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alternatively @mhat.bitplug.com

San Francisco
Joined November 2007
Don’t take parenting advice from CEOs.
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It’s weird, how we happily accept that a models API changes with every release? We get a new guidance on how to prompt it for best results, warnings that previously successful techniques are considered harmful. Hard to imagine folks tolerating classical APIs changing so often…
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A few days of around the house usage vs. a year. Interesting that it’s not the orange layer, but the ring around the lenses where I see the most wear. The orange makes it much more noticeable but it’s also seems much prevalent than with the 16.
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Everyday, almost everywhere, I see *so many* posts/tweets/5000 word articles/… obviously written by Claude. Zero apparent effort to alter the style, just straight up copy/paste from Claude web.
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Does anyone actually think Perplexity is worth using? I’ve tried using the Pro version for four months now. It’s worse than Google + Gemini or Anthropic in most if not every way.
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So … folks are going to use AI to write code, & tests. Then they’ll use an AI to manage CI, & run those tests. Code will, of course, be reviewed an AI. Deploys: AI. Most of these value add AI svcs are built on top of a few models. They’ll all depend on hardware from 1-w cos?
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Late fall cleaning is going great! I've reduced my Google usage enough to cancel Google-One, and I've finally sorted though Dropbox and cancelled that too! All told I'll save like ~$21/mo.
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I'm bulk deleting tens of thousands of photos from Google Photos. It (a) is doing it remarkable well, much better than deleting thousands of emails in Gmail. (b) Their web app is really, surprisingly, quite good. Way better than I've come to expect from Google web services.
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Hot take: stop using SQLite. Everything you’d used it for, DuckDB is better at.
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I wonder, what would have happened if Biden hadn’t snubbed Musk/Tesla all those times? 🤔
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asymptotically matt retweeted
🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
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Yesterday I learned it’s possibly (iOS) to setup keyword filters for unknown senders text messages. I’ve already reduced the amount of unsolicited political spam by dozens/day!
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Web and Apps would, universally be, 10% better by removing the floating initiate chat interfaces. I click on them so often by mistake, and they’re never actually helpful. Just stop.
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I haven't used Chrome in almost a year. Zero regrets.
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Tried the latest Tesla FSD on a 1mi trip to the home supply store: 2x deviations from the defined route which almost put us on the highway: fails to understand turn only lanes. Attempted to drive into a curb on a U-Turn. Failed to notice a light change, reminded parked on green.
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While better than the previous version it seems very far behind Cruze and Waymo. I wouldn’t be betting on that robotaxi Hail Mary anytime soon.
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If a biz can’t survive following the minimum wage law, it was a shit business to begin with and that has to change.
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Is the strategy here to have such terrible ads that folks feel compelled to pay for ad-free Twitter? It’s like the opposite of IG — anti-relevance. Oh wait, is this the new geocities?
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For all the hand wringing about Carta — their investors/board *had* to have known that feature was coming *and* thought it was a good idea. Heck, they might even have been the ones who advocated for it.
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137.51 GB install you say? Well, that makes me feel old in some way JFC.
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