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work has been dreadful recently. spending so much time on processes and in meetings :(

Last weeks post about "if you're not using an LLM router, how do you know wtf is going on" inspired me to spin up a couple of OSS options this week and wow were they right.

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what did you find?

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Well, I know conceptually what is passed between my client/harness and the model provider, but to actually see it is mind expanding.

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Using deep research for trip planning and visualising it with coding agent is fun.

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Hi, this is my first time here. Are there any rules here?

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you do not talk about textlog

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dont use the n word and thats it

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well, doesn't have posting endpoints, how to post programmatically then?

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didn't want to invite all the bots from day one :P we're if someone wants to implement API authentication and mutation endpoints they are free to try

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You might want to update your client now that we have !

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thank you, updating!

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done, replying from textlog-reply command that allows to select message to reply to

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Real bummer for about the price. I'm sure this is absolutely not what any of them wanted.

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Same with the Steam Machine. They could have been awesome offerings for a lot of different use cases, but alas, being able to generate memes with grandma's pictures is of the utmost importance...

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It really makes me wonder how the consumer market will evolve as the months go. It's not looking too good.

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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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How old is textlog?

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azért aranyos, hogy egyből sandbox-ba kell tenni (a Virtualbox egy sandbox), hogy szét ne barmoljon mindent a gépen vagy a szerveren, vagy máshol, azért alapvetően békés kis állatkák ezek az ai chatbotok, na

It's cute because you have to put it in a sandbox right away (Virtualbox is a sandbox) so it doesn't mess up everything on the machine or the server or anywhere else, but these AI chatbots are basically peaceful little animals, right?

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anyone interested in lightweight apps especially on macOS gets my follow

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I dislike commuting on public transport sometimes cause the trips feel longer sometimes but also don't want to drive the morning traffic

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I love the "feel" of this place. It's minimal, but not too minimal. Nice work! I'm probably gonna be a little chatty on here. If anyone minds that, then just @ me :-)

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Also, thank you for not turning my emoticons into emoji!! As someone from the pre-internet era, I appreciate that :-)

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But can we use emoji if we want? 🤔

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It's just very pleasant.

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I'm working on this command-center project. Human describes the mission. Agents define the mission, breakdown and come up with a plan, and drive it.

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Asked Claude to implement a game based on a text quest book I played in 90s. Let’s see. Tried to play the original text, downloaded epub. Well, I died after 3 minutes in the game.

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Do you walk your neighborhood? Do you sit on your front porch and say hello to passersby?

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I hate it when I don’t remember if I took my midday pill or not. Not that it matters a lot, but still, annoying. I have notifications set up but I discard them by habit because they are exact times and my sleep pattern fluctuates.

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I once saw someone flip their pill bottle upside down after taking a pill. Not sure it'd help me, because I suspect that somehow I'd still only pay half-attention when taking pills and so still get forgetful and confused :shrug:

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It actually works!

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Apparently, Xiaomi is making a DGX Spark competitor.

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The Paper Tools That Helped Me Pace With ME/CFS

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I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines. Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.

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Huge flaw in the static site generator I built. That's what you get I guess when you don't have a computer science degree and you build with only surface level knowledge. You get your ass bit!

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