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I actually thought the article could be more explicit about that, but in fairness I think the author figured readers were familiar with the app and that it would be obvious there’s…

Yeah, this is the thing you can ask an LLM and get a confident and verbose wrong answer.

Yeah, I frequently wish you could get directions from your current point on a train/bus line.

The word set is enough to identify some people based on speech patterns or interests. The inclusion of other words in the set — cocaine, divorce, abortion, merger, lymphoma — would…

A lot of the buildings along Canal Street in New Orleans, with souvenir and liquor stores on the ground floor, are empty upstairs as well. I can think of buildings in other cities …

I could see the NES being comparable to the Model T. People are going to know what an NES or an “original Nintendo” is for decades, just like we all know what a Model T is.

I mean, how common is a terminal master’s program in STEM fields? I imagine there are departments where it’s more common to get a master’s by dropping out of the PhD program early …

Probably also for students with “just” a bachelor’s. Most PhD students don’t enter with a master’s. I do wonder if NSF is hoping to seed more industry-sponsored PhDs as well, e.g.,…

Yeah, Facebook was primarily a directory when it started, a cross between a college facebook (like a yearbook given at the start of the year instead of the end) and a phone book. A…

Sure, but they’re still potentially sitting in limbo and turned off in the trunk of an employee’s car or whatever. If you’re concerned about leak issues, why not wipe them and have…

Six years ago was a long time — summer 2020. Substack is a huge competitor that has grown dramatically in that time. Beehiiv is another competitor that just launched a bunch of new…

This seems more like a bounty for the laptop potentially full of company information, passwords, code, secrets, etc., which Patreon does not want out in the wild or to have to depl…

Right, and any musicians taking that kind of gig will have professional photos they would happily share that you could just put some text on top of! With the OP and restaurant menu…

Yes, this is exactly the problem. Multiple pieces of software vying to be your passkey provider, often using dark patterns so you don’t realize you’re making a choice, and not usin…

I enjoy the radio. I have a few stations I’ll cycle through at home and in the car. But all nonprofit/college /etc. Most US commercial radio is very bad. I don’t really understand …

Ignoring it is hard to distinguish from waiting to see how other businesses successfully use it, then copying them, which will then be framed as adopting best practices.

> The story doesn't mention how this schoolteacher got enough "private investors" so she could quit her job and pursue this. Yeah, this is the big question. Family money? Whatever …

Very interesting! > Someone who buys bananas reliably every week for months will randomly stop for months, and then start again, for no perceivable rhyme or reason. The bananas wer…

Right. Laptops are basically work (or school) tools now for a lot of people. They might have one tucked away that they pull out now and then when they need it, similar to a power d…

And also typing cat x to get a quick look at the file, hitting up, then piping that into another command and taking a look, hitting up, piping that result into a third command etc.…

The most common CD players around now are probably video game consoles.

This is how it now works with music, I believe. Apple, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc. all sell you access to DRM-free files along with the ability to download or stream them in perpetuity.…

Yeah, it’s a problem with the employment and organizational structure, in a way. Software doesn’t need continual redesign and redevelopment at constant scale, nor is there unlimite…

They do need more attention per person. Doing anything with a group of eight is just more complicated, and you’re more likely to have a person in the group who slows things down fo…

I’d put working for tips in here as well. From the worker’s point of view, it’s adding a gambling element to every transaction, complete with the usual gambler’s folk wisdom about …