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Someone can create enormous value while their manager controls the narrative around that value. Conversely, a manager can conceal structural problems because the people capable of exposing them depend on that same manager for evaluation and promotion

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It is evident that the use of AI in the workplace has had an immense impact on the awareness and mental capabilities of knowledge workers

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Hello World 👋

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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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Had a little help from Claude to fix a bug in my NNW themes - to embed youtube videos directly in the theme. meaning NNW can now be my video player of choice from YT's RSS feeds directly. thechels.uk/…/nnw-theme-bundle-release-f3749adf9d58

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I wonder If I can just rant here?

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Feel free.

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Nice username. It could be worth a lot someday. 😊

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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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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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New in agenttop.dev : panels open in your . 🤹‍♂️ • Any panel can now split into its own pane, live, beside the table. • Works with all the popular multiplexers: , , 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘆. • run a panel on its own: agent-top mcp, agent-top slow, agent-top fails, agent-top advice. ➕ The # MCP panel also lists the orphaned MCP processes that outlived their agent and are still eating memory.

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𐑔𐑮𐑰 𐑓 𐑔𐑮𐑰 𐑪𐑯 ·𐑚𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑦𐑖 𐑛𐑦𐑖𐑩𐑟 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑢𐑰𐑒𐑧𐑯𐑛: 𐑣𐑨𐑛 𐑩 𐑓𐑫𐑤 ·𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖 𐑯 𐑩 𐑐𐑲 (𐑮𐑨𐑚𐑦𐑑) 𐑘𐑨𐑕𐑑𐑼𐑛𐑱, 𐑯𐑬 𐑑 𐑛𐑵 𐑨 𐑚𐑰𐑓 𐑮𐑴𐑕𐑑. 𐑤𐑳𐑝𐑤𐑰 𐑯 𐑒𐑷𐑟𐑰 𐑦𐑯 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑷𐑑𐑳𐑥𐑯𐑩𐑤 𐑢𐑨𐑞𐑼. Three for three on British dishes this weekend: had a full English and a pie (rabbit) yesterday, now to do a beef roast. Lovely and cozy in this autumnal weather.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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hi

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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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Hola

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