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I see this as a double-edged sword, at best. There is a reason why papers used to be published only after they were peer-reviewed. Now the media are starting hype-cycles on unreviewed research results, just to get the ad impressions before anyone else does. But I'm not sure if they are as diligent about following up on these stories and making later negative result front-page news as well.

Can't your regular calendar already remind you of scheduled events? That particular function doesn't seem like it needs an AI.

Can you explain how this is specialized for the needs of people with ADHD? How does it differ from a "general purpose" AI bot like ChatGPT? To me it looks like a spin for marketing.

... whether it gets confirmed by _the first_ independent attempt.

Couldn’t the price difference be due to booking so far in advance?

The article erroneously links to a local file for a publication by Jean Twenge, which is most likely this one: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1176/appi.prcp.2...

Yes, I was joking, should have made that more obvious.

Out of curiosity, that means you deliberately buy phones when they are pretty much guaranteed to not receive any updates anymore, including security updates? Or do you install custom ROMs?

Plot twist: Cory Doctorow gets paid by the restaurant to promote them. He then made the fake website and bought the Google ads in order to concoct this outrage story to go viral.

I mean, if this is a "great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood", how likely is it he ordered there yesterday for the first time?

Would be interesting if all pictures were black and white, irrespective of when they were taken.

Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.

The tweet saying it's "enforcing its long-standing API rules" [1] and the updated Developer Agreement [2]:

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1615405842735714304?cx...

[2] https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement

Not quite the same but similar is https://geometrygeeks.bike/ for comparing, you guessed it, bicycle geometries. No bike photos on this one, though.

Japan has the third-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, can you explain how this is a tiny market?

For route planning (one of Strava's paid features), there's Komoot.com or bikemap.net.

On the question "Warning! Most monitors do not have USB-C ports. What port does your monitor have? Choose one." I am getting three options: HDMI, DisplayPort or USB-C.

Shouldn't this also have 'Thunderbolt' as an option? Maybe it's because I am still confused about the topic, but the port has the Thunderbolt 'lightning bolt' symbol next to it. Even if the three options given are technically sufficient, I feel that confused consumers like me would benefit from an additional 'Thunderbolt' option.

I think it's worth mentioning the Cynefin model here [1]. Both approaches can work, getting requirements up front can be the right approach for a well-know domain, but often times it's better to treat requirements analysis as a discovery that is ongoing during development.

For the latter case, classic project management simply leads to failure and it needs iterative development with tight feedback loops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

Yeah, the LGR video says they were USD 150 at launch in May 2000 and 130 by the end of the year.

The LGR video (linked in this thread) mentions they bought four devices and all had defects that needed to be fixed before they could be used. Most cases the batteries had leaked, which had to be cleaned up. This might cause some corrosion of contacts as well.

So if you want to give used Cybikos a try, you should be willing to deal with this.

For reference: Tower [1] and desktop [2] cases.

[1] https://hozi.net/it/computer-historie/vobis-highscreen-colan... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Colani-pc.jpg

IIRC, he presented a prototype that was much more radical, and a lot got lost in mass production. In the end it was a standard case with a few rounded edges.

I would argue that backing up selectively instead of just grabbing everything makes the job harder, not easier. You might need less storage, but who will decide (and how) what gets stored and what doesn't?

> You can only login to a gsuite account on a employer-provided machine

How is this achieved?

Low volume simply means higher unit prices, doesn't it? The Mac Pro as an explicitly professional high-end machine is OK to be expensive. Its USP compared to fast x86 machines is that it runs macOS.

Appears to be https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp

I did not read the study, but the finding seems trivial and limited at the same time:

Anything you do to alleviate or prevent boredom that is not creative can be said to 'prevent reaping creative rewards' of boredom. Not just social media (or any media consumption, really) but also sports or calling a friend or helping in a soup kitchen. If you didn't do it, you'd feel boredom, and might pick up something creative instead.

> Yeah, but Kickstarter always marketed itself as being synonymous with crowdfunding.

I think this is really the crux of the issue: That there are these quasi-monopolies for certain online services.

What's possible in crowd funding comes down to what Kickstarter does. Expected behavior of a search engine is what Google does. The standards of an online dictionary look like what Wikipedia does. And what microblogging looks like is now determined by Elon.

If in each area there was a small ecosystem of, say, three to five different players, they could each find their niche, competing on something like leniency towards such projects like Unstable Diffusion, or on how to interpret free speech etc and the users could choose the service that suits their own standards.

But since for many popular online services there is effectively a single go-to site, this one site gets to set the rules that everyone has to play by.

So how do we get more variety? I don't know. It seems to be inherent in how this market of online services works that there's always one who ends up with 99% market share.

Would be interesting what other activities work in the same way. This is about crochet, and people here are commenting that knitting works for them. I think doodling is also fairly common, isn't it?

Anything that can be done on semi-auto mode, so that it captures the remaining attention that is left when focusing on something else, so that the mind doesn't wander but is fully captivated.

Ram Dass tells this story where there is a 70 year old woman in the audience in one of his lectures on life, the universe and everything, and the woman nods at everything he says. When he asks her, 'how do you know all this, what brings you into this state of consciousness', she replies 'I crochet'.

https://youtu.be/P2kmM078z78?t=2428

Sounds like a job for serverless functions, e.g. in Azure [1], though I'm sure every hyperscaler has that. The Azure version even uses Cron syntax for the scheduling.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/func...

Implanting self-tinting artificial lenses, maybe? Wouldn’t want that, but seems entirely possible.