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nocturnes··on Yes, and
It's a long-standing idea from improv theatre :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes%2C_and_...?wprov=sfla1
nocturnes··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
In Australia, the pattern over time is definitely more cars per person, and fewer occupants per household. Rate of change seems to be slowing on both counts but it's still getting worse, not better unfortunately.
nocturnes··on Affinity Studio now free
My experience: clients want to use Canva for everything; designers don't.

This has a reasonable shot at eliminating reasons for designers to pass complex work back to Adobe's suite. If they disrupt Adobe's dominance at the professional end of the market, it puts Canva in a very comfortable position.

nocturnes··on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
Is this a common experience for others? In several years of reasonable ChatGPT use I have only experienced that kind of failure a couple of times.
nocturnes··on Conversations are better with four people
One useful trick is to treat each conversation as a game in which you have to discover the most interesting thing about the other person. Often, a conversation partner that seems boring is reserved, shy, or waiting for a social signal that it's okay to deviate from the topics you've listed (which can provide an 'in' to the really interesting stuff).
nocturnes··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
It's possible that they've determined that Opus no longer makes sense if they're able to focus on continuously optimising Sonnet. That said, Anthropic have been relatively good at setting and managing expectations, so today would have been a good time to make that clear.
nocturnes··on Meta Movie Gen
It's possible to accept that a new tool is incredibly technically impressive while expressing concerns over how it may be deployed. Now feels like the right time to be having those conversations.
nocturnes··on Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
It's for Apple to offload old parts.
nocturnes··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
Lots of great comments in those past threads, though — well worth a read through!
nocturnes··on Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
This sounds a lot like ADHD, especially in terms of the focus on getting 'to the point' (which can be maladaptive if it results in routinely skipping over the 'filler', which is very often crucial to developing deep understanding).