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> The last week was funny and also tiring, I worked 14 hours per day on average. My normal average is 4/6 since early Redis times, but the first few months of Redis were like that.

Is he taking about 4/6 h of coding? If he meant total working time I’d say this is a very balanced lifestyle!

I install Karabiner [0] first thing on a new macOS.

It lets you map this key to fix this issue and allows many more mappings.

[0] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

I wonder why there is no LLM that can decode this. Tried many times but it seems the models don’t pick up the nuances.

Do you mind pointing out the Moment when they show this?

GitUp is an open source altetnative. Probably less feature rich than SM but powerful enough to be efficient.

https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

Adding a smiley improves performance according to Logan Kilpatrick, head of developer relations at OpenAI.

> There's a lot of really small silly things, like adding a smiley face, increases the performance of the model.

> You could imagine on the order of one or 2%, which for a few sentence answer might not even be a discernible difference. Again, if you're generating an entire saga of texts, the smiley face could actually make a material difference for you, but for something small and textual it might not.

He mentioned that in Lenny’s podcast at 24:37.

Transcript available here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/inside-openai-logan-kilpatrick...

Direct link to that chapter of the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mdxAszZtmGFbNrCEQr8Ba?si=c...

Edit: added quotes

Here’s that article you’re asking for.

Smart Cards originated from pay phones https://computer.rip/2023-09-03-plastic-money.html

Have a look at Embeddable. It’s still pretty new but build by an experienced team.

It’s commercial software though.

https://embeddable.com/

This is handy but might not classify as a "write-up".

https://www.tldrlegal.com/

Is this actually legal in Switzerland?

That reminds me of Typing of the Dead https://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/The_Typing_of_The_...

You can find downloads of the original game via Google.

Thanks for the tip with Octonauts. This looks indeed like a great show.

I came to the comments specifically to find alternatives. This seems to be the only one mentioned so far.

Any other recommendations?

There is also this classic I remember from my childhood.

Once upon a time… life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time..._Life

This might be a silly question but are there similar optimizations that apply to Java?

There’s also https://numi.app/

It’s a shame that it doesn’t remember the words you look up.

This, combined with a spaced repetition feature would be fantastic to have on board.

I always wondered if there is a private API/event to listen for to capture the lookups and store them for later.

The German equivalent is Alpha Centauri by Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch.

He created over 200 of those 15 min clips between 1998-2007.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF86BBCC6E99AF968

Space Night is another classic that should be mentioned in this context.

https://www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/space-night/Y3JpZDovL2Jy...

We use iPods in a B2B wholesale context. The biggest advantages for us:

- Apple ecosystem

- long lifecycle of the devices

- standardised form factor for laser barcode scanner sleeves

- controlled environment in terms of OS versions and screen size variaty

- low price / costs for the users

What will Apple offer for B2B niche use cases in the future?

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