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- ljoshua parentJust a plug for the book this content is derived from, Noam Wasserman's "The Founders Dilemmas." It lays out so many facets of startup decisions that deserve thought from the outset to prevent issues. It also strikes a good balance IMO between being based in statistics and research, and including anecdotes from actual experiences that bring the statistics full circle. I'd highly recommend it.
- I’ve never been on the Spotify train, but with an all-Apple household, including HomePod Minis in multiple rooms, I’ve been stuck in iTunes/Apple Music land. We own our music, which is nice. And I dutifully pay the $24.99 per year for iTunes Match so that I can tell Siri what to play on HomePods, but I will be 0% surprised when they deprecate that service.
Anyone have a good non-Apple way of getting Siri to play songs from a personal music collection on HomePods? My kids use it most.
- Just yesterday I paid my annual $24.99 iTunes Match subscription to keep my music library synced between my laptops, phones, and HomePods. It’s a beautiful thing, but it feels tenuous every time that renewal goes in. Will it be my last? I hope not!
There is just something about actually owning the music that appeals to me and my wife (and yes, we’re children of the original iTunes era, when you could load up your playlist and then click the cool nuclear-looking button in iTunes to burn it to a CD). It won’t last forever, but I’ll keep with it till it dies because it works.
- Less a technical comment and more just a mind-blown comment, but I still can’t get over just how much data is compressed into and available in these downloadable models. Yesterday I was on a plane with no WiFi, but had gemma3:12b downloaded through Ollama. Was playing around with it and showing my kids, and we fired history questions at it, questions about recent video games, and some animal fact questions. It wasn’t perfect, but holy cow the breadth of information that is embedded in an 8.1 GB file is incredible! Lossy, sure, but a pretty amazing way of compressing all of human knowledge into something incredibly contained.
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- I was running into context window issues doing this. I could have gone in and split up the scanned book into chapters or something to get around this, and did that for a couple of subjects. But it wasn't too much work (and literally cost me pennies, like six of them) to get the pure text extract, and it's pretty easy to work with now. (Besides, which random dev doesn't love a little side challenge to explore new APIs at home every now and then? ;) )
- It sounds like you may be speaking from experience, and if so, I respect that.
My kids have done both public schooling and now homeschooling. For a variety of personal reasons, public schooling was not going to be an option for a couple of them, so we're trying this out now and it has been successful. We are tightly integrated into a very active church group, and they have lots of social interactions on a regular basis there, as well as opportunities with other homeschooled kids around town.
It's definitely a balance, and there's no one silver bullet on either side of the fence, but the best any of us can do is actively strive for giving each child the best and most appropriate experiences for them.
- NotebookLM audio overviews/podcasts have been an absolute boon for my homeschooled kids. They devour audiobooks and podcasts, and they love learning by listening to these first. Then when we come together for class, we discuss what was covered, and can spend time diving into specifics or doing activities based on the content. It’s super nice to have another option for a learning medium here.
To generate them, we’ve scanned the physical book pages, and then with a simple Python script fed the images into GCP’s Document AI to extract the text en-masse, and concatenated the results together into a text-only version of the chapter. Give that text to NotebookLM and run with it.
- Source paper available at https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.02....
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- The challenge till this is widely supported (caniuse.com currently pegs it at 46% globally [1]) will be using this as a progressive enhancement that does not provide a worse or unusable experience for users with browsers not supporting it yet.
In other words, don’t include critical information or functionality in the new styling that isn’t available in the underlying plain select element! But such is always a good practice anyway.
Very nice to see this taking shape though! Should be a huge improvement over the div monster that custom select box replacements often are. :)
[1] https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_appearance_base-selec...
- Very cool! I was just looking for something like this last night to generate quizzes for my middle- and grade-school sure kids as supplement to their normal work. So far I’ve settled on NotebookLM.
One thing I’d love to see is some examples of what the generated quizzes look like/work like before I upload something. Right now, I have no idea what I’ll get before uploading something. Some examples or demos on the front page would be great.
- Grid is fine, snow is melting, everything is business as usual. CenterPoint had 99.9% deliverability for the past 24 hours, and ERCOT has 14,781 MW in reserve power available (https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions). Source: I live in Houston.
I know this was tongue in cheek, but c'mon, we can respect each other, right? :)
- Unrelated to the discussion of JMAP, but I had the pleasure of helping host the mentioned Inbox Love conference, assisting Josh Baer and Jared Goralnick. That conference was such a fun one!
Targeted, focused conferences like Inbox Love, with 150ish or fewer attendees, are by far my favorite because you can actually get to know folks, ideas flow more easily, and everyone is focused on approximately the same thing. Much better than huge, multi-track conferences. We should host more of those as an industry.
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- I have two Kasa light strips (KL400) and anecdotally I’ve noticed that its performance degrades every other day or so to the point where it stops responding to change commands.
The fix? Blocking all inbound and outbound WAN (internet) traffic to it. Now works flawlessly, just like you think a light strip would. I only ever want to issue commands locally anyway, and why it should be talking to the broader internet in that case is beyond me.
- I agree that the main takeaway is knowing when to switch. Having a mental model for this makes many future discussions and decisions much easier, because this seems to be a conundrum that comes up frequently (even for me inside of a large tech organization!).
Based on my experience, I'd suggest the pivot point occurs before even starting: it should pivot around who is building and maintaining the system. If you have the experience needed to quickly develop a solution in code, do it in code. If not, because this is a non-technical team without technical resources, do it in low code. Simple as that.
- My team does Wednesday to Wednesday for many of the same reasons mentioned in the article, and it works great. We switch at 11am and hold a hand-off meeting at that time, and invite the whole team.
Hand-off meetings with the whole team work really well (in my opinion!) when you have a relatively small team--we have 9 FT teammates. Often someone else may have been delegated the page or bug that arose and can discuss how they handled it, or someone who wasn't involved may have insight for how to handle a situation better the next time. Since we're all going to be on rotation at least once during a quarter, it's great to know what happened in case a similar page pops up later.
Finally, we also fill out a running Doc before/during the meeting with links to the pages/bugs, along with short descriptions of how they were handled. This forms a great living memory of how to deal with incidents, and is also often the birthplace of new playbooks for handling new types of incidents.
- Haha! For those unsure, this is one of the co-founders of Figma, and he also maintains esbuild. See the root domain (https://madebyevan.com/).
- I feel like the headline is torturing the data a little bit. Of the three primary buckets (a click, search session ends, or another search), only the "search session ends" bucket feels like it can really be construed to be not going to the open web. This is presumably because the SERP presented the answer the user was looking for, possibly because of an AI Overview answer, seeing a location on the mini-map, etc.
A search that then results in another search (22%) could either be the user realizing their terms weren't getting them to the right direction so they modify the search, or just changing their mind. The article notes that more research is needed here. Doesn't seem like they are "not going to the open web."
That leaves the biggest bucket (42%) where 79% go to a website, 29% go to a Google property, and 1% go to a paid click destination. The 79% is of course considered the "open web" here, but presenting Google properties as not the open web seems funny. There's no walled garden, login, or payment required to access those destinations, and they're usually presented in search results because of their relevance to the search. Even the 1% paid clicks bucket, while they are ads, technically still go to the open web.
So in general I feel like this is trying to paint a negative picture that the data doesn't really support. If nothing else, the definition of "open web" here feels overly selective, to the detriment of the message. But this is the Internet, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the headline is clickbaity. :)