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Retool | Remote (US) & Hybrid (SF/NYC) Retool is how companies let all their employees build with AI. We provide everything you don't want to AI slop: permissions, authentication, …

Yeah. I've never done that. I can see the value in it, though. Personally, I do a Kagi search, or I make an LLM do it for me. I highly prefer word-of-mouth recommendations like Red…

I had a Japanese teacher a few years ago who explained that Japan's ramen is the US's "burger and fries". It's calorie-rich processed food that's available everywhere. They are pre…

Are we using GitHub differently? I don’t understand how the social network part of GitHub has to do with having your code discoverable and to discover. I’ve never stumbled upon a p…

In my world, most multilingual speakers are children of immigrant families, and that transcends socio-economic boundaries. Plenty of immigrants were already wealthy before coming t…

I’m a particular fan of the ai-for-brains emoji in Slack https://slackmojis.com/emojis/63197-ai-for-brains

I suspect it’s by construction, looks like they’re offering every permutation of treat choice twice. Below, I filtered for A vs E, the top two choices. Notice how they switch left …

There’s a few polls that have shown most people use AI, but they also dislike it. I’m in that boat, where my company pays for my subscription, and I use it to be productive. But I …

There are plenty of providers of open models that offer very affordable rates. Generally, I recommend looking at OpenRouter since they track various metrics for the various provide…

The loss with age is super commin, and all in the same direction (people hear more flat but guess more sharp).

> Like, do you even understand what you're saying? That comment is unnecessary and has the effect of making people feel bad. I think the rationale is that wages are stagnant in com…

If Strava is sharing or reselling users GPS locations to third parties without user consent, yes.

Took me a bit of digging but I found this screenshot of fox-news.in: https://urlscan.io/result/50f1da5b-5b1f-417c-91b8-8690638a6e... That URL is linked from https://assets.recorded…

I have a wife. I love my wife. My wife loves me. I cannot return my wife’s love for me at the same amount or manner. She loves me more than I can ever love her. She loves me in way…

> they attract birds that that poo on vehicles I think this is a tree density problem. Most cities have a small number of trees, and they’re almost always over cars. These are tree…

Cocaine (the powder) is extracted from the coca leaf, which indigenous South Americans have chewed for over 8000 years. While the synthetic drug is insanely addictive, the natural …

Surely, they don't spend $500 per month , though, as the quote implies.

re: the phone number Businesses really underestimate how much having a human representative helps customers feel connected to a business. I see it in corporate sales (B2B) where ac…

LLMs will always have the tool call overhead, which I find to be quite expensive (seconds) on most models. Directly using vector databases without the LLM interface gets you a lot …

> From a critical perspective, this signals organizational dysfunction. If a company requires 13 people to sign off on a hire, it… implies a fear of making mistakes… The company wi…

The problem with LLMs using full-text-search is they’re very slow compared to a vector search query. I will admit the results are impressive but often it’s because I kick off an ag…