Really fun to see! I'd love to have something similar for esports, like League of Legends or Rocket League. So much of the commentary feels like filler with stats and statements about a player.
Have done an interactive commentator for rocket league that is also simultaneously your duo partner. Works quite well. This was in October 2024 so the tech is there and even better now.
If the employer adds more friction with custom, upfront questions, they drastically reduce the quantity of applications while increasing the quality of those left.
If the employer doesn't post to job boards, they reduce the quantity of applications, but they increase those that found them "direct" and likely care more about the company.
It's not perfect, but the biggest issue right now is that both sides are typically trying to put as little effort in as possible.
Debatable. Willingness to put effort into a job application is not necessarily a good proxy for candidate quality. Indeed I would expect that the most desirable candidates can put the least effort in whereas those who are most willing to put up with crap are those with the fewest alternatives. I suppose for certain management structures someone having no better options could be seen as a plus - they'll stick around longer, put up with abuse, probably work for lower pay and less frequent raises - but I feel like they would still do better with appropriately skilled and compensated employees.
A bypass is not possible. I believe the raybans meta have an "always on" AI mode/session now.
To be honest, the biggest issue with the glasses is battery life and I don't see that changing any time soon. It doesn't matter what LLM processes your data if it can only do it for one hour per charge.
You can use it like this, it's just that it's integrated with Meta's companion app which also has AI capabilities.
Personally, I found the AI capabilities kind of lackluster now but I'm sure more features will be added in the future.
The most useful features I found were taking quick photos and video calls with friends and family while away on work trips. Music playback was also decent but it eats up the limited battery.
The AI stuff is already offloaded to Meta servers via your phone.
I don't think there are any models AI that would be able to run natively on phones with acceptable performance.
Even if it did, my experience with video calls and the glasses are that the battery only lasts about 45minutes so I'm guessing slightly better performance for always on AI depending on what features you use.
This is... terrible news. This is primarily how I get books from the library. I found that if you keep the Kindle on Airplane mode and download + transfer them, they never expire.
Nothing malicious. I just can't read books arbitrarily in a 21 day period.
This will not affect you at all. They're not stopping allowing you to transfer books to your kindle over USB. They're stopping letting you download book files from Amazon.
From what the article says, that's doesn't appear to be true.
In order to download and transfer Kindle books from the Library, I have to first add them to "My Content" on Amazon, then from the Amazon interface click "Download & Transfer via USB". That's the only way to access the AZW3 files that get moved over to the Kindle.
I was! Responded in a comment below. The public library serves the digital books directly through Amazon.
Either I'm missing something more obvious or the system I've seen libraries use for digital books over the past 10 years is more uncommon than I realized.
From what the article says, that's doesn't appear to be true.
In order to download and transfer Kindle books from the Library, I have to first add them to "My Content" on Amazon, then from the Amazon interface click "Download & Transfer via USB". That's the only way to access the AZW3 files that get moved over to the Kindle.
Are you talking about the amazon library or an actual library that lends you ebooks? I'm assuming the latter, in which case you just plug in and transfer.
Actual library that lends me ebooks (Austin). The library uses Overdrive (Libby) and anything provided in the Kindle format can't be downloaded directly from the Library's interface. You have to click a "Read now with Kindle" button which redirects you to Amazon, where you have to click "Get Library Book" directly from Amazon.com.
Epub can be downloaded directly from the library, but these have to be converted into a Kindle compatible format. I'm also unsure if every digital book copy has Epub as a format, since there are some digital copies that don't have Kindle format.
This has been true of all public digital libraries I've used in the past 10 years (Houston, Arlington, Fort Worth)
True, because then it feels more intentional (+ the extra strategy). It was definitely a bit thrown together- atm I only ever use it when I need a bit of practice before playing codenames.
Glad to hear someone else doing this. I feel bad not using the grow light to... you know... grow plants. But the light it provides in my office is lovely.
I highly recommend LunchMoney (https://lunchmoney.app/). It's built by a solo developer who is very responsive and continues to make the app great. Lots of automation and ability to create custom classification rules. I've been happy for the past 3 years.
I've also heard good things about CoPilot (https://copilot.money/) but have not had the chance to experiment with it yet.
Thanks for the mention and for your continuous support! Jen here, founder of Lunch Money :) We've come a long way since the solo dev days– happy to announce we're a core team of 5 now (yes, still bootstrapped!) and have lots of exciting stuff in the pipeline for 2025!
+1 for LunchMoney. Happy paying customer. I remember trying it when it first launched and it wasn't for me at the time. Now, with kids and a home, and lots of money being spent on various things across multiple accounts, it's very useful to just get labels on all the transactions in one place.
LunchMoney is great for retrospective analysis. For long-term financial projections, I really like https://app.projectionlab.com . Great pairing.
I found them after Mint was discontinued and CreditKarma made it impossible for me to set up my account, while I looked into other options which have even been mentioned in this thread.
LunchMoney's multi-currency support and easy API (https://lunchmoney.dev/) were killer features for me, however, since they allowed me to develop a personal solution to also keep track of my non-USA accounts.
LunchMoney is cool. When Mint shut down I tried several apps (LunchMoney, Copilot, and Monarch). Unfortunately, I couldn’t get LunchMoney to work with one of my credit unions. I reached out to them but they couldn’t really do anything about it. I wanted to support the solo dev but I ultimately chose Monarch because it just worked with all my accounts out of the box.
When Mint shut down I did a ton of trials and Copilot had the best UI for me and I didn't have to learn a new "system" like YNAB. It relies on Plaid, so just make sure your banks/cards/accounts are mainstream (Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman, Vanguard, etc).
I loved the idea of Lunch Money, but I bought it for a year and really never got anything out of it. This was probably 4 years ago so maybe it's changed now.
I think my biggest lack there was that I really needed to see INTO my spending to get value, in particular Amazon is a large blob that I really needed more information on: I get groceries, home repair, toys, tools, work, clothing, health, entertainment. Without seeing into that, all the action I took on Lunch Money really only gave me information on my non-discretionary spending.
Used lunchmoney for years before moving to CoPilot couple of years ago. Can vouch for both of them to being great. I just moved to CoPilot because they got macos and ios apps unlike lunchmoney (web only back when I used it)
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