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Startup founder, San Francisco. Twitter @wbewley

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Comment · 2 years ago

Congrats on launching this guys super impressed - we're using Carter internally and it's been great!

Comment · 2 years ago

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Comment · 2 years ago

I read in bed on a Kindle and have found that lower brightness is helpful in calming before bed, regardless of whether I have the warmth up or down. The "dark mode" feature that inverts the screen I have actually have pretty poor experience with - I find it harder to read the words which leads to more straining which is counter productive. The only "benefit" I see of this feature is to decrease the overall light in the room which might be helpful for others sharing the bed etc.

Comment · 2 years ago

Huberman concluded this too - dimming lights at night is better than blue-blocking [1].

I'd like to see a study using Flux on computers for those working late at night and then trying to sleep. Assuming the stimulation of a late work session would diminish sleep quality regardless of light color, but which is "better" at allowing the participant to fall asleep quicker/ higher levels of deep/rem would be helpful. If you're doing anything to do with design Flux is a big no no.

[1] https://x.com/hubermanlab/status/1453746475536510978?lang=en

Comment · 2 years ago

Did they show any demo images of what the output looks like?

Comment · 2 years ago

Congrats on the launch guys! This is a great feature, in a world where most companies try to increase lock in!

Huge fans of Porter, we've been using them for a number of years at Woflow and they've helped us scale effortlessly.

Comment · 2 years ago

I think it goes to my earlier point that they're so massive now that they need to ship huge bets to move the needle even a little bit. Gmail and Search both are valid, but to an earlier point are now decades old. Both of these businesses have used inorganic growth for their needle movers - the acquisitions that changed the game for them: Meta was Whatsapp and Instagram; Google was Youtube and DoubleClick.

Comment · 2 years ago

Meta is becoming more like Google in it's wide ranging products in disparate markets and ultimately shutting them down one by one. Unlike Google they seem to be more focused and therefore it's good to see the shuttering of Workplace given it's not a strong contender in it's market.

For most large businesses in order to move the needle they need to be making really large bets in a few really large markets to keep growth. A Slack alternative would never move the needle for them, given the most successful (Slack) sold at the top of the market for a "large" amount of money, which was $28B (only ~2% of Meta's market cap today).

Comment · 2 years ago

The amount of comma splicing, (parentheses for extra points) -- and em dashes for good measure! that this post has makes it entirely unreadable.

Comment · 2 years ago

Watching the new Fallout show on Prime has made me miss the original Fallout and Fallout 2 games. This is great!

Comment · 2 years ago

Shutting down Drizly means shutting down it as an independent app - the same merchants are available on Uber Eats for the most part so you should be able to get alcohol delivered via the normal app.

Comment · 2 years ago

I have been looking for similar recommendations so I'll definitely check it out - thanks for the rec!

Comment · 2 years ago

Incredible that old shows have gone on to enormous success after streaming on Netflix - Suits, Breaking Bad, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I wonder how much these streaming hours compare to the original network viewerships. It would also be interesting to understand the licensing deals that go onto extending these shows onto Netflix, seems like a no-brainer for any older show to get a second life, especially after seeing Suits and others doing 600M hours.

Comment · 3 years ago

"While this is a step in the right direction, let's be real: it hardly solves the problem of robotaxis interfering with emergency vehicles."

Some quality opining there...

Comment · 3 years ago

Some images are base64 in URLs in Google image search results for their thumbnails. Does anyone have any idea why?

Search "Pepsi can" and some when you right click > copy image address will result in "data:image/jpeg;base64,/.../" instead of the website's image. Presumably to limit server cost / make the browser render? It's not for all sites, so perhaps more common sites (Walmart for example) it gives the correct image URL.

Pepsi can image from:

[1] https://crescentmarket.shop/ data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2...//9k=

[2] But when you click through: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwXbLG...

[3] Paperpunchplus.com shows the correct image URL https://www.paperpunchplus.com/https://cdn3.evostore.io/prod...