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We build text-based (e.g. SMS rather than voice) agents for various medical conversations (e.g. preparing people for complex appointments). Our user base skews elderly. Going in, I…

There are many strains. You will develop immunity to one strain, but not the others. I assume a vaccine would try to be multivalent.

Also bad news if your dog is prone to seizures, as mine was.

If you found this interesting, you might want to check out The History of the English Language podcast. I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying it. And I can’t believe I have 195 episo…

Apple Music has a totally separate app for classical music. It was specifically designed to address exactly this. For each composer, it shows all their well known works, and then y…

NYC is very different in that regard from most anywhere else in the US. Random people tend to talk to each other. There’s a vague sense of “we’re all in this shit together”. Maybe …

I find that Claude almost always ends its response with some sort of follow up question, despite my system prompt telling it not to. I never really used ChatGPT much though so mayb…

Some mushrooms, like many oyster species, are saprotrophs and will grow on just about any waste organic material with enough cellulose.

Or Pixelfed, for a decentralized fediverse option.

We've been using Zulip for our company chat for 2 years now. It does what we need it to do — while letting us control where it's deployed and where the data is stored (!!). But the…

Glad to hear E2EE is coming soon, but it’s been “soon” for probably a year now. It’s a bit odd that encrypted notifications still don’t work, and I’d argue it’s a very big caveat w…

Yes, exactly. The lack of any sort of permission controls for extensions in VS Code gives me the creeps

Not a lie, a potential misinterpretation if anything. Google has never factually countered the allegation, and now it’s before the courts in California. I’m going to wait and see h…

This has been “down” for me for a few months now, ever since Google tied this functionality to the same toggle that opts you in for using your email data for AI training. So now yo…

It’s a bit odd though that Zulip charge $ for mobile notifications but still don’t have basic end-to-end encryption for those push notifications .

Maybe because what.cd picked up the torch and carried on for another few years? For me there was some sense of continuity between the two.

I don’t get why people ask questions like this nowadays when the Wikipedia article or an LLM will give you a much better answer than what someone could type in a reply. https://en.…

Judging by the murderous sounds you hear all night here in the summer, I would not want to be cornered in a dark alley by a gang of adolescent raccoons.

Toronto, Canada is hands down the raccoon capital of the world. Something like 100k raccoons live in the city. I can’t get my head around how such big animals manage to live all ar…

I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rej…

That’s a great way to discourage anyone ever doing any large scale refactoring, or any other heavy lifting.

AppStore says it’s not available in Canada for some reason.

I don’t want OOP. I just want the language to include a system for imposing constraints that prevent entire categories of bugs and make it easier to safely do large scale refactori…

Just wait until the Quebecois government here in Canada hears about this. They are militant about avoiding english at all costs. They changed all the STOP signs in Quebec to ARRET …