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John Gruber: Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal? Neither Apple Watch nor iPhone “quickly became consumer must-haves”. Here’s a report from Daisuke Wakabayashi in ... checks notes ... The Wall Street Fucking Journal itself in April 2016, a year after Apple Watch shipped, that says, in the
Emma Roth: This free TV comes with two screens While ads shouldn’t interrupt whatever you’re watching on the main display, Telly’s chief strategy officer, Dallas Lawrence, tells The Verge that ads might utilize both displays when you’re not using the TV. “When the Theatre display (top
Michael Hiltzik: Column: America’s Decline in Life Expectancy Speaks Volumes About Our Problems Most developed countries have begun to recover the longevity losses they experienced during the pandemic; thus far, there’s scant evidence that the U.S. is following the trend. The U.S. suffered a greater rise
Geoffrey Moore: Understanding ChatGPT: A Triumph of Rhetoric [W]e need to stop thinking of ChatGPT as artificial intelligence. It creates the illusion of intelligence, but it has no semantic component. It is all form and no content. It is a like a spider that can spin an amazing web,
New York Times: Good Morning. A.I. Does Not Have to Be Perfect or Have Human-Level Intelligence to Be Useful. But this bot also might not care about some qualities that humans value. Perhaps it will spin out falsehoods that some writers won’t catch before publishing online. Or bad
Zac Hall: Let’s Talk About Subscription Pricing for Logic and Final Cut Pro for iPad Mac users have had years of free updates to Logic and Final Cut Pro after paying once for each app. In fact, Logic Pro X will be a decade old in July, and Final
May 10, 2021: The OmniFocus team has been hard at work on OmniFocus 4, a major new version of OmniFocus for all supported platforms. Today, we are excited to provide a first look at the update currently in development for iPad and iPhone, and invite you to share feedback with
AP NEWS: F1 Star Lewis Hamilton Blasts Florida’s Anti-LBGTQ Measures “It’s not good at all,” Hamilton said ahead of F1’s highly anticipated race in suburban Miami this weekend. “I stand by those within the community here. I hope they continue to stand firm and push back. I’
Luke Plunkett: Stop. Closing. Forums. For. Discord. Discord excels as a means of real-time communication, for people talking in the moment. What Discord is not good at, however, is being a long-term repository of information, the kind of place you can ask a question, get an answer then have that
I found this thread on Hacker News that was mildly depressing for reasons I can only describe as The Unbearable Cringe of Hacker News Commenters, as they discussed this tool that lets you summarize any YouTube video using GPT. The king, though is this comment, which I am quoting here
Li Zhou: Montana Republicans Are Punishing a Trans Lawmaker for Criticizing Their Anti-Trans Bill “I think what we’re seeing is that when marginalized communities, communities who are impacted the most by legislation, rise up and speak to the harm, whether it’s me speaking on trans issues, whether it’
Steve Yegge: Cheating Is All You Need (via Michael Tsai) All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because you cannot EVER under any circumstances TRUST CODE. That’s why we have reviewers. And linters. And debuggers. And unit tests. And integration
Emily Bloch: Florida Students Say They’re Walking Out and Teaching Themselves Banned History Lessons to Protest Censorship and Anti-LGBTQ Laws in Education Hundreds of high school and college students across the Sunshine State are walking out of classrooms as part of a protest organizers say is against the state
Tammy Rogers: This AI iPhone Game Is Interesting, but Does Nothing to Assuage My AI Fears The trouble is that whenever I see AI, it's from a person who has always wanted to be able to create things but can’t be bothered to learn how. AI is
Lee Rainie: AI in Hiring and Evaluating Workers: What Americans Think Some 62% think the use of AI in the workplace will have a major impact on workers generally over the next 20 years. On the other hand, just 28% believe the use of AI will have a major impact