Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
YouTube previewed a tool to use generative AI to replace copyrighted music from your videos without affecting anything else. A few years ago this would have been expensive and time-consuming if it was even possible - soon it will just be a button. This is the natural life cycle of all ‘AI’. LINK, VIDEO
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 548
Not sure if this is the most positive, but like images, I’m using more and the production value of all my stuff is improving thanks to AI.
Both in the United States and in the European Union, buildings account for about 40 percent of total primary energy consumption
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
I feel this, but at the same time see myself slipping it into all the time.
by shifting the split to 40, 50, and 10 percent, we could (thanks to grain feed saved by reducing inefficient beef production) produce easily 30 percent more chicken meat and 20 percent more pork, while more than halving beef’s environmental burden—and still supplying at least 10 percent more meat.
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
Wild that something simple could work. But also wild that something as simple as changing our eating habits is so damn hard.
In addition, if you can code 10x as fast, you also get to do 10x as much coding practice, which will probably lead to yet more improvements.
scattered-thoughts.net • Scattered Thoughts: Speed matters
So few people think to upgrade how they move around their computer, but it can have huge impacts
That is not a growth juggernaut. In fact, that sounds downright bad. Like, maybe you should shut the company down because it’s obviously not working. Or at least, there should be an existential struggle about whether to continue.
Jason Cohen • A Smart Bear » It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't
I still forgot that success is slooooow
(One of my favorite pieces of parenting advice: You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now.)
Austin Kleon • The Way You Wanted to Feel
Man I love this. I love that it acknowledges the reality of the needs of your younger self while protecting the needs of your kids, which are distinct.