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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

úgyhogy az idénre beígért informatikai projekjeimet már eleve vaporware-nek nyilvánítom a késedelmes indulás miatt

so I'm declaring my promised IT projects for this year as vaporware from the start due to the delayed launch

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.

Hello world!

Цветок розы не издает голоса, а благоухание его далеко расходится молча; так надо жить и всем христианам. —Святитель Феофан Затворник

The rose flower makes no sound, but its fragrance spreads far and wide in silence; so should all Christians live. —St. Theophan the Recluse

I'm about to start a 30+ hrs longer train journey, If you have any advice, please share it.

prepare for boredom. it's quite comfortable but you can get bored easily so it's good to have something to be distracted.

Enjoy it! I am jealous, really. Let us know how it goes!

perfect time to sleep.

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id bring a book and turn my phone off

Damn, that actually sounds like a genuinely nice experience. I'd recommend books, and a battery pack or two (not sure if there's electricity available), a blanket (unless you got a sleeping cabin) and comfortable clothes.

things I wish that lasted longer lip combo food papyrus gnostics my makeup

oh, and Prussia.

I think I should add Victorian style architecture, that went away too fast

what's everyone's favorite show? I'll go first; The Young Pope!

I just realized watching TV series/movies is also something I dropped in the context of It's partly filled with Youtube, admittedly with some slop allowed in.

Not sure, maybe Prince of Tennis

met someone at a book club I went to for the first time today and invited them over for an evening bowl, cool to talk tech to another techy especially one familiar with llms at not just a surface level

oké, megdumáltatok, a héten telepítem a kis virtuális állatseregletem mellé (webszerver, mechanikus 1. generációs robotkezdemény, led kijelző szalag) az első ai agent chatbotomat, egyelőre Virtualbox Ubuntu alá

Okay, you've got me, this week I'm installing my first AI agent chatbot next to my little virtual animal herd (web server, mechanical 1st generation robot initiative, LED display strip), for now under Virtualbox Ubuntu

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.

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.

As long as a lady carries a book with her, she will always have company. And a weapon.

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It’s the social network I so want to love but something about it feels off.

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I never understood why they would allow you to follow different “feeds” but not hashtags. I like mastodon’s approach better.

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Oh my god, art was the only reason I used bsky regularly. Not anymore, and I miss it too.

I wonder, is life best lived like a job? I.e set goals for yourself and then work to achieve them? Today I realised how passively I have been living mine so far, but maybe that's ok? I don't want a second job.

one-point-five-shotted a local node app for creating social posts. drawing from static pages (hey this exists) or new blog posts (timely). with copy/paste to x, and one click post to bluesky and mastodon, tag manager and stale/archive/reject/refresh options. An idea and a solution in about 10 minutes. Madness.

Off to handstand class. I have been known to recommend to everyone within earshot doing challenging and/or silly physical things in a community. Not bucking the trend here.

while we wait for this to be true
we could add our bits together 
remember to not sleep forever
return when your dreams are through

Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

hey peeps.

amennyire csak lehet, mármint sebességben

got my first publication this year, and on track for two more next year along with my masters. feeling very junior and full of hope :D

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Nice! Congrats. Any link to the pub?

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thx ^^ its in computational chemistry, knock yourself out: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6c02038

Very cool. Not my field, so 80% of the jargon is lost to me. But sounds like an interesting area!

yea its quite a beautiful and useful field and you get to work with some HPC which is fun

Congratulations! Care to share how the road was up to that point?

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moved to berlin for my bachelors and it took some time to find footing. Im not the best student but I ended up getting lucky to snag a student assistant position by applying/presenting at a summer school (targeted more toward master/phd). then that became my thesis and it dragged quite a long time, bureacracy and supervision and such. But the results were interesting and i learned a ton along the way. Im really happy I yolo applied to that program

For 30 years, productivity sky-rocketed with the advancement of automation and computing. Meanwhile, a decline in longevity was observed, correlated to sleep depravation. Productivity improvement goes to the owners class' pockets, sleep benefits the workers health.

For 30 years, productivity skyrocketed through automation, yet longevity plummeted as a direct result of sleep deprivation. While these gains accrue to the owner class, sleep remains an undervalued element of the worker's health. We are trading life expectancy for chump change.

i was under the impression life expectancy has been steadily increasing over the last century, where are these quotes from? and which date?

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That said, in Canada working class started loosing life expentancy for the 3rd year in a row, and WHO figures show a decline in improvement of life expentancy globally. But hey, I am just a no-one on the internet spewing bs :)

a decline in the improvement of life expectancy isn't the same as a decline in life expectancy, it's just that it's improving less fast now, we might be reaching biological limits however?

We tought for years that there was a biological ceiling for sprinters or marathon runners for example, with research backing it, but every one record was shattered. I tend to be cautious of biological explanations.

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I am pretty sure confience is what is at work in my case. Did you try something specific to improve in that regard?

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