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The Prompt API 3 months ago

Slightly off-topic: Refreshing to see these two authors link to their Bluesky and Mastodon profiles. No Twitter/X in sight!

It may be free, but it cannot be used without credits.

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Kagi News 10 months ago

I don't understand this trend of translating UI elements when 100% of the content is English. Who does that help?

Kagi News 10 months ago

I am not so sure. It currently highlights a story from Munich, and in addition to a few factual errors, the information is simply outdated; there have been numerous new relevant developments. (I also don't understand the selection of sources. Aljazeera? rt.com? South China Morning Post? As if there weren't enough sources of original reporting right from Germany.)

I would agree that a single daily news update is useful (and healthy), but this must also be reflected in the choice of topics and the type of reporting.

Fair point! My eyes are (mostly) fine, but even I would have a hard time telling these colors apart when used in the same chart.

I usually do very simple charts, using maybe 2 or 3 colors, and with this palette I feel the results are typically very pleasing, whichever colors I end up selecting.

I've generated (and downloaded) a couple of images. All filenames start with `DALL·E`, so I guess that's a safe way to tell how the images were generated.

That's not correct and also not what the article says. They are only talking about Excel and PowerPoint.

"We're working on adding the Enable Copilot checkbox to Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint on Windows devices and to Excel and PowerPoint on Mac devices."

I am using Word on my Mac (version 16.93) and do have a checkbox that disables Copilot.

Just a side note: It bothers me a bit that most audio player interfaces make it unnecessarily difficult to navigate within a title. This here is a good example: The waveform extends across the entire width of the window and could be wonderfully used to jump precisely to the desired spot (Soundcloud does this comparatively well). Instead, I only have an extremely narrow bar here, where a few pixels of movement mean a jump of several seconds.

their reviews are complete black boxes

They are certainly not "complete black boxes". This page [0], for example, explains in detail their test procedure for vacuum cleaners.

Just an excerpt on durability testing (via deepl):

Impact test (500 cycles): The hoovers drive over thresholds 10 000 times and bump into posts 1 000 times.

Drop test: The suction nozzle must survive 1 200 drops from a height of 80 centimetres.

Cable pull-out test: 6 000 pulls.

Test of hose attachments: 40 000 swings with the connection nozzle clamped.

Squeezing the pipes, hoses and auxiliary air adjusters: The testers load them with about 70 kilograms for ten seconds.

[0] https://www.test.de/Staubsauger-im-Test-1838262-1838266/

This Statamic blog post has (at least some) insights: https://statamic.com/blog/statamic-at-spiegel-scale-2

So how does SPIEGEL do it?

Curious about how SPIEGEL’s stack works? Here’s their high level approach, keeping in mind this is running on v2. Upgrading to v3 streamlines even more of their stack.

A huge flat file content store organized with each entry inside its own subdirectory (you can’t have more than 10k files inside a single directory, an operating system limitation)

The content store is using a cloud storage solution.

Statamic’s control panel pushes entries into the content store, and then into an ElasticSearch instance via message queue.

ElasticSearch runs as a content API with blazing fast response times and is consumed by the control panel and front-end

The front-end is built in Go.

User accounts are connected with an Office 365 Active Directory integration with OAuth.