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CTO and Co-Founder of https://nitter.gq/t.co/iysz8ortaI (backed by Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and more), #ElixirLang programmer, Photographer, MX5/ Miata enthusiast (IRL & iRacing)

UK
Joined February 2009
Now obsessively looking for other places this phenomena might occur; restaurant occupancy by hour due to queue depth perhaps?! quantamagazine.org/in-myster…
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It's a 153 page PDF but the Opus 4.5 System Card is really interesting; assets.anthropic.com/m/64823… in particular multi agent combinations seem to be giving the types of bump we used to get from thinking tokens whereas the benefit of thinking tokens seems to be waning.
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Putting the frontline first. 80% of the workforce is deskless yet 99% of the funding goes into building tools for desk based workers. This is why we're building Sona; buff.ly/3jZ8jv8
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This really resonated; "Your real competition isn’t your competitors, it’s the status quo". buff.ly/3jYH9En
Interesting idea of businesses being a story arc from optionality to intentionality, e.g. a period of experimentation leading up to the point where you double down on a few things. Optionality is Great for Entrepreneurs, Until It Isn’t buff.ly/3AB2YAz
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First in a series of links I found interesting around the topic of optionality, the spending of optionality and decision fatigue. A Guide to Overcoming FOBO, the Fear of Better Options buff.ly/3fSriX4
So the big takeaway from this is that nearly 75% of people do actually filter through linked in connection requests to make sure that they know people before accepting them. Isn't that crazy time consuming?!
Spatial audio without any special hardware. Have a listen to this with any reasonable headphones; youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvag… absolutely mind blowing
This changelog entry in iTerm2 made my morning, thanks @gnachman
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Mind. Blown. Using space / return / other keys to wake up from sleep! Savages!! Don't you accidentally type loads of random stuff into whatever's open?!
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Proof that Google can still be playful!
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This screen is my new nemesis. Touch typing is hard.
When you discover that random weekend project you made years ago, put on a free server then promptly forgot about is somehow both alive and doing things
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When the intern you're interviewing tells you they're happy doing some detail work but really want to focus on your strategy and big picture thinking
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Really simple and easy quality of life adjustment for OSX users, replace the stock clock with "The Clock" app. Little details like quick access to world clocks and custom time formats (no more counting out what month number it is!) make a big difference buff.ly/36SICHC
Does the mixture of camel and snake case make anyone else wanna submit a PR?
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I have literally no idea what this graphic is explaining. Does social distancing now apply to crockery? But it's different if you're outside?