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I've very interested in this, and completely agree we are still trying to evolve the horse carriage without realizing we can move away from it.

How can I follow up on what you're building? Would you be open to having a chat? I've found your github, but let me know how if there's a better way to contact you.

I remember about 12-15 years ago, as a weekend project, I reached out to the creator of OpenSubtitles dot org and asked him for a dump of all the subtitles, which he promptly and happily provided. I then indexed them all in elasticsearch (it was a pretty nascent tech at the time), and created a movie quote finder, with timestamps. E.g. you could search for "i love you" and it would tell you all the movies and timestamps that phrase would be uttered. My lazy ass didn't go beyond a localhost version, but I still remember fondly of having gotten that working, it felt like magic at the time.

I have pretty much the opposite take: years from now we'll tell our grandchildren that the AI APIs we used to use were paid BY THE TOKEN!

We're in the dialup days of AI, where capabilities are in the hands of very few companies because hardware and training costs are prohibitively expensive. Sure, the apps we use are heavily subsidized by investment funding and the competition is very fierce. I'll also concede that 99% of the AI startups today will fail. But that doesn't mean only the 1% will be left: new ones will continuously enter the arena, compete for attention, and to do that they'll need to lower their prices. All the while, hardware costs will decrease, and incumbents like NVIDIA will inevitably grow stagnant and others will come to eat their lunch. It's the circle of (business) life.

Count Binface 2 years ago

Introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80.

Sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS.

can we squeeze those in too?

Pluckable Strings 2 years ago

"pluckable strings". Don't really need anything more exhaustive than that. The discovery process is part of the fun.

I saw more than one post about people maxing out credit cards to go long on Bitcoin or other crypto, ALREADY anticipating they will not pay back those cards and just go to collections to pay back 30-40 cents on the dollar. It's like it's become the norm to default.

Likely was one of the only available ones and they felt it was edgy? in terms of cleverness, perhaps "so" as in "so much"

Orion has been a godsend on iOS where it's impossible to install uBlock Origin otherwise. Thanks Kagi team!

I know I should respect the hustle, but hard to respect a middleman adding 0 value to the process.

I also love how they softened his side hustle by fitting "helping make tickets more affordable" in the same sentence where he says he resells them at a higher markup.

Milan is not very different from any other EU city. It's just that the majority of the pollution stagnates due to the mountains surrounding the city preventing airflow. There was a famous individual who proposed to wipe out a mountain to solve this...as you can imagine that is a little too drastic.