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io84

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About io84

https://lui.ie

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    Comment #49247299

    A new and growing fear I have is that AI cuts off some of the most well-trodden pathways to intellectual growth. Every time the AI solves a problem that I would not have been able …

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    Comment #48123923

    The very same - he writes about that elsewhere on the site.

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    Comment #44644938

    "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" _in a microniche techno-linguistic community, at a time and choosing of the swirling AI clouds_

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    Comment #44456366

    How to create a semantic search engine for colors (or anything else) using Supabase and an embedding provider such as OpenAI or Mistral

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    Comment #44385519

    "You need a Claude account to use this artifact" This could be a phenomenal growth loop for Anthropic.

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    Comment #44364465

    The Model Id column alone makes this a useful resource for me, thank you! Every time I need to enter a model id into code I am amazed at how hard it is to find something so simple …

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    Comment #44316195

    I had a few tries at Ulysses in my 20s and always abandoned it. I tried it again aged 38 and I found it flowed much more easily. The protagonist Leopold Bloom, who I remembered as …

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    Comment #44298813

    I wonder if that’s a dictation artefact

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    Comment #44298262

    I have very fond memories of Wave. My non-tech friend group embraced it as our primary communication platform for a brief period and it hosted a frenzied chaotic fun that was only …

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    Comment #44298207

    Nice writeup. I've seen that if I take a post of mine that was successful on another platform and repost it to X it's met with crickets. My theory is X is now more dominated by in-…

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    Comment #44246327

    You're capturing nicely how the relationship with the farmer is an essential part of the "product" you buy when you buy high-end organic. I think that will continue to be true in c…

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    Comment #44246315

    Interesting...thinking this through: For text and ideas the information size is often small enough to fit in human memory, and thus containing this is already unsolvable! I can ask…

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    Comment #44242790

    Just like with food: there will be a market value in content that is entirely “organic” (or in some languages “biological”). I.e. written, drawn, composed, edited, and curated by h…

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    Comment #44227071

    Cheap hack I use for transcribing in-person customer sessions: 1. record the audio on your phone audio recorder 2. send the mp3 to yourself in Slack 3. a few minutes later the tran…

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    Comment #44039446

    Great execution. Interesting to think about the peaks and troughs of global activity. The Sleep numbers make a big claim: Right after Europe and West Africa have woken up (i.e. now…

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    Comment #44037535

    Kudos to the open source contributors but honestly this is the kind of area where the big commercial players need to step up and help with the heavy lifting.

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    Comment #43882051

    I think the point is that Mao is in a very small club of individuals deemed responsible for tens of millions of deaths. Che is small fry in comparison.

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    Comment #43823199

    Great name!

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    Comment #43821518

    Great, messaged. Looking forward to chatting!

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    Comment #43821477

    Thanks for the anon comments that came in via the feedback form! I'm guessing they came from here. I've deployed two of the suggestions: 1. don’t show unavailable (now hidden behin…

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    Comment #43820461

    Awesome I'd love that! Let's chat - I'm yablochko on both bluesky and twitter if you want to dm me on one of those.

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    Comment #43819817

    If I have an active thread in Gmail and I'm waiting on a response I find it useful to snooze the thread so it reappears in my inbox either with a response or after the snooze time …