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Other than the NHK World documentary series, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness was quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24wViGZKVu8

It's not exactly hostility, it's a paralyzing fear about public perception of battery life, especially given the form factors they want to maintain.

The next few upgrade cycles for Apple will be about enabling AI functionality through an increase in ram. So if people want AI, they’ll have to get a new phone.

We're on the path to putting Augustine's City of God theory of population to the test.

The Daily: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260807/dq260...

The college scorecard Lisa Gelobter lead is really useful: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/

I'm purging my brain of all the useless knowledge I've accumulated over the years and extending my cognition as far as it can go by relying on AI, and I've gained enough weight to …

People are definitely taking things too far, even here with the random and often baseless ‘this is AI’ comments. With that said though, I won’t order food off a delivery app if I s…

Cloudflare offers a free plan that's fantastic. The free plan gives you effectively unlimited DNS/CDN traffic for a normal site, while the main practical cap is 100,000 Worker invo…

I bet this is an attempt by Microsoft at trying to win back fans. I also noticed IShowSpeed and Kai Cenat promoting a Minecraft playthrough, which I would assume is paid for by Mic…

For people who teach through writing, there are great tools out there like MATCHA: https://matchawriter.com . It's a secure writing environment that verifies authorship by recordin…

I dunno what’s worse: having no data footprint when you apply to rent from this landlord who is doing bulk data purchases and de-anonymizing it to screen you, or having the wrong d…

Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.

I think the point is that if it's irrelevant, why mention it?

You’re right, maybe roughly circa 1930 across internationally recognized research universities? For some reason I thought Oxford was the holdout.

PhDs only were adopted universally in 1917 with some resistance and apprehension. The issue here is that academia forgot what it was about a long time ago and is now having to face…

Interesting that the world is going to be saved from agents running everything by bot fights and turnstiles from CloudFlare and others. How long will it be before they start chargi…

The little pencil effect is a nice touch.

I love the iPhone Air. Apple better not discontinue it. My advice to all iPhone users who want better battery life: either turn off background app refresh or be very selective in w…

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Rest in Peace, John. It looks like Adam Curry and John’s wife Mimi will be hosting an episode of No Agenda tomorrow to share stories and anecdotes in remembrance. https://mailchi.m…

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It feels like AI is going to be the end of Google. The post-Schmidt company culture cannot produce consistent, consumer-friendly products that any sane person would want to use con…

This is a good thing for travellers. In border security there are generally two camps, one that uses data and intelligence to go after the worst, large-scale criminal operations an…

Thanks for all the links, I love feeding my RSS reader. I really like this: http://blog.beforemario.com updates are rare these days, but they cover Nintendo corporate history and p…