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Other ways to say this: Taste costs money Taste is by nature divisive. "Good taste" is subjective. Taste tries to appeal to some but will always repel others. Data driven initiatives try to repel no one, but cannot actively appeal to the average user either.

One of my hot takes is that being data driven and having taste are incompatible

RT @alicemazzy: I never thought my teenage digital piracy dogmatism would become relevant again, but strong copyright is a vestige of the p…

Bandaids come with three layers of packaging for every bandage. They should come on a tape role which is only one layer of packaging per bandage, which would reduce waste, take up less space, and be easier to unwrap.

At this moment, Netflix is streaming about 3800 films - less than half of what the average Blockbuster used to carry. As for films made before 1990? Only 79 titles are currently streaming. If we go to 1980 or earlier, that drops to 36 (!) ✨PHYSICAL MEDIA STILL MATTERS✨

This is a very big deal!! https://t.co/eSKBt1lzKL

On September 29th, 2023, we will send out the last red envelope. It has been a true pleasure and honor to deliver movie nights to our wonderful members for 25 years. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey, including this final season of red envelopes. https://t.co/9lAntaL2ww

Oh man, this is great. A nice interface for editing URLs on iOS. Finally!! https://t.co/f0NfkmwMaQ

Fantastical is really, really good * No unwanted notifications (lol) * Shows the same event on two calendars as ONE event * Event creation in natural language has to be tried to be believed, it's awesome

Oh, one more thing: Google Calendar (used at work) shows you declined events by default, which is honestly deranged. But they also hide this behind a setting. It ought to be a toggle on the main calendar page! Is there a way to do that?

(Spent a long time believing that work events should not pollute my time away from work, and maintaining separate calendars, however, since moving to a company with overseas meetings outside of normal work hours, this has started to cause double booking issues.)

(Also, when I first instituted this policy, they didn't pay me enough to see work calendar events when I was planning my personal time. Now they do, so I changed it.)

Am I missing something wrt turning off notifications for third parties adding events to my iOS calendar? I can't believe this default, let alone mandatory... maybe I'm wrong.

Adventures in calendaring: * Decided that it's ok that work events appear on personal calendar * ... however, iOS sends me a notification whenever anyone at work adds any event to any calendar I'm subscribed to * Ended up buying Fantastical which doesn't & is otherwise excellent

I never thought my teenage digital piracy dogmatism would become relevant again, but strong copyright is a vestige of the pre-internet world, grossly anti-human now. ai is simply the culmination of the remix culture we grew up with. all non-commercial uses should be permitted

the idea that this violates copyright is absurd btw. glancing at the headline I thought it was "music model trained on drake/weeknd songs, derivative work vs fair use." but the author literally wrote and performed the song himself and just changed the voiceprints https://t.co/WzSAGhoKOi

here's the full track btw 🤫 https://t.co/m3ecdXZWZA

Spotify deleted the AI Drake + The Weeknd song by ghostwriter!! but this search result will last forever 😂😂😂 https://t.co/tlUf2Cvcg1

RT @ferngazer: let me slip into something more comfortable https://t.co/eluj7OtjCc

One thing nobody mentions when heaping praise on Copilot is that it slows VS Code to a crawl. Sometimes it can't even keep up with my typing. Sad.

let me slip into something more comfortable https://t.co/eluj7OtjCc

RT @macaulaybalkan: https://t.co/vlBmSDIJiV

RT @No_Context_JTC: https://t.co/IYXEHe0fP9

A mockery of privacy notifications. The European Union loves to see it. https://t.co/YKfdxpfzHc

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RT @Sheikheddy: @michael_nielsen @TheZvi @OpenAI We are massively blocked on GPUs. Like there’s not even a shred of doubt; we are blocked b…

RT @SwiftOnSecurity: I literally wouldn't sign up to be a billionaire in 1980. The past majorly sucked ass in every way.

@michael_nielsen @TheZvi @OpenAI We are massively blocked on GPUs. Like there’s not even a shred of doubt; we are blocked by a factor of three probably. You can't get planning permission fast enough, 14 to 16 months is optimistic, everyone is acquiring leases/land across the planet and pre-provisioning shells

@michael_nielsen @TheZvi @OpenAI Andrey Proskurin mentioned that one of the challenges moving Bing into Azure was that MS couldn't build new data centers in West U.S 2 because of the regulatory environment, so they had to go from IT to multi-availability DCs (otherwise they'd need to move to another region)

@Sheikheddy @TheZvi @OpenAI Interesting - how is it preventing the new datacenters?

@TheZvi @OpenAI Second table under "language models". Keep in mind currently you need to fill out a 26-question form, we're saying "no" to a lot of customer requests, and probably won't support plugins till Q4 at least. Environmental regulation is what prevents building out more new datacenters.

@Sheikheddy @OpenAI That doesn't look like it goes up to GPT-4, though? My understanding is the agent stuff breaks down quick unless you're upgraded.

@TheZvi @OpenAI Neat hack is that MS gives every employee $200 per month in Azure Credits, and at current pricing that means you can get about 1 to 2 million words out of GPT-4-32k per month, in practice you can't actually do that because rate limits, but if there was capacity I could do 33k/day

@TheZvi @OpenAI Try https://t.co/QOFUrkrjCz (unless you want access to the base model)

In case asking nicely helps, anyone at @OpenAI want to help me out with GPT-4 API access? I feel like despite being terrible at coding I should be poking around in the agent space in various ways. .

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Still, I am skeptical of languages with small standard libraries.

The nice shell script support seems pretty interesting in particular. I think large shell scripts are bad, and I like Python a lot, but Python makes for a somewhat uncomfortable shell wrapper. I only know because I've written many klocs

I'm not using it and you can't make me, but you CAN tempt me. If I WERE going to use it, it ugh the be because of this post. It really does sound kind of neat. https://t.co/AZF45hYJ5Z

This is the perfect web page. It hasn't been updated since 1999 because it cannot be improved. https://t.co/YI00jecIYe

I love being an Internet Librarian (downloading things I will never use and keeping them to myself in very precious hard drives)

I really need an alt for stupid posts like this one

Kaiser Permanente and Blue Cross Blue Shield are both names of monarchist Twitter shitposters

RT @depthsofwiki: it never gets old reading batshit sentences written with encyclopedic formality https://t.co/iaWrttzoUJ

@bendreyfuss I think this is why Instapaper isn't a good business even though it's a wonderful app.

Sometimes I do in fact bookmark tweets that have links I want to read later or threads with charts or some shit but in my entire life I’ve never actually gone to wherever the bookmarks are stored and followed up on them.

it never gets old reading batshit sentences written with encyclopedic formality https://t.co/iaWrttzoUJ

The more I use chatgpt (and to a lesser degree image generators like DALLE) the more I need it to be truly private. Local. No logs on someone else's server. I want to make queries without getting Machine Learned why I was asking

@NanoRaptor I'm not sure why out of all of your work it was this one, but I physically jumped