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Hi, I’m a UI/UX Designer with over 5 years of experience working with startups and bigger organisations in sectors such as health tech, fintech, banking, logistics, music, and e-commerce.

I have experience working in both smaller teams where communication is quick and easy, and bigger teams where structure and strategy are key. I enjoy doing different types of design work, like UI/UX design, marketing materials, pitch decks, and landing pages. I love creating designs that make users happy and help businesses grow.

I specialize in user research, visual design, prototyping, and building scalable design systems. My skill set includes creating intuitive interfaces, improving user experiences, and developing data-driven designs that enhance usability and drive business growth.

If you’re looking for a designer who can bring fresh ideas and deliver great results, feel free to reach out to me. I’d love to chat!
iPhone sales in China fell for the 4th month in a row
i volunteer.

my suggestion to the author would be: spend some time volunteering and get over yourself (by that i mean their own ego which seems to be putting them at the centre of everything).

in my experience, some things tend to come out of it

- gratitude for where i am at in life because i’m struggling less than the people i’m helping

- empathy because jesus yeah these people are struggling and i’m seeing just how much it’s affecting them

- humility because you know what, i really am limited in what i can actually do for these people, none of my “technical prowess” is actually useful here

- purpose because man i feel bad for these people and id like to do more to help than just showing up once a week

i don’t volunteer because it’s “virtuous”. fuck virtuosity.

i do it because i need to for my own sake — to experience the stuff above. it’s selfish-selflessness. by helping others i also help myself.

edit — added the one about humility which is quite important

edit 2 — donating money (philanthropy) is not the same as volunteering. in case there’s any confusion. boots on the ground are required.
Making the decision to trust companies like Anthropic with your data when they say things like "we won't train on your data" is the ultimate LLM productivity hack. It unlocks access to the currently best available coding models.

That said, there are increasingly great coding models you can run locally. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B impressed me a lot a few months ago: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/

The problem I have is that models like that one take up 20+GB of RAM, and id rather use that to run more Chrome and Firefox windows! If I was serious about using local LLMs on a daily basis I'd set up a dedicated local server machine for them, super expensive though.
> The prime-counting function approximation tells us there are Li(x) primes less than x, which works out[5] to one prime every 354 odd integers of 1024 bits.

Rule of thumb: Want a 1024-bit prime? Try 1024 1024-bit candidates and you'll probably find one. Want a 4096-bit prime? Try 4096 4096-bit candidates and you'll probably find one.

The approximate spacing of primes around p is ln(p), so ln(2^1024) = 1024*ln(2), and ln(2)=0.693 so if you are willing to absorb 0.693 into your rule of thumb as a safety margin you get the delightfully simple rule of thumb above. Of course, you'll still want to use a sieve to quickly reject numbers divisible by 2, 3, 5, 7, etc, and this easily rejects 90% of numbers, and then do a Fermat primality test on the remainders (which if you squint is sort of like "try RSA, see if it works"), and then do Miller-Rabin test to really smash down the probability that your candidate isn't prime. The probabilities can be made absurdly small, but it still feels a bit scandalous that the whole thing is probabilistic.

EDIT: updated rule of thumb to reflect random candidate choice rather than sequential candidate choice.
"This lack of precision in a technical word might seem dangerous at first; in fact it is often helpful. It allows new ideas to flourish while still vague, it allows connections between these ideas to be explored, and it allows the ideas to be extended, instead of having them cut short by premature definition and precision."
I can't access it; the video is set to private.
Thank you for this post, remarkably articulated, I concur.
This is actually a great example of an optimization that would be extremely difficult for an LLM to find. It requires a separate computation to find the smallest /largest numbers in the range with digits summing to 30. Hence, an LLM is unlikely to be able to generate them accurately on-the-fly.
Everyone calling Loom a glorified screen recorder... there was a $975M dollar bill on the floor and no one else picked it up.

The technology was simple, but it solved a real problem for people. Solving well defined engineering tasks is vastly easier than solving a real problem.
This is who I'm learning everything from right now: John Rush.

1. X account: https://x.com/johnrushx

2. Directory guide: https://johnrushx.substack.com/p/directory-playbook-build-grow-and

I've been following him since 3K followers and his free X account is an absolute treasure trove of knowledge.

I would start by going back and studying all of his threads.
Loom is one of my least favorite products because it enables lazy creators to offload the work of organizing and editing their thoughts onto the viewers. So instead of one person spending 30 minutes distilling their thoughts into a coherent narrative once, each member of their audience is forced to do that work separately.
>The proponents of NN argued all these anti consumer and anti competitive practices that this will cause.

And the opponents for their part suggested:

- Broadband rollout to rural areas would never happen with Net Neutrality in place

- Repealing Net Neutrality would lead to a surge in new private investment

- No private company would ever throttle traffic

- Encrypted traffic would never be treated differently

- There's no risk that private companies will leverage differentiation of traffic types to support surveillance, censorship, or data mining or selling of data

- it would restore the conditions of the 1990s and early 00s that lead to major new companies like Facebook

- Broadband prices would fall

- Special zero-rated forms of broadband traffic would become available

It's now 7 years later. I've only followed on and off, but I haven't noticed a transformative explosion in private market investment, new Facebooks, lower prices, or anything like that, that was tied to an assessment of Net Neutrality.

So, same question back to you. I've been looking for the explosion in new private investment, the steep collapse in broadband prices and the new zero rated product offerings, unleashed by the repeal of net neutrality. Was I just not seeing it? Is that just around the corner now that it's been struck down? We'll be able to come back to a thread like this in another 7 years and that will all have happened, right?
> I enjoy yak shaving

As my username would suggest, so do I. However…

> a better window manager

The bulk of my workflow involves Chrome and tmux inside my always available full screen terminal. I haven't the need for multiplexing anywhere except the terminal.

> better compatibility with server operating systems

I run nix-darwin on MacOS, and I have remote NixOS machines configured as build hosts. This is important, as everything I write is Haskell, and it must be compiled for x86_64-linux.

> a bash updated this decade

I use zsh and the bash available in the latest nixpkgs.

---

MacOS does an excellent job of managing all the other quality of life stuff that doesn't immediately concern me as a power user. A number of my current and former colleagues are all in on NixOS, but the number of times over the years I've had to wait at the beginning of a video chat for them to configure their audio settings, which sometimes means installing different drivers and/or turning their machine off and on again…

Yeah. Even as a huge nerd, I think MacOS is great.
See, what separates the special titans of startup industry from the rest of us is the creativity to burn those dollars at scale.
Ireland has lost almost all its native forests
> I wish people would understand what a large language model is. There is no thinking. No comprehension. No decisions.

> Instead, think of your queries as super human friendly SQL.

Ehh this might be true in some abstract mathy sense (like I don't know, you are searching in latent space or something), but it's not the best analogy in practice. LLMs process language and simulate logical reasoning (albeit imperfectly). LLMs are like language calculators, like a TI-86 but for English/Python/etc, and sufficiently powerful language skills will also give some reasoning skills for free. (It can also recall data from the training set so this is where the SQL analogy shines I guess)

You could say that SQL also simulates reasoning (it is equivalent to Datalog after all) but LLMs can reason about stuff more powerful than first order logic. (LLMs are also fatally flawed in the sense it can't guarantee correct results, unlike SQL or Datalog or Prolog, but just like us humans)

Also, LLMs can certainly make decisions, such as the decision to search the web. But this isn't very interesting - a thermostat makes the decision of whether turn air refrigeration on or off, for example, and an operating system makes the decision of which program to schedule next on the CPU.
I am Spanish; we have a very strong dubbing industry and pretty much all movies have been dubbed since forever. In fact nowadays we usually get two dubs, one for Spain and one for LATAM, with serious online fights about which one is better xD
> how to completely uninstall and reinstall postgresql on a debian distribution without losing the data in the database.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=lrcs0vmo0wte5x6igp5i3607

Still seem to struggle on basic instructions, and even understanding what it itself is doing.

sudo rm -rf /etc/postgresql
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/postgresql
sudo rm -rf /var/log/postgresql

> This process removes all PostgreSQL components, cleans up leftover files, and reinstalls a fresh copy. By preserving the data directory (/var/lib/postgresql), we ensure that existing databases are retained. This method provides a clean slate for PostgreSQL while maintaining continuity of stored data.

Did we now?
Only been lurking in the split ergo keyboards so far, but I believe what people do is they have the home row modifiers on both sides, so if A is Ctrl to have Ctrl-A you'd do ;-A
I can't remember the last time I read something this tone deaf and obnoxious. It reads like a 13 year old's journal. And a selfish 13 year old at that. Guy is so devoted to capitalism that he can't conceive of any way to do good in the world if it doesn't involve starting a business (or trying to make the government run like one).

Maybe try helping people without expecting or even wanting any financial return.
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You also need to do the opposite experiment
Have two people put their phones in the microwave (don't run it!) / turn them off, discuss swimming pools (or jacuzzis etc), and see if you suddenly start seeing ads for said thing. And then you would have to repeat this experiment several times to rule out outliers

Experiment design is important! I completely believe that this happened to your friends and I also don't think it means what you/they think it does

(That is: you need to completely isolate yourself; music practice room on a college campus where nobody is wearing a watch or phone and repeat the experiment. If it turns out that you still see ads for that thing, then the experiment didn't prove anything)
> There is almost never such occurrences in nature, and when it does (great oxygenation event), the system manages to circle it back into the process graph.

It is actually recent earth's biosphere with its many negative feedback loops which is the exception here. Earth could have turned into a Venus or Mars if conditions were just slightly different, and it almost did several times.
Sam's Laser FAQ
1 cymbal isn't the instrument though. You're buying a drum set (5 drums typically), a handful of cymbals, stands, etc.

It's also generally accessible to get the same <guitars, bass guitars, keyboards> used by professional musicians. "Concert instruments" less so yes
https://aqicn.org/map/belgrade/
It's not great air quality, but round the clock air pollution is a great exaggeration.
The prompt works because every interaction with an LLM is from a completely fresh state.

When you reply "write better code" what you're actually doing is saying "here is some code that is meant to do X. Suggest ways to improve that existing code".

The LLM is stateless. The fact that it wrote the code itself moments earlier is immaterial.
Even more impressive given the scale of economic growth over the same time period.
Every major tech corporation is grossly in violation of anti-trust laws. 'Back in the day' Microsoft lost an anti-trust lawsuit over nothing but bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, seriously! [1]

Nowadays that's not even scratching the surface of what companies are doing. But we seem to have simply stopped enforcing anti-trust for the largest corporations, about the time they all started joining PRISM. I don't think that's a coincidence. Quid pro quo.

At one point in time the concept of the separation of State and Church was revolutionary. It's time for the separation of State and Big Business/Banking. So many things could be fixed basically overnight if the relationship between corporations and the government was more adversarial, and less incestuous.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
That's talking about the list of pseudo-instructions, which are just special-cased assembly mnemonics for a single RISC insn. I'm wondering whether there's also a documented list of suggested fusable sequences, comprising multiple insns each.
As long as the services you're renting are commoditizated, you are independent of their whims.

You can easily replace a VPS provider with a different provider that will give you exactly the same service. You can't replace Facebook with a different Facebook.
Oj author here. While it's flattering to have Oj be the standard to beat I'd like to point out that most of the issues with Oj revolve around the JSON gem and Rails doing a monkey patch dance and Oj trying to keep pace with the changes. The Oj.mimic_JSON attempts to replace the JSON gem and only replaces the monkey patches made by that gem. The preferred approach for Oj outside of trying to mimic the JSON gem to to never monkey patch. That approach is used in all other modes that are not mimicking the JSON gem or Rails. I should point out that other Oj modes perform much better than the JSON gem and Rails modes.
Sure, I think the author overstates his/her case and "finds the One Ring". But it's not a dumb article. "Design is everything that's leftover after we remove all the function bodies" seems like a useful perspective.
Any regulation with meaningful effect is going to cost the people who ultimately pay to keep individual congresspeople in office. These folks in fact often spend greater than half their time fundraising not legislating or in many cases are replaced by people who will.

Because of the construction of our system your desired legislation can be stymmied by lawmakers representing barely half of states represention 25% of the population so ultimately 13% of us. Worse any meaningful parts are liable to be horse traded away for more vital concerns which are almost always going to be either a crisis or immediate budgetary matters.

See the last 40 years. Imagine your cow died decades ago and you were still milking its bones.
Here's a corrollary to the Peter Principle: Even if you avoid promotion your bosses will continue to heap more responsibility on you without raising your pay so that eventually you'll have more work than it is humanly possible to do and will by definition become functionally incompetent.
I've used to play in garage bands almost my whole live as a guitar and bass player. Standing next to the drummer.
Zyldjian is definitely the reason I am hearing impaired now!
And of course all the bad drummers (but good friends), not able to play dynamically, just loud! :-D

Drums are actually made to be able to fill medium sized halls, not so much to be used in a small garage.
Drums are the reason why rock bands have to be so loud _still today_.
Back in the days loud tube amps were also the reason..

I do not like drums, especially cymbals and snare drums, anymore..
But drum machines are great! :-)
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Technologies: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Framer, Inkscape, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), FigJam, Miro, Asana, Slack, Microsoft Office Suite, Lookback, Jira, HubSpot

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jA7gzCEmPZxhxdR2PbzgQmPvVmM...

Email: osokoyataiwo@gmail.com

About Me:
Hi, I’m a UI/UX Designer with over 5 years of experience working with startups and bigger organisations in sectors such as health tech, fintech, banking, logistics, music, and e-commerce.

I have experience working in both smaller teams where communication is quick and easy, and bigger teams where structure and strategy are key. I enjoy doing different types of design work, like UI/UX design, marketing materials, pitch decks, and landing pages. I love creating designs that make users happy and help businesses grow.

I specialize in user research, visual design, prototyping, and building scalable design systems. My skill set includes creating intuitive interfaces, improving user experiences, and developing data-driven designs that enhance usability and drive business growth.

If you’re looking for a designer who can bring fresh ideas and deliver great results, feel free to reach out to me. I’d love to chat!
Democracy is not always populist. People have voted against direct self interest for the benefit for others for quite some time.
I'm not mad about this because I use Google Photos, which has been doing the same thing for the last two years without people on the internet telling me to be mad about it.
Yeah unfortunately despite it being part of the REST definition, nowadays "REST" has become a term that means "REST but without HATEOAS". Similar to how "API" now means specifically "HTTP API that returns JSON", or "AI" now means "Generative AI specifically".
Furthermore, as a French person, and thus a European citizen, I must say that the .eu TLD is not popular and usually bears a _political_ meaning.

Like it's used by institutions or organizations linked to the EU by their activity, but it's rarely used by companies or individuals whose activity is not focussed on the EU.

Companies are still going to buy the .eu domains associated with their brands, but they will communicate with another TLD like .com or will provide located versions of their site under a country TLD like .fr for the French version and .de for the German one.

What I see the most is:

- country TLD for content that is located

- .com/.net or weird (like .dev) for content that is in English or in multiple languages
Agreed, that's the second level of meta, the over-the-top defeatism as a call to action.
These godless belief systems have painfully shown that in the absence of a higher authority, human dignity erodes, and the risk of self-deification is great.

Right wing biased fearmongering and Christian talking point blather rife with unsubstantiated assumptions.

By this reasoning, China should be failing dramatically. Instead they are busy kicking the West's butt while we're on our knees praying.

When will their "risk of self-deification" kick in and save the West? Wait, I know --- we just need to pray harder for it.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/geopolitical-intelligence-ser...
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The problem is that no one believes Elon and company are actually trying to "accomplish more with it's existing budget". That would be a great goal, but I don't believe that's what they're doing or even capable of doing.

Remember, Elon downsized Twitter by 80%, and then Twitter lost 80% of it's value. Simply firing a bunch of people doesn't accomplish more, it can actually destroy the value of the thing to begin with.

We've all seen this with republicans before. They take over, make things worse, and then use the fact that things are worse as an excuse for why the government shouldn't do the things it does. Elon isn't an expert in efficiency, he's an arsonist coming in to destroy the government so he and his buddies can extract more value out of this country.
List of Germanic and Latinate Equivalents in English
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Most of those "random APIs" have good reasons for being there that have nothing to do with fingerprinting. For instance:

Your browser needs to be able to render text in different fonts, which means that without paranoid design (and maybe with it) code running there can tell what fonts you have installed.

A web app may want to tell you when something happened in your time zone even though it happened somewhere else. So there's value in having code running in your browser be able to tell what time zone you're in.

Different browsers, and different versions of the same browser, have different bugs. So there's value in letting code running in your browser know what version of what browser you're running. (Note that this information has been exposed by browsers, though not always very honestly, since before Google even existed.)

Browser/device fingerprinting has been possible since before Google ever shipped a browser.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Google has made design decisions in Chrome motivated by not making fingerprinting too difficult. I also wouldn't be surprised to find that they've done the exact reverse. Maybe they've done both. But the possibility of browser fingerprinting isn't the result of some galaxy-brained conspiracy by Google; that was there all along because when browsers first gained the ability to run code the people building the browsers never thought of the danger, and by the time someone did it was already too late.
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Such a ridiculous idea, I agree. Nationalism has always been evil.
This bug almost never occurs as it's a very esoteric feature that 99% of people here never heard or used. If you're, however, the type of user who decides not to use `bash` or `zsh` and instead wants `ssh` as their default terminal command there are probably other unusual features that you use in other apps exposing you to many other attack surfaces that you also need to worry about beyond just iTerm.
It won't affect it as 'usage models' are already used across a lot of verticals, they are not 'seat based'.
Because you can get your own domain in front of it and export your content (i.e. Markdown). Users would land on your domain name, but it doesn't really matter if it's hosted on your PC or GitHub. The point is that you would be able to change providers very easily without having to make people migrate to your new platform.