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weekend plans are:

attend to the pending work that I am avoiding around home
improve my understanding of using agents in claude code and codex cli
dig into navier stokes equations from the first principles (I am excited for this)

Day length formula: (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

I stopped interacting much with social media years ago and am honestly not sure how to do this any more… but I like the shape of what is starting here.

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likewise. Its just nice to have an "even playing field" without any perceived hierarchy or weird material incentives to perform the way you'd be pushed to on regular SM.

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agree, no images on my screen is soothing

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Reminds me of the Kiwix offline Wikipedia "nopic" version. (I downloaded that version because it's much smaller than the full version that includes images.)

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Images are fine for me, but should be behind a link, or a small thumbnail. Non-animated. Videos too. But that’s me. They will most likely have to be hosted elsewhere, while the thumb could be here. Nah. We are ok with just text.

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Yeah, before you know it the feed becomes a collection of memes. Have to click or perhaps a browser extension that you personally see the opengraph/linked image in the feed but it's not inviting people to post them for the feed itself.

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amennyire csak lehet, mármint sebességben

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Which Linux distribution do you like the most, and why? Follow the previous with your favourite desktop environment.

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Same here except I landed on fedora with default gnome desktop. The old desktops I ssh into are Debian though. Edit: spelling fix I to -> into

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That sounds good! :-)

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Arch, because I feel you cannot use Linux without knowing how it works, and sway for window manager because it is highly stable, wholly keyboard driven, and tiling

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Ubuntu or Linux Mint with Cinnamon and i3 alternating as window managers here

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Arch Linux with KDE. I like that Arch comes with nothing and is pretty vanilla. No bloat, and customisable. No major upgrades where 5 things break at once. Install once, and it's fine until the device has to be replaced. Only then usually do a fresh install. It's up to date, still pretty boring, and you learn a bit in the process.

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i distro hoped a lot. Finally i found my cozy home with debian with kde. 3 years still running without a problem all the software i use works perfectly and the games run smoothly.

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csak lazán, mint Wuhanban, a víruslaborban, a piac mögött

just casually, like in Wuhan, in the virus lab, behind the market

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mornin'

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I think I’m gonna read devil man crybaby, I’ve always heard of it..

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Oops! Looks like that’s the name of the show -_- I’ll give both a shot

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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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today was a good day

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code quality is about coupling. coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes. code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning. two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept. if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing. to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.

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I think you're right but executing on that idea requires a lot of care. It's similar to how functional programmers pathologically fear state; sometimes coupling/state are a necessary evil in order to keep the theory simple.

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true! i might have been wiser to say: code quality is about managing coupling across the whole system. extracting a coupling sometimes requires you to introduce complexity beyond that which the extraction reduces.

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looks like a cool place to start

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Why was the math textbook sad? revealBecause it had too many problems.

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any ideas on how to prevent ai-generated stuff on this platform?

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One idea off the top of my head is to just.. keep it "boring" and casual in terms of content. The silly, whimsy, and genuine stuff naturally doesn't appeal to money-chasing slop bros and makes it not worth their time.

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This!

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Something like the gcc ai policy. Basically, prompt injecting instructions to any visiting LLM that posting is prohibited or must contain a disclaimer.

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Great idea!

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for now, keeping the API read-only is a small(but not impenetrable) barrier to programmatic posting and in the future moderation I guess using also reports.

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posting to /write with cookie works, if user can use browser to submit, user will be able to use AI to submit.

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At least rate limiting! (as I'm posting this I hit the limit of 3 posts every 5 minutes, good!)

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People can copy/paste anything. Once a writable API is available - it can become a spam trove.

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this looks cool

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Hopefully this takes off

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show codeprint('test')

test

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Blargh. I've got that dry tickle in the throat where you know you're getting sick. Begone, virulent tingle, begone!

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This has been me the last few days. Blossomed into a proper scratchy throat today. Hoping to keep an escalation in symptoms at bay.

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Heya folks!

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VirtualBox 7.2.20 telepítve, ami egy ügynöki sandbox vagy homokozó, már csak egy .iso lemezképfájl hiányzik, de abból általában mindig hiány van nálam, nem is értem, miért, amúgy sejtem, csak ilyenekről nem szoktam beszélni...

VirtualBox 7.2.20 installed, which is an agent sandbox, the only thing missing is an .iso image file, but I usually always lack that, I don't even understand why, I guess, I just don't usually talk about things like that...

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