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Typewriters work too. I’m toying with the idea of starting an online journal that only accepts submissions written by hand or by mechanical typewriters.

Is this included in the free AI tier for small developers? Big news if so

Well let’s say the real (non subsidized) token cost to create the app is $40 that’s 1/100 of a baby i’m saving just by not creating it! Ah i see you edited your comment, i’ll leave…

I mean i’d need to vibe code the damn thing but as a rule of thumb you can save one baby’s life for around $4k

Or as someone more elegantly phrased: https://x.com/tobytarrant/status/2065946761332486231

- So I would like you all to do me a favor please. I would like you to take out your phones and calculate a number. I know this may seem contrived, but I promise it will be useful …

- 10-year history of Alzheimer’s -monosyllabic speech - chronic urinary incontinence, executive dysfunction, dysphagia, dependent mobility - Approximately 19 h post-administration,…

-One screenshot of Nieta Aqila's Meta monetization dashboard, which she posted, showed she made roughly $14 US in a month when she was active in Alberta Facebook groups. So brave C…

One good thing about the (current iteration of) AI era is it’s getting people used to paying directly for data. Yeah, of course i’d prefer information to be totally free. But if th…

If truly 100% automation (including infantry/police) the most likely scenario is not any if the above; most people will be kept on some kind of minimum sustenance enough to keep th…

Can we conceive the possibility of a Ben Lerner novel-reader who isn’t a member of his social milieu? Or aspiring to be.

http://archive.today/yYCdT

Have not seen a counter to the what-seems-to-me trivial point that the condition of possibility of UBI is the elimination of manual labour - or otherwise slavery and slave labour l…

https://archive.ph/97iLM

I think different people will have one feature they feel should have been kept (other than the ram which is universal). For me not so much the Touch ID but the backlit keyboard.

I'll keep adding to the list: * Only one external display * No haptic trackpad

And of course the screen: 13.0-inch vs 13.6 Weight is the same incidentally. I think the tradeoff would be worth it for a lot of people but many would be better off buying the appl…

List of differences from the MacBook Air: * Only supports 8 GB of unified memory * No MagSafe * One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s * No Thunde…