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Microsoft Word converts dashes to emdashes if you type "<word> - <word>".

Outlook used to do this. I'm using a Mac, and Outlook on the Mac is a different animal, so Outlook on Windows may still do this conversion.


Small correction:

To get an en dash in Word, type "<word> - <word>" (word space hyphen space word) followed by spacebar.

To get an em dash, type "<word>--<word>" (word hyphen hyphen word) followed by spacebar.


Yeah, Alfred is one of the first things I install on a new MacOS install.

Also enjoying Rectangles WM.


Alfred is wonderful for launching applications and custom actions, but it’s actually worse than Spotlight search for searching for files and folders. It finds a lot of results but inexplicably it likes to rank partial matches ahead of exact matches.

I noticed Google AI Mode (so Gemini, I was doing some quick research in the browser ok) got a detail wrong once, so I asked it what happened. I kept digging deeper and finally just asked it to write me a Python script visualizing what happened. It did, complete with vectors.

Now I want to go find that conversation in my history and see if it can tell me about weights, and how that contributed.


Do you still have that conversation? It sounds like a hallucination, but it'd be really interesting if there's more behind it.

Huh, I kinda like the form factor of the folded Duo...don't even need to unfold it...

Huh, I kinda like the form factor of the folded Duo...don't even need to unfold it...

I used Google's Agent Development Kit to make a super simple agent outside of Resolve that I can use to say "take a 10s clip from file1.mp4 starting at 00:01:25 and a 20s clip from file2.mp4 starting at 00:02:00" then tell it to preview and render. Speeds things up.

Definitely gonna change Jira config to start estimating work in Bobcoins.

honestly that would still probably mean more than story points. maybe all this AI insanity has an upside that the new cargo cult washes out the old one.

We all do.


I guess it kinda depends on your use case. If you're versioning software artifact binaries and want to have support for rules for retention (keep n number of builds around), version numbering (you can only write a release artifact with a version number once), etc., using Git for text and Artifactory for artifact binaries has worked pretty well for me.


> Which makes it tempting to believe it's probably closer to inning 3.

Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. New ways of productizing the technology are still be defined as people are using it. The pricing models are evolving in real-time as the providers figure out what the market will bear.


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