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[a @miroahti]

@lennysan This to-do list chrome extension. I use it daily.

https://t.co/13jzQGVQRm

[a @miroahti]

@FinnairSuomi @Finnair Yli kuukausi mennyt nyt ja sama status edelleen. Miten kauan pitää vielä odottaa?

[a @miroahti]

@Finnair miten kauan asian käsittelyn alkamiseen menee? Ollut jo usean viikon tässä tilassa.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Why haven't we rebuilt the Hanging Gardens of Babylon yet

[Benjamin Parry @_benjaminparry]

The Uniqlo self checkout tech is crazy, marvellous it feels like the future. Why isn't this everywhere?

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

I’m actually amazed no one has made a very nice git for normies yet. If you can crack this UI/UX and make it easier it feels like a multi billion dollar app

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left

This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

I would love an ELO-based restaurant ranking system

Yelp reviews aren’t very useful. Everything is 3.5 - 4.5 stars. Tells me nothing. Same for Google Maps. The 0-5 scale just doesn’t get used properly because of social norms toward high ratings.

What would work much better is…

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Underrated trend

[Zach R @zachr_data]

born too early to explore space

born too late to explore earth

born just in time to explain why session count in google analytics 4 is lower than google analytics universal analytics

[Matty @bestestname]

We just need to invent a straw that lasts a little bit longer than 4 seconds but still less than a million years

[Josh Tetrick @joshtetrick]

Tomorrow marks a historic moment – the first-EVER retail sales of cultivated meat! So proud of the @GOODMeat team for getting this done.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Occasional reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

In Bergen, Norway, there are no garbage trucks and no trash piling up on streets because all over town, there are receptacles that connect to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit, and then WHOOSH...it's off to the recycling center. 🤯

[Patrick Hansen @paddi_hansen]

It took me a while to realize what's going on with google maps in the EU.

Due to the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) that entered into application in early March, the maps link at the top of the google search page that links to google maps has been removed. Also, the map that appears in your search results is now impossible to click on.

In order to use the maps function, you need to head to the gmaps website directly or click "directions". This is quite annoying if you want to search for a location quickly.

The goal of the DMA is to decrease the 'gatekeeping' power of tech giants. It applies to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance, as well as 22 platforms that belong to them, for example TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Messenger, Android, iOS, Windows, Google, Chrome, Safari, YouTube, Google Maps and Facebook Marketplace. @X is expected to be added soon.

I personally like some of the required changes such as the fact that iPhone users will be able to download apps without having to go through the official Apple app store, or process in-app payments without Apple.

But the inability to jump from search to gmaps creates a really bad UX for EEA users and reminds me of the endless cookie consent forms due to GDPR that everyone agrees to but no one ever reads, which just creates unnecessary friction and wastes users' time.

[a @miroahti]

Is there somewhere where I can upload a couple of csv files and then run sql queries against them? Would be very useful for the take home exercise I’m using for recruiting.

[Amanda Askell @AmandaAskell]

Here is Claude 3's system prompt!
Let me break it down 🧵

[Simon Willison @simonw]

The GPT-4 barrier has finally been smashed
https://t.co/7hxW6QvJI9

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

.@NatBullard's annual presentation (200+ slides this year!) on decarbonization is always a must-read for energy nerds who love charts.

Here are my 10 favorites:

1. Solar modular prices dropped by 50% last year — and the panels keep getting more efficient, too.