Thanks for mentioning that. It reinforces my desire to avoid zstd because of its connection to Facebook.

One would hope, on technical grounds.

I was editing when your reply came out. Nope. Luckily it's a family of technologies.

Hey. If it makes you happy, who am I to judge.

The guy in the image doesn't look very euphoric, not even in a subtle way. Sorry, not the neckbeard plugin I was looking for. Mine must be influenced by aalewis.

I've been doing this shit for 20 years - there's not a lot of euphoria left in it for me!

In the same sense as infinite jest.

They weren't running on OpenAI, so nope.

Confusing since it's on a terrytao's wordpress.com blog. I wonder if he's aware of the drama at Automattic.

It will be faster to understand it, which will make it less valuable. I think I could point something like this to a curious AI software builder without a CS degree and tell them to have AI explain it and they could make up a significant chunk of what they're missing by not having a CS degree. https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

You replace it with your domain.

These example prompts seem soulless. Should I feed this document to another LLM that's OK with me being informal so I can have it give me prompts that Claude will find acceptable without contorting myself to talk like this?

Huh. Doesn't remind me of those at all. For example, I used the other new Apple Wallet functionality yesterday to put my local library card into Apple Wallet and now I've got one less thing to carry around. Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.

What is new about that feature? Couldn't you add arbitrary IDs before?

Users couldn’t (easily). It was meant for businesses, and everything was geared around that. They could do it through some web APIs or you could have an app create them.

There are websites that let you create them. It’s not like it was impossible. But it wasn’t straightforward for the average user.

Letting any user do it right on your phone is new to iOS 27. And this app now lets small businesses do it easily.

It’s actually rather strange it took this long, seems like an obvious gap.

Nope.

I mean this design aspect. To me it felt like it was a bit over the top, and I could imagine them to start making limited run series of them. Looking at it again, it says that there are templates, so maybe this art was made by designers, rather than AI images generated on the fly, but I imagined that they were the latter.

It’s the same stuff they have always had. It’s designed to let you brand it with your store’s color and logo, and maybe a picture of the location it’s good at at the top. Stuff like that.

Same kind of stuff you would see on a loyalty card.

OK, NFTs are like loyalty cards too then. Because these digital wallets don't need to be like physical cards. That's just an artificial design constraint.

They have no value. You’re not supposed to collect them. You can’t sell them.

They’re nothing like NFTs.

They’re an optional, more convenient, way to access concert tickets you purchased or your loyalty card for your grocery store.

NFTs are unique, thus their "value"

I doubt that with the speed of thought dramatically increasing due to AI, that the door will stay closed just because it's being closed now. That decision will be revisited.