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AI can "play" the drums better and more precisely than me but I still enjoy the act of playing the drums. AI can or will probably drive a Formula 1 car better than Max Verstappen but he will still enjoy being a driver. I don't see why we can't coexist with machine counterparts.

A fighter pilot.

1. Forces signup before generating a result from a prompt

2. After signup, prompt is lost so you have to start over

3. Got an error: “Fail Reason: Song Description contained”

How does this compare to Q for Business?

https://aws.amazon.com/q/business/

I don’t disagree with the premise that this is a worthy goal to strive for, but I do find it odd to tie it to the need to combat “outlandish conspiracy thinking” and linking to a three year old NPR article about Trump.

I’ve been a paid subscriber to County Highway for over a year now and can’t tell you how nice it is to sit down with a coffee and read the paper every once in a while.

https://countyhighway.com/about

Lately I’ve been using https://shepherd.com/ as a “tool” to find actual books to buy or borrow.

Internet tools to find, physical books to consume. At least the consumption part is ad-free.

What happens once the stipend goes away? What happens when the tool stops being “free”? I know these publishers are desperate for lifelines at the moment but I hope they are thinking ahead to the time that Google no longer needs them or their content.

They are getting more expensive and less reliable:

https://www.ooma.com/blog/home-phone/landline-home-phone-is-...

This book has a lot of great Bay Area photos from the 50s-60s:

https://www.amazon.com/Mid-Century-Bay-Celebration-Francisco...

I agree the seller tools have become shockingly unusable. I’ve resorted to using the mobile app just to keep track of orders.

Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the importance of swag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eIgg0ArDg

“The new findings don’t cast doubt on the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, most of which lie in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. However, the report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000s. Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes.”

Yes, his design was meant to encourage dorm rooms to be used only for sleeping and quiet focused study.

Average U.S. retail price looks to be about 96 cents per pound.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/averageretailf...