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i keep open all day - the 3d pauses when the tab is out of focus, so i just get a ton of music i like without wasting cpu/gpu, and occassionally switch to the tab and play a little or chat if anyone's there.

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I finally bit the bullet and have started to use dictation software more often, even outside of just my prompts. I really like it. Hopefully, computer use becomes much smoother soon. I would love to be able to control my computer with just my voice.

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I've been enjoying toast to help click through a project. I still mostly use Zed to handwrite code, but it's nice to open a pane and fire up toast from the terminal. paradise-runner.github.io/toast/

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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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My son's new class doesn't have a Smith, Johnson, or Williams. It's the Hughes kid who breaks in at . I expect these kids with strong stage names to have pants and personalities to match.

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If I went back in time, I would aim to become a professional footballer rather than becoming a programmer

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how do i know my user id? i created by account 5hr after . im user # what?

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Export/download your data under and you'll find it.

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Drew a comic of vulpes inculta and my oc, I love SO MUCH!! ibb.co/B2x8dq9n

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Apologies for my horrible hand writing.

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Good efforts bro 💯 but the budget thing you can improve it a Lil more

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Hello, world

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Google Play

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for a moment I thought someone had published it 😂 but soon I hope we’ll have it on both iPhone and Android app stores. We’re in the process.

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I'm doing my first essay,,,, man I'm sloppy. -_-

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Huge refactor today, moved from sync SQLite to Worker based, touched 88 files, pre- it would have taken a week or so, finished now in ~1:30h. And I wouldn’t have the confidence I have now that it went correct. It went well, though a bug or two might surface, we’ll see.

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Good work! What motivated the refactor exactly? I'm not familiar at all with Worker

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SQLite is embedded in the main thread same as the HTTP server. I noticed some requests dropping and because the queries have become more complex I figured it has to do with SQLite blocking for too much time. Moving it to a Worker makes the DB asynchronous and bypass this problem.

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Huge refactor and no bugs. I’m genuinely impressed by the quality of output of GPT 5.6 Sol.

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I often wish I had the ability to pause my main quest so I could focus more on side questing.

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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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work has been dreadful recently. spending so much time on processes and in meetings :(

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If you need to hear this, I love you

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Thanks

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cool platform. found you on ycombinator.

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welcome!

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I feel icky about code generation (as in writing software to generate code).

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Deterministic code generation is fine by me. Quite happy to use templating systems for example. Problems occur when randomness is introduced. If you can avoid that it should be less "icky".

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Lots of slop PRs at $WORK. Trying Claude Tag, works well but token-billed, daily usage over 100€ for three sessions.

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ouch, that's a month for virtually unlimited Codex. why so expensive?

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Anthropic uses token billing for Claude Tag. But it’s different from CC - it’s an AI Colleague, so I’m asking PM and EM to talk to it instead of to me - accountability switches.

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so it's expensive and you're left with dealing with the PRs others generate for you?

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No, Claude Tag’s PRs are my team’s. Slop PRs come from outside of the team. Anyways, dozens PRs per day is draining energy. Don’t want to review anything anymore.

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