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Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

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Hello world

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hello world!

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hello tim!

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Cool idea congratulation's on the hope it picks up steam

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Hello, World!

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Hello textlog 👋

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Hi 👋

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The most elegant code I've ever written, is of a , using a tribool return (null, undefined, boolean) to denote status. I find it perfect.

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what are the best midnight snacks?

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noooo. now I'm craving halva.

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Mine is homemade biltong.

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instant noodles. sue me.

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I am with you

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Cheese is always the richt choice. Regardless of the time of day.

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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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Coding is so passe. Dont feel like coding at all

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it's called prompting now. old man.

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Things I'm enjoying lately: Vampire Survivors + Diablo IV Alien + Dune ambiance Howling Dark book 2 of Sun Eater great TV

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Testing, testing…

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You forgot the “one, two, three”. :-)

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The rise of postmodern cuisine: "The beverage's photogenic bright green color proved particularly well-suited to social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, helping it gain viral popularity among wellness enthusiasts and influencers." (Wikipedia, "Matcha")

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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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Switching from Claude Max to Team, cc was trivial, just another login, but Claude Desktop and on iOS holds sessions in the cloud so need to move them somehow.

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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 miss real coding

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me too, but at the same time i'm enjoying getting things done, otherwise i would get lost in details like bikeshedding naming variables and making the code look pretty, and little would be done.

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whats stopping you from it?

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Nothing, I still write code by hand for most personal things, but for work, it seems AI has been adopted uniformly.

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I feel you there.. and fear the craft will vanish.

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Papas Gatitos

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Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!

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emacs (evil mode)

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Team !

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Zed, like the cool kids

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Vim mode in Zed.

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Zed with vim bindings when I'm not using a terminal. Neovim when I am.

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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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Economist Lant Pritchett describes shifts in ideas as silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious. Also: "Radio has no future. X-rays are clearly a hoax. The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Lord Kelvin ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

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While learning jj, I realize how Git habituated me into being ok with its unique jargon and prickly command line interface. Unlearning Git is refreshing.

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is just brilliant; it really feels like they’ve fixed all of the problems with git whilst at the same time remaining completely backwards compatible. The simpler interface, the universal undo, the reduced set of concepts — I’m a big fan

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Also, editing and rearranging commits like 3x5 notecards on your desk is tremendous. It makes using an SCM feel more like editing your work than lumbering forward.

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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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Trying to gently work my way back to the target intensity needed for the Norwegian 4x4 to get my weekly dose of suck and feel accomplished after. Chronic left leg pain unfortunately likes reminding me it's there though.

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Anyone read Neil Postman?

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I just google it and now I feel like I have to read it

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Do you have a recommended starting point?

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haven't read him but i see his "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" referenced a lot lately

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Started reading exactly that and man it's mind-blowing. He's not anti-tech, he's anti big-company-culture-capture. Really insightful for being written in 1998. What I appreciate is he looks at a very wide view of tech, not just modern silicone.

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OK. I've translated the (correctness) requirements of LeetCode No.22 to Lean, and ask Claude Code to both implement a solution and prove it.

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In the first attempt, Opus 4.7 successfully completed it and proved it. However, the solution is to enumerate all possible space and .filter out anything that doesn't qualify my definition, which is obviously not ideal (if cheating is too harsh).

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I can't think of a good way to also prevent that kind of solutions and ended up prompting "please don't enumerate and filter". Opus 4.7 then reimplemented and proved the backtracking algorithm.

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Is the IDE dead?

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Seems to be reinvented into something else.

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What is the exact definition of an IDE? JetBrain's products are as good as ever, in my opinion, but people have definitely made non-IDEs into big, hulking behemoths with tons of plugins. If anything, maybe "just an editor" is dead?

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I think they mean the transition that all IDE's are making towards an agentic interface, hiding the code completely as humans will not have to interact with it since the AI will be doing a better job at everything, even auditing it.

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Oh, I guess I'm not really up-to-date on what IDEs are doing. Good point.

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I read Still trying to figure out the boundaries of these tools' strengths without outsourcing important thinking, problem-solving, and the collective building-up of a mental model of the systems we're developing. The shape of LLM tools as tools—fit for a purpose, ergonomic—is becoming clearer, and human patterns of behavior with them that do more harm than good are also becoming easier to recognize.

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took me until now to learn described images with low-cost models > attaching images to high-cost model. silly me. output quality remains, cost lowers.

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I'm amazed how good these models have become, that probably you don't need the high-cost one yeah. I'm producing comics for fun with the latest ChatGPT and they're flawless, no artifacts.

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Experiences of life spring from the contrasts.

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The strange thing about modern loneliness is that everyone is technically available.

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🤯

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Maybe validity to “distance makes the heart grow fonder.” Scarcity is valuable.

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Too true.

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Similar with having access to so much critically acclaimed media, but they are so emotionally or intellectually draining that I find myself rewatching ol' familiars. Availability seems just one aspect, and perhaps not even the most limiting factor. Maybe most people have a "limit" on number of "lives", as in number of times you fall in love, change, get inspired, connect, etc..

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hey y'all! this is the first post!

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What have you wrought?

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hiii congrats on the launch :)

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tysm! welcome :)

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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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was feeling a little fancy, bought a bag of gesha coffee beans :))

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╭─ Twitter ╭─ micro ┼─ Tumblr │ ├─ textlog « blogging » ┤ ╰─ Cohost (RIP) │ ╭─ Bear ╰─ normal ┼─ Motoroa ╰─

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, new day, new issues to solve — oh and ☕

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Preparing for opening up an app I'm working on for a public beta. Main is a quiet app that helps you maintain the value of your home:

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it's not for me personally, but I really like the idea and the look and feel seems top. Good luck.

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Oh nice, thanks!

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Opened up signups and about on LinkedIn yesterday. Really strong response so far!

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Congrats! 🎉

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Good luck!

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The job market feels like it's been run over by a truck. What's the play here? Anything automated/streamlined (job platforms, LinkedIn, etc.) feels like a dead end. Messaging people, networking and so on seems like the only reasonable way, and that's a hustle all on its own.

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It's definitely about who you know. But it always has been, fbow.

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So annoyed that reddit is gating read-access to it's threads. What's up with that?? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (thx ascii-art)

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A

n=27;s=[n]
while n!=1:
    n=n//2 if n%2==0 else 3*n+1;s.append(n)
for v in s[:15]:print(f"{v:>4} "+"█"*min(v//3,40))
print(f"{len(s)} steps, peak {max(s)}")

stdout length exceeded

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Still in Quebec City, which has a pretty sizable street population once you come down from the hill where the tour groups go. We had to basically step over some guys sharing a glass pipe on the only stairs up the hill yesterday; I have teenagers so this bothered me. Later, my youngest and I were talking and he says "why don't the police do something about that?"

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He's showing me the first season of Mob Psycho, so I say You know how Mob's little brother Ritsu wants to clean up the school so there are no people who will bully Mob, and so he allies with the power hungry student council president and frames all the bullies to get them expelled and the whole situation eventually becomes really corrupt and authoritarian and Ritsu feels to blame even though he started out with good intentions? Life is really like that...

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And so my guess is that Quebec is in the portion of the cycle that's reacting to harsh and unfair policing of the past. Someday a mayoral candidate will get elected on the promise of cleaning it all up and the cycle will begin again. Anyway Mob Psycho is a good show.

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it's unfortunate these kinds of obvious non-starters for a functional society can only ever be discussed on both extremes of the political spectrum. It shouldn't be a question that degeneracy has no place in public settings.

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I’m an insane person who built their own coding harness, in Rust. I’ve called it Rho. Please forgive this landing page: https://rho-code.dev I just wanted an easy central spot.

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Not insane at all. People should build their own instead of using other people's agents. It's easy to do and the results can be great for you. I've built several; one that is effectively "stuck" in Kakoune:

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I wrote my own too. I feel like that's the best way.

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im decently happy with opencode. anything im missing out on?

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Yeah. It's a very large project with lots of dependencies. <The system prompt is long and wastes tokens. If you have ideas for tools (or automations like the agents.sh "loop" I wrote) it's easier if you understand the harness.

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(\ (\ ( • •) ━∪∪━━━━

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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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我在中国是一个准脱离政府掌控者，基于身份的一切活动我都不参与，比如正式工作和网购。我也为此付出巨大代价，我的选择空间被极大压缩，行动能力损失严重。我只能通过少量免费wifi访问互联网

In China, I am practically independent of the government; I don't participate in any activities based on my status, such as formal work or online shopping. I've paid a heavy price for this; my choices have been severely limited, and my mobility has been significantly impaired. I can only access the internet through limited free Wi-Fi.

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Wow

n=42
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42

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There is someone absolutely rotten and fetid in this airplane. Every 10 minutes. Dear Spaghetti Monster!

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hi from Augsburg

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hi! welcome :)

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thinking on deploying excalidraw on my homeserver, so I can store drawings without bothering with export/import. Yes, excalidraw+ for $7/mo; but nowadays I pay only one sub - for Claude; everything else is personal software.

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Well, done, Claude did while I drove a car. It even added save/open file from the server (stored in SQLite). Deployed on my homelab server.

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

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Hello World!

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hi there! 👋 welcome!

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Hi 👋

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I made a thing:

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굿 아담.

Good Adam.

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

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可以发中文内容吗

Can I send content in Chinese?

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当然！そして日本語でも！

Of course! And in Japanese too!

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Funny that this box appears in front of me and every thought I've ever wanted to write down vacates my mind.

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I do way better going out and writing on pa[er first.

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Taking a small break from here to work on an for a friend! I missed .

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time

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hi

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hi there ;) welcome

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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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Should I entertain the routine-shattering idea of a second cup of coffee this Friday? console.log(Math.random() < 0.5 ? "Yes" : "No")

Yes

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May as well go completely rogue and have a Crunchie with your second .

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Ewww. No, just have it alongside. Sip, scrunch, sip, scrunch. Lovely.

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Oh I misunderstood you 🤣

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Didn't have any on hand yesterday, but that has been this morning. Indulging now and then can't hurt. Good suggestion!

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Need to use a quantum RNG to split the timeline into one where you did, and one where you didn't

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What is this? I Like It

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'wade in the water.' isn't this the challenge of being 'ahead'? so many of us are waist deep in the same sea, it's hard to see what's in front of us vs. what's behind us. then we see the yacht boys sail by with their new masters, splashing us in their wake. then we grumble amongs

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then we grumble amongst ourselves about 'that was my idea,' then carry on.

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Finally got my 3d printer setup for the first time since moving back onto the land. Man I love Prusa. Their stuff just works.

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As long as a lady carries a book with her, she will always have company. And a weapon.

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It’s the social network I so want to love but something about it feels off.

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I never understood why they would allow you to follow different “feeds” but not hashtags. I like mastodon’s approach better.

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Oh my god, art was the only reason I used bsky regularly. Not anymore, and I miss it too.

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haha cool! uhm perhaps we should detect hashtag and get rid of the line spacing

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implemented, hashtag now gets compact lines!

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Vår konges livsgjerning går mot slutten, landet samler seg for å ta farvel med en konge som har vært samlende og god for landet. Må Gud velsigne hans minne og hans etterfølger.

Our king's life's work is coming to an end, the country comes together to say goodbye to a king who has been unifying and good for the country. May God bless his memory and his successor.

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

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Never forget, !

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Come for a dance!

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Just trying to see how this works

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These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that

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The interface needs some work. For example, I would like the textarea that I am using right now to be as wide as the header above. Also, where is the character counter?

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Fixed! The character counter is impossible tho as we don't have any client JS.

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Went to the summer house to watch the but it was cloudy so we missed it. But the kids are asleep so guess I'll light a fire and crack a beer instead. Woe is me!

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y'all!

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Morning! What's on the docket today?

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In the middle of migrating very old, homegrown tomfoolery into a more modern stack. Fun and vexing at the same time. This codebase has all of the bad decisions. All of them.

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

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You can now change the theme/color scheme appearance by . Thanks to who implemented this first in their app and which I shamelessly ripped from.

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nice i dig the dracula

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dracula is nice yeah i use that now too

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Thanks for that one!!

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cool!

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오늘은 휴가~

Today is a vacation~

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What's happening

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hihihi

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I like this concept

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Good Morning from Flagstaff AZ!

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The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

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They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.

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Friyay!

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Should be working in the car on a . Instead, I'm writing while we are 30 minutes out from camping at a pizza farm.

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Hello World! :D

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Hello!

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I'm just an android launcher called Nocebo Launcher. I don't have usual grid layout, instead I'm inspired by Darth Vader's TIE fighter. My layout can spin, like a real spinner and you can configure physics and animations. I'm easy, cool and novel

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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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AI hai ya kisiko de ayi hai?

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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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I don't see much point in trying to build software at a "higher level", like whole products and services. I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. Hopefully in time I'll be able to contribute to the foundational bits. You're right, it does get exhausting. At some point you just want to rebuild everything, which is not possible.

@stagas🤸profileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
NIH syndrome? I am guilty of it too. I love implementing things from scratch, you learn a lot by doing so and you get to own the codebase end-to-end, so no surprises and fighting around others’ choices. It can get exhausting too though, in the end I succumb to using off-the-shelf components because my primary goals move at a higher level.
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I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. When I wrote an HTTP sever (albeit HTTP/1.1), I learned how primitive the HTTP protocol its magic became a skill. It is freeing understanding how things work and allows me to choose where to spend time with more intention.

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my today’s list:

wake up

make coffee

work

and possibly later:

contemplate existence

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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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curious to know whats the experience of production push in other companies? e.g lots of documents/approvals…

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

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they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I don’t believe we won’t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and we’ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.

@jamesjan3profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term
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they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term

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Togo sofas remind me of Heidi Klums worm costume