Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads
Apple is “exploring” the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Back in 2022, Gurman said software engineering was “already underway” to display ads in the Apple Maps app, but Apple did not move forward with the idea at the time. Today, he said Apple is “giving […]
Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they’ve kept it going
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Rethinking the C Time API
Out of all the components of C, its time API is probably the one most plagued with legacy cruft. To the point almost every regularly used element of it has some design decision that’s been obsolete for decades. As a example, here is some code I use to print the current time for my status […]
Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016)
One of my favorite quotes about mathematics is from John von Neumann: “In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” On one level, this runs against everything I believe as a teacher. Mathematics should not be an intimidating collection of inscrutable methods! It should be a timidating collection of scrutable methods! We should […]
Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube
// Add your channel ID filters below // Blocked by context menu (notsong) (1/9/2025, 4:48:07 PM)UC11SmJi4BzrRiaKICsWazug // Blocked by context menu (Lazy Cat) (1/9/2025, 4:48:28 PM)UCyRbMM2KCivYQHnVi8y8AAw // Blocked by context menu (Full Volume Laboratory) (1/9/2025, 5:02:25 PM)UC8c_mOtluCqnm7zSMaFF-Fg // Blocked by context menu (shami rocks / 三味六屑) (1/9/2025, 5:03:36 PM)UCepl8ltXKsqJyBo0zEsnFbg // Blocked by context menu (Kosmische […]
Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
Johann Hari says in Stolen Focus that rats and pigeons can be manipulated as we want. Just give them food whenever they do what you want them to. And shortly after, they will repeat that over and over again. This made me think. In times when Instagram and other apps give us likes, hearts, and […]
Requesting SDK for Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses for Visually Impaired Users
Hey everyone, I’m curious: will there ever be a developer kit (SDK) available for Meta glasses? I think the glasses are great, but there’s not much to do with them right now. So, I thought, why not build a community around it? If Meta releases an API or something that other apps could call or […]
Meta Project Aria – Smart Glasses Research Kit
In 2022, FAIR brought together an international consortium of 15 universities to collect and release the world’s largest public dataset of first-person or “egocentric” video of daily-life activities.Teaching AI to perceive the world as people do requires more than video data. Select Ego4D consortium universities are expanding their work on egocentric video understanding to include […]
50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve hitchhiked penniless for months, and I’ve flown by private jet. I’ve traveled months with siblings, […]