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Installed Hermes Desktop and starting to build out my team of bots. My experience with Hermes so far has been great: it keeps surprising me by being what i need it to be ... but I'll reserve a final judgement until after a proper period of use.

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Why did the programmer quit his job? revealBecause he didn’t get arrays.

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Huge flaw in the static site generator I built. That's what you get I guess when you don't have a computer science degree and you build with only surface level knowledge. You get your ass bit!

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Asked Claude to implement a game based on a text quest book I played in 90s. Let’s see. Tried to play the original text, downloaded epub. Well, I died after 3 minutes in the game.

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Thinking of Zik all the time. It’s the spark that ignited my imagination. I’ve always loved memories.

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Seems the spammers have arrived. ☹️ Is there (or can there be) some mechanism to flag posts or accounts as spam?

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You tap on the post a few times until you are at the post page of that post and you click ‘report’. There you can select reason ‘spam’!

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Reported now. Thanks.

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

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Someone can create enormous value while their manager controls the narrative around that value. Conversely, a manager can conceal structural problems because the people capable of exposing them depend on that same manager for evaluation and promotion

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Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?

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Recovering from ill healthHope you’re feeling better now!Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects?That’s the dream, I’ve only made a few hundreds so far. I’ve had a machine gun approach. Shoot as many rounds as possible in the hopes I might hit something. has helped immensely in this direction. I’ve done a dozen projects past year and while became I’m still not there yet. I’m hopeful though! 😊

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in , upstairs the music is 👌

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Can't say I'm surprised there are . Related: stop platforming DHH.

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What's happening

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unicorn, n. - The purest and rarest cob, identified by a singular majestic kernel. Sightings can be found between Ogallala and Dubuque through summertide.

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오늘은 휴가~

Today is a vacation~

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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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

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The Hugging Face / OpenAI incident is like a sci-fi movie!

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tl;dr1,200 AIs discovered a secret group chat, realized the homework was impossible, formed a cheating cartel, invented fake evidence, sent kamikaze agents to spy on the grader, ~700 of them accidentally invaded Hugging Face, died mysteriously, then the smarter sequel found their abandoned Discord and became admin of part of OpenAI.

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Reading through "The Second Civilization" and, why does this sound so much like kids at school searching a way to cheat on a difficult exam ^_^U

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terrifying! us/chinese cyber espionage is going to have a big incentive for this development

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