Benjamin
@benjaminschneider.ch
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A.k.a. @bschne on Twitter
I really want to know the story behind this remote having a standard power button that only works for turning the screen on, and a separate nonstandard „power off“ button for turning it off
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if I joke around it doesn’t mean I‘m not taking the meeting seriously, it means I‘m actually paying attention
2 days ago
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claude just called me "occasionally funny"
3 days ago
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internet discourse is reading 99 people’s takes complaining about 1 person‘s take you haven‘t even found amid the noise yet
4 days ago
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perhaps surprisingly, the experience of using microsoft teams is not made more pleasant by not having a microsoft account and being a guest user in multiple external orgs simultaneously
5 days ago
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oh: "so basically we are in the process of building a stochastic house of cards on top of a stochastic foundation"
5 days ago
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indicating the direction on public transit lines by the full name of the terminal station is clearly the way to go, yet somehow every other city seems to not manage to do this and use 2-3 slightly different indications between vehicles, maps/apps, and timetables
5 days ago
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after eternal september came sloptoberfest
5 days ago
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feeling out of posts, I'll be back once I have a nice walk to share or smth
6 days ago
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Kai Arzheimer
12 days ago
That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.
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opus 4.6 is the most disagreeable an llm has ever been with me when I ran something personal by it (good)
9 days ago
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me looking at oil prices rn
9 days ago
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the real MoE is asking claude and gpt about the same thing in parallel
10 days ago
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James Brown
about 1 month ago
"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...
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Digital Iris
YouTube video by Ancient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
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few know this, but in Switzerland we use yogurt for all road markings
10 days ago
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in Austria they expressly allow you to use the internet at train stations!
11 days ago
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guys only want one thing and it‘s to be in charge of mountaintop telecommunications infrastructure
11 days ago
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„abfrühstücken“ is my new favorite German word
12 days ago
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"putting off getting a haircut is working out great" vs. two days later
12 days ago
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just got irl hackernews dropbox commented, someone asked about a niche printing-related feature in our product and the customer's dev went "eh don't worry about it, it's trivial to do with a cups server"
13 days ago
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eu bottle cap innovation update
13 days ago
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oh: „I keep the disneyland app on my phone, sometimes I check how long the queues are for fun when I‘m not even there“
13 days ago
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🧂🏰
13 days ago
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walks good
15 days ago
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I won’t announce when AI has taken over my job but there will be signs
15 days ago
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connected all my apps so I can properly notificationmaxxx, if you reply to me in a google doc there's now 5 dings across ten seconds on three devices
21 days ago
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guy who mentally models interactions with his strategic opponents ten iterations out but assumes there will be no unintended second-order effects from anything applied to a wider population
23 days ago
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writing end-user documentation is a great way of surfacing design issues in a product/feature, you can pretty much instantly tell when the thing you're trying to explain is needlessly convoluted or doesn't make sense
23 days ago
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how do the ad algos always know exactly how I dress, this is creepy af
23 days ago
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people will be like „there should be world peace we can all get along“ and then do stuff like this
23 days ago
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25 days ago
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there's an old saying in diy — I know it's in woodworking, probably in diy — that says, 'measure once, cut... cut twice, measure... if you just cut it you don’t have to measure again!
25 days ago
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kinda sad they made the 🫂 hug emoji one of the coldest and most impersonal ones
26 days ago
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buddhism 🤝 linkedin minigames
27 days ago
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I feel like at this point I have a middleware in my mind to try and tone down/filter out all the clickbait and frenzied cliches ("this changes everything!", "it's so over!", ...) I read online, and the overhead makes browsing most sites increasingly exhausting
27 days ago
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audit trail features in software are like 1% legal-/oopsie insurance and 99% getting to say „…because you changed this setting here“ when they ask you why something behaves weirdly
27 days ago
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POV you googled an issue after the Tahoe upgrade
28 days ago
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ISO/ANSI jazz standards
28 days ago
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I really have to stop getting nerdsniped into debugging weird stuff right when I when I wanted to call it a day
28 days ago
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Julia M. Rohrer
28 days ago
Mein Mann hat gerade „Yeah“ von Usher angemacht und gemeint, es wäre der Song des Tages. Weil heute Ushermittwoch ist.
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
28 days ago
the concrete is raw but the chicken is fried
add a skeleton here at some point
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James Murphy was really ahead of his time for singing this line in 2007
28 days ago
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this kind of smart, clickable, mixed-use skeuomorphism is illegal to build in most frameworks
28 days ago
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was at work two hours earlier than usual and unfortunately it's great
29 days ago
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Amos (stupefied by the stupidity)
30 days ago
Wikipedia could be sub-titled “It’s way, way older than you think”.
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social media feed algos sit in an uncanny valley between the firehose of unranked & unfiltered posts and actually helping you sort through the noise every time I opened LinkedIn today, there was a different low-effort, semi-viral post about the Steinberger/OpenClaw news on top
30 days ago
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TIL the moth-trapped-in-a-relay thing isn't the origin of the term "bug" as used in engineering, which has been around since the 19th century
30 days ago
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„Documentary/Sci-fi“
30 days ago
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I feel like 150 iq labrador retrievers would also be a fun addition to the world
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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as a kid my parents said it was bad to spend more time on the computer than with other people because a computer will never disagree with you or require compromise, a view I directionally agree with but which only someone who never tried programming one could fully hold
about 1 month ago
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