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You should use your own words. It might seem that a tool like Grammarly is just an advanced spellcheck, but what it's really doing is replacing your personal style of writing with …

I bought their Clicks phone case for iPhone and was very disappointed. The keyboard was dismal to type on and slowed me down significantly. If they're using the same keyboard in th…

546,229 character-length URL for the Crime and Punishment example. Half a megabyte for a URL. That certainly is a thing.

Which ones do you prefer?

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Before installing all those apps the author listed, I'd recommend this exercise: Let the battery die on your phone, and live one week without it. Cold turkey. Tell people in advanc…

Most people probably don't. I'm an editor who's been working in print for years, so the keyboard shortcut for an em dash is muscle memory for me at this point. I have always been a…

"Dug tunnels" - one of the most ridiculous boondoggles of any modern industrialist. The Boring Company is a machine for overpromising to get government contracts and underdeliverin…

"Today, you still find airbrush-inspired art in advertising that’s done digitally rather than with ink on paper. The digital art is a little too perfect though — the gradient blend…

Every time Douglas Adams' biscuit story is told, I laugh as hard as if I were hearing it for the first time.

I work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.

That's a very insightful take. I think an LLM would have some role in a good text adventure game, in terms of being able to understand any natural language input and respond intell…

It's a pretty cool proof of concept. I did run into some weirdness with it right away when trying the Harry Potter book. The app kept switching between 2nd and 3rd person for Harry…

That's a great point. For example, my wife probably knows me better than anyone in the world. She's very good at seeing a book and knowing I'm probably going to like it. That inclu…

The concept is great. Some constructive feedback on the execution: I expected to be able to provide a lot more than just five books. The splash page says "Our AI analyzes your read…

It wasn't a rendering by an artist, it's just an autogenerated Midjourney image.

Using Midjourney to visualize a historical structure like this is not just lazy, it's very misleading. Especially when there are actual digital recreations, available for free use …

The AI generated images were an immediate turn-off to me as well. Whatever one thinks of the aesthetics, they're a huge signal that I'm looking at a product that's focused on monet…

You're making the error of judging Raskin's approach with the knowledge of user interfaces that a person in 2025 has. It's been 40 years since that interview. Many people today wer…

Does this mean the CIA is not subject to the Federal Records Act, or does it mean they're simply flaunting the law?

Can you explain that joke for me? I keep reading it and I don't get it.

Absolutely agree. There's a huge advantage to working on a pre-internet computer for word processing, in terms of being able to focus. But the VIC-20 screen is painful to look at. …

This sounds so absolutely absurd that it would probably work.

Excellent UI and very fun to explore, although North America is conspicuously blank before 1607. Hopefully more sources can be added to this to fill that out.