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I asked my dentist a lot of questions and had them give me a tour of the shop. I was getting a crown and they showed me their CNC machine that took a 3D scan of the original tooth and scan of the nub after eroding it down and just perfectly machined a ceramic replacement.

Pretty fucking sick.

This is kinda interesting, but calling this an attack is definitely over selling the impact.

Yeah even if their product is "better than Co-pilot", I will never use it after this brazen publicity stunt.

Outrage mongering at its finest.

Don't forget the 30% platform fee from Steam.

Lol this is not the same with most people. Pretty incredible if true. Timing attacks are pretty powerful though. Only one person has likely been to all the same places at you at the same time over the past week.

Fun game! Wish the UI would stay static when going between rounds. The scroll down was jarring.

This is an absolutely wild story

If it's been a while since you've tried the assistants, I suggest that you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MGqmuEdtU

Google has snuck a pretty large lead for a large category of queries over Siri and Alexa has fallen behind considerably.

There is a group working on this: https://www.adept.ai/act

I personally feel so validated after reading this post. The past 3 weeks have been me personally, painfully re-deriving this information independently.

JS FE culture is so fucking obsessed with “modern” instead of what works best.

I am using a very similar stack to the author, but I couldn’t find anything as useful as this post.

I feel like an insane person sifting for information for React. So much SEO spam clogging google over useful content like this article.

What is a good alternative? I want some analytics / tools for training specific distances.

This is a great article. Usually authors have snark and no substance but this author was able to back up his takes with excellent notes.

HN comments are really disparaging, but after reading through I really liked the content and am going to pull out their service / serializer model to use in my project. Nice opinionated way to avoid structuring a program in a bad way.

I paid for neeva for something like 16 months and just cancelled last week. Load times for search were frequently >1s which seems ok the first few times, but after a while got annoying.

Also ~20 esoteric programming queries a month would drive me to google. +10 attempts on Neeva and then same words on google instant hit.

Their personalized search results are awesome. You can downrank spam or even certain sites you don’t like for you personally.

Also your emails and docs will appear in search alongside everything on the web. Which is a really convenient feature.

Their iOS app was plagued with regressions to the point for 2 months last year I couldn’t even use it.

Tried for a long time, but despite all of Google’s failings around ads being 80% of results the premium offerings aren’t even close.

Here are 5 I have recently read that I really enjoyed:

1. "When Genius Failed": about the failure of the hedge-fund LTCM

2. "The First Tycoon": Detailing Vanderbilt's life (he was a bad-ass businessman). Far more interesting than I expected.

3. "Made in America": I didn't really care about walmart or Sam Walton before reading this, but he's a man to be admired.

4. "Barbarians at the Gate": Private equity tries the largest hostile takeover ever (dramatic and exciting with a hilarious group of characters).

5. "The Smartest Guys in the Room": Enron was an absurd company run by absurd people. Jeff Skilling claims he didn't do anything wrong.

I have been in a recent period of intense non-fiction book reading recently (6 / month for past 3 months) and I realized a couple of things:

1. High-quality writing relaxes me to the point that I can enjoy learning at a much deeper level

2. It’s extremely arduous to keep my BS filter constantly deployed, which it is 95% of the time I'm reading unfiltered content (blogs, Twitter, news etc)

A well-written book is a large lake of high-quality information, and so I can generally develop some trust for the author and can relax and think about things I don't know well.

There is a torrent of knowledge, but panning for wisdom is exhausting. So I think for me, rather than the form factor (blog vs book vs podcast), it really comes down to the level of refinement of the information. There are some authors that blog / write newsletters that I have developed a sense of trust for, so I can also enjoy their without the BS filter fully engaged. (Matt Levine, Ben Hunt, Scott Alexander etc)

Headlines like this count towards slowly eroding my faith in media. Not factually incorrect, but the intent only becomes obvious after reading.

This is an absurd take. What would you have them do aside from call out a publicly bad actor explicitly? Seems like you are bending over backwards for a bad take.

Drawing a triangle resulted in a score of 77.9?

I think most adults are in a steady state for their habitual behaviors around diet / exercise / drinking / drugs. Would be surprised by anything larger than 10% change in control tbh

This is a great read, but I keep getting pulled astray by the sheer volume of interesting links that the author has embedded in the text. I'm less than a third of the way through and have just finished my 3rd rabbit hole exploration.

Honestly code elegance is less important than raw productivity.

I have been playing around with django for the first time in almost 5 years recently, and it’s so much more productive. Wondering if I should try out rails.

I had a Wells Fargo account in college and closed it a few years ago when I saw they had opened fake accounts and charged their customers a bunch of fees.

It didn’t happen to me, but I will never trust an institution that treats customers this way.

Shocking to me that people would use a bank like this.

Don’t use Spotify. Horrible experience for listening. Overcast is way better.

My understanding is using web assembly isolation to execute arbitrary untrusted code in a different (non-browser) env

Render is a fantastic replacement

Seems like a massive waste of time.

It isn’t restricted to Steam keys. It’s anytime you sell the same game for a net cheaper price elsewhere on the internet.

This is the dominant reason that the Epic store isn’t taking off, because Steam is enforcing network effects. Devs can’t switch and so customers won’t switch.