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An emphasis on driving users towards IRL socialization, and strengthening geographically local communities.

Partiful works well?

They are not big-tech American, and as a non-profit, they aren't beholden to advertiser or investor interests.

Very fair, and worth addressing. May I ask- what are the main barriers preventing you from socializing? Could intentionally designed apps or social structures reduce those barriers…

I'm not sure which happy, anti-social countries you are referring to. "It may turn out that people aren’t hanging out at bars, but at home." I understand that entertaining at home …

This is the issue that is top of mind for me at the moment. If you're frustrated by political polarization, this is one of the root causes! I'm very eager to hear any ideas on step…

Because liquidating / selling your shares is a taxable event. If you purchased a simple ETF to begin with, your tax burden would have been lower.

In Apple's case, it is also a demonstration that leadership strongly cares about design (a core value of the company).

This also reminds me of Lumii (now Fathom), which is an MIT media lab spin-out that prints multiple inkjet layers to create a 3D effect: https://www.inkworldmagazine.com/contents/v…

This image may not be a representative test case. It looks like it has heavy compression (including posterization), and overall poor quality. "Quality" meaning things like focus, c…

Instead of writing out frames at a fixed FPS (ie, 60 fps), the driver would send out updates to individual pixels at precise moments in time, and the unaddressed pixels would remai…

Not sure what Gong's pricing is, but we evaluated a few different notetakers and settled on https://fireflies.ai/ . $18 / month gets a recording and summary sent out to all invitee…

Fluorescence microscopy is a great tool for this!

Diffusion in liquid is relatively consistent. When paper is soaked and allowed to dry, it can produce uneven concentrations as regions evaporate at different rates, and solutes mov…

Imagine there were a set of a few common terms that businesses could select, each with an icon, a high-level explanation, and the detailed legal copy. I think there is a common set…

This assumes that the new ponds will pull mosquitoes away from existing ponds. Is this true? (Maybe mosquitoes are limited by suitable breeding grounds, and introducing decoys coul…

It's less power efficient than a cable, so trivially it's going to generate more waste heat (sure, there might be small amounts of power released as RF, but typically, innefficies …

It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic "blogpost" (since speech is typically different than writing). Using …

Why not just connect the LED to the same rail that powers the camera?

We faced a similar problem with consultants on an old AWS account that had become obsolete. A week of back-and-forth with support ensued as we tried to figure out how to close the …

In my experience with ChatGPT-4, I'll get a full 2-300 line class, with maybe 1-2 compilation errors (often a missing import or invalid function invocation). In most cases, I can c…