brianpan

This is what finally made email useful for me again. I use hey.com email and the Screener whitelist is probably the most important feature. (Selective notifications being the second most useful for me.)

I think this could work for text messages, too. All new texts could go to a screener and don't notify until you opt-in.

Dang, it's THE Carson Gosu? :D

Evidence-based assertions are a good thing, but some things are so obvious that a "comparison" or "research" is not needed. This is already an obvious problem in so many places from high schoolers turning in assignments they don't understand, coders submitting code changes they don't understand, blog posts, and certainly to scientific papers.

100% disagree. The more you don't know an area, the more LLMs will lead you astray.

Explaining difficult topics or summarizing to you is fine. But that's a world of difference from having an LLM write for you. You THINK the LLM is helping you write above your level, but that's because you are not in a position to tell it's bad.

Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.

I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.

Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.

Sorry for meta comments, but are we writing blogs like tweets now? I got 2/3 of the way through before getting overwhelmed by the lack of paragraph groupings to help me follow the stream of consciousness.

Interesting post though.

And the dishwasher, the laundry washer/dryer...

There's also plenty of examples where technology creates something very different than the thing that humans were doing: photograph vs painting, car vs horse/bike. It would be silly to say that we have all this horse infrastructure and saddle UX that we don't want to break compatibility with.

Maybe the lesson is that humans are adaptable but machines/manufacturing is not? It's easier to make a great new thing that humans will use than it is to make a cost-effective production thing that exactly replaces what humans did.

There are different ways to create an iceberg. You are probably thinking of a hard chunk of ice breaking off into the ocean, but probably a more common way is glaciers running into the ocean. A glacier is basically a "river" of snow and ice slowly flowing down a mountain. It would generally not be very compacted.

Fun fact: smaller chunks (less than 15m) are called "bergy bits".

Yes! Clean code (which is more readable and maintainable) should be a stop on the way to higher performance code. Otherwise, you are optimizing too early.

A food processor is a kitchen tool even though it does many things.

A computer is also a tool that does many things and the OS is arguably the important part of how a user wields that tool.

Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble.

But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos.

Really interesting investigation!