sunnyam

I'm not sure about your funding situation, but you could always try to get paid employment and switch to working on your business on the side.

Ultimately, the success is based on the strength of the execution and finding product market fit with a big enough market. If you're too burnt out, it sounds like you are hitting some internal limit.

If you have hope (and resources) push through. If you don't, step away, recover and reflect.

If you find yourself passionate about it later on, then you can go right back in!

Being able to construct a story of growth, entrepreneurship and risk is a great one to tell in your 20s and you shouldn't be ashamed.

Do you mean Termux? I can't find any other Terminal app with a similar name

Thanks! I agree with you to some extent. I _do_ need to get better with these tools but I remain suspicious for reasons like skill atrophy and the fact that I'm perhaps experienced enough to know how much I don't know. Using AI to plug gaps in my own skillset feels like setting a dangerous precedent on the one hand, but on the other hand, if it works then what's the problem? People just want things that work at the end of the day.

Just to check that I've got it right by the way, are you referring to the Ralph Wiggum loops? And are these Taches? https://github.com/glittercowboy/taches-cc-resources

I'm definitely keen to dive into these tools.

A message that I maybe didn't land in my post is that it is a little bit ridiculous to demand or only deliver "Artisanal Code". It's more labour intensive and the end product is virtually the same at the end of the day.

I don't think this is saying that the ratings are unreliable, but rather that searching by rating isn't a guarantee that a high-rated restaurant will show up due to the other factors at play.

You don't get a sorted list from highest rated to lowest rated, but rather, momentum of reviews, number of reviews, changes in rating etc.

My suspicion is that there probably is also a noticeable difference between companies that advertise on Google vs. those that don't. Anecdotally, the gym closest to me has higher ratings than all the other gyms in my area, but when I moved to the area it never showed up on Google Maps for me. It was only by walking by it that I decided to look it up on Google Maps specifically by name that it showed up for me.

You could share a screen with the slides and have the notes visible to yourself. Also the notes mode has a dashed border around it.

This is just a simple demo but it's really cool how simple and easy it is in practice.

I have the same opinion, but my worry with this attitude is that it's going to hold me back in the long run.

A common thread in articles about developers using AI is that they're not impressed at first but then write more precise instructions and provide context in a more intuitive manner for the AI to read and that's the point at which they start to see results.

Would these principles not apply to regular developers as well? I suspect that most of my disappointment with these tools is that I haven't spend enough time learning how to use them correctly.

With Claude Code you can tell it what it did wrong. It's a bit hit-or-miss as to whether it will take your comments on board (or take them too literally) but I do think it's too powerful a tool to just ignore.

I don't want someone to just come and eat my cake because they've figured out how to make themselves productive with it.

You don't even need to consider an ally being a bad actor. When Ukraine was invaded, wheat prices (to name one) in Europe shot up. England in particular has fairly significant food security challenges.

I think the key difference is that they perform a search of the foods in Macrofactor's database which means that you're more likely to get a good estimate.

From someone who weighed and scanned a lot of foods, it has really improved the workflow

This mentality is why rail is always destined to fail in the US. That mentality didn't stop China, which has a comparable land area to the continental United States and allows it to benefit from highly efficient cargo operations all over the country.

But if you want to keep the France comparison, let's compare a journey from Paris to Marseille with a journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles:

Paris to Marseille: - by car: 7h30m (773km/480mi) - by train: 3h11m direct for 94 EUR/103 USD with luggage and WiFi, amongst others

San Francisco to Los Angeles: - by car: 6h (613km/381mi) - note that I'm checking the route times at 8:24 BST and so it's night time in the US - hence less traffic. - by train (and bus): 8h30m with a change for 61 EUR/67 USD

The SF to LA route covers less distance and requires a change, so the passenger would travel 6h by train and then a further 2h on a bus - and when you compare that to driving it doesn't make any sense to ever pick public transport.

I do think there's more to it than just Americans not liking rail travel or preferring their cars. To build significant passenger rail infrastructure requires coordination at state government levels with all the stakeholders; funding; purcahsing land; technology to build modern and efficient railways etc. I don't believe the US has the capability to just build rail anymore - it would require significant investment in skills and manufacturing to increase capability to the point where it will be able to build the type of modern railway they would need to actually be a viable alternative.

My interpretation was that adolescent refers to the maturity with respect to life experiences.

The set of life experiences that a bachelor can experience is smaller than the set of life experiences that a married man with children can experience.

I don't think this is a particularly offensive thing to say, but instead, given that she's from a group whose voice has been historically subdued, I think it's a witty reparatee to refer to that philosophy as "adolescent". I don't think she's calling bachelors adolescent, but for the word of a bachelor with most likely more limited life experience, I do think it's fair to call out that it perhaps isn't the most rounded point of view.

I think you'd enjoy Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

They don't list the full price on the website - just a payment link for a deposit of $100. Not sure why the aren't transparent with it.

This is a real shame. My favourite experience with photospheres was taking some with my old Google Nexus 5X.

I took quite a lot in Central London and at my family home. On a later trip to my parents' rural village in India, I brought along a Google Cardboard and spent hours showing the villagers our life in London.

These are people who live very simple lives as farmers and farm hands. They don't know much about the outside world and their lives are very much dictated by the humdrum of life within their small communities. Using the headset was perhaps the only way these people would get a chance to stand outside if the Houses of Parliament, or get a panoramic view of London from Waterloo Bridge.

I know that VR videos exist, but the ease of being able to take photos at home and giving people a VR experience to show them how we live on the other side of the world was something very special. It's one of the experiences that really shaped my view on what technology could do and how it can really help people understand one another.

That same thing is possible today, but I'd probably need a 360 camera and a different VR headset since Google Cardboard and Daydream were discontinued.

I think this is a great idea, but my concern is that these boy racers tend to stick to residential areas where you don't often get speed cameras, which makes me think that noise cameras will also be placed in areas that these people won't be driving.

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart

See also: https://reddit.com/r/HostileArchitecture/

Thanks! Yes, formatting messaged up.

I did read your article but I felt that it buckets all hacks together as an unnecessary evil in education.

I think it's quite a nice confidence booster to know a method that would speed them up (usually in basic arithmetic). It also provides a future learning opportunity when trying to derive why a hack works.

I agree with the article, but I would really be interested in some in-depth examples of what the alternative to tricks/hacks are? I don't ever remember a case where I was only taught the hack, for example. We learn it the long way and then the teacher/lecturer might show us a quick version in passing. Is this not the case all of the time?

It looks very easy to just build this from source, which is what privacy-concerned users would do anyway

What are you classifying as a hack? I've always enjoyed the trick for squaring numbers ending in 5. You take the number(s) before the last 5 and multiply it with the number above and add 25 to the end,

So for 4545, you do 45, which is 20 and add 25 to the end, giving 2025.

That's a fun one because it's quicker to do it in your head than it is to type it into a calculator.

Yeah, on Pixel phones you can just scan the barcode from the camera app, or from Google Lens

A simple embeddable widget to let your blog visitors tell you what they thought of the article:

https://reactly.io

I'm working on it in my spare time and for now it's really just something for my own blog so I can get some sense of what people think of what I put out, but I'm planning on making some plugins for Gatsby.js and Wordpress.

Love this, will definitely try it out later today! Just a quick note, the 'Get Started' link in the email 404s

It's a lot of fun! It would be awesome to have an option to see where the line of symmetry is to help draw more accurately

This reminds me of Pharrell Williams' 24 Hours of Happy [1] which was a website that you could visit and it would show a music video timed to that minute. On the hour, ever hour, there would be a special music video with the Pharrell instead.

The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.

[1]: The website is down now but the videos are all here on his Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKPi39tTpkdpjBVQZo5oF...

Would be great to be able to sort by number of reviews. A lot of the products right now only have a single review.

Also, I can't see any place to submit a new product

Have you read the written statement? He says that it's not commodity information like the height of a building or the the current time.

Just like Forbes, they employed a team of fact-checkers to find and generate estimates. Knowing the exact net worth of a celebrity isn't just a fact that someone can determine and so for Google to steal that information, which is the result of research and scrutiny is wrong.

Thanks! I posted about it in my blog [1] at a very high level.

To summarise, I used a Python library called Spotipy to request track information from Spotify and then stored a big list of artists based on who has collaborated with Kanye and built that web outwards.

[1] https://blog.sunnyamrat.com/six-degrees-of-kanye-west/

Six Degrees of Kanye West, a fun little website that lets you search for a muscical artist to see how closely they're connected to Kanye West through collabs.

https://sixdegreesofkanyewest.com/

I built it back in 2016 and haven't updated it since so newer artists don't show up.

I did like that, especially the ability to take one earpiece out without worrying that it will get lost, but overall I prefer it without the wire. I've had mine for about 2 years and the wire has gotten stiff (probably through work hardening) and that makes it more uncomfortable to wear and makes it harder to fit in the carrying/charging case.

If it's anything like the previous generation of Pixel Buds, then the real-time translation comes with a bit of a caveat.

It's the same as using Google Translate in conversation mode, but without needing a phone to understand what the other person is saying. For two-way communication you do still need your phone though, because that will display the translation of what you just said back to the person you're speaking to.

It's still pretty cool, but it's not the futuristic technology it makes it out to be.