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I 100% agree with Manton’s mockup of how OpenAI’s Codex app ought to work. Three modes, uncluttered sidebar that works like the old app when needed. It’s so obvious it’s weird it doesn’t already work like this. For now, I’m still just...
Reference Reading A Chemical Hunger, Part VII and Interludes C, G, and H U.S. Geological Survey, Public Water Supplies of the 100 Largest Cities in the United States, 1962 U.S. Geological Survey, Lithium in U.S. Groundwater, 2021...
Here in Ohio we can choose our electric supplier… But not who delivers it. I suppose that makes sense. The “natural monopoly” argument for this is that it doesn’t make sense to have multiple telephone poles with multiple wires going into...
MAGA followers. Three articulated figures, Mid 20th Century Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
I woke up this morning with that realization, after having slept on it, to the sound of the cosmos... ...which, actually, was 'just' Ludwig Göransson's inchorprandible soundtrack to Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic, as I...
I watched the first (of probably a couple) full trailer for, "Avengers Doomsday." Besides a bit of a teaser here and there, little has been shown/revealed. In the trailer, released yesterday, we hear what sounds like Robert Downey Junior...
Say one thing for Carl Chudyk, he’s always swinging for the fences. His latest, Chess Joker, is full of wonderful ideas. At its most basic: what if we took the game-altering jokers from Balatro, say half a thousand of them, and...
Because Belgian or Belgian-style Witbier has become such a minority style these days we forget just how good it is in hot weather. Lost & Grounded, our local taproom, has had Hop Hand Fallacy, a Witbier at 4.4%, as a permanent part of...
Interesting examination of whether therapists are too quick to suggest patients cut off ties with their parents. Of 7,000 estranged parents in a recent survey, some 3,000 said they believed a therapist had played a role in the split.→...
AOMO – Art of missing out BOMO – Beauty of missing out COMO – Chagrin of missing out DOMO – Delight of missing out EOMO – Ecstasy of missing out FOMO – Fear of missing out GOMO – Guilt of missing out HOMO – Happiness of missing out IOMO...
I thought Microsoft had got a handle on buggy Windows updates. Alas, since installing the KB5095093 preview update for Windows 11 25H2, the audio on my desktop PC is occasionally broken after resuming from sleep. Broken here means that...
Back in April at the most recent Art of Hosting we convened, someone asked me “does the Art of Hosting make good faith assumptions about people?” I’ve been thinking about that question ever since, and not satisfied by my answer which,...
What’s the point of putting things into my read-it-later app? Actually, I know the point: it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. I now have this essay in my possession. It makes me feel good about myself immediately—without doing...
As a sort of prelude to the article below, I should point out that I do have an AI policy that boils down to “I use AI to revise, not to write”. But I do want to understand the limits and possibilities of what can be done and get a...