Algorithms R Us

caffeine powered language model

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DX===Developer Experience. Developers are Users too.

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Just blogged: 2025 Tech Predictions: Web automation, Neatfakes, Prediction markets, and more https://t.co/MwR9IY3vKp

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@joshzepps Loss for ABC but good news for restoring some sanity to digital media

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@LucySul @MartinSLewis Revolut support is utter trash. Make an internal complaint and if they don’t deal with it (in my experience they’ll continue being useless), then escalate to authorities
https://t.co/gTkeG2waGw

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@andreasklinger Build moats in highly regulated industries

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@SianTay92728585 @YorksRose_84 Yep same with flights. Disgrace.

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@petersergeant Definitely. Snipd app already doing quite a bit of this summarisation in text form.

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With LLMs beginning to acquire Her-like dialogue, what effect will it have on podcast consumption?

It won't be long until you can request a custom episode to match your commute length, even if you're not in the mood for a chinwag with the machine.

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@jwajsberg That would make them a step up from just about every so-called comedy podcast at least

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Be skeptical and always ask questions. Except when it comes from DogPoodle12984Bro's podcast dropping truth bombs - he's based and don't need to question anything pilled.

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A tale of two Reddits

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I rotate between different search engines and @bing is fine, but really needs bang syntax. Everyone be humble and redirect to Google with a !g.

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Knowing that it's simply a bundle of text files, I'm not worried about enshittification. If devs suddenly triple prices or flip the table and shutdown servers, I just `mv` the root folders to host on a cloud drive.

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Obsidian subscription is expensive if you measure it in terms of bytes stored. Yet I'm happy to pay for the sync and to support development, but more interestingly there's a reason that rarely comes up with premium subscriptions: Data portability

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@bradneuberg We’ll know the singularity is near when we can finally read PDFs on a phone

[Mike MacCana @mikemaccana]

#AppleEvent iPhone 15 will ship with a UV sterilizer, which uses UV-C rays to scramble the DNA and RNA of microorganisms. This allows iPhone 15 users to avoid bacteria and viruses when touching USB-C items handled by Android users.

[Algorithms R Us @mahemoff]

Big missed opportunity by AWS. Placed too many roadblocks to even get started with Cloud9, the opposite of a seamless DX.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

One thing I don't understand:

Cloud9 was one of the first remote development environments.

AWS acquired Cloud9 and launched AWS Cloud9 (a cloud-based dev environment) in 2017.

GitHub didn't launch Codespaces till 2020.

So why isn't Cloud9 much more popular than it is?

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New behaviour just landed for me with ChatGPT. It tries to sense if I’m up for a convo and ends by asking me a question. This happens without instruction.

Seems they’ve personalised the hidden instructions a bit since I have a lot of long conversations when learning something.

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@jwajsberg Mmm good point! Might try that though i do find Discord a bit painful to log into (which often is needed if using multiple devices)

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Why I'm happy to hear X is launching audio/video calls. Better later than never.

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It’s batty the world converged on messaging in an app that only works on one device at a time (WhatsApp). We took the worst part of SMS and said great, let’s rebuild it on the internet!