You can now buy lamps with speakers you can control remotely: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/symfonisk-table-lamp-with-wifi-speaker-black-50357592/
I imagine we'll see home devices integrating smart speakers rather than separate devices eventually.
miniblog.
Perhaps all links should have a tooltip with a preview of the content. I'm struggling to see a downside.
We moved from double- to single-clicking links, why not make the site/browser do more work before clicking?
I'll be at @poplconf 2020! Do say hello.
Cute elisp trick I haven't seen before: point works as a place with setf!
;; Move point to the beginning of the buffer
(setf (point) (point-min))
;; Equivalent:
(goto-char (point-min))
I still find it amazing that Google provides _free_, _unlimited_ image storage at a reasonable resolution.
It's a really nice service, but I don't understand the economic rationale.
GitHub now provides a feature to discover when you've accidentally leaked company private keys: https://developer.github.com/partnerships/token-scanning/
Makes sense, but it's a shame it's needed. It's easy to screw up.
I don't think we're held back by hardware: it's usually insufficient imagination.
Devices like smart lights (Hue) or smart speakers (Alexa) didn't use new hardware, and could have been invented a little earlier.
I have a theory that developers are more willing to sit and stare at a progress bar than an average person. It's probably conditioning.
On treating email as an infinite scroll rather than a buffer to be emptied: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/case-inbox-infinity/579673/
I've found Inbox Zero to be a really effective approach, but it comes at a cost. The article seems to mix 'must respond' with 'must read' in email tasks.
"Most iPhone users could not tell you where the most-used apps on their phone live."
Changing culture of device usage: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/how-death-itunes-explains-2010s/604291/
It's weird how email addresses have become a useful way of uniquely identifying people in usernames. This isn't something email was originally intended for.
It makes sense: I imagine postal addresses and even names change more often than email.
AI predictions are difficult, especially about the future: https://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/
Automation does not seem to have much of an impact: people are rarely forced to change industry, companies are not investing heavily in AI, and productivity growth is slow: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/
Waymo has been testing fully driverless cars (i.e. without a human ready to intervene) since 2017! https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/12/driverless-cars-became-a-reality-in-2017-and-hardly-anyone-noticed/
Switching from xz to zstd package compression in Arch Linux gives a ~13x improvement in decompression time with only a ~1% increase in file size!
https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/
Cute glitch app that lets you look at old accounts you've followed to see if they're still relevant. Has a Marie Kondo theme too!
https://tokimeki-unfollow.glitch.me/
Increasing use of YouTube for training doctors in surgery procedures! https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html
Amazing project that trained the GPT-2 language model on text adventure games, producing a game that allows arbitrary prompts!
Game: https://aidungeon.io/
About: https://pcc.cs.byu.edu/2019/11/21/ai-dungeon-2-creating-infinitely-generated-text-adventures-with-deep-learning-language-models/
(Ironic that a text game has large GPU requirements to run too.)
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