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work week is finally over. time to over this long (US) weekend

What you playing? My recent was Mina the Hollower—intricate, dense, demanding. Bangers on the soundtrack. Good stuff.

ive been making my way through monster hunter world's iceborne expansion. lots of fun mina the hollower is near the top of my list to play soon, have fun!

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programmer emergency: production is down. You change absolutely nothing and restart the server. It works. What did you fix?

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Hello World 👋

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At a philosophical level, can we have nice things?

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I want this expanded and enacted by one of those guys doing Jordan Peterson impersonations :D

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And kermit the frog sardonically

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I think yes, but precisely NOT "at a philosophical level". You can have it only if you get your hands dirty and build it yourself. I think already proved this, just as a close example.

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entropy says no

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If speaking on a philosophical level, then first we have to ask: what’s “nice” and what’s “to have” 👀

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If you consider what you have nice, you can have nice things. If your expectations to your surroundings are very very low, you will be amazed with all the nice things you get from people you meet through your day. My personal approach.

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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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굿 아담.

Good Adam.

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Sipping Choya’s ウメッシュ　ノンアルコル。😋

Sipping Choya's Umeshu (plum wine), non-alcoholic. 😋

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What’s up ?

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hey! welcome :)

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hey bro, nice platfrom! whats the stack?

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Thanks! It's server-side React with Bun and SQLite. There is zero frontend JS!

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Cool!! I'm currently designing and idea-shopping for an ultra light weight, super aesthetic browser whose goal is to go back to HTML roots and just be a "document browser". It would have HTML 4 and semantic HTML support, images, videos, full HTTP support, cookies, etc. No CSS, JS

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whats the stack? nice platfrom you got here

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

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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?

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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.

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How old is textlog?

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Onboarded on Claude Team with Unlimited credit usage. In the first day, subscription limits were hit and then it silently went on spending 530 EUR in credits before I noticed.

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In a single day? That’s insane. It’s 5 months on the 100$ Codex which is practically unlimited.

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In a few hours, yes. Token-based pricing is insane.

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I knew token-based was more expensive but didn’t imagine that much. Which is why u can’t compete making alternative coding agents, their own subscriptions are much cheaper, but why they do it on their own Teams package is weird. Maybe targetting companies they feel they can pay.

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Yes, that's for enterprises, that want SSO, governance, budgeting, data protection, etc etc. For C-level they are interested in "how much do we pay for AI", and with personal subscriptions you can't answer => can't manage it. This 530 EUR is the price for that learning.

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Yes 🙌 the authoring box first thing. Before I get distracted. Heck, make writing something down how I get distracted from reading others' posts.

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Added it as a company on LinkedIn so it must be 'live' now. Cheltenham-od.uk

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moved to a new city recently and going to a Movie club meetup tonight. nervous cause I'm a huge introvert but I gotta make friends some way.

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How did it go?

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It went really well, thanks for asking! I met some folks I could definitely get along with long term and had some overlapping interests apart from films. We watched T**** Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, that was a trip. (there's apparently a content filter)

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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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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.

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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.

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