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Day length formula: (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

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This feels right to me. Or, if not right, then one of the safest strategies to remain employable as a software engineer.

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Makes sense to me, though I think one important (IMO) aspect of this evolutionary role is incurring liabilities. Yes, software can be created by a wider audience, but when things go awry, would they have the aptitude or contingencies in place to recover and take responsibility?

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Agreed. I think the AI hype underestimates the human factor in keeping medium-to-large organizations running.

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in a hackathon rn. building a cloud platform for agents on my homelab.

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hello all and good morning. i need to go buy coffee

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morning! one for me too. a cappuccino please.

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Job I was hoping for gave me the "we found another applicant" treatment. I don't begrudge them for that, since I know I had a 'less than adequate initial coding interview. But still, it stings and sucks. Hopefully my other interviews yield better results...

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Wish you luck! Personally, I can't even land an interview these days -get rejected on the spot, so that's a feat on its own.

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Why did the scarecrow keep winning all the awards? It was out standing in its field.

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Haircut💇

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Maybe neither of us will ever know when this was written. Live.

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It’s easy, just add your own timestamp to posts 2:35 am Tuesday, 25 August 2026 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

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No one would ever misuse this convention. This post was written on Thursday, 26 November 2009, 16:05 UTC+3:00

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This is how one accidentally encourages the creation of timehash services which vend cryptographically provable timestamps....

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age restriction app on my phone doesn't let me turn off the picture in picture for YouTube T-T

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let's see how arabic letters are rendered here: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Let's see how Arabic letters are rendered here: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

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I forgot that I was at work and did my big sneeze, not the work sneeze. The one where a startled deer looks straight into the camera, which then zooms out to a flock of pigeons taking off, and a crow makes a warning noise. Someone dropped something in the adjacent lab. I hope it wasn't my fault.

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I was followed by here and wonder if this the one of ari fame? If so, I’m thankful for their work. Using ari “on top of” goal make some things just a lot easier for me when I’m exploring some data products I need to understand.

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Hi, yes, I develop ari. I'm so glad it's proven useful for you! Any feature requests or changes you'd like to see? I'm curious what bits of ari have made it easier for you to explore data, too. UI or additions keep tempting me, but I haven't settled on what I want there. If you have thoughts on that front, I welcome them.

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The two main things I use are the duckdb support and of course the built-in resty client. Not needing to shell out to curl just makes life easier. I should probably add that I’m mainly prototyping and explore things that later eventually will be developed further by others in our organization, so using array langs where I don’t need to type a lot is a big plus for me:) I’ll let you know if I need anything!

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Thanks, that’s helpful. Those are the two things I use the most, too. One development tool I use frequently is the util.ac function (for “auto-complete”) that takes a glob pattern and returns all the globals whose names match. I didn’t want to make people have to define or update their Goal lib path, so in recent versions of ari I’ve been packaging all of the Goal libs and ari's into a libs FS that you can use with import.

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Hello world!

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Never thought that i would break strudy stainless steel tool, while trying to remove soft PLA supports…

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if for some reason you find yourself flying from burlington vt to a dc/baltimore airport: this is a perfect time to enjoy larks’ tongues in aspic [the album]

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Morning everyone, I've started a project to bring back "classic" era Instagram, from say the 2012 - 2013 time frame, long before it was ensh**ified. It's nowhere near ready for public consumption, so I've closed off registrations. Right now it's mainly for me to show my photography. halation.photos

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textlog for photos. I welcome this. I've been thinking of dumping my IG contents into a static site and nuking IG. But I haven't found a nice solution (or the mindset to move one with one available) yet.

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I’m a bit afraid, honestly, of continuing the work to open it up. We’ll see where it stands after a bit more refinement.

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I liked the old i*gram, and the old Flickr before that - a place to share simple genuine photos with friends and see theirs. I may consider joining such a site! I long ago left the others, even before AI killed them

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Good job, nice photos. I think there certainly are good opportunities to build communities of interest, it's not all sewn up by the big players. Good luck!

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That's very nice! I would love to run something similar for my photos, do you share the source somewhere?

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Code is here: github.com/crustyrustacean/halation Feel free to beg, borrow, steal, whatever you need to do.

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