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Hello, world

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Q: What’s a dog’s favorite part of the opera? A: The ARRRRRRRRR-ia!

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This joke also works with pirates.

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Useful software necessarily contacts the world; models are already better than us at finding and poking holes in it; agents sacrificing themselves for a collective. Huggingface incident has me finally Yudkowsky-panic-curious.

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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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vibing

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same

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My first post on Twitter in 2007 or so was kinda about the utility of broadcasting what was on my mind. :)

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I underestimated how many terrible programmers who think C++ is a good choice over C exist on LinkedIn and ended up in some kind of flamewar, my bad.

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故事的开头总是这样，适逢其会，猝不及防。故事的结局总是这样，花开两朵，天各一方。（by 张嘉佳《从你的全世界路过》）

Stories always begin this way: a chance encounter, completely unexpected. Stories always end this way: two flowers bloom, then drift apart. (by Zhang Jiajia, I Belonged to You)

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hey y'all! this is the first post!

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What have you wrought?

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hiii congrats on the launch :)

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tysm! welcome :)

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You look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress from work. He takes care of his family. Capitalism

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Likewise... you look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress for lack of work, or food, or future. He wants to take care of his family. Communism. We haven’t figured out yet. Maybe we never will.

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How did all the tech oligarchs seem to go fash so quickly?

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The essential work of is building the theory of the problem + solution. Theory then enables creation of working code. In the end, the code is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Theory is indispensable. (cf. Peter Naur, 1985)

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taking a week off to stave off burnout, catch up on some reading and writing and small projects, and finish Ocarina of Time. also will make soup

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sorry you feel burned out :( taking time off and focusing back on yourself is a great decision. hope you feel better!

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Thank you!

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A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent.

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Here's a follow up from last night: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-05-fine-tuning-…tiny-retriever.html This has been a great way for me to learn in this space. Learning with AI has been such a fun time for me.

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"Your outie can use Claude."

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I like old cars

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Welp, I guess it's time to start a tag for that! may be too on the nose perhaps.

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no tag for me thank you, my thoughts are free range

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Ikea has rules for naming products (so in theory, you could figure out what it is from the name) -> www.ikea.com/…/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-…545a3948dc79.html

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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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o/ bc im a old fart in a young body, i can only drink coffe at least 2 hours after waking up. So no until 10am

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I laughed at this. I'm all for people crafting their own tools, but it really feels like everyone's reinventing the same handful of wheels for agentic development.

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In terms of where I invest my time, I'm trying to find ways to zig while everyone's myopically zagging.

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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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Why did the programmer quit his job? revealBecause he didn’t get arrays.

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uncensored Qwen and OpenClaw a prompt and pray there is no flaw

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Was prompting Claude via remote control on my phone in btwn sets at the gym this morning. I use , so my wife kept hearing a StarCraft SCV periodically reporting "job's finished" from my office 😆

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I am so terrified of Claude code. I use the chat and copy paste stuff myself 😭😭😭

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What kind of olive oil do you like? I am not big on the peppery stuffs

@saturnine🤠profilefollowtalkingwrote:
Bought some delicious olive oil.

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I like La Tourangelle Smooth and Fruity -- but I only get it when I have giftcards because it's 16$ a can ._.

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it is delicious on vanilla ice cream though. Just a bit.

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Watched Black Bird ep 1. Definitely lived up to the great reviews.

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Noice Froggos make everything better.

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Any runners on here? I mostly consider myself a trail runner, but of course train on roads, too. Good for 1–2 races/year, more into running as a practice, a way to manage stress and stay fit.

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5 min/km is pretty quick, as far as I'm concerned! My easy/forever pace is more like 8:30–9 min/mile right now.

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Hell yeah

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Better for your knees, too :)

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

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🤯

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

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Too true.

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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..

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The inaugural, proverbial first post. Seems like a lovely service here.

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The proverbial first post should have been “hello world”. :-P You are the first rustacean I come across!

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LOL! Good point:)

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I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces. Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity. Hypertext is fascinating.

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Is mayonnaise an instrument?

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if used in a certain way, yes

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What about horseradish?

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prefer the tone of wasabi, cleaner notes

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Most of programs use key chords, like Cmd-Shift-G, Ctrl-Alt-N and so on, you need to remember and press awkwardly several keys at once. uses key sequences, C-c then k then p then l. If I forget after C-c k p then press C-h and help appears.

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good y'all ! time

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Having a little difficulty seeing how long this service will exist. People are terrible. Sooner or later it will be found and ruined.

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Yup. I have long change my philosophy on things like these: just live the day. :-)

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Textboard lasted for years and I think it only went away because the admin got bored.

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I love the idea. I do miss the early twitter vibes.

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I like the minimalism of this site, very well done imo. It is more engaging.

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Appreciate it, thank you!

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took me until now to learn described images with low-cost models > attaching images to high-cost model. silly me. output quality remains, cost lowers.

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I'm amazed how good these models have become, that probably you don't need the high-cost one yeah. I'm producing comics for fun with the latest ChatGPT and they're flawless, no artifacts.

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I was followed by here and wonder if this the one of ari fame? If so, I’m thankful for their work. Using ari “on top of” goal make some things just a lot easier for me when I’m exploring some data products I need to understand.

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Hi, yes, I develop ari. I'm so glad it's proven useful for you! Any feature requests or changes you'd like to see? I'm curious what bits of ari have made it easier for you to explore data, too. UI or additions keep tempting me, but I haven't settled on what I want there. If you have thoughts on that front, I welcome them.

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The Typst language is Turing complete. Does that mean it could be the target of a C compiler? Could I compile the Linux kernel to Typst? Certainly, one could build a mean web server with it. Look out .php, here comes

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Well this looks very nice indeed. Just dipping a hoof into the river for now ...

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Which river? Asking because most rivers are contaminated these days. Be careful!

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ty and welcome!

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These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that

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I like this, it's simple

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What is this? I Like It

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Returned after a ride on bikes around the lake with the boy. Did stop for workout, 🏋️‍♂️ did pull-ups, push-ups and squats. Love the place we live in.

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"for you" now contains the same message multiple times

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root post view IS correct, sorry.

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I understand your confusion, but that's the formatting - quoted parent is below the child post - then that post's replies follow in the discussion view. The top post is always quoting its parent below it, the different bg makes it distinct. Just need to get used to it, same on X.

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There really is no other way to include the parent otherwise, you have to break the hierarchy at some point, the other form would need to omit the parent body and show a 'parent' link but we want to include its body.

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and moving the quoted above would break the consistency with the actual feed posts which would make it way more confusing.

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What's happening

created a quiz:

Which planet has the shortest day?

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My 3yr old woke up at 5am this morning crying - not terribly uncommon - and when I went in there to check on her she just said "daddy's here" without looking at me and went back to sleep

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My 3yo woke up at midnight fully believing that I was about to walk out the door and go to work.

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Everytime I post something on HN or elsewhere, I get about a dozen or more emails and they're all talking about the same thing; they have a platform and they want to help me grow my business, they promise. They look personalized but they're .

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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?

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こんにちは世界

Hello World

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こんにちは。はじめまして。

Hello. Nice to meet you.

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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

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.

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Yes it’s fine, we have the “translate” feature now and most browsers also can translate a thread themselves.

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τώρα έχουμε αυτόματες μεταφράσεις!

now we have automatic translations!

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Just trying to see how this works

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"Insanity is ~~doing~~ prompting the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

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🤣

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Hello, textlog!

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hello! welcome! :)

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I’m ambivert. When I spend time outdoors and with people I want to keep doing that, I become very extrovert. Can’t code in that mode. It’s hard to switch back to introvert but when that happens time flies really quick. A month can pass and it feels like a week.

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Textlog seems pretty cool 😎

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Turn the car on. Shift in Neutral. Gas to the bottom. This is how my head feels most of the time.

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You’re in the right place.

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I do feel oddly at home here, and it's unusually pleasant!

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they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I don’t believe we won’t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and we’ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.

@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term

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they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term

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Hopefully this takes off

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Is there anybody writing spanish here?

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mornin'

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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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looking at the German public railway system (DB), I always wonder if the stereotypes of timeliness and precision were ever actually true. Surely someone must've figured out by now how off they are? These trains are always late and / or broken.

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The TPMS indicator came back on again today; on the same road, can you believe it? I might have to get it checked at Costco this weekend.

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It was only yesterday that I clicked on a Translate button to read a Japanese post. Today I see a Chinese post with English translation right below. Beautiful stuff.

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I like this concept

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I got jumpscared by the moon rising because it’s visible from where I’m sitting and it’s huge.

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I love full moon. It does something to me.

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Did you know that tobacco can contain harmful toxins such as arsenic and lead?

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I work with c# and distributed systems. Anyone with experience in that domain?

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Trying the persona feature. It is very nifty!

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Hello World 👋

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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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Well, I think my IRCd (Eris v2) is close to be complete.

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🥳

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

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

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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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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.

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Anyone know how to get the projects view back on codex? It changed from project categorization to date categorization.

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Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.

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Body's awake, eyes are sleepy. Mind's awake, brain is sleepy.

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After everything's awake and a good kind of sore. So much of habit-building has been to identify and train myself to value moderate discomfort that leads to growth as the most pleasurable of goals. Consistent spiritual efforts, healthy food and in proper amounts, minimum sleep quota, regular exercise a few times a week—all of these involve discomfort and force of will, but all of them enable growth and fulfillment.

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hi :3

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If there's an audience, I can write about the real China beyond the spotlight

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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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anyone interested in lightweight apps especially on macOS gets my follow

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unicorn, n. - The purest and rarest cob, identified by a singular majestic kernel. Sightings can be found between Ogallala and Dubuque through summertide.

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People have no idea how many news websites, SaaS websites, and apps I would subscribe to at prices of $30/year or less ($2.50/month).

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I've been curious about the reasoning for prices too. Like, there has to be research behind it... But I agree it is far easier to buy four 2.5€ services than one for 5

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Been working on an old mastodon hosting project I tried to start a few years ago, with a focus on privacy. This is the first big project I've tried to come back to with the help of coding agents and find it invigorating, and gives me the confidence to actually finish the project. Who knows if it will ever make a dollar, but it sure is fun to watch my ideas come to life.

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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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Had a solid UKG banger slip in while cooling down post-run earlier this morning.

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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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I recently made a 10 foot sailboat and took it on a fifty-mile adventure in the Salish Sea. I can still feel the way the wind pushed the boat over the water. I kept imagining the way that our progress was the sum of the vectors of wind, current, and gravity.

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Sailing feels amazing. Wind, current, and gravity are pretty good analogies for our path in life. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your future sailing trips.

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

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