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For $500 I want it to brush my teeth for me, like the robo arm from "The Jetsons".

https://youtu.be/-0S3Jf-NxdI?si=hpyEcQUzguDDQaQ6


Me too. I felt like I know half these bathrooms.

Did you click on the map view to see the route he is driving?


Castlevania deserves a spot on the list.


The original Castlevania animated show was good, shame about the Warren Ellis situation. Would have loved to see him write Nocturne as well (which was fun but just had a much weaker script).


I've got a 3 step instruction to compress Ai text into useful info.

1. Ask it to write according to the Google Developer Documentation guidelines. Gets rid of fluff, less emotional statements, no it's not x it's why.

2. Tell it you have extreme ADHD and need everything condensed as much as possible. You can always ask for expansion on an answer later.

3. Bullet points whenever possible.


It seems like you have fought procrastination and put some real thought and effort into it.

Do you have any other recommendations like books to read or strategies you have tried?


One suggestion from David Allen that I always liked--mind you I'm not a David Allen afficionado in general--is that if you can do something in 5 minutes, just do it rather than add it to a to-do list. Mind you, 5 minutes can end up taking a lot longer but I find it useful advice in general.


This is close to the Never Go to Zero idea. Especially for recurring tasks, do the minimum, every time. It is probably less than 5 minutes. It's one push up. Just the warmup or tuning. Boot the machine. Open the file. Either more will follow or you'll stop for some reason. But you never skip or push the thing to some other time because that will just lead to more skipping and usually quitting.


Even if you can't get through the hopefully 5 minute task, it's probably worthwhile to dig-in briefly to try to identify any blockers or dependencis.


Did that really happen? What was the fork you are talking about?


It was a general metaphor but a reference to Windsurf. On the boomerang side, Noam Shazeer went on to do Character AI and came back via acquisition only to leave again to OpenAI.


Am I the only one who thinks the "reverse sear" is like cheating? It takes out all of the skill when you move from the pan to the oven, and I lose all of the fun in learning to be chef.


> I lose all of the fun in learning to be chef.

A great steak deserves the respect of preparing it the best, most consistent way you can. For me, that's a reverse sear.

Do something complicated with potatoes to stretch your skills and show off. Worst comes to worst the potatoes are sad.


This is like saying that playing guitar while sitting in a chair is cheating, because a proper display of skill is playing while riding a unicycle.

It might be more impressive, but I don't see how reverse sear is cheating.


I agree, it's cheating.

My bad hot take is if you're using a meat thermometer and reverse sear to cook steak, you're like a kid on training wheels.


I'll cheat all day then. If I'm going to spend what a good steak costs, I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure I'm not ruining it.


People are allowed to use tools and non-traditional techniques, even when it feels like cheating. They needn't be chastised for this.

The gestapo isn't going to kick in the door and haul folks away for using reverse-sear and a meat thermometer while they cook a steak in their own kitchen.

(And everyone is free to seek their own kind of masochistic pride, if that behooves them. When a person has better satisfaction [or whatever they get out of it] from doing things the hard way, then that's OK too.)


I'm not chastising anyone, I have no power over them


> you're like a kid on training wheels

Anyhoo.


You should really read the dictionary definition of the word "chastise".

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=chastise


To criticize severely; reprimand or rebuke.

k.


Pretty hard to be criticizing someone severely if I'm not even speaking to them specifically, don't you think? You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

I'm entitled to my opinion, which I self-described as a bad hot take.

Sounds like you're the one specifically reprimanding me here? Oops...


Sorry, I can't understand you with all the noise these training wheels are making.

Maybe we can chat again after recess is over?


How can articles on major news sites have typos this bad up for over a month?

"The crisis in France has claimed dozens of lives, with 40 people drowning while attempting to call off from the heat since June 18"

Call off should be "cool off".

And forgive me if this is a stupid question, but don't nuclear power plants produce enough energy that they could power their own cooling? Why do they have to rely on the free cooling provided by a river?


Stewart Lee did an hour of standup comedy on this same theme.

It's called "Stewart Lee: Content Provider" and its hilarous.

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6i59y


I thought he lost the case?


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