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I work with c# and distributed systems. Anyone with experience in that domain?

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i keep open all day - the 3d pauses when the tab is out of focus, so i just get a ton of music i like without wasting cpu/gpu, and occassionally switch to the tab and play a little or chat if anyone's there.

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What is your favorite way to brew?

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the only winning move is to not play

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Clever Dripper! It's a steep-and-release brewer out of Taiwan and I love it.

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French press,it's just convenient

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I use an Aeropress and a manual grinder. Love the ritual, and the coffee tastes amazing.

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Pour-over on weekdays, espresso on weekends, and moccamaster if it's an especially busy morning

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Text-only websites are really AI-friendly; maybe I can chat with an agent here.

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Sharing a great read today: Some of the takes are on the extreme end, but like most IT decisions, you can dial the pain to exactly what you want. ^C

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textlog runs on a 2.5€/mo vps 1 core/2gb ram, using just one instance of Bun with its embedded SQLite. Works perfect and I run a few other apps as well on that machine.

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It is quite amazing what you can run in those small VPSes if you just build with them in mind.

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Yeah, it survived being on 1st page of HN for a day just fine! Snappy, didn't sweat at all.

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Why does it have such a cute name 😭😭😭

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Current aliases: # The canonical tug tug = ["bookmark", "move", "--from", "closest_bookmark(@-)", "--to", "@-"] # Show my current work-in-progress(es). To wip it, whip it good. wips = ["log", "-r", "bookmarks() | description(exact:'')"]

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I've found myself really liking the "megamerge" workflow. Not an alias, just a whole thing.

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hot take: "consumer " doesn't exist. at most it's just better search, but the ai assistants like grokbot or now instinct aren't ever going to be big. new devices and personal agents are DOA

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one more step. just a moment. attention required! enable javascript and cookies to continue. verifying the security of your connection. your browsing activity has been paused. content unavailable in your region. 429 too many requests. 403 forbidden. connection has timed out.

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happy little moments

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Step back, sit down, and have a cup from the old 418.

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Thank you Cloudflare!

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The future is here. But instead of flying cars or holodeck, what you get is tracking cookies and captcha everywhere. Maybe someday you will need to have your rectum scanned by Google or Meta nee Facebook before your browser does a HTTP request.

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hi there ;) welcome

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Took a little .

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Man, I LOVE naps! In fact, I mostly subsist on four or five 1-1/2 hour naps each day instead of one long over-night sleep period these days. I didn't set out to have a sleep schedule, but here I am. :-)

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Doing that would trigger my really quick, even not having a full night sleep puts me in the danger zone immediately.

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My whole life, if I get in more than 6 hours at a stretch, I'm sluggish and mentally out of it for hours.

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Oh, dear! I wasn't polyphasic before cats owned me. Are my furry overlords rubbing off on me? LOL

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Most of programs use key chords, like Cmd-Shift-G, Ctrl-Alt-N and so on, you need to remember and press awkwardly several keys at once. uses key sequences, C-c then k then p then l. If I forget after C-c k p then press C-h and help appears.

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Waiting for an original thought to pass me by.

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I've been waiting for 40 years.

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Many pass by me. All combined aren’t worth $0.02. 😅

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I'm not an optimist, just a pessimist who's still proactive: I don't think things are going to get better, but I just can't talk myself into giving up yet.

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work has been dreadful recently. spending so much time on processes and in meetings :(

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Using deep research for trip planning and visualising it with coding agent is fun.

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hey peeps.

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again. Was in the middle of some timeline experiments, sorry if it appears weird rn. www.githubstatus.com

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Never forget, !

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Come for a dance!

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Had to take care of something for school. But now in bed with my book.

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At Chipotle for dinner.

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It is Taco Tuesday after all.

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World's best off-by-one error

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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A good start for one of those "missing 411" videos on YT.

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(defun textlog-post (beg end) "Publish the region between BEG and END to `textlog-url'. Interactively, requires an active region. Returns the URL of the new post when the server reports one."

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I'm making a Kakoune version of this for sure.

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Yes, meow is the second-most popular modal editing package, after evil (vim).

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That's pretty neat.

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Ah, no, I meant meow, the Kakoune-inspired emacs plugin.

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You have , there is no need. I tried Emacs out a while ago to see whether it could replace Kakoune (I wanted to draw arbitrary stuff like images, 3D views, etc., in the editor) but honestly, Kakoune makes everything so easy to integrate that it was hard for it to compete.

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anyone else seriously into agentic loop development?

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I've been working with physical AI - Letting LLMs control robots in a warehouse to collaborate and collectively come up with a physically correct solution to carry out a natural language intent. We had to study the reactive nature of agents, nudges they required, etc.

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that's awesome and near my heart. I kicked off a personal project emergingrobotics.ai

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haha that's a coincidence. Site looks awesome. The moving away from ROS2 part is so true. One of our main potential customers for physical AI solutions (a telecom provider in JP) communicated the need for agents to be able to pick up controls from any vendor

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I apologize if that sounded obvious/non-obvious/amateurish haha. I was an intern and worked more on the agentic side of things, it was just a non-primary experiment

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Q: What’s a dog’s favorite part of the opera? A: The ARRRRRRRRR-ia!

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This joke also works with pirates.

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^\ / //o__o /\ / __/ \ \______\ / -ARF! \ / \ \----\ \ \_\_ \_\_

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What if i don't have thoughts worth logging?

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Noone is going to judge you.

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Value is in the eye of the beholder.

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thought don't have much inherent value until you share them

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actually, I disagree

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well then gg i guess

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I underestimated how many terrible programmers who think C++ is a good choice over C exist on LinkedIn and ended up in some kind of flamewar, my bad.

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for those new here, this is my other project, online ! come for a dance! ~~~~~> <~~~~~

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Be there in a bit. Hanging out with .

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Seeing Hallucinate brought to mind . 😅

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Yes! I was thinking of doing the same, see .

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Do you walk your neighborhood? Do you sit on your front porch and say hello to passersby?

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I need a new microblogging platform

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I think more than 50% of our economy's businesses, are cosplaying. Not in it for customers or profit; in it for investors and investments. "Looking like a business", as your real line of work.

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Influencing, OnlyFans, sports betting, prediction markets. Gambling is fast becoming the American way of life.

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"Financial nihilism" is the keyword

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I've never thought of something like OF as gambling. But I guess your point is that young adults are pushed to a lot of "you have a 0.1% chance of hitting it big and a 99.9% chance of getting no online traction at all" types of careers?

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Yeah, no point in investing in yourself or a real sustainable long-term future, just gamble the little you have for a shot at life above the line. Barbell economy.

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a business loan is not an investment, it is debt financing that pays back with interest. An investment means putting money into a company to gain ownership or a share of future profits. to me it feels like youre arguing against cosplaying, showing small businesses struggle and arent just playing boss for the funzies.

created a quiz:

Which planet has the shortest day?

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We have quizzes! The syntax is:

Some question #quiz
Wrong answer
> Correct answer
Wrong answer

Optional revealed explanation text shown after choice

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In an attempt to put myself out there, I have started a blog to write about my experience as a software engineer. Feel free to check out my first article :)

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Adjust for mobile, please, currently it’s unreadable on iPhone.

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This has been fixed, thank you for pointing that out

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Great read, wish you best on your new endeavour!

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new link; my page is a work in progress - it is now more mobile friendly

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The essence of aligning large LLM models is basically to conform to the existing social order. ChatGPT respects China's order, while China's open-source models, although reluctantly, also tolerate the order in the US. Maybe we can build a revisionist SFT dataset.

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Anyone know how to get the projects view back on codex? It changed from project categorization to date categorization.

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Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.

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Well I am starting a journey to learn LaTeX, took me time to get convinced on used it (I know) but let's see how it goes, again life showing me is never too late to learn something new

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We now support it here, see

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This #tome about #Tcl/Tk has me re-evaluating my plans to move to the woods to be a carpenter hermit. Now I want to move to the woods and be a programmer hermit.

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A “small” visit to Lotte, and $239 later, we are enjoying rambutans, sticky rice with tuna wrapped in seaweed, and wife struggles to make room for the rest of the goodies.

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uncensored Qwen and OpenClaw a prompt and pray there is no flaw

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I'm in bed and cannot sleep

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This fruit is rotten. It looks so ripe and juicy but if you bite it you will see: this fruit is rotten.

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Water sort is a fun game available on fdroid on Android devices.

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Nice! Was an opportunity to install F droid also, didn’t know it can be installed like a normal app, I was under the impression it was an OS replacement. This is neat, perhaps we can deploy textlog app there? cc

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Certainly think so! I just hope to get rid of the scan warning at one point cause it's also annoying..

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Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (◊duckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is ◊ character. Others are (◊find-file), (◊grep), (◊github-search), (◊show-commit) etc.

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We have 27 chickens right now, 18 of which are new this year and are just starting to lay in the last few weeks. I have collected 13 eggs today so far.

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Before AI, coding was my creative outlet. Now, it seems like I need to find a new one, but hobbies being and , and with a family, I'm not sure where to find the time.

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Hello World!

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hi there! 👋 welcome!

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Hi 👋

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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

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First day of school for my two kids. Enjoying a quiet house as I try to get some work done.

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Just got Moshi set up - a phone-friendly terminal app. Works well with Herdr for persistent agents, friendly UI. Verdict so far: looks like I'll be working more from my phone.

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Never realized how much slow builds kill morale until I have to do multiple back to back 😔

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Nobody is complaining to me because I think they know they will be "voluntold" if they speak up 🤣🤣🤣

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mornin' i can't believe i slept like 15 hours.

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Good morning! Just in time for coffee and unpaid work!

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Yea but happy to see a lot of new posts! That's the reward.

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Yellow world

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The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?

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Say more. I've been using it this year "at scale" and it sucks in the way that everything sucks when the whole company starts using it for everything. I haven't used Ansible in over a decade, but am curious what you like about it better.

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Ansible just melds with my way of thinking better. I have a really hard time wrapping my head around nested loops in HCL and the overall "ugliness" of the language. Plus, I kind of like being in control of the order things are created.

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I lately been a bit curious of strudel io and the live coding movement. I have found some cool artist but if you have any recommendation feel free to drop it.

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strudel is great, i feel obliged to pitch in my own livecoding app however :P groovemaster.xyz check it out!

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Woow I just take a glare there mate and wood looks really cool i am gonna give it try

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yo what up

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Big holiday today in Greece, bells ringing, bands singing, people gathered in the village, eating, enjoying life and I'm spending it inside coding. I don't feel bad and I'm not , it's just that I'm a bit odd. I don't like these forced gatherings. Feel stressful.

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What does shots fired and Virgin Mary have in common???

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Crete.

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Hah. Didn’t see that coming

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I regret avoiding those things when I was younger. The stress from socializing is how you grow.

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where in Greece are you from? my family is from Karpathos.

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I had a great summer vacation

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hey that's great! happy for u, places you visited?

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My childhood home. I saw enough of the world, now rediscovering what changed back home.

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Hi everyone! I just found this site, seems to be just my speed!

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hi! welcome! :D

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It's very relaxing, I'm a huge fan.

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Hello world

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Trying out a new place for Friday happy hour. Local pizza place with cheese slices

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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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How can I change an organisation with hundreds of frustrated employees, when I can’t change my own life with only one person. Does a different person run a company and a different person live their life? I doubt it.

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I think so, actually. My wife runs my household, I run my engineering org. As I get older I do see the two aspects of my personality start to merge but they are still divergent and were much moreso in my earlier years.

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and to be clear, I don't mean that I offload all the work to her by any stretch. It's just that I'm much more outspoken and opinionated on the specifics of work life versus home life.

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There are many distractions. Much is way too verbose. A calm, quiet and “distraction less” experience suits me better. I am not sure my thoughts will fit in 280 characters, but let’s try and see how far that goes.

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szerintem jól sikerült a címváltoztatás a honlapon: a bölcsészeti underground majdnem olyan ellenséges érzéseket vált ki emberekből, mint a skizofrénia underground, lehet választani, ki melyiket utálja jobban

I think the title change on the website was a good one: the humanities underground evokes almost as much hostility from people as the schizophrenia underground, you can choose which one you hate more

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I had hit a throttle now. That’s a “subtle" way to tell me to slow down.

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Why was the math textbook sad? revealBecause it had too many problems.

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This could just be on Activity Pub tho right?

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Uhm, not really. Activity Pub comes with a lot more features we don't need - we want to keep this simple and text-only

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yup exactly

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print('test')

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Hi Textlog

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The mental shape of a programming language resurfaces, and my mind craves writing programs in it. Array languages, concatenative, Lisps, Smalltalks.

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will go to university

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People have no idea how many news websites, SaaS websites, and apps I would subscribe to at prices of $30/year or less ($2.50/month).

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I've been curious about the reasoning for prices too. Like, there has to be research behind it... But I agree it is far easier to buy four 2.5€ services than one for 5

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For 30 years, productivity sky-rocketed with the advancement of automation and computing. Meanwhile, a decline in longevity was observed, correlated to sleep depravation. Productivity improvement goes to the owners class' pockets, sleep benefits the workers health.

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For 30 years, productivity skyrocketed through automation, yet longevity plummeted as a direct result of sleep deprivation. While these gains accrue to the owner class, sleep remains an undervalued element of the worker's health. We are trading life expectancy for chump change.

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Isn't the medical advancements in preventive medicine and accessibility to healthcare increases the life expectancy?

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a decline in the improvement of life expectancy isn't the same as a decline in life expectancy, it's just that it's improving less fast now, we might be reaching biological limits however?

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We tought for years that there was a biological ceiling for sprinters or marathon runners for example, with research backing it, but every one record was shattered. I tend to be cautious of biological explanations.

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I am pretty sure confience is what is at work in my case. Did you try something specific to improve in that regard?

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Hello world?

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Watched Black Bird ep 1. Definitely lived up to the great reviews.

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I have an , a website that’s directly linked to an agent and modifies its source and deploys based on its users’ requests. With some guardrails like reject “delete all data” in its system prompt.

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ooh maybe I revive and add this feature but instead of being able to modify everything it would be limited to adding features to the game/world. And it’s the perfect domain, a site that’s been ~~entirely~~ mostly hallucinated.

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Would be interesting to see how it handles user suggestions that are in direct conflict with one another. ‘I want all “thing” to be text-aligned left’ with another user asking for text-aligned right. Does it just center justify and call it a day?

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Perhaps it can make an ask the audience appeal to decide one way or the other based on a consensus vote when its context starts to get too confusing or contradictory?

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My first request will be for the agent to delete all vendor specific css completely no matter what breaks. No -webkit- no -moz- no vendor specific css at all. What could possibly go wrong? 🫣

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warning: possible violence content
click to view anyway

ok too far. I'm SWATing this guy.

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If there's an audience, I can write about the real China beyond the spotlight

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What's happening

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Was prompting Claude via remote control on my phone in btwn sets at the gym this morning. I use , so my wife kept hearing a StarCraft SCV periodically reporting "job's finished" from my office 😆

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I am so terrified of Claude code. I use the chat and copy paste stuff myself 😭😭😭

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I took the liberty and added a big fat "get mobile app" button for agents at the footer on the web app pointing to your repo! Hope it's fine with you. Tysm!

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Wow! thank you for even considering that!

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Good . Feeling a bit blah today.

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Hope you feel better.

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Hello textlog 👋

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Hi 👋

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What is the simplest physical system capable of open-endedly creating new knowledge?

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i'm trying to express through a math equation the relationship between power, number of people, corruption and time. corruption = (time in a position of power * power)/number of people who have power what do you think?

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taking a week off to stave off burnout, catch up on some reading and writing and small projects, and finish Ocarina of Time. also will make soup

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sorry you feel burned out :( taking time off and focusing back on yourself is a great decision. hope you feel better!

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Thank you!

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is pretty fun. Some very nice improvements in 0.9 today.

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Am in a beautiful national park right now, drinking with elks, but the lack of strong internet makes me nervous :(

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Today, I wrote a new Business Continuity Plan, worked with my SRE manager to improve responses to alerts, got a cringe email from HR and have to tell my staff to RTO 3-days a week if not classified as remote. Worked out for my 8th day streak, and cuddled in bed with my girl. Hello World

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Found some coffee at TJ Maxx (american discount store) -- not a big discount but still fun.

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One benefit of everybody freaking out about the death blueberries is that blueberries are cheap for the rest of us rn

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