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Happy Kagi subscriber here! I just wished Apple let them integrate into Safari without the need for silly hacks.

For now at least, it seems the paying customers don't see ads.

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    or to any users who tell us or we predict are under the age of 18.

Maybe it's not practical for day-to-day use but the way this hacks the font to produce something completely different is amazing!

Money.

Typical amount of commercials time per game:

    NFL                          60-65 min
    NBA                          40-50 min
    MLB                          40-50 min
    NHL                          25-35 min
    MLS/Premier League/World Cup 10-20 min

I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore

It's highly reminiscent of "IBM Watson" a few years ago. Basically the add-on brand to make them look cooler.

One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.

A more appropriate signature would be "Please excuse any auto-correct errors that my ducking phone might have added."

We ultimately need optimized DSLs and aggressive use of stateless sub-modules/abstractions that can be implemented in isolation to minimize the amount of context required for any one LLM invocation.

Containment of state also happens to benefit human developers too, and keep complexity from exploding.

This is a fun app.

One way I deal with people talking on speakerphone, is inviting myself into their conversation and making comments as if I were an active participant. That usually earns me a weird look, and then they go off speaker so I can't hear what's been said. Success.

Similar with folks watching reels on speaker, I fake a laugh or make comments about the content. It's awkward enough that they usually stop because they want a moment alone, not an interactive session with a stranger. Which ironically is the same thing I want too.

You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex their skills. Disregarding the other 95% of programmers that would have to work with it.

Intersting observation.

So basically Scala is to the JVM what Perl is to scripting?

This is Postel's Law, aka the Principle of Robustness:

    "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept"

In a similar vein, as the industry matured, we went from having teams of wizards building products, to teams of "good-enough" developers, interchangeable, easy to onboard. Perl culture was too much about craft-mastery which ended up being at odds with most corporate cultures.

Unfortunately, as a former Perl dev, it makes a lot of other environments feel bland. Often more productive yes, but bland nonetheless. Of the newer languages, Nim does have that non-bland feel. Whether it ends up with significant adoption when Rust and Golang are well established is a different story.

Only in France. For some reason, the names for Gruyère and Emmental got swapped there.

You're being downvoted but yes, this is about risk mitigation. The IT department at a health care organization has to balance matching the requirements of payers, admins and clinical staff, do so in a way that fits inside the allocated budget, and de-risk the unknowns as much as possible.

Even if the vendors are only half accurate about the solution they offer, by being paid suppliers, they are on the hook (to varying degrees). These systems are highly customized and serious headaches arise from interoperability and security. If some of that can be shifted to a vendor, it's a net positive insofar as the IT department and the compliance departments are concerned.

Some healthcare organization have invested in the technology side and become leaders in innovation but those are the exception.

Same here. Perhaps what I've enjoyed the most about Perl was the humanness and art of it. Cleverness and expressiveness were at the service of elegance.

Sure you can write amazingly obscure foot-guns in Perl but that's also true of any other language. But honestly I'd rather a few lines of obscure Perl code WITH a comment block explaining why, than a dozen classes with bits and pieces of business logic spread all over the place.

The setup that I adopted 15 years ago and still use today is the "bar desk". It's a standup desk that's positioned in such a way that my elbows rest naturally when I'm standing.

But instead of a fancy mechanism to make the desk go up and down, I have a saddle stool. When sitting on it, my head is at the same level as standing, and my spine is straight. (Key point is monitor position.)

What I like about that is I can swap between sitting to standing in a few seconds without even thinking about it and without waiting for the desk motor to go up or down. This was originally a poor man's standup desk because I didn't have the budget for a motorized desk; now it's a choice.

Perhaps you can add a product in there "Contribute to this fun site" in various amounts, and let that one take a real payment.

The author made that point, in considering frequency of use as a criteria for whether to use an animation or not.

When expressing nuanced ideas, a series of short sentences is harder to follow. Not always but often. The short sentences are less connected. The connection between those sentences comes across flat. Nuanced ideas apply different weight to different concepts.

Generally, when expressing nuanced ideas, a series of short sentences doesn't convey weighting of concepts as fluidly as a longer sentence which can paint a richer and more detailed picture with selective emphasis.

That stood out to me as well. Bell Centennial† used that for phonebooks; here I suspect the light-on-dark display has some visual bleeding that this compensates for, especially for tired pilots.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Centennial

That's a different mechanism. There are rubber "feet" at the bottom the of the carts. The wheels are thin slices that sink into the moving sidewalk grooves, therefore the cart rests on the feet instead of the wheels. It's a passive mechanism, there's no actual locking of the wheels. (Try lifting the cart to see that in action.)

The irony is you can scan a URL with a phone camera and it's clickable, with the nice side-effect that the domain is human-inspectable. Just make the font a little bigger and it scans easily.

QR codes are fascinating though, as they can encode more than mere URLs. But the vast majority in the consumer space are links. For that purpose, I'm rooting for OCR.

Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.

This is an Opinion piece, not a news article. The distinction between the two seems to be lost on most people nowadays.

One way I leverage opinion pieces for things with which I disagree, is to treat it as a sort of "devil's advocate". What argument are they making? Is that really the strongest one they have? Does my understanding of that domain effectively counter those arguments? etc.

In this case, the main argumentation is on how ChatGPT is not the miraculous genie it was hyped up to be. That's a fair statement, but to extrapolate that into "AI bubble is crashing now" is overlooking a host of other facts about its usefulness. Yes we'll eventually hit the through of disillusionment but I don't think we're there yet.

I remember being on sensitive zoom calls and seeing Otter.ai join. Had to track down which person was using it, and even they were clueless as to how it got there, and the client kept rejoining despite the user trying to stop it.

I've never used this service so I don't know if the user was being particularly clueless or if some dark pattern was at play; I suspect it's probably a little bit of both.

You don't need the cookie banner for cookies that are just preferences and don't track users.

Has this guy

Sophie Koonin is a lady.

That information was in the original article but might have been omitted by the LLM summary.

I think google amasses far more information via website analytics, Gmail and SSO (Log in with Google) than "willingly"-input search queries.

There are institutions like that. For example, the Collège de France started in 1530, still active, doesn't administer tests nor grants degrees. It's purely about learning.

https://www.college-de-france.fr/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collège_de_France

oh thanks for the tip! I'll look into it.