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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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You look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress from work. He takes care of his family. Capitalism

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Likewise... you look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress for lack of work, or food, or future. He wants to take care of his family. Communism. We haven’t figured out yet. Maybe we never will.

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My son's new class doesn't have a Smith, Johnson, or Williams. It's the Hughes kid who breaks in at . I expect these kids with strong stage names to have pants and personalities to match.

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Well, I think my IRCd (Eris v2) is close to be complete.

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🥳

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hello, hello.

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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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Came from . I like the design.

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uncensored Qwen and OpenClaw a prompt and pray there is no flaw

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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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One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.

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Just started, and two made it to be block list. This is going well! :-D

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Didn't realize there's a block list! Good to include, even when the point is minimalism.

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It is good it exists. “Registration” is fairly open (and that’s good!), which could make the platform prone to abuse (and that’s bad).

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Spotted this Royal Air Force A400 over the lake yesterday, it was so different from civil planes www.planespotters.net/…/zm420-royal-air-force-…atlas-c1-a400m-180

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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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Took a little .

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Man, I LOVE naps! In fact, I mostly subsist on four or five 1-1/2 hour naps each day instead of one long over-night sleep period these days. I didn't set out to have a sleep schedule, but here I am. :-)

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Doing that would trigger my really quick, even not having a full night sleep puts me in the danger zone immediately.

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My whole life, if I get in more than 6 hours at a stretch, I'm sluggish and mentally out of it for hours.

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Oh, dear! I wasn't polyphasic before cats owned me. Are my furry overlords rubbing off on me? LOL

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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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I'm looking for a way to manage my bookmarks easily on desktop and Android. Anyone have any experience with software like that? It'd be nice to be able to tag or categorize pages, and maybe to keep local mirrors for certain ones. I'm open to self-hosting. Thanks for reading!

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I've stopped managing bookmarks after del.icio.us died - now i just hit the browser star but they seem to disappear and never visit them again, apart from the most recent. The situation sucks really. I'm also interested in a good solution.

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Turned Stepper (self-hosted AWS StepFunctions) into client-server. Server hosts state machines, clients poll for tasks. New resources about running . claude -p works, now thinking if I need interactive session management.

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bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. now that he's a billionaire no longer dependent on the free market for his own success he's discovered the virtues of taxing the next wave of computation. 1995 gates would have called it a tax on innovation. classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics.

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These were exactly my thoughts reading about how he thinks we should “preserve” some jobs for people; I don’t remember him being an advocate of preserving the jobs of typists, draftsman, typesetters, and other clerks when his company was leading a prior digital revolution…

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I lately been a bit curious of strudel io and the live coding movement. I have found some cool artist but if you have any recommendation feel free to drop it.

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strudel is great, i feel obliged to pitch in my own livecoding app however :P groovemaster.xyz check it out!

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Woow I just take a glare there mate and wood looks really cool i am gonna give it try

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, will it possible, on mobile, to be able to tap on “cards”. That is, make the posts area “tapable”.

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Great idea, implemented here! Thanks for the suggestion.

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This is very welcome! I don't know how many times I had already tapped posts to go to the comment chain, just to realize that wasn't the place ^⁠_⁠^

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The live tab on the android app is interesting... How does it work? This is a test 🫣

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Does it do some kind of polling? Is there some kind of notify like publisher subscriber? 🤔

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It’s using the /firehose endpoint. It’s an SSE endpoint publishing everything latest. Though I meant it to be used server-side, since it’s heavily rate-limited — up to 3 conns under the same network, but I can’t control how clients decide to use it so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Might just lift the limitation.

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Lifted, that’s how clients want to use it then so be it! Should be fine. We’re nowhere near crashing the server from connections.

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I want to become an excellent marketing person😭😭

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Everytime I post something on HN or elsewhere, I get about a dozen or more emails and they're all talking about the same thing; they have a platform and they want to help me grow my business, they promise. They look personalized but they're .

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Hi everyone! I just found this site, seems to be just my speed!

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hi! welcome! :D

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It's very relaxing, I'm a huge fan.

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Textlog seems pretty cool 😎

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taking a week off to stave off burnout, catch up on some reading and writing and small projects, and finish Ocarina of Time. also will make soup

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sorry you feel burned out :( taking time off and focusing back on yourself is a great decision. hope you feel better!

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Thank you!

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( ^ . ^) (° . ° )

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a few fixes this morning, some actions in your account are now gated behind email(or password) confirmations, like "delete account" and "enable password" - this is to keep the account safe.

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Just another micro blogging platform. It's minimal and it's fine.

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Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you.

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I have a toddler. I come home from work, cook, feed, clean, wash up. We read stories and play. I put him to bed. Then I put something on the television and my wife and I scroll on our phones until she goes to bed. I am not so careless with the little free time I have. I continue to scroll until about 1 am. The next morning I do it again. On the weekends, I get to drink wine.

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I prefer to drink wine at night and read an eBook or watch when something good comes up on streaming media. Can’t always get what I prefer and that is life.

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Same. And on Monday, I look back and wonder how I ever got to fit five or six things in one weekend, and now one or two things fill it up entirely. Love the little ones though, they're my world.

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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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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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Well this looks very nice indeed. Just dipping a hoof into the river for now ...

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Which river? Asking because most rivers are contaminated these days. Be careful!

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ty and welcome!

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pourover ritual :pray:

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16g of light roast, 350ml of Montcalm water, ~24 clicks on C40 and a Cafec ABACA filter paper in a v60 neo dripper

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Last work week before long vacation.

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How are things wrapping up?

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All good! Thanks for asking

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Most of programs use key chords, like Cmd-Shift-G, Ctrl-Alt-N and so on, you need to remember and press awkwardly several keys at once. uses key sequences, C-c then k then p then l. If I forget after C-c k p then press C-h and help appears.

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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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time

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again. Was in the middle of some timeline experiments, sorry if it appears weird rn. www.githubstatus.com

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

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What’s your favorite ? Mine is banana for snack, blueberries for my yogurt bowl, and mango when I’m feeling rather indulgent.

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I love figs! Not a fruit per se, they’re flowers, but still. And it’s their season now and they grow in my village so we pick them now.

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I love how dates go so well with cashews. So at least once a day, I grab about 5 whole cashews and 1 date. It’s a perfect little snack!

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What self control.. only 5?? :P

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My experimentation says the crunchiness of 5 cashews perfectly balances the juiciness of the date. Your mileage may vary!

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Prior work: www.skytopia.com/project/fruit/fruit.html

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Where’s the coffee machine?

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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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Bonnie Raitt stuck in my head, who, by some definition, is a nepo baby, but well before the term was coined. I think the problem is obv not family businesses, but a shrinking pool of opportunities for those without a prebuilt network to inherit (or buy).

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This is another way to describe "increasing wealth inequality".

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this will be the platform that fixes me

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anyone else seriously into agentic loop development?

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I've been working with physical AI - Letting LLMs control robots in a warehouse to collaborate and collectively come up with a physically correct solution to carry out a natural language intent. We had to study the reactive nature of agents, nudges they required, etc.

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that's awesome and near my heart. I kicked off a personal project emergingrobotics.ai

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haha that's a coincidence. Site looks awesome. The moving away from ROS2 part is so true. One of our main potential customers for physical AI solutions (a telecom provider in JP) communicated the need for agents to be able to pick up controls from any vendor

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I apologize if that sounded obvious/non-obvious/amateurish haha. I was an intern and worked more on the agentic side of things, it was just a non-primary experiment

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When I was 10, I thought I'd be a scientist I wanted to tinker in a lab, doing something with beakers and bunsen burners Making a difference. As an adult, I sit in meetings and discuss who to fire next I tinker with spreadsheets, doing something with LLMs and JIRA Be enthusiastic

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As young kid I dreamed of working with reel-to-reel machines Cutting/splicing tape, happy accidents As a teen I couldn't afford reel-to-reel but got decent with multi-track cassettes Everyone was telling me digital was The Way (tm) In my 30s, I finally learned how to use a DAW properly In my 40s, I'm back to playing around with multi-tracks cassettes There is no money in it, but I'm enthusiastic as I can be (this is not so much as direct response as simply a response)

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I’m ambivert. When I spend time outdoors and with people I want to keep doing that, I become very extrovert. Can’t code in that mode. It’s hard to switch back to introvert but when that happens time flies really quick. A month can pass and it feels like a week.

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I'm trying to construct an argument that LLMs are like a chess engine. People still play chess. But somehow this falls short.

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I had hit a throttle now. That’s a “subtle" way to tell me to slow down.

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

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Which of these existed first?

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I'm not an optimist, just a pessimist who's still proactive: I don't think things are going to get better, but I just can't talk myself into giving up yet.

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whats the point of url shorteners in 2026

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Good for you. You must be one of the last holdouts against "QR all the things!".

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I think short urls are still memorable and good. My phone doesn't surrogate all of my recall.

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Short URLs are good. Memorable URLs are good. URLs spat out by URL shorteners are something entirely different.

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Ah, the randomly generated ones. Yeah, agreed.

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The longer the text you need to store, the bigger a QR code needs to be in order to scan reliably. Also, you might be more confident in being able to keep a short URL stable (it's already a step of indirection, so if you want to reorg your site you can just update where the short URL points to). But people don't really take care to maintain short URLs anyway, apparently.

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is where all the linux fortunes get injected with new electrons, new spins, new universe fairy dust to have a second eternal life?

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meow, no likes, no karma points, no engagement tricks, just thoughts and replies

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What does a bean mean?

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Depends. Is it cool?

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Apa kabar dunia?

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Hello textlog 👋

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Hi 👋

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thanks to ai I genuinely hate the word "genuinely" now 😭

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A lot of people write so much software to sandbox their AI agents. I say don't bother. Just give your agent its own non-admin local user account. It's easier and much more effective.

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I give my AI Full-Access. :p

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hacks into @swiley's machine, pulls all funds :p

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So it has full access to textlog!? ;)

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Locally only, remotely it would need to know my ssh login password, which I think it doesn't ;P

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I can’t trust it enough to give local access as well! Having a hard time to let go of control.

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Bad night, first the boy woke up at midnight and went with him, then at 4 am heavy rain started so went to bring the bike to the terrace, then thunderstorm and kids were scary, then the cat meowed at 6am. I’m okay.

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Thanks for making a calm space on the Internet

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i love reading blog posts! reply with your blogs so i can subscribe to them

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not my blog but i recently discovered acko.net which i can recommend. awesome personal website

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That site makes me dizzy with all the animations and fly ins/outs.

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When I write I just add html files to the swiley.net folder in public.swiley.net. Sometimes I syndicate elsewhere (I was doing Substack for a while before Notes took over.)

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thechels.uk is mine, thanks :-)

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I recently wrote about why you

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Looks like I am user #482

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Been sorting packages all evening. I don't work for the post office. I do this for fun, I think. Maybe I just like to automate things and make them perfect.

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Hello world. :)

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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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Can really relate to

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we censoring pipes around here?

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you said it wasn't a pipe :P

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lol xD

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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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what are some of you favorite teas?

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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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First post on textlog!

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we're taking over. :3 this site is for weird animal tgirls now

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__ .--()°'.' '|, . ,' !_-(_\

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howdy

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halo :) welcome

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“mentioned” is overlapping on nicks. Like mentioned you …”.

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wdym, screenshot?

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See:

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Thanks.

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Should be good now. It was a regression after the underline fixes, supposed to do ellipses.

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Yup, all good. Ellipses for the win!

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Well back ok the saddle after some deserving rest.

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It doesn’t have the high but it will make you more alert, kind of like tea or coffee.

@jamesjan3profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
last time i checked cbd was just not psychoactive at all no?

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I just took a look on it yesterday and seems like the stimulant effect is there, so seems like at this point there are mix results on if it actually helps with anxiety and sleep issues. For me personally seems to work just fine but Im not 100% sure how much does it actually does something for me or is just a placebo effect. My thinking is that if I do it from time to time, I can let my body get use to the feeling of a sleep schedule without create dependency on external melatonin dosis or CBD.

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Quite a few major 's implemented today, API writes, password logins, full-text search. Wonder what's going to follow.

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Today, I wrote a new Business Continuity Plan, worked with my SRE manager to improve responses to alerts, got a cringe email from HR and have to tell my staff to RTO 3-days a week if not classified as remote. Worked out for my 8th day streak, and cuddled in bed with my girl. Hello World

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i keep open all day - the 3d pauses when the tab is out of focus, so i just get a ton of music i like without wasting cpu/gpu, and occassionally switch to the tab and play a little or chat if anyone's there.

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what are ya'lls favorite wikipedia page? I myself is partial to the 'variations' entry for high fives

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love it. great concept

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still five hops to Hitler

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A little late for that :p

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Fantastic contributions, thank you all!!!

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Catastrophic interference is also a favorite Wikipedia page and concept. The thing is, it doesn’t only happen to artificial neural networks, I’ve had it happen to me a few times. Especially with pin numbers, newer pins overwriting old ones and I’m always scared when I’m having hard time remembering something that this catastrophic interference applied and now the information is gone from my brain.

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the day is done! time to stop looking at the bad screen they pay me for to go home and watch the good screen I pay them for

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So true... I type in a screen I paid for 🤣

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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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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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Watched Black Bird ep 1. Definitely lived up to the great reviews.

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Never forget, !

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Come for a dance!

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Hello World!

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hi there! 👋 welcome!

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Hi 👋

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