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• Request for product: I want to be able to take @meetgranola transcripts and have an AI read it back to me, so it's like listening to a Zoom recording or audio recording instead of having to read the transcript manually if I really want to understand a call.

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• he vibe coded the recording tool as i sat next to him at the vienna office. sometimes it's alright to have the ceo vibe slop his way to success.
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• My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that.
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• Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) on why Xi Jinping fears a US counter-blockade, and how China might try to still take Taiwan: "Xi Jinping is committed to trying to get Taiwan. The Chinese need a very high probability of success to commit themselves past a certain point, because failure would be catastrophic for whoever launched it. I think they're trying to get themselves into a position where they could have a soft blockade. They could give the orders that any ship that wants to go to Taiwan first has to stop at a Chinese port and go through a customs clearing process to assert sovereignty. The…
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• I vibed up a weird music screensaver a month ago, but I kept thinking, “What if it was an imaginary failed 90s arranger keyboard called the Stellate that generated music in 500 genres?” So this is an imaginary web port of that. It's a mess, but I keep laughing at it. Exports to Ableton. stellate.app

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• We now have automated half-bounce analysis created by @infomiho! Paste an X post with a screen recording and it'll automatically analyze the frames, screenshot them, and produce a report for you. Example: https://t.co/IFpwmdxGRj Very cool!

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• lazyweb: I'm curious about how to get a list of all of the different "kinds" of things SSH can do. my impression is that there's: - open a terminal session - just run one command - TCP port forwarding - X11 forwarding - copy files and that these all separate "commands" or "protocols" inside SSH. Not sure how to get a list of all of them though. edit: I think the answer is "read https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROTOCOL and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt"

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• It’s so wild how good image and video models are getting. It’s not hard to see how in a decade (or sooner) the meaning of images you see has completely changed meaning. It makes me curious about the idea of cryptographically proving that an image was actually “captured” (recording of photon emission.)

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• Responder 9.2.0 is out. Typed SSE and NDJSON streams are now first-class contracts: inferred from return annotations, validated per item, documented in OpenAPI, and consumed lazily by generated clients.

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• Sandy is conflating four stories: - The story of the contract programmer is incorrect, and was before Sandy’s time at id. The contract programmer was hired to do the SNES port of Wolf 3D (not the network code). They ended up not doing it. So, we had to stop development on DOOM for three weeks to do the port. That person was employed by another company at the time, and although they assured us they had approval to do the work, that was not true. To avoid a lawsuit, we gave them rights to publish the Mac version of Wolf 3D. See ch 12 DOOM Guy for this story. The person was a good programmer, bu…
  Quoting@SandyofCthulhuThe house doesn't always win. Four anecdotes in which "I was there" when game companies got fleeced. Thrice by individuals, once by their own publisher. First, id Software and our non-network code. John Carmack told me that while our game worked great on a network, they had hired a guy to do the co…

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• Liner notes to What Belongs to You

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• Assessment of the Hantavirus with Prof Donald Milton

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• c4.citycreator.com — Remember to put your duo app secret into secrets/duosecretkey.

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• I met up with @jacksondahl in Copenhagen and had a conversation about the value of lingering in confusion, using constraints to enable more creative work, how I journal, why love is like eating dogs, and many other things. You can find a recording below.
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• I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021. Be sure to check out the included library of pre-built shortcuts and automations for inspiration.

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• The recording of our talk for the ICLR'24 test-of-time award (with @wellingmax) is now available online: https://t.co/uY5tG2aCUd Biggest live audience I've ever spoken to, with >2000 attendees 😅. But it was a lot of fun!

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