Link. Nobody is confident and 2 analyses produced differing confirmations.
Daily Archives: December 6, 2022
ChatGPT impact: “in the long run, we are all dead, and even before that, some of us may find ourselves either unemployed or earning far less than we expected, given our expensive educations.”
Link. In the 1950s many had quite agreeable jobs moving index cards around in huge office buildings.
Jim Kolbe GOP legislator (obit): “In 2013 he married his partner of eight years, Hector Alfonso, a special-education teacher, who survives him.”
Link. When the GOP wasn’t 92% evil.
All-Road bikes.
Link. Surly, Salsa and All-City are all the same company?!
“More Americans will look upon Hunter Biden with some measure of pity than Republicans think.”
Link. Many GOP voters love people who have had substance problems. Also, the big fingers anxiety seems real.
“GPT-4, the next incarnation of the company’s large language model, which is rumored to be coming out sometime next year. We are not ready.”
Link. Faint optimism: It took 25y to go from “wow” speech recognition to speech recognition that we all use.
Mac Cryptexes
Link. “Many of the system components that used to be stored on the Data volume are now loaded by Ventura in cryptexes, including Safari and all its supporting components” Great explainer.
Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus; “signs of complete remission of lupus: the patient’s lesions, rash, arthritis, and kidney and cardiac symptoms disappeared, and there was a thousand-fold decrease in antibodies to double-stranded DNA”
Link. Tears in my eyes. Science.
Creative Cloud to Affinity V2: “40%-off sale through 14 December 2022”
Link. Adobe will buy Affinity and kill it.
“every media company but Netflix posted higher losses in the first nine months of 2022 compared to 2021. Disney lost $3.42 billion vs. $1.21 billion in 2021.”
Link. It’s going to change.
“United States should organize and lead a major public and private, international humanitarian effort to help the Ukrainian people make it through the winter.”
Link. Do we still have what it takes?
“Then Taibbi’s Twittergate hit and I was so tired I just gave up and spent the next two days playing The Long Dark cranked to max difficulty”
Link. Jedeed is the chronicler of our time.