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Raising the is–ought fallacy here i s a category mistake that weakens the author’s argument. “Software is about people” argues: > I used to think software was fundamentally about c…

We’ve been in the singularity since the 1950s; exponential grown can be flat for a long time.

Or, as the Wikipedia Simplified Technical English Wikipedia mentions, use Plain English or Plain Language as non-aerospace alternatives: > The US government's Plain English lacks t…

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ChatGPT Group Chats were retired July 9. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12703475-retiring-group-...

Excellent, problem solved.

Update after using the new ChatGPT.app for a bit: Lots of old ChatGPT functionality missing: - No voice mode - No Deep Research - No explicit Search toggle - No Record mode (meetin…

> The updated ChatGPT desktop app (opens in a new window) is available globally today for Mac and Windows, with Chat, Work, and Codex available to users on every plan, including Fr…

Something not mentioned in the changelog that I just noticed: Kagi Assistant now offers Gemma 4 31B hosted at Cerebras. It’s insanely fast and seems to follow instructions quite we…

I just got it working with Pi, it works great. I use Pi inside nono.sh sandbox, which requires setting: export PLANNOTATOR_REMOTE=1 Then adding to the nono profile: { "filesystem":…

If I want to onboard a client to Cloudflare, I have to ask them to create an account and then invite me, which is a lot of friction for non-technical people. A “create account” but…

Gmail will block messages that fail SPF/DMARC alignment unless the forwarding mail server supports SRS.

Similarly, `Go Map!!` is an iOS app that makes editing OSM data easy. Adding missing features is one of my favorite things to do while traveling, and feels like a way of giving bac…

> it automatically falls back to Claude Opus 4.8 I wonder how much of the time people will just get Opus 4.8 at 2× the cost.

Don’t presume this study has anything to do with programming. They measured an agent’s ability to search long conversations, not code. > We evaluate on a 116-question representativ…

Honestly, when I see headlines like this I just scroll down to the Kagi comment and upvote it.

I don’t use Slack either. What about solo indie founders who don’t use “team communication”?

Plaid is criticized because it’s a public-facing mechanism for third-party access into your finances, but many companies already have access without you knowing. In the US, many ba…

The article doesn't really get into the details. Does it analyze the user agent and compare it to a list of known bot user agents? What about all the bots that spoof user agent val…

It must have been so fun to be Benjamin Franklin. He installed an electric bell in-line on his first lightning rods so that this increase in electrical potential would cause the be…

Kagi’s small web app is fun: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

Probably it did, but just thought, “I’m saving this one just for me”

Obviously I’m virtue signaling, and I hope instilling a feeling of shame in people who support businesses that contribute to climate change. But more than that, the emissions gener…

One of the reasons I refuse to use xAI’s models is because of the outsized negative environmental impacts of the methane gas turbines. Now I have to avoid Claude too.

I’m getting a “Forecast API error: 429 - Too many concurrent requests” error.