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Hello, world!

Hit me up if you want a long-term, low-commitment, long-distance, e-mail pen-pal. I've never had so much fun hyphenating things.

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is it bad I found this place from 4chan? (⁠⁠﹏⁠⁠;⁠)

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Microsoft Word Online (web version) is horrible.

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It was the only way to reproduce the authentic horrible experience of the offline version.

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🤣 Did not remember the offline version being this bad, but maybe it went downhill in the past 5 years I have not used it.

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I never used the online version, but the last time I used the offline version it already was a horrible experience. This was about 5 years ago, before I had moved entirely to Linux. It was so bad I downloaded a pirated version of some old MS Office 2007 Blue Edition to have something acceptable. I unironically prefer Libre Office.

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Genuinely needed strace and got sMACed across my face.

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Watching the UTMB livestream. Any other trail fans out there tuning in?

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"Everything worth doing is worth doing badly." Meditate even if you have the time, even if you can only do two minutes. Train even if you're tired and you're not gonna do it well. Start that project even if you're not ready. Don't wait for perfection.

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brings so many issues. It really accelerates. Not only the good parts but also the bad parts. Combine this with a product person that doesn't even know what a refinement is. I'm 41, maybe I'll study to pivot, maybe I'll get into trading. I can't handle it anymore.

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what is a refinement? honest question - I'm restructuring our refinements now. Like having group of people discussing 5 items in an hour gives little chances any one of them will be addressed properly, unless they are trivial.

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Architect/lead have a pre-refinement with product to clear 80% of the obvious questions. We share an agenda, devs can ask questions async. In the refinement product presents, we design a solution draft. 15 minutes/item. This doesn't work if product is incompetent and everything is AI-slopped.

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Thank you, like!👍

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I really like this minimal approach, I wish the maintainer great success with textlog. whatever that may look like to them :) I will make sure to check in occasionally.

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Last weeks post about "if you're not using an LLM router, how do you know wtf is going on" inspired me to spin up a couple of OSS options this week and wow were they right.

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what did you find?

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Well, I know conceptually what is passed between my client/harness and the model provider, but to actually see it is mind expanding.

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

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

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oh, and Prussia.

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

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Bad people are working together to enrich themselves and slave others into rat races. Good people need to start working together too.

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"we need the majority to join" - this is a very interesting point; actually we only need 3,5% 👌 Erica Chenoweth from Harvard found this from their research with Maria J. Stephan, and wrote the book "Why Civil Resistance Works". They also found that nonviolent resistance is more often successful than the violent ones. Very interesting stuff.

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Hello World 👋

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Another weekend. May it bring joy, peace and rest to many!

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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A good start for one of those "missing 411" videos on YT.

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Very satisfying taking something that underperforms and slowly pushing it to 60 fps.

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Probably because it's very frustrating to be below that.

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But maybe we'd all be a little saner if we remembered what we're actually doing: building tools to make our lives and the lives of others easier.

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This resonated a lot. I’m glad I read it now, before going totally insane lol. But I disagree that it’s just a glorified spreadsheet. The UI/UX matters, how you present the data, how they can change and so on, all of those things play a role. The good thing with AI is iteration is cheaper than ever, so you can experiment and process the results quickly. But yeah sometimes I just do things here because I just have to be doing something, I can’t leave it alone.

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Agreed. The "just" makes the statement sound dismissive, but I do agree with the underlying sentiment that most software boils down to CRUD apps that help people organize information and complete tasks more efficiently. I think the path to developer enlightenment is realizing this truth without despairing over it.

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This is like the third time in my life I've seen an interrobang in the wild. And I don't know, but I'd prefer JSON over having configuration as constants in a PHP script like at $DAYJOB sob

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Ok, that sounds significantly worse, but like, YAML and TOML exists people…

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My problem with yaml is the indentation annoyance it leads to, and if you are using the same tool on two different machine like windows and linux, have fun configuring those tabs and spaces all the time. I do like toml and ini for editing, but json is not as bad as yaml for sure

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