forbiddenvoid

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Comment · 1 minute ago
I am only one data point, but I have been very intentional about significantly reducing my AI usage. Many other people in my network are doing the same where it's reasonable to do so.

Some people are being railroaded into more AI usage by mandate of their organizations, not because they're actually getting personal value out of it.

Comment · 20 hours ago
Stop connecting TVs to the internet.
Comment · 20 days ago
Seven inch screen.

Why even have a screen at that point?

Comment · 23 days ago
Probably even when it is.
Comment · 2 months ago
The park across from our apartment in Cupertino was the morning gathering point for every crow in the Bay Area. They showed up at about 3:30-4:00a every day. It was as loud and obnoxious as you might otherwise imagine.

Now, in Seattle, we just have a nice family of three crows that hang out on our balcony on a daily basis. I much prefer this arrangement.

Comment · 2 months ago
If there was a second of the same letter, but in the wrong place, it would be yellow. If it's gray, that means there is no repetition of that letter. So once you've seen that the second one is gray, you have the information you need to know that letter is not repeated.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is great. The speed aspect reminds me of the old AOL chatroom word scramble games. I personally love the timer, but I also do the newspaper anagrams without a pen, so I'm certain to be out of the majority on this.

A shuffle button would be nice (especially if it's keyboard friendly). I've found it useful for me with the NYT Spelling Bee. Sometimes my brain just gets stuck on a letter combination because two letters are close together, and the rearrangement helps.

It would be kind of fun to have an endless mode too, that just pulls words from the dictionary. Maybe not quite in line with the "daily word game" premise, but something I would personally find enjoyable.

Comment · 3 months ago
I mean, no one except the 30 million or so people who are paying for it. I'm quite happy with the GamePass selection, and I consider it an excellent value for me.
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't really buy this argument. When you buy a physical product, you are paying the entire product lifecycle, not just the marginal aspect of retail distribution. This is the same thing. The marginal inference has to come FROM somewhere. It doesn't just appear out of nowhere.
Comment · 6 months ago
The meat is alive, actually. Sentient meat, if you can believe it.
Comment · 6 months ago
This seems really cool for people whose friend networks are physically located in the same place they are.

That's not me, and hasn't been for probably 20 years.

But it's a neat idea regardless.

Comment · 6 months ago
I don't really need a social network for the people I'm already in close proximity with. But, I'm glad they're making an attempt here, at least.
Comment · 6 months ago
I was just in Aomori this past week (to see the sakura blossoms in Hirosaki). We literally left Sunday night, and while it seems like there really wasn't any concern in the city, I'm not sure I would have been prepared as a visitor to the country.
Comment · 6 months ago
I know that it's just a super common distinction between pilers and filers, but I really struggle to comprehend the usefulness of just "dumping everything" in one place and hoping that search will sort it out.

At a certain threshold, doesn't it just become impossible to remember what you do or don't have in that pile?

When search fails, is it because it isn't there? Or is it because the search just didn't find it?

Comment · 6 months ago
We still have "both" and it's quite commonly used. It's even used _in_ the article, and in several comments here in this very discussion.

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