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One of the things I have been realizing while working on the Phrankintosh project is that there is a very big difference between designing something that works and designing something that lasts. The first version of almost anything answers one basic question: Does it work? Does the board fit? Does the sled slide into the…
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Sometimes you ask what seems like a simple question and discover that you really should have known better. It started with actors who have appeared in both Marvel and DC movies. That sounds easy enough. Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool for Marvel and Green Lantern for DC. Ben Affleck was Daredevil before becoming Batman. Christian Bale…
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One of the things I keep coming back to when I talk about Uber, technology, the gig economy, or really anything else on The Gigman’s Life is that I don’t think you should get all your information from one person. Including me. If something interests me enough to talk about it, I usually want to…
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What started as a fairly straightforward idea — modernize a Macintosh Classic II case with a Raspberry Pi and make the cooling work properly — has now moved well beyond “put a computer in an old case.” The project is becoming a complete little system. There is the Raspberry Pi itself, the display, the 3D-printed…
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Today’s live stream covered a little bit of everything that is starting to collide in the gig economy: driver safety, account security, delivery work, interstate markets, unions, app design, and the continuing push toward autonomous vehicles. The common thread through all of it is becoming pretty clear. Uber, Lyft, and the other gig platforms are…
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Yesterday I wrote about how artificial intelligence has gradually become less like a chatbot and more like a collection of assistants I would otherwise have to hire, call, or wait for. There is another side to that which may be even more important. AI has changed how quickly I can learn something I was already…
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When people talk about using artificial intelligence, the conversation frequently gets reduced to a few simple examples. Write an email. Summarize a document. Generate an image. Answer a question. Maybe write a little code. That isn’t remotely where I have ended up. Over time, I have started looking at what I actually ask AI to…
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Apparently, there comes a point where your livestream branding can become a little too consistent. I figured that out when somebody called me and basically said: “Uh, dude, I just got notified that you had Breakfast Talk. Did somebody hack your channel?” Nope. Nobody hacked the channel. I had simply gone live at a time…
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There is a point after chopping wood where your brain probably should be allowed to shut down for the day. Instead, apparently, mine starts designing computers. This started as one of those backyard conversations where nobody is trying to solve anything. You’re tired, you’re sitting around talking shit, somebody brings up crabapple trees, somebody else…
Read MoreWhat started as another piece of the Macintosh Classic II retrofit turned into most of my weekend being spent designing, printing, test-fitting, changing things, printing them again, and eventually getting to the point where this thing is starting to look like an actual computer again. The whole idea behind this project has been to keep…
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