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Thinking past the US smartphone market
Sam Byford: On 'Chinese Knockoffs' and Why Leica Works With Xiaomi
But these are unfortunate takes nonetheless. Describing Xiaomi as “Chinese knock-offs” or “rip-off artists” in 2023 shows a lack of understanding of the company and the broader phone market outside the United States.
As an American who also doesn’t
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Not again
John Gruber: Trump’s Dark Plans for a Second Term
Trump and his supporters remain the biggest threat to America,
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The Stage Names (365 Albums)
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My default apps at the end of 2023
A blogging trend!? In 2023?! Hell yeah, I’m jumping on board!
I first saw this from Devon Dundee, but
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The mind-bending way you can get better results from ChatGPT
Mike Young: Telling GPT-4 You're Scared or Under Pressure Improves Performance
The study found that prompts with added emotional weight—dubbed "EmotionPrompts"—can improve AI performance in tasks ranging from grammar correction to creative writing. The implications are clear: incorporating emotional cues can lead to more effective and responsive AI
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It’s always too soon…or too late
Nick Heer: Managing ‘A.I.’ Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress
There is a neat rhetorical trick in both Sinofsky’s and Thompson’s articles. It is too early to regulate, they argue, and doing so would only stifle the industry and prevent it from reaching its best potential and highest aspirations. […] many of
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The good one
Jason Koebler: Mastodon Is the Good One
the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social media means that you create an
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Bladerunner is my favorite sci-fi character
Futurism: Elon Musk Thinks the Main Character in "Blade Runner" Was Named "Bladerunner"
In a recent
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Creators Confused by Elon Musk’s Plan to “Incentivize Truth” on X
Ashley Belanger: Creators Confused by Elon Musk’s Plan to “Incentivize Truth” on X
"The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism," Musk said, warning that "any attempts to weaponize @CommunityNotes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious, because all code and data is open source."
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The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (365 Albums)
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Apple did the most sane thing possible with the 13” MacBook Pro and none of us saw it coming
Andrew Cunningham: Apple’s Cheaper 14-Inch MacBook Pro Is Killing the Old 13-Inch Version
Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup earlier today, and there was one surprise that the rumor mill hadn't anticipated: a new base model of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a plain-old M3 chip in it,
