This is in stark contrast to many of the cheaper options. I know a lot of people who throw their IKEA stuff away when they move and buy new stuff for every place they live. IKEA stuff doesn’t always old up will to moves (depending on what it is) and when it’s cheap, people treat it like fast fashion and want a change.

Over the course of a life, this could mean something like Vitsoe shelves could be the more economical option and lead to significantly less waste.

I’m actually in need of some shelves. I’ve been debating going the 606 route, but have been struggling to decide where they’d go. I don’t have an obvious solution. I saw they have a service to help people design their layout. Did you use that, and is there already an expectation that you have some idea what you want?

I may romanticize the idea of making my own stuff from time to time, but realistically, I’m never going to spend my time sourcing wood slabs, finding ways to transport said slab to my workshop, building a workshop, letting the wood dry (if not already done), learning all the details about how to best adapt the slab to a desk, building the actual desk, trying to fix the imperfections, then after installing the desk in my office… knowing those imperfections exist and the things I learn along the way, I’d be unsatisfied and thinking about how I could build another desk without those issues/compromises. Rinse and repeat forever. This sounds like a nightmare, and much more expensive than just buying a desk.

I sometimes go through phases watching woodworkers on YouTube and it’s never just—-varnish a slab and bolt on some legs. In some cases, even moving the slab around requires specialized skills and equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Connie_Dabate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968252

I know it's an N of one, but it shows it can help and is worth a shot. Even if it doesn't completely resolve the sleep apnea, there are so many other additional benefits.

After an alert from my Apple Watch and a few extremely rough nights of sleep when my weight hit an all time high, I scheduled a sleep study for myself. It's 2-3 months out still, so I plan to lose what I can while I wait to see how much it can help. Even the first 10 lbs was a significant help and stopped the truly awful sleep I had for a week or two.

Right now so many companies are trying to use AI just to use AI, rather than using it when and where it actually makes sense. This is the big thing that drives me, and I think many others, a bit crazy. I don’t expect a bubble pop to make us go back in time to 2022, but I expect it will put an end these the AI mandates, token maxing, and other foolish behavior.

You can pay anonymously[1]. You can also authenticate anonymously, as someone else already mentioned.

Meanwhile Google retains everything forever and does everything in their power to track everything you do across the web and tie it back to you, logged in or not. This is their entire business model.

[0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin

They got more strict about booleans. For those who need/want the old behavior, ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS can be set in the ansible.cfg or `is truthy` can be used for python-like version, but it becomes explicit vs being implied.

It’s ok to not have millions of uses. OmniWeb was released for NeXTSTEP back in 1995 and came to the Mac as NeXT was absorbed by Apple. It never saw huge commercial success (as far as I know) and I saw an interview with Ken Case recently that mentioned he still uses it and keeps it updated, mostly for himself, though the builds are available for free for anyone else who might want it. Similarly, Linus Torvalds maintains uEmacs just because it’s what he’s used to and he recommends no one else use it.

If it strikes a chord and catches on, that is awesome, but even if it’s just for you and you enjoy it, you’re in good company maintaining a project that works exactly how you want.

I wasn’t a huge Arc fan, so it’s not for me, but I’m happy to see more browsers existing that aren’t built on Chromium. If you aren’t interested in maintaining it due to the lack of users and are ok with a Firefox engine with an Arc-like UI, the Zen browser maybe an option. I think that’s what a lot of former Arc users went to.

Without a human in the loop and LLM could churn away spitting out results, some right, some wrong, and it would be of no consequence. Not much different than wild dogs sniffing each other.

People saw birds fly for all of human history, but it was only recently that humans were able to make something fly and understand why. Once we understood, we were able to do amazing things, but before that, the millions of birds able to fly were of no help beyond inspiration for the dream.

I can’t tell if this is going to replace Visa/Mastercard or be offered in addition to Visa/Mastercard to handle transactions for locals while still allowing transactions to be viable for everyone else who might be passing through.

This depends on implementation. I primarily use Kagi for any LLM stuff. I cites pretty much everything and links out to the source. I regularly use this for search. The normal search results may not have what I need, but a line in the AI results sounds better and I click through to the source to get more context.

I find clicking through to the source is important, as I've often seen the AI get it wrong. The page has what I need on it, but the AI grabbed the wrong thing and got it backward. I'm probably in the minority, I'm guessing most people don't use LLMs like this.

While I agree that AI gets things wrong a lot, and someone should read significantly more before getting into actually trading options, this does give a decent overview to give a layperson an idea of what they are, and some key terms on what to look for if they want to dive deeper. That said, with this info alone, there are some sharp edges that would leave the person open to unnecessary risk if they went on this information alone.

Similarly, if I use Gemini uses a website for an answer, it should pay something to those sites for the information it gathered. Sites would need to sign up to earn via Google, and I'd imagine there would be a certain threshold to cross to make it worth cutting checks... but that would make all these AI search tools feel much less scummy while providing site owners an incentive to keep sharing information on the internet.

Where a model like this would get messy is with sites like reddit. It's a very popular source for AI search, but the value comes from the users, not the platform itself.