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There's a place for spinners, but I agree in the sense that the average user shouldn't be waiting for a spinner in an average session. A green path should be a good experience. An …

I don't believe that "6 hours a day" is an answer any historian would give when asked how much workers in any period in history worked. There have been indications that there were …

New commercial seating design: Oops, All Pinch Points!

Neither cursing nor thanking LLMs is useful. Relating in emotive syntax puts you in the wrong headspace to get the most out of the chat. We anthropomorphise things very easily -- d…

They're very strongly against the Iran War right now.

AI = Actually Indenturedservantsfromthirdworldcountries

An LLM conversation is like handling clay. When I don't grok an answer I mold the LLM's approach to fit my level of mastery of the subject. It's one of the few interactions you can…

> Or we ship a feature and never circle back to check whether it's used the way we intended, so we keep shipping more on the same untested assumptions. It's not on you to track the…

Sideways, small, and far away isn't an ideal format for reading hundreds of titles.

For you, the day General Electric graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Taco Tuesday.

"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. T…

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into t…

There are Black Mirror episodes for people in all sorts of careers who find themselves with too much power, poorly handled; the show's narratives depend on the fact that the techno…

Optimistically, perhaps the thread is undersubscribed because people with good ideas to change the world are using them for their startups.

Private black ops that does stuff that state-level actors find awkward to do, like retiring former KGB members from their executive roles in a kinetic fashion, trying out at least …

This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it. I often reflect th…

The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane." (Because James B…

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." ("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to ma…

Their efforts at AI have been really sad to see. They tried making an Everything Bagel and seem to have hit a wall, hard. It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach…

Strangely, New York is not listed.

AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier ('staircase wit')

The best thinking I've read on this topic is here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/i/183266265/space-dat... (The entire post is well worth your time too.)

When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.

Rutherford said that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting." In his view, a field either explains the underlying mechanisms of the universe (physics) or it simply coll…

Not a Cannes film: 'Given the breathless way this news has reverberated through Silicon Valley, it feels important for me to set the record straight: This is, at best, wildly misle…