we have a crt tv with built in vhs in our office and have a bunch of old tapes

one is “Mastering Windows 3.1”

it’s fun to run in the background while working

for your enjoyment, here’s a similar 3.1 tutorial video from that era uploaded to YouTube

https://youtu.be/KRi5mjMgORk?si=OFH7UhOQif5EUCtg

That's a great idea. It would be neat if you could also cast media to it somehow.

Early Rokus had rca out (sometimes through a 1/8" jack)

Background knowledge is invaluable.

Acquisition as marketing

I really love how Kosho Uchiyama describes meditation with the metaphor "opening the hand of thought"

https://wisdomexperience.org/product/opening-hand-thought/

I'll jump in too. Also started coding with HTML in Neopets and then joined the middle school's programming club! We were playing around with C++ and Visual Basic. Love seeing these updates!

If you haven't already, you can turn off your YouTube watch history, which stops all recommendations. It makes it way less addicting.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725

The worst customer support experiences of my life have been from Google, both while using Google Fi personally and GCP while working at Replit in its early days. Thankfully I'm no longer using either of those products now.

Only tangentially on-topic, but I do all the financial modeling for the past several (early stage) startups I've worked for in Google Sheets.

The ease, collaboration/sharing, and array formulas win out over the faster speed for calculations, better shortcuts, cross-workbook linking, and customization in Excel.

That said, it's been a few years since I've tried Excel so would love to hear someone convince me to try it again.

I'm using the MS suite for the first time in over a decade...and the collaborative aspects are still nowhere near Google's. I routinely get problems when multiple people are editing the same content (Word doc, spreadsheet, or PowerPoint). And sometimes the thick client works best, sometimes browser editing works fine...but it's inconsistent.

For all of them, Microsoft has a more complete feature set...but for 99% of things (and anything with lots of collaboration), I prefer Google Work Suite or whatever it's called this month.

Check out the work from the meditation research lab at Harvard [1] for more

[1] https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/

Great read. We've been seeing some wild emergent behavior at Rime (tts voice ai) too, e.g. training the model to <laugh> and it being able to <sigh>.

I recently picked up Mirrorshades and The Big Book of Cyberpunk (edited by Jared Shurin) [1]

Will check this one out too!

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-big-book...

Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered a copy of "The Big Book of Cyberpunk".

Thanks, picked up the big book, but I got it as 2 volumes. So not quite so big perhaps