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I found an M1 Macbook on FB marketplace for $200 so I snagged it today. A lot of college kids selling off their stuff right now. I've never used a Macbook before. I really like the haptic feedback on the trackpad. The lack of USB-A on these things is annoying, but I'll manage. For future...

Somewhat off topic, but I have high hopes for AI's use in narrative RPG games like Dwarf Fortress, or mods of old games getting NPCs hooked up to LLMs. Since AI can call tools now, you could have NPCs give out custom items or quests in the game too. It sounds like a fun way to re-experience...

Have you noticed that "vibe coders" get incredibly depressed when they run out of tokens? It's weird. How many SaaS products make you depressed like that when you hit your limits? I think it suggests that amateurs see AI as a slot machine shaped to their whims rather than a research and...

One complicating factor in all of this is China. Their open source models are getting very powerful, and since they are freely available on the internet, anyone can run them with the right hardware. I've personally ran Qwen 3.6 on my rtx 3090 for small coding tasks, and it's as good as Claude...

I would personally support legislation that required you to be 18 to talk to AI. Instead of having AI companies gather your ID to verify you, however, I think it makes more sense to buy pre-paid codes from a gas station, where we already check for IDs for things like alcohol. We should...

I agree that media consumption can create a depressing apathy in people. It's more fun to go on the emotional roller coaster of an 8-hour Netflix binge than building a supportive, local community by talking to your neighbors. I have browsed the clover site from an early age, and it's affected...

Hello, I'm also from a tech background. I like running cool data delivery projects with kubernetes. The seems like a good place to learn about marketing, so I'm looking forward to it too. Cheers.

My business involves heavy daily web scraping. The best solutions right now are nodriver and zendriver. They have no issue with scraping FB Marketplace on just a few dozen residential proxies. Nodriver/zendriver gets through cloudflare turnstile (the "are you human?" checkbox) very easily, but...

I want to put my app on the app store. Setting up a capacitor build for my web app is simple on windows. I've published to Google Play before so I'm familiar with the whole process (it takes about 3 weeks). What's the cheapest way to build for iOS on Windows? I don't want to buy a mac, but a...

As this poster says, use capacitor wrapper for simple CRUD apps, react native/flutter if you are strongly committed to mobile. If you go the PWA route, you can get server-side push notifications by using the VAPID protocol. It's convenient if you already self-host and want push notifications...

Most of the YT guru videos I see on Youtube, they have accounts with like 20+ channels. I personally haven't noticed any performance dip from having many channels on one account. Performance is all about topic and retention really.

I built an e-commerce app in a couple of weeks and I enjoy the work that goes into it. To new vibe coders, the best advice I can offer is to practice basic programming without AI. AI paints in broad strokes, and as a software engineer, I get better results when I say things like "don't make...

People are wary of AI content these days. I begrudgingly read AI blogs sometimes if I don't care about 100% accuracy on a topic, as I would've asked AI about the topic anyway. I think AI is hyper-optimized to a certain rhythm that now feels uncanny. Many copy-generating AI sites are also not...

When using AI, it's important to avoid the "pink elephant" effect. That is, anything you say to an AI, it is going to regurgitate like a schmoozy salesman. So if you ask it stupid shit like "How do i make money really fast?" the AI is going to be like "Bro, I literally cannot stop thinking about...

This happened to me recently. It's just Google taking their time to process things on the backend. After two weeks, everything looked as it should in my search console.