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Google investing up to $40B in Anthropic(bloomberg.com)
50 points by chang1 5mo ago|8 comments
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by chang1 6mo ago
Same! I hadn't touched Linux since 2005-06. I've been trying out Niri and Noctalia. I've been pleasantly surprised how close I'm able to get to match most of what I do on a Mac. I haven't had this much fun with comp
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by chang1 8mo ago
I think shortly we may see "Apple forced me to switch to Linux" because of Tahoe and subsequent releases.
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by chang1 1y ago
Found a uBlock Origin filter list that seems to work reasonably well: https://github.com/BevizLaszlo/UBlock-Filters-for-Social-Med...
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by chang1 1y ago
For channels I care about, I subscribed to the channel's RSS feed. For instance, there's an RSS feed at https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/videos . I combined this with the Distraction Free YouTube
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by chang1 1y ago
Great app... it's had a place on my macOS dock for years. I use it for adding diagrams to my team's internal developer documentation (mostly in a series of Markdown files).
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by chang1 1y ago
I get annoyed when I ask someone a question (work related or not) and they don't know the answer, they will then proceed to tell a prompt for ChatGPT in a stream of consciousness sort of way. Then I get even more annoyed when they deci
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by chang1 1y ago
As a child in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember watching Star Trek TNG as new episodes were coming out, and also watching Reading Rainbow (I loved both shows). The episode where Reading Rainbow visited the Star Trek TNG set was one of
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by chang1 1y ago
I had a similar experience with DuckDuckGo several years ago, but the difference was that I got paid as I progressed through the various stages. I had to submit a short written design proposal and was told to cap it at a few hours and was p
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by chang1 2y ago
I am not an Apple Music subscriber and don't stream much music besides SomaFM, so I may not be in the norm. I always have selected on the sidebar Library -> Songs with View -> Column Browser enabled. And I search only using the &
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Neovim: The IDE That Grows with You(sketchdev.io)
3 points by chang1 2y ago|0 comments
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by chang1 2y ago
Reminds me of Jobs quoting Gil Amelio at D5[1]: > Gil was a nice guy, but he had a saying. He said, 'Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water, and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.'
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by chang1 2y ago
Under $1,000 Kinesis Advantage 360 or ZSA Voyager (split ergonomic keyboards with ortholinear layout). I ended up buying both. I had chronic wrist pain and weakness for a few years that I thought was caused by an acute injury. Turns out I t
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by chang1 2y ago
I'll second that Day One is a great app... I've used it nearly every day for the past 13 years. I was afraid it would stagnate after it was acquired by Automattic, but it's only gotten better.
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by chang1 3y ago
Oh nice, it has an RSS feed too!
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by chang1 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Spectrum corporate culture is incentivized by only one thing: SELL! I canceled my service after several years due to a negative customer service experience, which I explained was the primary reason I was cancelling. Nev
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by chang1 3y ago
Uh oh, just did a search... well that's too bad. I guess my point still stands where I'm not buying all my eggs from 1 marketplace.
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by chang1 3y ago
Generally speaking, convenience is king. I find a lot of like-minded people will easily overlook or not even consider what is happening behind the scenes. There is a tradeoff for low prices/convenience and it's not always obvious.
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by chang1 3y ago
Busytown: Eye found it is one of my kids' favorite games. It's a lot of fun to play as an adult too. I'll have to checkout the airport one. Thanks for posting!
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by chang1 3y ago
It probably doesn't cost them much to keep the RSS feed going, and it's a way to keep a subset of people coming back to watch videos that otherwise wouldn't. For instance, I dislike having to open YouTube to see what's n
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by chang1 3y ago
Had a similar experience and made it to the 2nd stage, and also got paid for both. I even took the time to learn enough Perl to write the solution. They said it wasn't required but would be a nice touch. It was an interesting project t
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by chang1 3y ago
Funny, I just encountered the same experience. I cancelled Prime after 12 continuous years of subscribing. I placed my first Amazon order a few days ago sans-Prime and was amazed at the blatant dark patterns put in place to get me to sign u
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by chang1 3y ago
I had a similar moment of existential career crisis as OP. I'm at the 20 year mark as well, in terms of developing software professionally. I've always felt like with new technology, I could grok at a high level how things worked.
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by chang1 3y ago
I bought the Muji fountain pen a few years ago and it's an amazing pen, especially for only $17! I've been looking for a new ink to try, I'll give J. Herbin Perle Noire a shot. Which converter do you use?
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by chang1 3y ago
I've discovered that this can be a deflection tactic for some. Usually it happens in a situation where I try my best to explain a part of an app or system. The other person is overwhelmed or confused but doesn't just say that, and
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by chang1 3y ago
That's a good point, I don't actually know. I just assumed yes because they would ask. I also didn't want to complicate the process of releasing the funds – perhaps that was naive. I believe in this checkout flow, it kicked m
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by chang1 3y ago
About a year ago, I bought clothes online using PayPal for my mother (and shipped to her address). PayPal blocked the transaction and temporarily suspended my account until I could verify a detail. When I logged in to verify, it was asking
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by chang1 4y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll give this a try! For work, I have to run Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Discord. Of those 3, Slack surprisingly uses the least amount of memory (~700 MB), and Teams uses the most (~1.5 GB). I dusted off an old Int
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by chang1 5y ago
Madden definitely had a hulking, physical presence about him. I had grown up listening to his broadcasts with Pat Summerall and played Madden on various systems. Fast forward about 10+ years and I had moved to San Francisco and frequented T
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by chang1 5y ago
I picked up USA made waffle iron from C. Palmer Manufacturing. It's super basic and almost 2-3x more expensive than the first few results on Amazon, but it's great! ( https://cpalmermfg.com/waffle-irons.html ) Hope

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