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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 interested in lightweight apps especially on macOS gets my follow

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looking at the German public railway system (DB), I always wonder if the stereotypes of timeliness and precision were ever actually true. Surely someone must've figured out by now how off they are? These trains are always late and / or broken.

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I gotta confess, I vibe codet a Kirigami-based application and I liked it. I am a anti AI person, and cannot wait for the bubble to burst. Yet I see it can empower people that do not know a tech stack, and get good enough results out of it. However i also see, it makes you lazy (and frustrates as soon as it gets somewhat complicated). It seems it is being adopted everywhere. This is scary... if it becomes necessary, will you be able to find a job where they don't require you to use AI?

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I lament the death of programming as an economically-viable craft, but am also leveraging the new tools to build things and to try to stay competitive. I think we have yet to find out how agentic coding will really make sense for companies once the costs stop being subsidized. But it's clearly not going anywhere.

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hello world!

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I've avoided social media (except YouTube) all my life, but this looks like it could finally be a better way to do it. Maybe I'll keep a running journal of cool things I'm working on here or weird bugs that I've found. Or just the struggles of coding. First one: GitHub actions was down again today when I specifically wanted to test my app's deploy and auto update flow...

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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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Ahoy denizens of textlog. Like the concept.

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

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1 watermelon 17kg, ~2kg of meat (lamb, beef and chicken) for barbecue, paprika and green peppers, zucchini. Total 92 eur. Life’s expensive in 2026.

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its true. but meat should be expensive imo

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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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ive been obsessed with deltarune this year, its probably the best indie rpg ever made. (and its only 5/7 chapters out)

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I've been thinking I wanna wait until it's all out, but maybe I'm missing out by not diving in now?

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i dont mind the waits, cause ive been really liking the theorizing part of it too, cause the community is super active in between chapters and theres soo much lore and thematic connections to dicuss.

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Is it any better than Undertale? I played Undertale back when it came out, but despite all the hype I thought it was just ok. Nothing really that would make me go out of my way to play a sequel.

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yes its much better than undertale, from a gameplay and design perspective. undertale had good story and characters, but deltarune is just that + better production value

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Updates on Cheltenham Open Data

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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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Anybody here using mastodon regularly? What instance are you on? I can't decide on where to register 😅

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I'm using mastodon.social but i think you can look the instances in their site and decide by interest.

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There's a really good one run by someone in the Netherlands. He forked the software and made a ton of improvements. I was on there six years ago. I wish I could remember the name.

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Ah! Qoto.org! It looks like it might be gone now though :/

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mastodon.social/@pauladamsmas

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I decided to use mstdn.social/@zbr - I like that’s it’s not too crowded and has a 500 word limit.

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At a philosophical level, can we have nice things?

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I want this expanded and enacted by one of those guys doing Jordan Peterson impersonations :D

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And kermit the frog sardonically

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I think yes, but precisely NOT "at a philosophical level". You can have it only if you get your hands dirty and build it yourself. I think already proved this, just as a close example.

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entropy says no

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If speaking on a philosophical level, then first we have to ask: what’s “nice” and what’s “to have” 👀

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If you consider what you have nice, you can have nice things. If your expectations to your surroundings are very very low, you will be amazed with all the nice things you get from people you meet through your day. My personal approach.

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Cut sex scene from Titanic and now watching it with my 10yo daughter. Love that movie.

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what happens when two foos walk into a bar? they meet 'baz'

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lol, welcome! :)

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I never noticed the little halfsteps in the bassline of the verses of Rebel Yell before. It's so slinky and subconscious and makes the chorus that much more.

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