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We just sold our 2025 Subaru Outback specifically because the software experience was bad.
To exit a climate control modal on the screen you have to find and tap a tiny red "X" box in the furthest corner of the screen from the steering wheel.
We're here -- I use AI for low-complexity toil, one-off scripts, search & discovery, and as a sounding board for new perspectives.
I still design and build systems almost all myself. If a snippet comes out of an LLM I'm keen to use it's filtered through my brain as well. Polished and transformed to align with my vision. After all, I'm on the hook for supporting it and bringing it to my team.
I'm sure most of us are just sick of the mania around this and choose to avoid interacting with content relating to it.
It's very useful. But irresponsible to use without recognizing and respecting its limitations.
I have > 10yoe, fwiw.
I think I agree, so long as:
- age/identity verification comes with banning of bot traffic posing as human in any communication platform, by law - end to end encrypted communication is declared a fundamental human right, by law
I don't think we'll see that though. Too much money / power left on the table.
What they conveniently leave out is that it sometimes takes over a decade for a correction
Please tell me this is a joke, or that you're not building anything important at work. It's a very well known problem that YouTube's algorithmic moderation hurts a lot of honest creators, and their ability to make a living, when there is a false positive or is abused.
I have abandoned spotify - but I agree in that I think the experience is still pretty great for users.
There are other warts though:
- They're paying out the lowest to artists by far when it comes to streams
- Artist impersonation issues
- Botted playlists
- Daniel Ek investing his fortune into AI drone military defense company Helsing
- The nascent issue of AI music / artists (see The Velvet Sundown)
For me it is moreso that all of this adds up to artists getting the squeeze, and I'd rather try to find ways to better support them.
Incredible, loved the blog
Kagi’s response headers make it such that they cannot be included in this report
The fact that the confidence interval range includes 1 means that the finding was not statistically significant.
The population for those two specific diagnoses were low in the study. Diagnostic patterns change over time for these type of disorders. Considering neurodevelopmental outcomes as a group may add more color.
You are correct that the study failed to disprove a link between aluminum and aspergers. But the study did prove a that if there is a link it does not result in a moderate to large increase in aspergers risk.
It is in clinical trials I believe, seriously.
Look up the Regeneron COURAGE trial
There are helpful nuggets of wisdom here. Also let's acknowledge some people are prone to watch hours of short form content a day, every day, at the expense of everything else in their lives, for a very long consecutive time (of course I know him -- he's me). They really are addicting!
It's not quite the same as Niri, but in case you haven't seen there is _A_ tiling window manager for Mac: Amethyst
No 'endless scrolling' aspect, but I find it works great for managing window sizing and bopping around your windows via keyboard.
I love all of the contextual metadata, huge potential here
Are you working on the Mudita Kompakt or Minimal Phone?
While I do feel a bit of "what is the point of my premium sub", I'm really excited for these changes.
Considering our brain is a "multi-modal self-reinforcing omnimodel", I think it makes sense for the OpenAI team to work on making more "senses" native to the model. Doing so early will set them up for success when future breakthroughs are made in greater intelligence, self-learning, etc.
I have had a mail account almost since launch, and within the last month signed up for the tier that includes VPN.
Haven't had any complaints about the mail service! In fact, I recently made the decision to completely drop gmail and it has been working great so far.
I do wish you could have separate emails funnel to separate inboxes that are accessible in the same UI. Right now you can only route to different folders, or create a separate account entirely and switch between them using a toggle in the app. I think functionally the separation need is met, just not in the way I prefer, so I'm not too upset about it.
The VPN has been fine so far when I sparingly use it. I would get a lot more use out of it when it has Apple TV support. I am holding out for that, apparently it is on the roadmap for this summer.
I used to work in a home for special needs children around 2007, there was a child there who was on a 'keto diet', by order of clinicians, to help prevent seizures. This was well before it entered the zeitgeist as a fad diet.
I think the supplement/fitness influencer machine is so aggressive and fraught with misinformation that anything that falls in its crosshair is just squeezed to death.
Why does this happen?
A blend of anonymity, low self-soothing ability, human instinct to talk trash during competition, people tying identity to performance, skew towards younger people playing, etc.
How and to what degree does it manifest?
How? Mostly through voice and chat systems in-game. Also through quitting the game, or blatantly "throwing" a match.
To what degree? From "You suck" to racial slurs to harm yourself. It's ubiquitous across competitive games -- you'll probably experience it every session.
How do you avoid it?
The best way is to find a consistent group of folks to play with. Stay away from "random queue". Certain games you can turn off chat features, submit reports, etc. You can also just ignore it and accept it as part of the thing.
There is a spectrum in between chop wood, carry water that looks like: - use natural cleaning products - use reusable bags - volunteer in green space preservation - vote in local elections
etc. Establish your principles and live as closely to that as you can, and tune out what is outside of your control. Seriously. Block it. No one needs to see this shit every day.
I am assuing this is in the context of some kind of mental health issue?
Yes, if you are already 'self-actualized', you don't need to be thinking about behavior modification frameworks, your behaviors are already serving you.
Some people have circumstances and long-lived reactions and behaviors for those circumstances that make it very difficult to change course, even if they have a real desire to. This 'disconnectedness' between lived experience and personal goals and values can lead to a lot of anguish. In those cases, following a framework, even though it can feel 'weird', can lead to the positive sparks required for change.
Drop this! (farts in your general direction)
Lexi, this is amazing! I am 33 and I still don't know ANYTHING about how a CPU runs a program.
Appreciate you injecting your own style into the writing. After a decade in the industry I'm sick of soulless reference materials.
A relationship is like anything else. If you don’t consistently invest in it, it will atrophy.
It is scary.