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The rise of postmodern cuisine: "The beverage's photogenic bright green color proved particularly well-suited to social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, helping it gain viral popularity among wellness enthusiasts and influencers." (Wikipedia, "Matcha")

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Feather to paper that's moon inked for you -- a greeting from somewhere. It isn't for you. But it will be for you.

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we're taking over. :3 this site is for weird animal tgirls now

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Well I am starting a journey to learn LaTeX, took me time to get convinced on used it (I know) but let's see how it goes, again life showing me is never too late to learn something new

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We now support it here, see

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Introduced an MCP server this morning for the app I'm working on (getonmain.com), based on a user request. Curious to see how/if folks use it.

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Currently it provides a single read-only tool that lets agents fetch all the data in Main about the user's home (details about the home itself, systems/appliances, documents, any repairs they've logged). I think it could get interesting once we provide additional tools for logging repairs, upgrades, and more into the home's memory.

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Compared to other apps which all build their own AI chat features, I wonder if the move could be to cede ground on this arms race and focus on building other features that add value for our users. Feels like a "commoditize your complement" situation.

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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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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.)

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Are rose colored glasses pink?

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are pink coloured glasses rose?

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im starting to really like the lack of timestamps

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Looking at the list of domain names bought over the years: Ah yes my idea graveyard.

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Are you planning to let it all go?

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Never, I'll slowly get around to building them.

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sometimes I can feel the nerve endings on the ends of my fingers and it hurts really bad! my fault though, I am a serial nailbiter..

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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.

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Things I'm enjoying lately: Vampire Survivors + Diablo IV Alien + Dune ambiance Howling Dark book 2 of Sun Eater great TV

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turns out the power of exclamation mark thing in bash is bigger than !$ and !!. i learned a few tricks from , worth reading!

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Haircut💇

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I HEARD A GREAT HORNED OWL. one of my birding goals is to see any owl outside a zoo. I just moved here and the lack of birds near our home has made me sad. but hearing this owl was such a fun surprise tonight.

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That’s awesome. There’s an owl (don’t know type) that hangs out at the playground in our neighborhood at night. First time I saw it, I stood frozen in place, amazed that it would be out in the open. Then as I walked away, I kept looking behind me, realizing I’d never hear it coming if it decided to engage 🦉

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Merlin Bird ID is magical. Put it in your pocket for the next encounter. If anything, you'll have your phone out ready to throw like a stone in the event you have to roll a die to evade and attack.

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Thanks for the tip! you'll have your phone out ready to throw like a stone😂

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being a student is great but the tasks are really quite boring. ive worked in academia now a little bit and its genuinely much more fun to work on something real, read papers, do experiments and write. Now i have these last few exams to get through and i cant care for them like i used to.

created a poll:

Best OS?

Windows0%

MacOS38%

Linux63%

16 voted

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Results are back! 16 voted, Linux won! 🥳

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setting up some of my workflows based on this writeup - ludwigabap.com/…/on-my-personal-…of-the-tools-i-use/ Particularly a big fan of zellij amongst others Also venturing into having agents enable more of my work - let us see how that goes.

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