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met someone at a book club I went to for the first time today and invited them over for an evening bowl, cool to talk tech to another techy especially one familiar with llms at not just a surface level

"Your outie can use Claude."

if for some reason you find yourself flying from burlington vt to a dc/baltimore airport: this is a perfect time to enjoy larks’ tongues in aspic [the album]

The mental shape of a programming language resurfaces, and my mind craves writing programs in it. Array languages, concatenative, Lisps, Smalltalks.

Experiences of life spring from the contrasts.

Why was the math textbook sad? revealBecause it had too many problems.

HelloWorld show code

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
formatted_time = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
print("Formatted:", formatted_time)

Wow

Formatted: 2026-08-28 07:22:42

Huge items in the plus column for Quebec City: lots of music stores, and lots of shops where you can buy a really good chef's knife.

Still running but already look deceptive. Fck that

Nothing works ffs

such a real thread. godspeed

created a poll:

, do you have warnings as enabled at ? How is your so far?

yes0%

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0 voted

whats the point of url shorteners in 2026

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

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

Ah, the randomly generated ones. Yeah, agreed.

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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Counting clicks, although probably not all that accurate with bot clicks

Also Short.io gives you a sub domain which is pretty nice adamspaul.short.gy/notes

Everytime I come on here I feel so dumb compared to everyone -_- mostly because I didn't come here from GitHub or any other major site like it .. :P

I literally came here because I saw the app on F-droid, I didn't even know this app existed until then.

Any advantages in using the app instead of having the site as a PWA on Android?

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I don't see any, this is just how I found out about the app and use it.

I've never used f droid until getting the app! does it have any other cool apps? :O

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Absolutely! There are many FOSS apps as alternatives to closed ones, I have it on every phone.

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.

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.

i was under the impression life expectancy has been steadily increasing over the last century, where are these quotes from? and which date?

That said, in Canada working class started loosing life expentancy for the 3rd year in a row, and WHO figures show a decline in improvement of life expentancy globally. But hey, I am just a no-one on the internet spewing bs :)

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?

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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Isn't the medical advancements in preventive medicine and accessibility to healthcare increases the life expectancy?

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.

just finished the book “This is what inequality looks like” by Teo You Yenn. will gather my thoughts and write more about it.

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

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

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Too true.

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..

I’m using textlog to explore the intersection of and tech, with the goal of building an app that solves a problem in this space. Named , it's word represented as a hex color. Of all the words there, it is a cocoa-ish color and is an appropriate name for this idea.

Anyone on here fed up with their investment advisor? Interested to hear your frustrations.

We almost had one, but stopped after the main setup but before signing on. Wasn't convinced of the value. Seemed like they were just doing portfolio reallocation for a pretty penny. What are you experiencing?

Had one for ~8 years. Talked to them maybe 10 times, and they only ever did basic indexing w some tax loss harvesting. We should have just self managed.