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  In two days: GitHub outage, can't create new Google Ads, can't upgrade our MailChimp subscription. Looking forward to the PR articles describing how these companies finish projects that used to take days in hours.

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  I’m only two chapters in but already see that Craig Thompson’s Ginseng Roots is going to be one of my favorite books. I thought it was going to be a tough one, but it’s just so beautifully done 👌

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  Listening to an old playlist, I’m thinking Coldplay isn’t so bad after all. I check the song title. It’s by Muse.

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  So I happen to be in Paris today and l can confirm that the protesters are super chill, it’s really nice outside. The only issue I had was with the police blocking a street I had to go through but they were friendly enough to explain the best detour

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  OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face is a nice test to see which media outlets simply regurgitate OpenAI's PR articles (or copy the exaggerated interpretations!), and which ones actually think for themselves and do some digging.

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  I only found conflicting reports and outdated numbers on the #CO2 emissions of LLMs. So I've made some estimations myself. I was hoping with newer numbers I could feel slightly less bad about my occasional #LLM use. But it's terrifyingly bad. Now I hope I've made a mistake, but the calculation is so simple, I don't see how I can very wrong. The notion that AI is going to destroy humanity is #AI PR, but if it's going to be the case, it's because...

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  Things that intelligent, computer using people have often asked me: - Where is the meeting? (in the calendar's location field) - Where's the document called so and so? (gDrive's search isn't that bad) - Where are the meeting notes? (in the same place as all other meetings) - Can you update the spreadsheet with these numbers? - Can you remind me to do that thing tomorrow? I think software people underestimate how much people dislike computers and don't ca...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/116633765036263880 Apparently Google heard your complaints about open tabs causing MacBook Pro fans to spin:

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  Oooh yeah, I ran into a bug in #Safari where an element that was transitioned to zero opacity and `display: none` remained visible. And solved it by applying `will-change: opacity` First time I really need that one. Reading all your #css blog posts is paying off, is what I'm saying!