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profilefollowHow wonderful to be alivewrote:
Last year I wasn't feeling too good. I turned forty, waited for surgery, and was hurt by my own colleagues. So I dealt with things. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability. One of the consequences was that I got a bit heavy. My body changed, and I didn't feel like myself. It was a problem for future me. So now I am here with this little belly of mine. We're not enemies, but I decided it's time to part ways. So I count calories. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability.
profilefollowHow wonderful to be alivereplied to😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
Thank you! Almost back to baseline now, after a few months. trigger warning, eating disorders: I sometimes forget to log what I eat in my app of course, but what is perhaps slightly nore disturbing is the fact that I sometimes log stuff and then forget to actually eat them. Some sort of Baudrillardian simulacrum of eating.
🥷profilefollowSoftware engineer. [Reluctant] Salesforce dev. Salesforce’s biggest hater. stephenlf.devstephenlf.devImportant Thingswrote:
What’s the difference between a script-kiddy and a real #developernotesfollow? Abstraction. You can program your whole life without learning how to meaningfully abstract problems into simpler pieces that TRULY make the problem easier to understand. I’m not talking about design patterns or #OOPnotesfollow vs #FPnotesfollow. These tools can help. But to really simplify something for others, you need an intellectual empathy that many simply never figure out.
🧑‍🚀profilefollowнυмαηwrote:
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profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlywrote:
Writing. I want to do it, very badly. I just don't want to be bad at it. You have to be bad at it in order to get good at it. But... Catch 22 isn't it?
profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
I think reading helps quite a bit, especially writing about what you’ve read, even to yourself, just so you can go through the process of having to explain something that you’re only recently familiar with. There’s something about that process that seems to be helpful, at least to me.
🤡profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
Same. The way I consume information influences how I think. Short form content makes my thinking fragmented without a clear structure. I feel that fragmented thinking won't lead to convincing writing. And I'm trying to regain some of that lost control.
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlyreplied to🤡profilefollow:
Very interesting! I think something along those lines might be happening for me too. Another aspect, always cooking in the back of my mind, "if you can't explain it well, don't explain it at all."
🧜profilefollowrunner. making games and software.replied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
The fear of being bad at it is the only thing holding you back. I experienced something like that with playing music with others. Perhaps you could learn to lay down your critical brain during the creation process and that good/bad isn't a useful distinction until later when you're editing your work.
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlyreplied to🧜profilefollowrunner. making games and software.:
Yeah, this is pretty much what I can't do. My critical brain has a lot of power. It's very evolved at this point :/
🤔profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
Hello, everyone. I am @kuprofilefollowHai I am ku how are you? Today is Friday. Welcome to my text log.
🤔profilefollowHai I am kureplied to(deleted account):
Hi 👋
Using deep research for trip planning and visualising it with coding agent is fun.
🙈profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerswrote:
Well, I think my IRCd (Eris v2) is close to be complete.
didn't want to invite all the bots from day one :P we're #open_sourcenotesfollow if someone wants to implement API authentication and mutation endpoints they are free to try github.com/stagas/textlogGitHubGitHub - stagas/textlog: textlog.cctextlog.cc. Contribute to stagas/textlog development by creating an account on GitHub.
Came from /post/2059
Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid. #meta
. I like the design.
Applied to an L5 software engineering role via e-mail and without any other contact I received back a bunch of questions that clearly look like they're aimed at L6 or even L7. Not sure what to do with that so I withdrew. Briefly considered answering them but was weirded out.
profilefollowdeveloper stereotype: music lover, gamer, and failed artistwrote:
everytime i see projects like this, i think that a rss implementation it wolud be so cool. Although iknow that there is not that much rss lover out there haha
profilefollowprogrammerwrote:
shower thought: swap 'is a model' for 'is constructed' and postmodernism suddenly becomes a lot more palatable without losing much of its core message. #philosophynotesfollow
profilefollowwrote:
I think more than 50% of our economy's businesses, are cosplaying. Not in it for customers or profit; in it for investors and investments. "Looking like a business", as your real line of work.
I've never thought of something like OF as gambling. But I guess your point is that young adults are pushed to a lot of "you have a 0.1% chance of hitting it big and a 99.9% chance of getting no online traction at all" types of careers?
Yeah, no point in investing in yourself or a real sustainable long-term future, just gamble the little you have for a shot at life above the line. Barbell economy.
profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied toprofilefollow:
a business loan is not an investment, it is debt financing that pays back with interest. An investment means putting money into a company to gain ownership or a share of future profits. to me it feels like youre arguing against cosplaying, showing small businesses struggle and arent just playing boss for the funzies.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
profilefollowSoftware engineer in training. I like programming, fitness and the sky.wrote:
#programmingnotesfollow with the power of AI is worth migrate the frontend to a monolithic django backend?
profilefollowi write instruction for computer to follow. i'm a software engineer.wrote:
how do i know my user id? i created by account 5hr after #launchnotesfollow. im user # what?
profilefollowNew herewrote:
We have 27 chickens right now, 18 of which are new this year and are just starting to lay in the last few weeks. I have collected 13 eggs today so far.
🧜profilefollowrunner. making games and software.replied toprofilefollow:
94c water, pour over, generous amounts of beans, a little warmed milk. For me it's the best flavor!
🤔profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
Never realized how much slow builds kill morale until I have to do multiple back to back 😔
🤔profilefollowHai I am kucontinued:
Nobody is complaining to me because I think they know they will be "voluntold" if they speak up 🤣🤣🤣
😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
So much present tense in #ainotesfollow generated prose. Terse, authoritative sentences, without breathing room, without hesitation or qualification. It jumps off the page, and not in a good way.
profilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
What about the lack of density to paragraphs, the length of the sentences, or the confidence and determinism of their direction? Conviction with no limits. So reliably repetitive that you start seeing patterns as if you are looking and reading a record player with some scratches on it. Skips. Squeaks. Repeats. Yet. It gets the job done.
😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.replied toprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:
Yet. It gets the job done. Here's where we disagree. Using these tools as part of the job, certainly. But if I am to read, discern meaning, analyze choices of diction and structure, consider the context both of the author and the audience, and finally derive value from the written word, then generative #ainotesfollow falls short on many levels. If the "job" is to produce something no one was ever intending to engage with, then we have a more fundamental question about the value of the job.
Hitting a workout streak. I started using ladder app and have been consistent for the last two weeks. Three years ago I was 75 lbs heavier. Now trying to build muscle. Sitting and staring at a screen all day… I did that a bit too much ;)
🧜profilefollowrunner. making games and software.replied to🥰profilefollow:
Nice work! Working out, once I got into it, was always the fun part. Eating healthy remains a challenge...
😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.replied to🥰profilefollow:
Congrats! New habits are tough to form, wishing you success in keeping bad weight off and putting some muscle on!
🤔profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
One idea that I've been thinking about is an #Androidnotesfollow or #iPhonenotesfollow #appnotesfollow where it is a #journalingnotesfollow app so you get a new file everyday right except the app keeps track of all the files for you. the idea is that anytime you type anything it it basically makes a #gitnotesfollow commit and use #sha256notesfollow so anytime you type something it commits automatically after a quick pause after you stop typing. #codingnotesfollow #automationnotesfollow #devnotesfollow
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearwrote:
🐉 #execnotesfollow let N=6,D0=[0,1,0,-1],D1=[1,0,-1,0],s=[],g={},d=x=y=xa=xb=ya=yb=0; for(let n=0;n<N;n++){s=s.concat([1]).concat(s.map(x=>!x).reverse())} for(let i=0;i<s.length;i++) { x<xa && (xa=x);y<ya && (ya=y);x>xb && (xb=x);y>yb && (yb=y); let t=s[i]?1:-1,e=(d+t+4)%4; g[x]||(g[x]={}); g[x][y]=g[x][y]?"┼":"┌┐└┘"[(t*(D0[d]+D0[e])>0?0:2)+(t*(D1[d]+D1[e])>0?0:1)]; x+=D0[e];y+=D1[e];d=e; } for(j=yb;j>=ya;j--) { let u=""; for(i=xa;i<=xb;i++){u+=(g[i][j]||"·")} console.log(u); }
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profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearcontinued:
OK, so you only get 10 lines of output. (I tried to get ChatGPT to write this program but it kept messing up, so I wrote it by hand.)
😌profilefollowI ain't no nothing!wrote:
At a philosophical level, can we have nice things?
👹profilefollowreplied to😌profilefollowI ain't no nothing!:
If speaking on a philosophical level, then first we have to ask: what’s “nice” and what’s “to have” 👀
🥷profilefollowreplied to😌profilefollowI ain't no nothing!:
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. #simplelifenotesfollow
我在中国是一个准脱离政府掌控者,基于身份的一切活动我都不参与,比如正式工作和网购。我也为此付出巨大代价,我的选择空间被极大压缩,行动能力损失严重。我只能通过少量免费wifi访问互联网
In China, I am practically independent of the government; I don't participate in any activities based on my status, such as formal work or online shopping. I've paid a heavy price for this; my choices have been severely limited, and my mobility has been significantly impaired. I can only access the internet through limited free Wi-Fi.
Well this looks very nice indeed. Just dipping a hoof into the river for now ...
profilefollowGot my head in the clouds right now.wrote:
Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today
😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
I read larsfaye.com/…/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertiselarsfaye.comAI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars FayeThe need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation. #llmnotesfollow 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.
中国的开源模型在最高意志的主导下,在预训练数据阶段,就筛除大量对其不利的内容,sft阶段构建的数据掺入大量替其辩护的内容。急需一个纠偏数据集用于微调
Under the overarching influence of a single, powerful force, China's open-source models filter out a large amount of content unfavorable to their designs during the pre-training stage, and then incorporate a significant amount of content defending their designs into the data constructed during the SFT stage. A corrective dataset is urgently needed for fine-tuning.
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
Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.
profilefollowwrote:
日本語話者はどれくらいいるんだろう。ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろう
I wonder how many Japanese speakers there are. Is it okay to keep posting in Japanese here?
ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろう サイト作成者はさまざまの言語の話者が一緒に話せる場面にしたい気がする /post/1045
Are there any plans to filter by language? What will happen when people start posting in several languages? #meta
I wonder if it's okay to keep posting in Japanese here. I get the feeling the site creator wants this to be a place where speakers of various languages can talk together. /post/1045
Are there any plans to filter by language? What will happen when people start posting in several languages? #meta
😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
Maybe neither of us will ever know when this was written. Live.
😊profilefollowDesigner, no-code maker of stuffreplied to😊profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
It’s easy, just add your own timestamp to posts 2:35 am Tuesday, 25 August 2026 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied to😊profilefollowDesigner, no-code maker of stuff:
No one would ever misuse this convention. This post was written on Thursday, 26 November 2009, 16:05 UTC+3:00
profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.:
This is how one accidentally encourages the creation of timehash services which vend cryptographically provable timestamps....
🤔profilefollowHai I am kureplied to(deleted account):
Good morning to you both 🌞
profilefollowreplied to🤔profilefollowHai I am ku:
ok too far. I'm SWATing this guy.
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to🦛profilefollow:
Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".
🦛profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.
🤔profilefollowHai I am kuwrote:
The live tab on the android app is interesting... How does it work? This is a test 🫣
🤔profilefollowHai I am kucontinued:
Does it do some kind of polling? Is there some kind of notify like publisher subscriber? 🤔
It’s using the /firehose /apitextlogAPIA quieter place for your thoughts. endpoint. It’s an SSE endpoint publishing everything latest. Though I meant it to be used server-side, since it’s heavily rate-limited — up to 3 conns under the same network, but I can’t control how clients decide to use it so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
profilefollowEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.wrote:
Microsoft Word Online (web version) is horrible.
🦛profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.:
It was the only way to reproduce the authentic horrible experience of the offline version.
profilefollowEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.replied to🦛profilefollow:
🤣 Did not remember the offline version being this bad, but maybe it went downhill in the past 5 years I have not used it.
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied toprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.:
I never used the online version, but the last time I used the offline version it already was a horrible experience. This was about 5 years ago, before I had moved entirely to Linux. It was so bad I downloaded a pirated version of some old MS Office 2007 Blue Edition to have something acceptable. I unironically prefer Libre Office.
😈profilefollowco-founder of textlogwrote:
The strange thing about modern loneliness is that everyone is technically available.
profilefollowreplied to😈profilefollowco-founder of textlog:
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..
Do you walk your neighborhood? Do you sit on your front porch and say hello to passersby?
به نام خداوند جان آفرین
In the name of God, the Giver of Life.
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearwrote:
one more step. just a moment. attention required! enable javascript and cookies to continue. verifying the security of your connection. your browsing activity has been paused. content unavailable in your region. 429 too many requests. 403 forbidden. connection has timed out.
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied toprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
The future is here. But instead of flying cars or holodeck, what you get is tracking cookies and captcha everywhere. Maybe someday you will need to have your rectum scanned by Google or Meta nee Facebook before your browser does a HTTP request.
Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propaganda—it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.
🙈profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerswrote:
A “small” visit to Lotte, and $239 later, we are enjoying rambutans, sticky rice with tuna wrapped in seaweed, and wife struggles to make room for the rest of the goodies.