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It feels to me as if the author got it backwards - in turning the AC back on, they didn’t „say no“ - the person who put up the note has „said no“ in the first place (to the practic…

That’s not it in this case, because the book is mostly a recounting of what happened. I narrowed it down to two things: One is that every aspect of the story is treated equally - u…

It’s great to have the entire topic brought together into a cohesive book - but wow, I find it very annoying to read.

I find it very hard to find books worth reading. It’s so difficult to separate Signal from noise - there are just too many books and too few reliable curators. Amazon ratings, good…

Reminds me of m favorite late 90s messenger, Odigo[0]. It had some sort of radar which showed you people who were visiting the same site. It sure had this town hall feel, but admit…

This doesn't work for everyone, for example, if I get motion sick, closing my eyes makes it far worse, almost immediately.

Yeah me too. It felt like it was designed exclusively for me, it ticks all the boxes in what a dumb phone should and shouldn't have in terms of functionality.

> If it had an option to install a messenger of choice (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp etc) It has that capability. From TFA: > A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, T…

As a parent, what I find effective are content rating systems, be it for movies, games or apps, along with the ability to control and fine-tune them. For example, with Apple's pare…

You confuse ease of using a tool with quality of output. A skilled carpenter can work both with high and with medium quality tools and prefer one over the other with no difference …

One skill that I still possess and that LLMs haven't been able to replace (yet) is to ask good questions, for example: - Rephrasing the original question to validate my understandi…

Pratchett introduced the concept of active laziness to me. One of his characters is so lazy that he’s working out frequently because he is too lazy carrying around excess weight al…

The part where data providers lose traffic because their own data is displayed directly on the google premises is what repeats.

A couple of years back I worked with a company which maintained specific data which was the main traffic driver on that page. Google approached them and wanted to pay for the right…

I had a similar realization today. I work as an EM, and one important aspect of my work is becoming worthless: experience. Having been an IC for a long time usually enables me to s…

For me, this misses the point of bookmarks - it’s not about remembering where I have been but getting there extremely fast.

For a game like anchorhead, which is famous in its niche, shouldn’t Claude already know it sufficiently to just solve it right away? I would expect that its data source contained m…

I was close to finishing school when Wikipedia came up. A lot of complaints and concerns about LLMs today echo remarks about Wikipedia back then. Kids won’t learn anything, they wi…

A teacher of mine used to say: Lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.

When was that? DB has gotten much worse in the past ~5 years

All this costs money for little return of invest. As long as the collateral damage is below a threshold that causes reputational damage, there is no business incentive to solve thi…

I don’t mean to defend this, but I know from experience that gift cards are frequently used for money laundring. The laws against that are very strict, incentivizing companies to o…

Gift cards are huge in the B2B business as they are used a lot as gifts from companies to employees.

It’s a well done homage - but no one should believe for one second the actual average page back then looked _that good_!

Easy. You have data available which tells you about the most likely travel dates, and you set this as the default. Many booking platforms pick a weekend in 2 weeks or something lik…