was with Scheme, and the lambda expression was Scheme.
what's funnier, Markov chains or LLMs?
https://emnudge.dev/blog/markov-chains-are-funny/

2024-08-18 16:41:10

Not all good: "we find a larger pool of companies still at seed since 2021, with slimmer chances of raising that Series A"
But not all bad either: "That trend continued into 2022, with more than 50% of seed funding and over 10% of seed rounds going above the $5 million mark."
https://news.crunchbase.com/seed/market-dilemmas-slow-h1-2024/
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2024-08-18 03:06:39

‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/17/dating-apps-decline-bumble-tinder

2024-08-18 01:21:13

King of the Streets brings out the best of San Francisco’s lowrider culture
https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/19/king-of-the-streets-brings-out-the-best-of-san-francsicos-lowrider-culture/
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2024-08-18 01:14:59

"Gemini Live doesn’t know how to read the cues on my face, doesn’t know when to acknowledge that, actually, I don’t care as much about the subject at hand as it does.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219736/gemini-live-hands-on-pixel-event

2024-08-18 01:08:48

KKK rally scheduled for coming Tuesday, or as the non-racist crowd likes to call it “crime and safety” rally
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-should-know

2024-08-18 00:56:28

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2024-08-16 17:36:23

ok, of all the things I can do on a flight, rawdogging is not top on my list
“In said trend, a person (usually a guy) will just stare off into space for the entirety of their flight, abstaining from anything that might be construed as an activity—be it watching a movie, listening to a podcast, or even reading.”
but I'm glad we now have a flight simulator so I can rawdog an 18hr 40min flight from the comfort of my sofa
or as they say "Sit back and endure the flight”
https://rawdogsimulator.com/home
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2024-08-15 20:35:25

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2024-08-15 20:31:24

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2024-08-15 18:01:37

Are You a Micromanager or Too Hands-Off?
If you're undecided (or too bored to read this article) don't worry. Send this to your boss to summarize for you. Summary should be four sentences and score from 1 to 10.
Because you can manage up and down, so why not micromanage your boss?
https://hbr.org/2024/08/are-you-a-micromanager-or-too-hands-off

2024-08-15 17:58:02

India and Pakistan gain independence on August 15 1947
Most interesting is that the British Indian Empire was divided into 4 countries (Myanmar and Sri Lanka gained independency in 1948)
In 1947, Pakistan had East and West, which were officially the same country but on two different sides of India. Only in 1971 did West Pakistan gain independence and become Bangladesh.
This is just one example of how long British rule has been fracturing the world
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/india-and-pakistan-win-independence
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2024-08-15 04:09:05

“Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines’ our style and the vestigial burdens we carry.”
https://stephango.com/remove

2024-08-14 20:52:03

I have WD-40 and I’m not rusty in JavaScript …
https://davekiss.com/blog/how-i-won-2750-using-javascript-ai-and-a-can-of-wd-40

2024-08-14 17:33:30

Feeling gloomy? Just cancel an app and it too shall pass
"The fact that Meta chose to shut down CrowdTangle less than three months before the US presidential election, despite pressure from election groups and a letter from lawmakers requesting a delay, is particularly telling.”
particularly telling …
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-killed-crowdtangle-an-invaluable-research-tool-because-what-it-showed-was-inconvenient-121700584.html

2024-08-14 17:20:16

Sometimes “it's a feature not a product” is a good learning experience
“Score was only supposed to be a pop-up app, as TechCrunch previously reported, and was only supposed to be around for 90 days. This was back in February. But it received so much user interest that parent company Neon Money Club decided to keep it open for six months.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/score-the-dating-app-for-people-with-good-to-excellent-credit-quietly-shuts-down/

2024-08-14 17:12:29

Silicon Valley breaks another record:
“Prices for existing single-family houses in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area rose 11.6 per cent in the second quarter from a year earlier to US$2.08 million. No metropolitan area in the country had exceeded US$2 million in National Association of Realtors (NAR) data back to 1979"
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/property/home-prices-silicon-valley-area-top-us2-million-first-time

2024-08-14 05:49:11

Today’s mission, if you choose to accept it:
Write 900 word article to hide “WaPo wants you to vote for Trump” in the not-last-but-close-to-last paragraph
https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/112958652967739583

2024-08-13 18:46:44

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I tried everything to get the AI to put JSON info at the end of the response. It sometimes did that, but other times it put it in the middle of the response, or added a sentence like “And here is the info you asked for:”
Just couldn’t get it to work. So then I decided I’m going to give it two separate tasks. First, respond to the user, which it does pretty well.
4/4

2024-08-13 18:13:24

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I can't imagine myself writing code without internet access
For the record, this is exactly what I said 10 years ago.
Except back then it was about having immediate access to online documentation. How do you even code without having access to your favorite reference material?
Well, I now have all the docs available offline (because it’s faster that way, devdocs app is really cool, do recommend), but I just can’t work without AI autocomplete.
https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs
2/2

2024-08-11 22:03:55

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2024-08-11 17:28:51

"Over Ruled may present itself as a book about the law, but it’s really a book about power. It’s an argument for taking power away from the administrative state and giving it to judges instead."
https://newrepublic.com/article/184713/neil-gorsuch-makes-case-judicial-power-grab

2024-08-11 17:19:02

👍
“Personally, I think the only fair thing is for journalists to learn the phrase “goes to the doubts voters have about Trump.” It’s the magic formula that makes everything newsworthy and bad news for the Trump campaign.”
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/politico-has-been-sitting-on-hacked-communications-from-the-trump-campaign-for-3-weeks

2024-08-08 22:30:44

The Supreme Court Is Fully MAGA-Pilled. The Time for Action Is Now or Never.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/supreme-court-maga-john-roberts-trump-handmaiden.html

2024-08-08 18:35:08

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is just a vibe check
"You'd train it to agree with the human judgement on average. Once we have a Reward Model vibe check, you run RL with respect to it, learning to play the moves that lead to good vibes. Clearly, this would not have led anywhere too interesting in Go.”
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246
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2024-08-08 18:31:09

Oops.js is a powerful undo/redo library with a powerful name
https://github.com/HeyPuter/Oops.js
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2024-08-08 18:28:59

Ignore the reference to Musk, she says that "I’m not very active on social media. I only have six or so posts on Instagram and I didn’t have a Twitter account, so I didn’t find out until much later.”
But the rest of this interview is just pure gold
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-08-07/this-south-korean-sharpshooter-won-a-silver-medal-then-elon-musk-helped-her-go-viral

2024-08-08 04:49:17

I need to fly on airhorse one
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/924/593/574/865/312/original/4c4ace21839c6430.png

2024-08-08 04:45:33

Asking for a friend
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2024-08-07 21:19:19

the year of the Femininomenon
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-08-07/lollapalooza-chappell-roan-performance-breaks-festival-record

2024-08-07 20:55:25

Boeing being Boeing
“NASA officials conceded Wednesday that the agency might have to rely on SpaceX to return two American astronauts to Earth from the International Space Station due to problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-07/starliner-boeing-international-space-station

2024-08-07 20:38:30

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2024-08-07 20:26:39

For screen recording this looks amazing
It can zoom into UI components — automatically and you can also edit it — shows a very pronounced cursor, lots of editing options, the screen demos just look top notch
Not free but if you're doing screen recording to show your product, then also not extremely expensive
https://www.screen.studio
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2024-08-07 17:45:09

I'm not saying this product is a disaster, just quoting from the article
“Between May and August, more AI Pins were returned than purchased, according to internal sales data”
"The low sales figures also pale in comparison to the over $200 million that Humane has raised from … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. To date, around 10,000 Pins and accessories have shipped in total. Humane hoped to ship about 100,000 Pins within the first year"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales

2024-08-07 17:35:06

Observable Plot is a JavaScript library for data visualization from the D3 team
And it looks pretty exhaustive
https://observablehq.com/plot/
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2024-08-07 17:30:13

npm package registry flooded with spam packages: estimated to be over 500,000 in Q2 2024.
The spam packages are associated with the Tea protocol, which incentivizes developers to artificially inflate their contribution through mass publication of worthless packages.
https://blog.phylum.io/the-great-npm-garbage-patch/

2024-08-07 02:10:16

oh now I understand why JD was talking about Mountain Dew
https://botsin.space/@RaccoonsHourly/112916673898436223

2024-08-06 22:23:29

Waffle mark looks really cool. The obviousness of a regular bar chart but with more precision when you need it.
https://observablehq.com/plot/marks/waffle
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2024-08-05 22:14:53

Of people who go to Stack Overflow and respond to the survey:
"80% of professional programmers are unhappy. One in three respondents actively hates their job, while almost half survive in survival mode. This leaves only 20% of those who claim to be somewhat happy."
Apparently technical debt is a mood killer
https://shiftmag.dev/unhappy-developers-stack-overflow-survey-3896/
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2024-08-05 22:06:21

and … you can build your website with QBasic
https://github.com/jamonholmgren/qub
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2024-08-05 18:14:32

oh my — in the text to image category, visual electric is pretty damn impressive
https://visualelectric.com
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2024-08-05 18:09:16

How young is too young for AI summer camp?
“Sometimes they’ll bring a 4-year-old, and I’m like, you’re not supposed to be here”
But after all this is the Bay Area and so:
“After one week, the parent said, ‘My child did not learn much. My cousin is a Google engineer, and he said he’s not ready to be an intern at Google yet.’ What do I say to that review?”
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/05/ai-summer-camp-parents-silicon-valley/
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2024-08-05 18:05:14

Sometimes smaller is better
- Compact car sales are up 18%
- Compact SUV sales are up 12%
- Sales of those giant pickup trucks that appear during every commercial break on NFL Sundays have declined by 4%
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/08/04/the-us-is-having-a-small-car-renaissance

2024-08-05 18:02:47

Generating architecture.md with code2prompt and OpenAI gpt-4o-mini model
https://shekhargulati.com/2024/07/31/generating-architecture-md-with-code2prompt-and-openai-gpt-4o-mini-model/

2024-08-05 14:08:08

If you can drive an F-150 to pick up coffee without a CDL …
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/909/804/123/663/045/original/3342e6bafc5aacdd.png

2024-08-05 14:06:23

Is AI overhyped? Yes. By a mile. But is the entire stock market in crash mode? Also yes.
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112909756560544488

2024-08-05 05:45:54

Chrome/Firefox extension that solves CAPTCHAs by completing the audio challenges using speech recognition
https://github.com/dessant/buster
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/907/829/291/150/686/original/6179821e30b5c706.jpeg

2024-08-05 05:14:22

Building the Micro Journal
https://cassidoo.co/post/micro-journal/
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/907/705/272/598/392/original/450a0be5dd0f393a.jpeg

2024-08-04 21:51:52

there's a free version if you want to try out Elicit which is an AI for researching academic papers
https://elicit.com/
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2024-08-04 21:44:37

it's an AI chat UI except it helps you plan your trip — lights, hotels, rental cars, restaurants, etc
https://mindtrip.ai/
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2024-08-04 21:40:05

so basically you grow into your name …
https://futurism.com/neoscope/facial-features-go-with-names

2024-08-04 21:37:32

I guess this is the most desirable fashion accessory of 2024
Why Olympic Sharpshooters Insist On Looking Like Cyborgs
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympic-sharpshooters-look-like-cyborgs/
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/905/908/967/743/170/original/559ab136c393614a.jpeg

2024-08-04 21:32:22

LLM sampling
https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml
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2024-08-04 21:30:54

Using Chatgpt-4o to Redesign My Homepage
https://darcynorman.net/notes/2024/using-chatgpt-4o-to-redesign-my-homepage/
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2024-08-04 21:20:09

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2024-08-03 22:01:04

one
you may need ten people to agree, but they're all sitting in the same meeting, one person says yes and everyone else just nods in acceptance
the people who might point out it's a bad idea — because obviously it is — don't get called into these meetings to voice their opinion
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112898971474058460

2024-08-03 21:55:43

- reply

"By default Vite uses ESBuild“ (from vitest docs)

2024-08-03 20:05:04

if you want to buy a peace of history, in 1988 this (from Giorgetto Giugiaro) was the face of the future
that future hasn't exactly arrived, but for the price of a modern day Ferrari you can own one to drive around town
https://www.broadarrowauctions.com/vehicles/jc24_r119/1988-italdesign-aztec
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2024-08-03 19:52:26

canadian bacon FTW
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/899/833/394/554/946/original/0147ac46fe8d5f63.jpeg

2024-08-03 19:50:34

Three theories about why journalists don't sound the alarm loud and clear about his authoritarian plans
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-fails-to-take-trump-at

2024-08-03 19:47:18

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2024-08-03 19:28:23

Weekend Reading — Emotional support billionaires
https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-emotional-support-billionaires/
This week we watch the olympics, make a todo list, propose new password rules, purchase a domain for > $1M, get an AI massage, shot with hand in pocket, save 100% by not buying anything, and measure our height in corgis.

2024-08-03 00:41:04

One creator is suing another for (allegedly) copying her vibe
… ok …
https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/07/23/sydney-nicole-gifford-alyssa-sheil-lawsuit/

2024-08-03 00:17:56

I don't know why people are talking about August already when today is only July 33st

2024-08-02 22:30:19

If Generative AI is not good enough for you, maybe have the AI give you a massage?
https://www.aescape.com
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