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It might feel less formulaic because it's more upfront. Following a formula without telling the other person about it can feel more robotic if you don't put your soul into it. Whereas you can still put in the right energy and effort into the OP's approach to make it work well. At the end of the day being human IMHO is what matters most.

> People smile when someone makes a bad pun also

Here too I think it's all about how the pun is delivered.

I use EAR Classics too. I sleep on a dense pillow, so when there's some noise outside/near the apartment I lay down on the side and put in the earplug into the "top" ear so that the other/bottom ear is then blocked by the pillow. If I change my position during sleep, the noise is usually gone by then (also I tend to be bothered less by noise if I'm already asleep). This is because for some reason I generally sleep better when my ears aren't covered.

One doctor recommended this brand to me too not long ago, but I'm a bit worried that this probiotic contains histamine-producing bacteria since I have some histamine sensitivity.

And overall I'm a bit hesitant about consuming too many strains at once.

So far I've been having success with S. boulardii CNCM I-745 (which is actually a probiotic yeast) and I'm trying out L. rhamnosus GG.

Bifidobacterium infantis 35624 also looks interesting.

> 4) Advanced voice mode stuttering because it hears its own voice and thinks it’s me interrupting

I experience the same issue on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and have to mute the mic whenever I'm listening to a response. I wish they added an option to disable voice interruptions so that it could be interrupted only by touch.

It sounded like partwheel to me too. Now I wonder if more people will hear it as partwheel due to the McGurk effect [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect

I haven't heard about fiber optic drones [0] before and it turns the fiber optic used by them is much stronger [1] than I initially suspected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_optic_drone

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh7SYWl79no

Furthermore, there's ongoing work ([0] and related JEPs) to allow running single Java files without an enclosing class and the static main method:

  void main() {
      System.out.println("Hello, World!");
  }

This is currently (as of JDK 24) under preview, so such a file needs to be run with "--enable-preview". E.g.

  $ java --enable-preview HelloWorld.java
  Hello, World!

[0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/445

Sometimes I feel like the word "reading" should be reserved for reading longer-form content like articles, blog posts, books, etc.

Your mind goes into a completely different state when you are immersed in a single topic vs when you are consuming textual content that causes context switches every 10 seconds.

I wonder whether they have plans to open source the JetBrains Copilot extension as well. It feels like it's receiving much less attention than the VS Code extension (which is understandable).

This seems to be an HTML version of an email, which is being hosted by Hubspot (probably because the email was sent via them).

> Like a business coach/matchmaker and dating coach/matchmaker in one. Imagine just receiving high-potential connections for both, in your inbox, every day, according to whatever criteria you value.

This reminded me of one Black Mirror episode [0] which is about something very similar for dating.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710978/

I think having some kind of a sign/light on a vehicle (especially big one) saying that it's being operated autonomously could be quite useful. You can't wave at an autonomous vehicle and expect it to understand from the context why you are waving at it.

I had to look this one up as well as the sibling comment, but the question reminded me of the Betteridge's law of headlines [0] and it looks like this law is indeed applicable here (meaning that nothing has been paid yet).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

As LLMs keep getting better, I hope there will always be a Kagi of LLMs.

Sometimes I wonder what future Chinese cities will look like in a few decades from now, given that the current ones already look so futuristic.

I haven't heard about Hodinkee before, but their website [0] has a tasteful little detail in the top-left corner. It shows the current date and more details are brought up after clicking on the icon/image next to it.

[0] https://www.hodinkee.com/

For those interested, the following article is a really cool explanation/visualization of the mechanical watch: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

(The website contains so much more than this)

I use an air filter for that. I have a Levoit Vital 200S and it allows to set up an automatic filter power schedule so I don't have to think about that when going to bed. Mine switches to the white noise mode at 9:30pm and then back to the silent mode at 8:00am (I usually wake up much earlier than that, but hearing the air filter sound change also tells that it's 8:00am without looking at a clock).

I'm still reading it, but the book Material World by Ed Conway has been very informative and enjoyable to read. It's a book that I've been looking for for a long time. It explores how different common natural resources are intertwined with one another and their role in our every day lives. It also contains a lot of details about the processes and economics related to their extraction and how they are turned into usable forms.

People tend to cling to what is familiar even if it causes hardship/suffering. Switching into a new and unfamiliar area often looks harder than doing something you've been already doing.

> isn't all "real" earth still gravitationally bound to the Earth

Another (sub)level of pedantry: earth will always be bound to the Earth because gravitational force never really reaches zero no matter how far the objects are from each other thus earth can still be called earth?

I think "charge points per EV" (or similar) would also be a useful metric to have.

> literally nothing in the observed universe does

There are many things on earth that don't exist anywhere else in the universe (as far as we know). Life is one of them. Just think how unfathomably complex human brains are compared to what's out there in space.

Just because something doesn't exist anywhere in the universe doesn't mean that humans can't create it (or humans can't create a machine that creates something that doesn't exist anywhere else) even if it might seem unimaginably complex.

> "AI security"

It looks like the aim of SSI is building safe AI, not just working on safety/security of AI. Both the article and their website [1] state this.

[1] https://ssi.inc

I've just updated my Firefox and I got the options in about:config to enable vertical tabs.

sidebar.revamp and sidebar.verticalTabs need to be set to true.

I haven't see the movie (only a few clips), but I enjoyed hearing this analogy from Steve Jobs himself in many of his interviews [0].

Just checked the part [1] of the movie where Michael Fassbender talks about the bicycle of the mind. He is a very good actor but it's hard to match the energy and the electric focus of Steve Jobs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8

[1] https://youtu.be/BZYZlzIMVw8?si=u8X_mc4BX62ypRZw&t=98

Smartphones in the same class as the S24 Ultra are marvels of engineering. The fact that we no longer think how amazing modern technology is and instead focus solely on their intended functions is a testament to how much we as a civilization have achieved.

Given the size of Apple and the amount of business they are likely to generate for OpenAI, they might be one of the (if not _the_) most non-regular customers of OpenAI.

> it's iOS only

It's available on macOS as well: https://kagi.com/orion/#download_sec

> junk (i.e. non-functional DNA)

Perhaps people should use the term "non-functional DNA" instead of "junk DNA" more often. Calling something as "junk" has unnecessarily dismissive connotations.