ramenbytes

> Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab.

> Having idle thoughts in the car of things you need to do and being able to just say them out loud and know important topics won't be forgotten about.

> I understand for people who aren't neurodiverse that the idea of just forgetting to do something that is incredibly critical to ones health and well-being isn't something that happens (often) but for plenty of other people a device that just helps people remember important things can be dramatically life changing.

Those don't sound like things that you need AI for.

With the recent work done enabling the use of Common Lisp in the browser on WASM, I've been thinking about spinning up a really simple static site that's just a CL REPL for people to play with.

The exact stuff I now use Kagi for. Finding obscure relevant PDFs that Google didn't is literally one of the things that made me switch.

And I used them in a graduate physics course last fall.

Deep Space 9 had an episode dealing with something similar. Superintelligent beings determine that a situation is hopeless and act accordingly. The normal beings take issue with the actions of the Superintelligents. The normal beings turn out to be right.

I had to use Google in a library while printing datasheets and clicked the first relevant looking result out of habit, only to be taken to the wrong part page. Closer inspection of the search results showed the small faint print of "Sponsored". I had forgotten about that since moving to Kagi.

An inelegant weapon, for a less civilized age. And yet, it works.

The wife says the chain and lock were for weight training.

Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.

Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6