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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later.

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I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.

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was feeling a little fancy, bought a bag of gesha coffee beans :))

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For the first time in a couple of year, I wove a rattan basket today, and the best part is it only took two hours when I was expecting it to take all day

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hallo, whirled

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But I already have a first note

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what happened? you might saw a cached page

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az interneten nem lehet egy képet sem átméretezni, sem Windows alatt, a Grok is csak hozzávetőlegesen dolgozik, mi következik ebből, muszáj lesz beengedni Gemmát, mintha Linus Thorvalds a napokban panaszkodott volna, hogy a Linuxot is elárasztotta az ai

You can't resize an image on the internet, not even under Windows, Grok only works roughly, what follows from this, we'll have to let Gemma in, as if Linus Thorvalds had complained the other day that Linux was also flooded with AI

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I naively went into a work problem thinking that RAG was solved by the service offered at work, and wow was I wrong. Been a fun week so far experimenting with many different methods before doing the academic research, and it's been nice to be validated by outside research.

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Unliking an little-known song on Spotify and ceremoniously saying final goodbyes, knowing you'll likely never hear it again in your life

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What if AI will never reach full autonomy and humans are still needed to give direction and purpose and take responsibility - probably... not all humans like to be masters of AIs all day long and not all (who want to) can do that equally well.

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theres going to need to be a human or company to hold accountable when something goes wrong

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Quite a few major 's implemented today, API writes, password logins, full-text search. Wonder what's going to follow.

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Switched from gpg to age, because pinentry sucks. With age I set both of my Mac’s security enclaves + software private key (stored in Passwords.app) + yubikey for hardware backup. Looks good.

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𐑲𐑝 𐑚𐑰𐑯 𐑦𐑯𐑕𐑐𐑲𐑼𐑛 𐑑 𐑒𐑫𐑒 𐑥𐑹 ·𐑡𐑨𐑐𐑩𐑯𐑰𐑟 𐑓𐑵𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑕𐑴 𐑓 𐑛𐑦𐑯𐑼 𐑲 𐑥𐑱𐑛 𐑕𐑨𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑑𐑧𐑮𐑦𐑘𐑭𐑒𐑰, 𐑥𐑰𐑕𐑴 𐑕𐑵𐑐, 𐑮𐑲𐑕, 𐑯 𐑐𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤𐑟. I’ve been inspired to cook more Japanese food lately so for dinner I made salmon teriyaki, miso soup, rice, and pickles.

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I am trying to learn emacs for the fun of it. The tutorial is brilliant and clear. Any tips that would help me learning more things. I know all I need is practice but if you may have used it, you may know a thing or two.

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Looks like I am user #482

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Never realized how much slow builds kill morale until I have to do multiple back to back 😔

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Nobody is complaining to me because I think they know they will be "voluntold" if they speak up 🤣🤣🤣

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It's Monday. Coffee is barely working and so am I.

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