I lament the decline also. Hopefully all of that lost energy has been put into good use on side projects.

On a tangent, but think it's related, the curiosity, exploration and research by the kids maybe stalling too.

Just a thought.

not all hours sleep/awake hours are equal - for example, I may be more work productive late at night, a better listener/learner in the mornings and better sleeper post meals, in the bath tub, travelling (my kids used to love falling asleep in the car).

Wonder if we could engineer multiple sleep intervals through out the single day (e.g. power napping, siesta's). There is plenty of dead time for me during the day that could be swapped out for sleep.. the question is at what cost to the body & mind?

Just a thought.

Just tried to programatically take a picture on my MacBook Pro 2012. Managed to take a picture in sub second. The LED flashes briefly and you could easily miss it .

Would be good to keep that LED ON well after the Camera switches off (Not sure what that minimum would be without causing an inconvenience - but how about 15 minutes ? - Long enough to educate the users to worry about their privacy and perhaps take breaks between making video calls !) - Just a thought.

I like the thought, but if it becomes an "oh, that light's always on, just ignore it" kind of experience, that might train people to think it is not an important signal.

Heavily guarded fortress would indicate something of value inside, and the big crooks may spend a little more effort. In the age of AI, this becomes even easier.

   {
     "model" : "gpt-4-turbo",
     "messages" : [ 
       {
         "role" : "system",
         "content" : [ {
          "type" : "text",
          "text" : "return a json array of all valid emails found in the image."
          } ] 
       }, 
       {
         "role" : "user",
         "content" : [ {
           "type" : "image_url",
           "image_url" : {
           "url" : "data:image/png;base64,{{ INSERT_BASE64_PNG_DATA }}"
         }
       } ]
     } ],
      "temperature" : 0.5,
      "max_tokens" : 2048,
      "top_p" : 1.0,
      "frequency_penalty" : 0.0,
      "presence_penalty" : 0.0
    }

Edit: Converting web page to an image is trivial.

We've had OCR for decades before GPT. I suspect GPT might perform worse than OCR. What a waste.

Agreed - it's a waste. GPT is not too bad at reading text from image and with the added bonus that you can reason with it.

It won't make sense cost wise though

True - but that cost just halved with today's introduction of "GPT-4o". The other cost is time. IMHO - I think there is more to worry about than email scraping..

In no world is anyone wasting resources to run an AI model to parse a page that may or may not include an email address. Even running a DOM parser is more than they’d typically do. This is silly.

I presume this Cloth is covered by AppleCare. Would be terrified to drop it.

Thank you Sir Clive.

I will wear my clashing outfits for the next 8 days.

Peter Falk really was a fallen angel. Wings of Desires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-26rb7S38

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

Well I don't think Shaw was thinking that everyone should become Karen or all progress depending on acting as one.

Reasonable person principle is about being a decent person it is not about Copernicus accepting geocentric model and living rest of life with it.

…according to Shaw, who's the unreasonable man in his example.

I'm gonna say that's bias to the point of being untrustworthy. You could also say 'therefore, the unreasonable one always gets his way, AND SO HE SHOULD'.

Reasonable minds might criticize this position :)

Well, that does explain Ayn Rand.

if you listen carefully you can hear the music...

is it fair to use line count alone ? maybe the character count should be used as well (excluding whitespace)