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there's no fundamental physical limit that prevents silicon from developing taste and judgement, but language is a lossy compression of reality. taste comes from experience, from the shadowy mass of episodic memory, which swirls and convects at the boundary of consciousness. the ideas recombine into new ones in the nuclear reactor of the hippocampus. but no matter how imbued with meaning and expertise is a handmade wardrobe we still get our shit from ikea

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Built a couple lambdas today to send account verification and onboarding drip emails for folks who sign up for my app but don’t make it all the way through the onboarding flow. Pretty cool to be able to quickly bang out self-contained infra for this instead of having to pay some SaaS vendor.

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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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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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Just finished reading The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. I highly recommend it.

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Is there anybody writing spanish here?

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看到其他文章有自動翻譯，我覺得很酷

I think it's really cool to see other articles with automatic translation.

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所以我來嘗試一下自動翻譯的文章功能，但發現自動翻譯只有在瀏覽器上，行動裝置要自己手動按翻譯功能。

So I tried the automatic article translation feature, but found that automatic translation only works in the browser; on mobile devices, you have to manually press the translation button.

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just started using yazi and immediately love it. dont know why i ever put up with gui file explorers

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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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I’m getting seafood today yumm yum

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A show code

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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对于整个互联网历史，我可说基本上是一个旁观者，我一直在消费内容，但是没有生产过什么内容，互联网上没有我的痕迹，这是意外后果，因为中国的身份和内容政策

Regarding the entire history of the internet, I can say I've been largely an observer. I've always consumed content, but I haven't produced any. There's no trace of me on the internet, which is an unforeseen consequence due to China's identity and content policies.

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我不太明白中国的“防火长城”是怎么运作的。比如说，你到底是怎么访问这个网站的？（我是在通过翻译软件和你交流。）

I don't quite understand how China's "Great Firewall" works. For example, how exactly did you access this website? (I'm communicating with you through translation software.)

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Hmm, its a ticking time bomb then.... what do you need to say and need help with?

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If anyone can give me a ProtonMail or Tutanota email account, I would be extremely grateful. I have no way to receive verification codes.

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You can send it to the temporary email: sl5n215ahf@lnovic.com, thanks

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I've received it. Unfortunately, I'm in China and can't access ProtonMail, but I still want to say thank you very much.

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As a homeless person without an ID, I don't have any way to pay for a VPN. Also, using a VPN to access the internet in China without government permission is illegal.

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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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I often wish I had the ability to pause my main quest so I could focus more on side questing.

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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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Sharing a link to my music blog: crusty-metallian.net Not a lot of content yet, it's a work in progress :)

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Big list of events you've attended! Definitely dump more photos when you find the time. I'm more of a casual Nu-Metal enjoyer myself, but I can also appreciate some of the classics.

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It's taken me 5 years to get a photo storage engine off the ground. I've got it now, so I now have to go back through time and get the photos up. AC/DC next Thursday!

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My new favorite little script: echo freeze > /sys/power/state Quickly suspends the laptop until I press the power button again for 1 second. This eliminates a miniscule (but still annoying) motherboard noise that was leaking to my speakers whenever I needed to take a . sensitivities…

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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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