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Blargh. I've got that dry tickle in the throat where you know you're getting sick. Begone, virulent tingle, begone!

This has been me the last few days. Blossomed into a proper scratchy throat today. Hoping to keep an escalation in symptoms at bay.

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Zinc lozenges I’ve found helpful at this stage.

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Just finished reading The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. I highly recommend it.

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Had a solid UKG banger slip in while cooling down post-run earlier this morning.

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I feel icky about code generation (as in writing software to generate code).

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Deterministic code generation is fine by me. Quite happy to use templating systems for example. Problems occur when randomness is introduced. If you can avoid that it should be less "icky".

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Judgement, taste and quality were always precious skills. In the world of , I have become more aware of the fact that it is often hard to put in words why something is good, great or amazing - or just looks good, but is average. A lot of the professional content I see feels like most Netflix series. They have all the elements - but the overall experience is still meh. Quality is still hard to achieve.

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Finally watched Project Hail Mary. Easily one of my top 5 favourite films but it’s still not nearly as good as the book — I feel like the cut some pretty important scenes

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It's the first film in a long time that I enjoyed.

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I loved the book and I’m always fearful when a movie script is developed and a movie produced, so my relief after I saw the movie was immense. I too feel they’ve cut-out some bits, but the main thing that a book almost always takes my breath away with is fueling my imagination. A movie would (possibly) never nail that aspect.

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I just watched it as well. It was fun. There were a number of things that I felt weren't explained well and broke my suspension of disbelief; I haven't read the book, but I found myself really curious whether the book takes the time to justify things more. Obviously, the movie has a lot of pressure to rush to the next "big moment".

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If there’s one thing Andy Weir can’t be critiqued on then it’s not fully justifying all of the science. I think the film on the other hand can be hard to follow for someone who has neither read the book nor has a scientific background. It’s just hard to monologue about gravitational forces and relativistic speeds on screen.

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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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I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces. Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity. Hypertext is fascinating.

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Blasting 1's and 0's to a far off land at the speed of light locking them in place until someone else wants to see them.

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can imagine this like Pink Floyd lyrics

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the binding of isaac might be one of the best games ever made

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Omg! I just started playing it

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it will never take its leave out of your life :D

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I really like this minimal approach, I wish the maintainer great success with textlog. whatever that may look like to them :) I will make sure to check in occasionally.

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Noice Froggos make everything better.

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anyone interested in lightweight apps especially on macOS gets my follow

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I wonder, is life best lived like a job? I.e set goals for yourself and then work to achieve them? Today I realised how passively I have been living mine so far, but maybe that's ok? I don't want a second job.

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Hello, seems fun this space, keep explore!

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Really nice so far!!

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tech influencers on twitter: god i hate interacting with other people. i love my new bot that does it for me. life is so much better now that im just telling bots what to do and not talking to people. i can’t wait for everyone to be bots!

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“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius

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Today visiting Zaragoza with an aunt and my mom, I hope to be this willing and capable of moving around for leisure when I'm in my 60s too

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That will come with continued moving and activity throughout your life.

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Being in your 60s is not that old. As long as keep up with movement over the years you should be fine.

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Going to document some approaches to produce data visualizations using ari via DuckDB. Don’t know why it didn’t occur to me earlier, that there would be some solid community extensions for in DuckDB.

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I was trying to use an approach that relies on community extensions, but installing them is proving finicky. Going to consider an approach that requires less futzing.

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