o3 is fascinating but let's take the ARC results with a helping of NaCl. The post ARC-AGI is a genuine AGI test but o3 cheated :( — LessWrong first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
From the various announcements made during The Game Awards, it’s not surprising that I gravitated towards the Naughty Dog project – Intergalactic: the Heretic Prophet and the CD Projekt Red Project – Witcher 4. I just started playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and I am kinda chid … | Continue reading
Pixel 9a leaks make me think of the Essential Ph(one) The post Pixel 9a giving me Essential Ph(One) vibes first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
iOS 18.2 and Mac OS 15.2 finally support link highlights on Safari In addition to the new backgrounds, Safari now supports linking to text highlights on web pages. The idea here is that you can select text on any web page, tap ‘Copy Link with Highlight’, and share the copied link … | Continue reading
Often in the evening, I feel the need for a pick me up. My go to for this is a coffee. I pull a shot of espresso and make it into an americano for sipping. As a boost of energy, it works without fail. However, I pay for it with bad sleep. This was not […] The post Black tea buzz … | Continue reading
This is an interesting economic perspective on the technology industry today. Brad posits that AI build out is currently willing to pay an nvidia tax today Once upon a time nearly everyone in tech paid the IBM mainframe tax. Then nearly everyone in tech paid the Microsoft-Intel D … | Continue reading
I was wrong in my predictions of the latest US elections. In a case like this, I attempt to revisit my mental model of the world to determine what’s changed. I’ll be honest and say that recalibration is going to take time because there’s sadness and disappointment with the outcom … | Continue reading
I notice that I often seek a new project out when I know I have to do something big and I feel low grade anxiety about the impending work. Retrospecting, I can remember this happen in college. I always picked up a new video game during the finals. More often than not, it’s a skil … | Continue reading
DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others. Let’s look at 37signals portfolio: I genuinely h … | Continue reading
I chanced across this and it’s been stuck in my head. It makes me think of vantage points. Humans see Earth as continents separated by oceans, while marine animals think of Earth as a contiguous body of water. It makes one appreciate how these vantage points might be useful when … | Continue reading
A couple days ago, some folks proposed a symbol – ⁂ – to help represent the fediverse. You should go read the introductory post. This has riled some people up. The most cogent of the reactions come from Manu who pens his thoughts here: https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts-on-symbol … | Continue reading
Microblogging continues to disperse between mastodon, bluesky, nostr and threads to pickup twitter slack. While they are all decentralized, they are all decentralized in different ways. mastodon is a federated ActivityPub application. bluesky is a federated identity using the ATP … | Continue reading
I’ve added a quick link in Raycast with “gw” pointing to The post Adding Google’s “web” search to Raycast first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Yesterday, owing to a monumental solar storm, northern lights, usually limited to some exclusive places in the world were a bit more accessible in Seattle. H and I got a chance to experience it. It was fun! I got a chance to experiment with some long shutter phone photography and … | Continue reading
Disney+ on Safari does not support 4K / HDR content. To take advantage of your Mac’s screen, you can Airplay Disney+ content from the iOS app, which streams it in Dolby Vision 4k. The post Use Airplay from Disney+ iOS app to your MacBook if you want to get Dolby Vision content fi … | Continue reading
Apple’s “Let Loose” event unveiled a flurry of new iPads, some packing fancy new chips, others not so much. But amidst the typical Apple fanfare, a realization struck me: the iPad just isn’t for me anymore. Those gorgeous new displays are tempting (seriously, I’m intrigued), but … | Continue reading
David Pierce doesn’t bury the lede: Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out. … Rabbit R1 continues to be panned. Here’s one in video format by MKBHD: or by … | Continue reading
Apple confirmed today that all DMA-related change it’s applied to iOS will also apply on iPadOS later this fall. (Under the DMA it has six months to meet the iPadOS compliance deadline.)“Developers can choose to adopt the Alternative Business Terms for Apps in the EU that will in … | Continue reading
This is from the announcement of a new website. However, this image held my attention. It’s either an optical illusion or a truly bad job at photoshopping. The camera angle, the way the monitor is angled cannot happen in real life. My guess is that the laptop screen angle is for … | Continue reading
The EU’s decision to draw iPad under the scope of the DMA will ensure that fairness and competition are preserved, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. She said that despite not meeting all the thresholds for being earmarked, an investigation showed … | Continue reading
David Schaub has put together two great graphs: RAM in desktop Macs: RAM in laptop Macs: It’s vexing to consider that base model Macs haven’t increased their RAM configuration since Tim Cook took over. It’s further vexing to consider that Apple’s path to a trillion dollars are pa … | Continue reading
Jim Nielsen writes: For example here’s Outlook:The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons – Jim Nielsen’s Blog Visual Studio explorations really are the best. And the Microsoft icons really do look great full bleed. At first glance the existing firefox icon is the best as the squircle … | Continue reading
Good on Zuck to say the quiet part out loud: “Historically, investing to build these new scaled experiences in our apps has been a very good long-term investment for us and for investors who have stuck with us,” Zuckerberg said on the first quarter earnings call, drawing an analo … | Continue reading
A challenge these A.I. tools have is that we’re coming down from the novelty high we had at the launch of ChatGPT a year and a half ago and now they need to deliver on actual use cases that make people’s lives better. As someone who uses Claude almost everyday, I think there’s cl … | Continue reading
David Pierce at The Verge writes: At this point, the best way I can describe the R1 is like a Picasso painting of a smartphone: it has most of the same parts, just laid out really differently. Instead of sitting on top or in the back, the R1’s camera sits in a cutout space on […] … | Continue reading
Justin Searls writes: I’ve been pairing with ChatGPT (using GPT-4) every day for the last few months and it is demonstrably terrible 80% of the time, but 20% of the time it saves me an hour of headaches, so I put up with it anyway. Nevertheless, my experience with Llama 2 was so … | Continue reading
Jon Porter and Thomas Ricker write: After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks to Apple’s compliance with the region’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The store requires a €1.50 (plus tax) annual subscriptio … | Continue reading
AI is the current thing. While there are still some core questions about it up in the air, the industry is swiftly navigating itself to leverage this platform shift. This swiftness is a particular trait of the Valley. People went all-in on almost everything since the web: mobile, … | Continue reading
As a parent, this hit deep. The post Felt love first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Kev Quirk triggered an interesting thought sharing experiment asking the question: Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back… https://kevquirk.com/what-about-anonymous-blogging Some thoughtful responses … | Continue reading
We are in a unique period where not only are desktop chips and laptops back at the frontier of computing, there are also new operating systems. China’s Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its first artificial intelligence-powered PC, saying it will be equipped with Intel’s l … | Continue reading
Unwinding in the Seattle spring A relaxing week filled with swimming, strolling and enjoying the sprouting spring in Seattle. Today’s Mega Heracross raid was a huge success for O and H. I tried some Ricoh recipes for XPRO from Ritchie’s Ricoh Recipes and it certainly helps get so … | Continue reading
And for RAM fiends out there, Gurman also reports that Apple is considering a new memory ceiling of 512GB, up from the current high-end maximum of 192GB. Gurman: Forget the M3, the M4 is on the way – Six Colors The speed of the jumps are exhilarating. The GPU, NPU and higher memo … | Continue reading
Written words if that’s your jam, like me. There are all the signs of a first generation product. However, I must admit that the industrial design is appealing for a gadget. The slowness is very much expected and it is fascinating to see how this breaks. For example, when David a … | Continue reading
It’s the annual mobile (and desktop) operating system refresh time with I/O and WWDC coming in May and June respectively. Matt Birchler from Birchtree writes: I have a similar request. It’s an opt-in to have higher density of content on the screen. I’d like as much content as an … | Continue reading
I’ve seen many blogs I really like refer to 11ty as the one static site generator to rule them all. The intro video seems like it’s dead simple and the setup feels a lot like obsidian templates and setup. In fact, I often write a bunch of content with very similar templating in o … | Continue reading
Post by @benedictevans View on Threads Social media really does highlight that even brilliant minds can be so tiny at times. The post Do what I say, not what I do… first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Weekly updates - Mar 30 • #100DaysToOffload A week in Seattle The post Weekly Updates – Mar 30 • #100DaysToOffload first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Planning to try neovim after using macvim forever. The post neovim first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Web2, code and APIs. The goal wasn't to build things that don't break because entropy gets everything. The post ▶️ The code was never the important part first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
The drift to normal can only be countered by persistent effort, usually at the cost of some element of short-term scale. I am in the process of writing down my thoughts about google’s idiosyncratic culture, how that perpetuated products and how the normalcy has effectively remove … | Continue reading
On Wednesday, Canva and Affinity published a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity software “fair, transparent, and affordable,” including “the perpetual licenses that have made Affinity special.” Canva won’t force Affinity users into paying subscriptions – The Verge The post S … | Continue reading
INP, FID, The web. And my contested belief that despite all its flaws, AMP was still good for the mobile web from a user experience perspective. The post 🔗 Fidinpamp • adactio first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
artifact might continue to live for some more time, maybe? The post 🔗 The Artifact news app isn’t dead yet • David Pierce • The Verge Quickest first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
The world continues to realize that a chatbot isn't the best interface for AI The post The world continues to realize that a chatbot isn’t the best interface for AI first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Your iPhone is Now a Social Beacon: Get Ready for the Augmented Future The post Contact Posters: The Transponders of the Augmented World first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
🔗 Apple's winding down in-house efforts to develop µ-LED displays The post 🔗 Apple’s winding down in-house efforts to develop µ-LED displays first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading
Overall on /scribbles, I continue F1 race predictions and share my GridRival lineup. The post 🏎️ Australia GP predictions first appeared on @gurupanguji. | Continue reading