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~~ytmnd~~ zombo.comComment · 1 month ago
Besides the useful product, also a very lovely site.
Page size around 85 KB, bullshit around 0 BS, loaded in 140 ms on my end.
Comment · 1 month ago
> The fix for having no market is to act like the teams you serve could leave.
My nomination for this months "clarity of thought and ability to express it eloquently" medal.
Comment · 1 month ago
Very true. I have ChatGPT set up to do some recurring tasks (keeping track of developments on a policy proposal in politics; on a weekly basis tracking music releases based on my evolving tastes; checking new book releases; basically doing recurring deep dive web research on my behalf and reporting when there is a significant new finding) and this alone keeps me from switching to another service.
The AI itself is quickly becoming a commodity. The ecosystem is what will keep people tied to one of the companies.
Comment · 1 month ago
It is absolutely fascinating to see how people are justifying a genocide right before your eyes in this comment thread.
From a psychological point of view, watching what is happening in Israel right now could really help understand human behavior in previous historical events involving genocide and mass killings.
Comment · 1 month ago
As you probably guessed, I'm in IT and not in the fine arts ;-)
Comment · 1 month ago
I got my first real Pentium
Bought it at the local PC shop
Played Rollercoaster Tycoon, CD-ROM straight from it's huge box, on it 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '99
Comment · 1 month ago
From the perspective of “an average person”, ChatGPT is delivering fantastic products.
- For general chat and web search, occasional image editing, small coding work, document review etc. ChatGPT Plus is basically limitless and “just works” since 5.6. I’ve yet to give it some task it cannot do.
- When given sensible instructions, it hardly annoys with weird phrasing, glazing, or annoying constructs.
- The apps are very good (ignoring the initially terrible Codex app)
It’s easily my best spent $23 a month.
Comment · 1 month ago
The small square box at the very end of the document, with accompanying text, is just delightful:
> To protect this document, please restrict your fallen tears of joy to this box. Thank you! → [__]
All over the document, you can see Tim Schafer "wasted his time" by adding personality (jokes, graphics, asides) to what is basically an internal document.
I think in 2026 a document lovingly crafted like this would be deemed a great waste of time, lack of efficiency and an affront to shareholder value.
Comment · 1 month ago
1000% agree.
If I’m looking for a handyman on (the Dutch equivalent to) Craigslist, either very short text with spelling errors or something obviously AI are both a positive signal. These are people too busy doing actual jobs, to fret over smoothly copywritten ads.
Comment · 1 month ago
Caveat: net optimistic on a grand time scale, under the assumption humanity becomes better only after it is humbled by other species first.
Comment · 1 month ago
For me, the iPhone is the primary device I unlock and use in short burst 10's of times throughout the day.
The iPad (Mini) is something I use more deliberately, like twice per day to read the newspaper and to watch some video.
For me the Duo seems like you're suffering a lot for the first use case, just to make the second use case possible.
I think I'll stick with separate devices.
Comment · 1 month ago
Now's as good a time as ever to ask this question.
I have an iPhone logged in to my iCloud account.
My wife has her iPhone logged in to her own iCloud account.
Both of these iCloud accounts, plus a few more from my kids, make up our "Apple Family" thingy.
My wife bought AirPods. Paired them to her iPhone.
Why oh why every few weeks, when she gets the AirPods from their case, do they automatically connect to my iPhone and steal the audio from my (non-Apple) wireless earbuds I was using?
Do AirPods truly traverse devices based on the fact that separate devices/iCloud accounts are part of a family?
Comment · 1 month ago
The average Joe, via AirPods and the like, in 2026 has access to vastly better audio than in 2005.
In 2005, you had serious and expensive high end audio from the established brands (Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic etc.) and you had consumer audio for consumer prices that sounded pretty terrible: no bass extension, flat mids.
In 2026 you have:
- Serious and expensive high end audio from the established brands (maybe even some of the same models as 2005...)
- A new category of convenience driven "mid-fi" like all the Sony, Bose etc. ANC headphones and AirPods Pro - often with the "laid back, a lot of bass, slightly recessed mids" sound signature but still producing very acceptable sound
- Consumer audio for consumer prices, but now even the cheap earbuds and headphones (JBL, chinese brands etc.) sound by all means passable, are wireless, have good battery life
I would say there has never been a better time to be a "good sound enjoyer" than now.
I agree that vanity cars that are a shitty car that looks like a classic serve little value. However good cars that "interpolate" and reinterpret classics can be absolutely fine; the originals did become classics for a reason.