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David E. Weekly
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David E. Weekly
@dweekly
Founder of Network Weather. President of Redwood City School District. Ex-FB/GOOG/COF. Heli & Cirrus pilot. Snowboarder. Dad. @rebeccalipon's +1
Redwood City, CA Katılım Ocak 2007
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NEW: Google just launched a new laptop category for the AI era.
Googlebook is coming this fall with Gemini built into the cursor, desktop, and Android phone connection.
• Magic Pointer lets you select anything on screen and ask Gemini about it
• Create My Widget builds custom desktop widgets from a prompt
• Cast My Apps opens your Android phone apps on the laptop
• Quick Access lets phone files show up like they live on your laptop
• built with partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo
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Almost disappointed Google I/O attendees aren't given complimentary Waymo rides to/from the event.
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@dweekly the most anyone could sell was $30M
so probably more even than what you have in mind
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600 OpenAI employees sold an average of $11M each of equity in October
Anecdotally it does feel like that’s when things started getting particularly nutty in the $5-10M segment of SF real estate
zerohedge@zerohedge
*MORE THAN 600 OPENAI EMPLOYEES SOLD SHARES LAST OCT.: WSJ *OPENAI EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVELY MADE $6.6B IN THE SHARE SALE: WSJ
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@marcportermagee (Person with no involvement with Waymo confidently guesses a number with not even a cursory analysis, but is quoted because they are a professor)
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I'm looking but surprised to find there is no open-source version of a screenless tracker like this or whoop.
I don't want to be stuck seeing my data in their apps; I want to buy the sensors and vibe engineer my own dashboards + own my data.
Is there anything like that?
Google@Google
Introducing Fitbit Air. It’s lightweight, screenless and comfortable enough to wear 24/7 — with a battery life* of up to a week. * Battery life depends upon many factors and usage and actual battery life may be lower.
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@wing171741 @dissproportion Yes! Our noses are incredibly effective at this.
I was amused to learn that for all the wise food handling dates and processes that are out there "just smell it" is pretty much the most effective step for figuring out if something is safe.
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This just makes me think the human body handles bacteria much better than we give it credit for. As far as I know, there is no epidemic of sponge-borne disease crippling the nation. Sure, throw your sponge away once a week or whatever. But it really doesn’t seem to matter much.
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka
The research behind this is wild. Your kitchen sponge has the same density of bacteria as human stool. German scientists found 54 billion bacterial cells per cubic centimeter inside used sponges in 2017. Yours is sitting right next to your sink. Sponges are the perfect home for bacteria. They are wet, warm, full of food bits, and never fully dry between washes. Across all 14 sponges, the team found 362 different types of bacteria. The most common species include strains that can make people sick. In 2011, the public health group NSF International swabbed 30 things in 22 American homes. The dirtiest object in the entire house was the kitchen sponge. It was dirtier than the toilet seat. 75% of the sponges tested positive for the kind of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli. Microwaving does not clean the sponge. The 2017 study found microwaved sponges had higher amounts of the smelliest, most harmful bacteria. Heat kills the weak strains. The strong ones survive and refill the sponge with no competition for space. A 2021 Norwegian study compared kitchen sponges to dish brushes. In brushes, Salmonella was wiped out within three days because the bristles dry out between uses. In sponges, bacteria climbed to about a billion cells per sponge. The lead researcher told CNN that one kitchen sponge can hold more bacteria than there are people on Earth. Three things actually work. Switch to a dish brush, because brushes dry fully between uses while sponges stay wet for hours. Replace your sponge every one to two weeks. Never leave it sitting wet in the sink. Norway and Denmark already do this by default, but most other countries don't. The detergent is fine. Your sponge is the problem.
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@artbypep I had this thought when driving through Los Altos: it is pretty but also incredibly bland for being in the middle of so much that is deeply intellectually exciting.
The contrast with Singapore or Shenzhen is profound.
It doesn't *look* like anything.
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TBH I feel this sometimes! For being the epicenter of a ton of world changing tech, we have basically just Waymo to show for it, and at great cost.
We’ve lost a ton of what gave SF personality. Lots of art galleries and restaurants and show venues and local flavor have all been priced out or shut down, but not to be replaced with cool future stuff or more housing.
Somehow in one of the coolest cities to be alive in, we got the worst of all worlds where bureaucracy and financial incentives got us less accessible housing, less culture, and less cool future stuff.
“paula”@paularambles
just met a japanese guy visiting sf for the first time who was deeply disappointed by how not-high-tech the city was. paris syndrome but for people expecting san francisco to look like the future
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@matvelloso 1- anyone with $100m
2- the market already did
3- probably things that could make them more money
4- governments with more than $100m to spend would be fine with it, those without would be grumpy
5- it would probably improve life on the whole
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Thought experiment:
Imagine we built the world's most advanced AI. Imagine it is not just very smart: It is smarter than all humankind combined, by an order of magnitude. It can cure all diseases. It can figure incredible investment opportunities. It can break almost any code, reverse engineer anything, be hyper persuasive, invent anything and solve any problem, etc.
But there's a catch: Each prompt costs $100,000,000.00 (a.k.a a ton of actual resources) to run.
Now:
1-Who would have access to it?
2-Who gets to decide 1?
3-What would these people use it for, first and foremost?
4-How would governments feel about that?
5-How would that affect most people on the planet?
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Tesla Car > Settings > Audio > Grok > Share Precise Location - on by default
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@ItsWillHenry Forget beer altogether and head to Smuggler's Cove.
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What are some best places to grab a Beer in SF?
I am making a ranked list.
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@arseniycodes Pros: beautiful iterations once you've onboarded a design language.
Cons: no Figma cross-integration, eats up tokens like a mofo, hard to build into a truly iterative process vs just fast-prototyping.
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anthropic released Claude design about a month ago. is anybody using it?
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@rcolidba @Cryptinflux A: this is interesting! I didn't know about this, thank you.
B: It looks like this is only for files that Claude has modified with its edit tool call. A rm -rf / is not going to be cured by this system.
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@dweekly @Cryptinflux They don't mention it in the UI, and it might require a particular config, or may have been added/removed at any point, because their product is designed to be opaque.
However (see pic) :
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Has anyone explored coupling ZFS rollback functionality with agentic coding harnesses to enable "rewind everything the agent just did, oops" functionality?
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@jwatte Sure but...who *is* integrating this tooling to expose FS rollback as a tool call in a session...??
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@dweekly You can snapshot containers but they do need to be stopped.
Lvm is indeed better for that specific use case if you only need file system rollback!
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@Cryptinflux @rcolidba .claude doesn't really version your whole filesystem unless I've missed some updates.
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