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Lest we forget, Jobs LOVED the original iMac Hockey Puck Mouse and wanted the iPhone to only run a handful of Apple-designed apps.

I do, I use Fastmail and create aliases for every service. It's interesting to see how fast companies will "lose" or sell your email address.

I've seen it as fast as 24 hours my unique email address is being used by others even though their privacy policy says that they will never share your info.

I did a few tests and asked it some legal questions. 4o gave me the correct answer immediately.

o1 preview gave a much more in depth but completely wrong answer. It took 5 follow ups to get it to recognize that it hallucinated a non-existent law

But the AI generated article from the front page yesterday said I shouldn’t use Screens anymore… /s

They first introduced a product called Snowball which is a big briefcase of hard drives that would ship you, you transfer up to a petabyte of data and send back. This was the extension of that so they went with another snow related name. Also their data archival service called Glacier which all imply "cold storage."

I do this all the time. Change a character so I can quickly see that I’m running the build that I thought when iterating internally.

This theory makes the most sense to me.

You still have to go through security with PreCheck. It's usually faster and requires fewer steps that non-PreCheck passengers have to go through.

I used to fly up the East Coast and back every other week and I couldn't imagine doing it without it. Seeing the 1-hour standard line and instead making it through PreCheck in less than 5 minutes. I would totally use a self-service system.

When people get PreCheck the normal reaction is "That was easy, why doesn't everyone do that?" I joke that the real "test" when you sign up for PreCheck is can you successfully book the appointment and show up?

No you’re NOT a moron, just a minor mistake. Have a wonderfully Wednesday.

I switched to Kagi and really like it. It really shows you what's possible when you're not optimizing for ads.

Lots of cool functionality like:

Lenses: Allows you to run a search to prioritize certain domains to give you a particular "lens" to view it through.

Personalized results: Allows you to give additional weight or decrease the weight of certain domains.

Search Bangs: Shortcuts for executing the search somewhere else like Reddit, Wikipédia, Google, etc.

I decided to pay for it not because of the ads or privacy or anything else but because it allows me to make "search" work better for my needs.

I miss when Twitter was 140 characters. This tweet could have benefited from the enforced brevity.

The author has a “lab” Patreon where he works out more of the specifics and also builds proofs of concept for the different functions he describes.

The prototypes he built so far are very impressive and he’s been using them as part of his workflow.

Seems like the only people making money in this whole thing is the company hired to change the sign every other week when Musk decides to make a joke or do a sudden rebrand.

Fun fact: According to famed programmer Brian Kernigan: one day a colleague at Bell Labs was doing textual analysis on *The Federalist Papers* but it was proving challenging due to the full-text of the document being around 1mb—far more memory than most machines at the time.

Kernigan mentioned the dilemma To Ken Thompson—of Unix fame. The next day he came to work with a new program that could quickly find strings in a text document without having to load the entire document into memory. It became known as grep.

Correlation ≠ Causation