This is legitimately one of my favorite tech / video game / football stories of all time. Heartwarming, charming, cool, everything.

If I were a Steelers fan I'd probably be tearing my hair out, though.

I laughed at one of the player comments paraphrased “we were trying to win superbowls and coach was playing Minecraft”

I think it’s a great example of how healthy it can be to have an outlet/hobby that is unrelated to your profession

Is this safer overall? Should we give kids a day off from school and detonate a midsized nuclear device near Los Gatos?

Perfectly captures it. Opus writes like it's an insecure person trying to impress a first date. Big words and strange structural rhetorical flourishes for no purpose. Like dude I'm just trying to summarize a few emails and meeting notes, I'm not prepping for the vocab section of the GREs.

I was only working on this occasionally, but I built an extension to block sites in a more creative way.

Basically I'm finding myself in a bind where:

- I spend too much time doomscrolling (X, reddit, HN etc) - AI is making me lose touch with a lot of basic skills like coding, and I was already losing touch with doing real math

So I built an extension that blocks sites and forces you to actually solve a problem before you can get to a distracting site. The idea is to 1) block the reflex of visiting a site and getting a dopamine hit, and 2) at least get some mild cognitive benefit from it. I use it myself.

https://sphinx.fyi/

I write a blog and have always avoided AI images for exactly the reasons cited here. AI images feel like a more cynical version of stock imagery, for some reason. I think it's actually too bad because in a lot of cases AI images would actually be really great to include and a lot more evocative... but there's just no way to do it that doesn't inspire revulsion.

Was hoping for some cookie banners