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Text message reminders and automation. Send the service number a text message like "call Dave in 2 hours" and then in 2 hours you get a text back that says "call Dave" Open in priv…

In what world would this be a future burden? It's just a throwaway fun project lol

There are free and offline options, like Llama.cpp, but you will have to pay by giving up your privacy to Meta (or similar large companies)

I found myself spending too much on websites like Hacker News, so I made a Google Chrome Extension that shows a simple banner with a timer to make me feel guilty for wasting time h…

I set up HTMX for a toy project recently, seemed fine to me. I think the philosophy of HTMX is the real selling point, sending structured content instead of passing JSON around. Th…

The difference is self harm vs harming others. The distinction is that advertising may convince people who do not gamble to start gambling.

speech interfaces have gotten amazing in certain contexts, especially now that speech to text is decent. Think times when you can't call the person but need to send them a quick me…

Perhaps it’s the movies fault for not being interactive or engaging enough

At least it doesn't run windows

Just out of curiosity, what are some of the problems with "Clean Code"? I thought most of it made sense as basic guidelines. It's been a while since I read it though

Oh thank you, not sure if that existed when I first set it up

Hey I do exactly this! Borg into rsync.i know it’s not exactly your domain, but are you guys working on making this flow easier? I found borg difficult to set up, and tbh I don’t r…

Agree, especially for conveying tone, eg, happy, frustration, danger, etc, especially in dialog. There is an art to using them to enhance a message instead of obscuring it, though.…

At my company, we call this a scream test

You're validating that there is a human on the other end, though, that's dangerous.

I like that it requires a small amount of mental energy to perform the 'optimal' play in every situation. The obvious example is doing basic arithmetic to calculate whether you sho…

That article will be very meta next time Jimmy Wales' face is plastered over the page asking for wikipedia donations.

Or better yet, have the majority of people vote by mail and make it easier for everyone.

Is there something like leetcode for string manipulation exercises like this?

If anyone else was wondering why this is a physical device > Why aren’t all these AI gadgets just an app? The answer is actually really simple: phones and tablets don’t allow AI de…

If the text fits within the context window most models are pretty reliable at summarizing texts effectively.

Was also planning on using it for sending happy birthday texts

I like your solution a bit more because it doesn’t require scheduling this script to run on a cron or something. How do you URL encode the message? Could you share the whole shortc…

Awesome!!!! Thank you