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Really enlightening, moving from Google Photos to Apple Photos... just how featureless Apple Photos is. It doesn't even let you make a panorama from existing images!
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Really enlightening, moving from Google Photos to Apple Photos... just how featureless Apple Photos is. It doesn't even let you make a panorama from existing images!
Massive @github.com Copilot moment 😭
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Massive @github.com Copilot moment 😭
The Xcode 16 icon was objectively better than Xcode 26…
The new one just feels like someone didn’t have any ideas and threw something together slapdash. The old one was more fun, especially with the minor breakout from the squircle
The new one just feels like someone didn’t have any ideas and threw something together slapdash. The old one was more fun, especially with the minor breakout from the squircle
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Xcode 16 icon was objectively better than Xcode 26…
The new one just feels like someone didn’t have any ideas and threw something together slapdash. The old one was more fun, especially with the minor breakout from the squircle
The new one just feels like someone didn’t have any ideas and threw something together slapdash. The old one was more fun, especially with the minor breakout from the squircle
I'm proud to live in Colorado 🫡
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm proud to live in Colorado 🫡
It's one of those nights where I run into a strange problem I don't know how to solve and there's only 1 result in web search, and it's a StackOverflow page where I see this on the question, and there's no answer..
March 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It's one of those nights where I run into a strange problem I don't know how to solve and there's only 1 result in web search, and it's a StackOverflow page where I see this on the question, and there's no answer..
Let's see if this embed works better
March 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Let's see if this embed works better
This is definitely one of the best ironic software glitches I've ever experienced
March 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is definitely one of the best ironic software glitches I've ever experienced
Just leaving some reviews on Google Maps, don't mind me
March 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just leaving some reviews on Google Maps, don't mind me
I feel like this was written by an LLM?
Aside from the inflammatory headline, it doesn’t really say anything? It’s just a little history lesson…
Aside from the inflammatory headline, it doesn’t really say anything? It’s just a little history lesson…
February 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I feel like this was written by an LLM?
Aside from the inflammatory headline, it doesn’t really say anything? It’s just a little history lesson…
Aside from the inflammatory headline, it doesn’t really say anything? It’s just a little history lesson…
The people who spend their lives obsessing about money, seem to have no idea how money works...
Slow growth is a key to a success! Rapid growth leads to burnout and an inability to judge limitations nor handle unexpected difficulties
www.wsj.com/articles/can...
Slow growth is a key to a success! Rapid growth leads to burnout and an inability to judge limitations nor handle unexpected difficulties
www.wsj.com/articles/can...
February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The people who spend their lives obsessing about money, seem to have no idea how money works...
Slow growth is a key to a success! Rapid growth leads to burnout and an inability to judge limitations nor handle unexpected difficulties
www.wsj.com/articles/can...
Slow growth is a key to a success! Rapid growth leads to burnout and an inability to judge limitations nor handle unexpected difficulties
www.wsj.com/articles/can...
Welp.
I didn't want to go all in on the Apple ecosystem but I think I don't have a choice now.
Hello to KyNorthstar@iCloud.com
I didn't want to go all in on the Apple ecosystem but I think I don't have a choice now.
Hello to KyNorthstar@iCloud.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Welp.
I didn't want to go all in on the Apple ecosystem but I think I don't have a choice now.
Hello to KyNorthstar@iCloud.com
I didn't want to go all in on the Apple ecosystem but I think I don't have a choice now.
Hello to KyNorthstar@iCloud.com
This new Apple automatic grocery list thing is really good. Perfect, even
February 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This new Apple automatic grocery list thing is really good. Perfect, even
Amazing. Google seems to have updated NotebookLM to include a specific voice representing an “expert speaker”.
This worked fine for the first half of this “episode“ I had a generate, but in the second half, the other voice just starts saying “expert speaker” every few seconds instead
This worked fine for the first half of this “episode“ I had a generate, but in the second half, the other voice just starts saying “expert speaker” every few seconds instead
February 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Amazing. Google seems to have updated NotebookLM to include a specific voice representing an “expert speaker”.
This worked fine for the first half of this “episode“ I had a generate, but in the second half, the other voice just starts saying “expert speaker” every few seconds instead
This worked fine for the first half of this “episode“ I had a generate, but in the second half, the other voice just starts saying “expert speaker” every few seconds instead
I actually did some research on this.
Assuming Google uses about the same amount of energy it did in ’19, it takes at >8x more energy to Google 1 image than to generate 1,
& drawing takes at >192x the energy.
With that, what you suggest takes at least 208x as much energy as generating that image
Assuming Google uses about the same amount of energy it did in ’19, it takes at >8x more energy to Google 1 image than to generate 1,
& drawing takes at >192x the energy.
With that, what you suggest takes at least 208x as much energy as generating that image
January 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I actually did some research on this.
Assuming Google uses about the same amount of energy it did in ’19, it takes at >8x more energy to Google 1 image than to generate 1,
& drawing takes at >192x the energy.
With that, what you suggest takes at least 208x as much energy as generating that image
Assuming Google uses about the same amount of energy it did in ’19, it takes at >8x more energy to Google 1 image than to generate 1,
& drawing takes at >192x the energy.
With that, what you suggest takes at least 208x as much energy as generating that image
OpenAI being upset that someone use their data to train a model without their permission is very funny actually
January 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
OpenAI being upset that someone use their data to train a model without their permission is very funny actually
Sometimes I listen to podcasts and enjoy it, then I'm slapped in the face with how fucking wealthy the podcasters are
www.relay.fm/upgrade/546
www.relay.fm/upgrade/546
January 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Sometimes I listen to podcasts and enjoy it, then I'm slapped in the face with how fucking wealthy the podcasters are
www.relay.fm/upgrade/546
www.relay.fm/upgrade/546
The bots have also moved to blursky
November 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
The bots have also moved to blursky
Today I learned that CodeFactor, which was once a great free way to make sure that all of my code was up to basic standards, is no longer going to be free.
They now REQUIRE billing information just to use the product.
github.com/codefactor-i...
They now REQUIRE billing information just to use the product.
github.com/codefactor-i...
November 19, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Today I learned that CodeFactor, which was once a great free way to make sure that all of my code was up to basic standards, is no longer going to be free.
They now REQUIRE billing information just to use the product.
github.com/codefactor-i...
They now REQUIRE billing information just to use the product.
github.com/codefactor-i...
what does “first 10%“ even mean?
Like, I assume it means “first 10% of the current 10 million users“, but assuming that more users join on, then the “first 10%“ is just gonna keep growing???
Like, I assume it means “first 10% of the current 10 million users“, but assuming that more users join on, then the “first 10%“ is just gonna keep growing???
October 10, 2024 at 6:18 PM
what does “first 10%“ even mean?
Like, I assume it means “first 10% of the current 10 million users“, but assuming that more users join on, then the “first 10%“ is just gonna keep growing???
Like, I assume it means “first 10% of the current 10 million users“, but assuming that more users join on, then the “first 10%“ is just gonna keep growing???