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These are really fun, I’m on the fourth book now.

I think my concern is less about consistency, and more that I don't know how the LLM is deciding what is, for example, a "dystopian setting." Sure, it could be true that the percent of sci-fi movies since the 1950s that have a dystopian setting has increased from 11% to 46%. An alternate explanation is that the LLM is trained on more modern language, and so is better at detecting modern dystopian storylines. And with this method, we cannot know.

I was really drawn in and thinking deeply about this, until I got to the end:

The content analysis of each film and TV show was generated with the ChatGPT 4o large language model. [..] So the content analysis for each film and TV show – as well as the short explanation of its answer – are based on ChatGPT 4o’s responses.

I immediately discounted everything I'd just read. I cannot imagine doing this work manually, but I also cannot imagine believing that these effects are real based on ChatGPT's determination.

Maybe that's just indicative of my current "AI" cynicism, but it was remarkable to me how immediately my opinion changed.

Ah, so you drive a Tesla.

Their mouse and all of their trackpads support right click without extra buttons.

There's a good guide to the prioritization (QCI) of various carriers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...

I believe if you get the higher-priced Visible plan (Visible+), you have higher/equivalent to postpaid priority. I switched to this plan a year ago from Verizon, in an area where being deprioritized on any of the carriers means it's useless much of the day, and it's been great.

Presumably the same reason all Teslas have weird door handles: "Oooh, different!" Despite the fact that they're kind of miserable to use and less reliable than a standard handle.

Agreed. There's a lot of blaming 18 year olds for taking out loans (which many of them were encouraged to take) pursuing degrees that might not earn enough to pay off (while they were encouraged to follow their heart).

The real issue is that schools are too expensive. It shouldn't be a mistake that takes a lifetime to pay back if you pursue a degree that "the marketplace" doesn't reward with a six- or seven-figure salary.

If I'm understanding what you're looking for, a straightforward version of this is built into macOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/replace-text-punctu...

It seems that many of the arguments against this system rely on believing governments (or similarly powerful groups) will strong-arm Apple and fabricate evidence.

I fail to see how this system (which I'm not a big fan of, to be clear) makes it easier if you assume governments can and will fabricate evidence. Doesn't seem you need an iPhone, smartphone, or to have owned or done anything at all in that case.

Yup. My personal machine is a base Late 2013 15” MacBook Pro (8GB RAM). Original battery, original storage, it saw very heavy usage up until a a couple of years ago. Still fast, decent battery.

In regards to your follow-up question, I've been using Cloudflare Pages for a month or so now. I found that it was by default faster than Netlify, and that adding a Page Rule to cache everything made things even a bit faster.

My guess is that by default it's not fully cached at all of their edge nodes, and by adding an aggressive Page Rule, the edge nodes can actually cache my site (which is very small and simple).

The scrolljacking on this site makes it literally unusable on my device.

I disagree wholeheartedly. You’ve described Trumpism in terms of “what goes on in Donald Trump’s head.” I think very few people ultimately care about this. Instead, most people interpret “Trumpism” as what his followers believe. And I can see little argument that there’s a much stronger thread of white primacy in his statements and followers than anyone else.

I find it illuminating that this website tries to load at least 7 trackers, including from Facebook and Google, and that scrolling is broken when they are blocked.

No current app store effectively blocks any of this, but I certainly imagine their envisioned free-for-all involves even more invasive trackers, to which I say "no thanks."

I hope Apple quadruples down on their privacy stance and starts blocking this BS that's built into apps.

I think sometimes less confident users see a "No Thanks" as "Not Ever," and are worried they'll disable something. "Maybe Later" communicates the choice isn't permanent and they can come back to it later if they want.

This reminds me a lot of an older iteration of Feedbin: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin

The point still stands that what Google Reader was and what you want is an RSS reader.

Unless I'm missing something, they never did anything unique to "use its clout to affect change on other organizations and make that data available to them in the form they wanted"—it was just an RSS reader, and what you've described is exactly how I use my reader of choice (Feedbin). Many modern offerings even offer a feature to pull the full text for articles where it's not included by default.

I'm also hanging on to my 30" Apple Cinema (and adapters to work with a new USB-C MBP). The LG 5K seems like a decent replacement though, I'm not totally clear why it seems so unpopular.

Was this an additional option or higher subscription? I currently have a Washington Post subscription and, with my ad blocker disabled, see plenty of ads.

And yet Microsoft Office is available via the macOS App Store, alongside venerable packages like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, Logic and Final Cut (Apple-owned software), the Omni suite of software, Autodesk software, Pixelmator, etc.

The App Store has problems, but all apps there being "loser apps" is not one of them.

They've literally started adding features for iPhones to do just the opposite of what you claim, optimizing charging based on your charging habits.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512

You're right, I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. I wish it had ranked high enough for a comparison though, seems to solve some of the issues raised (though perhaps causes others).

This misses a pretty stellar entrant in the field, Atom + Hydrogen. Works nicely with multiple kernels (I use R and Python), allowing notebook-like functionality across multiple languages.

I'll add to the list: https://www.codydehaan.com

I'm currently deciding on an analytics package, so excuse the several JS calls that are present—though they all strive to be relatively unintrusive.

Glad you wrote this recent post about your site tools and process. I've followed your site for a while and have always appreciated its design and content.

Simple (and perhaps others) offer the features you asked for in the US, except for syncing other accounts.

I do the same, and it's worked out very well for me so far, for many years.

Interestingly runs fine for me on Safari 12.0.3 on a midrange 2017 MacBook Pro 15".