Ben Galbraith

Not sure when Google Docs enabled right-clicking to copy embedded images to the clipboard, but I’m so grateful. All is forgiven, Google Docs. 🥳

I track things like the food I eat, shows I watch, how I spend my time generally, etc.

Lately I switched from using custom apps for this (e.g., Sofa for media; MacroFactor for food) to just writing a free form log in a daily note and having my AI assistant analyze it.

It’s so much better!

Adam — gutted to hear the news. So sorry man. ❤️❤️❤️

...or move them around in the various To, Cc, Bcc fields! Serious “you have one job” territory.

👋

Bizarre to see the same move made 15 years later with a different cast of characters on both sides.

Finding it’s delightful to have put myself into two obscure categories, from an IT troubleshooting point of view:

* Families with more than four children
* Families who immigrate to another country but still want to have access to their original country’s digital assets

Absolutely delightful.

Track Changes — Harvard University Press The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the perio...

I came to Track Changes expecting a fun bit of tech geek history. I found a rich vein of parallels to the genAI revolution. A great read.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I’ve seen some high friction spam unsubscribe forms in my day, but this Amazon one is next level. Amazing. Illegal?

Reviewing my car insurance. Says I have 32 years of driving experience.

First reaction: “That’s wild, I wonder where they came up with that.”

Second reaction: 🥺

In practice, the new iOS text effects are just another way for iOS to do something to my text that I didn’t want, and for me to spend extra cycles trying to undo it.

Yay.

“Dad, why do so many company names start with ‘a‘?”

Son, lemme tell you a story about these ancient things called “phone books”...

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Just discovered Ground News. Now I want my entire extended family to discover it, too!

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Wow!

LLMs have helped me realize how often talking is not conscious effort, but some other subliminal process that we occasionally steer, and often just… do.

As you say, much easier than actively thinking.

For sure!

Having a stable hardware platform for that long was amazing, and the software ecosystem was amazing. Super fun time.

Can’t decide which blows my mind more:

• the Apple ][‘s peak sales year was six years after its introduction

• the Apple ][ was an active SKU for 16 years

• the Apple ][‘s lifetime sales of 6 million units is routinely bested by a few *days* of iPhone sales

oh man my childhood resurrected keep the good times coming man

I did that back in the day! Good memory.

LHarc / LZH was good stuff back in the day, when we pushed bits through 2400 baud straws.

Good memories.

🤣 reminds me of when young me used bat2exe to make silly little DOS scripts seem fancy

Haven’t been on Twitter or Threads for ages, so happy to see your witticisms again!

I used to find most headlines from The Onion laugh-out-loud funny, but lately the jokes just aren’t landing with me.

Have I changed, or have they?

It does seem that way.

Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ as <em>Dracula</em> On the interpretation of Gene Wolfe’s short story ‘Suzanne Delage’ as inversion of Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula</em> horror novel.

@gwern.bsky.social’s solution to Gene Wolf’s short story Suzanne Delange is a delightful read.

gwern.net/suzanne-delage

The lies some of my relatives believe about Biden are gobsmacking.

I kinda like that Claude relies on its memory for more queries than ChatGPT does; I often just want inference from that, versus a RAG over webpages.

I’m surprised that cursor positioning and text selection remains excruciating on iOS in late 2024.

Exactly my thoughts

A screen capture of a Christmas wishlist asking for an old school digital camera

My daughter has a nice smartphone but asked for this for Christmas. 🤔