closetkantian

I'm not sure about this. I heard mixed reports. I don't have a car so I can't test it.

Camera isn't the greatest but it's fine for everyday needs. I haven't tried a video call yet. I imagine it will work okay, though. Tap to pay works fine for me, too.

Battery life isn't as good as I expected, but I do leave the backlight on quite a bit. I'm not a big phone gamer, but some people do enjoy playing original (black and white) game boy games on them.

Texting works very well. I'm typing this on the phone right now. It's one of the smoothest eink devices I've ever encountered.

I'll tell you what's been working for me: an e-ink phone. It's a Bigme Hibreak Pro. The interface is a bit clunky but it gets the job done. Social media is just not fun on this phone. It's still very usable if I need it, however. I'm also knocking out books at a rate that I haven't in years.

If he absolutely insisted on writing about Cal AI, I would have recommended that he write more about why he was inspired to build it and the human impact. Instead, he just rattled off metrics that admissions officers will likely know from other places in his app.

I'm a college admissions consultant, and this doesn't surprise me at all. People don't realize how competitive the landscape has become. His test scores and GPA are average at the schools he applied to. Really you'd need to know how many APs he took and his AP scores to understand how colleges will treat his academic record.

To me, his college list indicates that he was mostly prestige hunting. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but colleges can tell when a student wants to attend based just on branding. It comes across as if he wants to use college as a resume booster rather than as a place to grow.

The essay reads as a list of accomplishments, with little self-reflection. (Side note: referencing Steve Jobs is way overdone.)

Long story short, college admissions is not a VC pitch. If I had been this guy's advisor, I would have recommended he write an essay about something not related to Cal AI. Colleges will already know about the app from his activities list (and resume and, presumably, recommendation letters). There's a huge missed opportunity for him to write about something else.

The essays that worked for my students this year were often about more mundane topics that gave insight into their character. One of my favorites was from a student who started giving free haircuts to classmates. The essay implicitly shows that he's thoughtful and well-liked—someone you'd definitely want in your college community.

Yup. Just look at Spotify for an example. Almost no one uses Napster or anything like it anymore

Billionaires head to space while the world burns. Fun.

Downloaded it, tried it and immediately uninstalled it. I'm not sure why you need my birthday or my gender identity. I also think that it's silly that you need to have friends using it to use it. There's no way I'm inviting friends to use an app that I can't really use until I've already invited friends.

Metafilter.com charges $5 for an account, so that's an option.

I also have obsidian on my phone but I find it really awkward to actually take notes for some reason. Maybe I'm just too used being able to write so quickly using the keyboard on my laptop.

I like Battleship Potemkin (1925)

1. Same with fitness. Need to start up again, remembering that something is better than nothing.

2. Need a hard deadline to finish writing my book. It's dragged on too long. I can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

3. Need to make sure to stay consistent with studying Chinese. It's easy to slip.

4. Cut back on drinking.

So you're not able to do VLC via emulation?

I love this product idea and I will be buying one!

If only Saudi Arabia had spent their money on this stuff instead of NEOM.

I agree with a lot of the author's recommendations. Here are my 7 tips for beginner students of Mandarin, if anyone's interested:

https://matkline.medium.com/7-pieces-of-advice-for-a-beginni...

So what are the real Blue Zones if there are any? Where do people actually live the longest in other words?

I've seen a study showing that basically only legacies who donated had their children accepted.

tldraw does look amazing though, thanks.

I think the biggest pain point for me is that nothing I've found supports cards that can be "flipped" so that they are face up or face down. I'm not an advanced coder but maybe I'll try to whip something up.

So this is a major side question, but is there a go-to open source infinite canvas? I'm building a card game and I need a multiplayer infinite canvas for it. I'd appreciate any recommendations.

I stopped organizing files, and I just use everything search all the time (https://www.voidtools.com/)

Hahaha, this comment has me thinking about how I would pronounce it. Bee-yok? Bye-yolk?

I always preferred Shadow President, the back end simulation seemed more realistic.

If your point is that BYOK is a useless acronym since it has the same number* of syllables, I disagree. Acronyms aren't just for reducing syllable count; they also reduce visual clutter and are easier to read for people who scan text.

To be fair, OpenAI used pirated data

For me, it's substantially better at coding tasks than 4o.

Singapore is the most boring, sterile place I've ever been. I'd take Tokyo, Taipei, or Hong Kong over it in a heartbeat. The entire country reminds me of a mall. William Gibson's 1993 Wired article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" (https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/) is still as relevant as ever.

I saw a fascinating talk that convincingly argued that the Chinese Communist Party has taken its game plan over the last 30 years from Singapore, a de facto one party state led by the People's Action Party. It's interesting to note that this party was founded on socialist principles but is now firmly capitalist.

I wonder if this might be a preemptive move to stop Google from falling under addictive social media style legislation that would presumably ban infinite scroll.