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• Post #2210018

  My driver today was from Afghanistan. We talked about politics, as one does in a taxi. He is inviting all the folks arguing for continuing the war in Iran (apparently including many Iranian immigrants) to experience just one day of war like his people endured for 20 years.

• Post #1310914

  It just dawned on me that the feeling I am having using LLM to help with reasoning/coding is very similar to how I feel riding an e-bike.

• Post #897568

  I always use turn signals when nobody is nearby and I often say thanks to the chatbots. Both seem silly but this is more about me than the other party—acting consistently makes _my_ life easier.

• Post #865512

  @dev As someone who spent most of her college years glued to a BBS terminal, I appreciate this.

• Post #865511

  We thought https://lmgtfy.app was a sarcastic joke, little did we realize it was a trillion dollar product idea.

• Post #865510

  @dev Busses seem to work still albeit slowly. If you are stuck and need a ride lmk.

• Post #865508

  One observation about the audience for FiveFingers-style shoes in China is that they seem to be primarily marketed to women. My theory is that 1) Chinese women (also) love yoga; 2) Chinese people generally don’t want to be barefoot indoors. A combination of the two means Chinese women found Vibram FiveFinger soles to be the closest thing to a barefoot experience while still allowing them to keep their feet clean.

• Post #865507

  Upgraded to iOS 26 due to the memory vulnerability, and let me tell you, it looks like shit. Completely anemic style and the logos look like they were designed by someone while they were on psychedelics.

• Post #865505

  My 7yo quite enjoy reading the physical newspaper by the Onion. Not sure if I should be concerned.

• Post #776354

  Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now publicly accessible https://www.acm.org/media-center/2024/march/cacm-relaunch I hope there are more interactive charts with the relaunch!

• Post #659202

  ACM Digital Library's AI summary is a stupid feature because authors probably spend the most time per-word on perfecting the Abstract. This is made even more stupid by the fact that you need to pay money to see it. What would be a more worthwhile "premium" feature is to use LLM to generate a graph of publications using both explicit references and LLM-assisted feature extraction to greatly improve literature review and related work research.

• Post #590529

  @midendian@mastodon.social What bird is that?

• Post #499897

  I like how lowkey-inclusive the illustration on the 737 safety sheet is—woman holding a bay, dude with a prosthetic leg, and crocs.

• Post #382332

  In some sense the Alysa Liu story is like Monsters Inc. It turns out joy is more energizing than fear.

• Post #371224

  After watching some small amount of hockey this OG I couldn’t help but noticing how the men often had missing teeth while all the women mostly retain their perfectly pearly whites. Also women’s hockey was every bit as entertaining as men’s, if not more? To my amateur eyes the women seemed to do more intricate offenses. So in short, I don’t know what the men are risking their faces for.