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Anybody here actively working in or has contributed to (in any capacity) conservation (be it flora or fauna)?

You know, as interesting as that sounds, I wouldn't at all know where to begin with something like that. Do you have a suggestion?

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I suggest looking around your area first, perhaps there are conservation groups already. Then, select among them which one focuses on native species that are most impactful to your place. 😁

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I dislike commuting on public transport sometimes cause the trips feel longer sometimes but also don't want to drive the morning traffic

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I wonder how much data Apple is transferring today. I used to download from a BBS Apple II software overnight on a 2400 baud modem. What a trip.

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Just got Moshi set up - a phone-friendly terminal app. Works well with Herdr for persistent agents, friendly UI. Verdict so far: looks like I'll be working more from my phone.

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When I sit with curious people, I build a lot of curiosity. And inspiration.

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell your name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!

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lovely

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Nobody is perfect. I’m nobody.

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Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today How I wish he'd go away!

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I still remember Max getting sandwiched between the two Ferraris in the first ever wet night race (Singapore 2017). Today he finally managed to win a race there. That's quite a long wait.

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Not sure if I put it on untappd but I still remember the "soggy" beer at the track that day 😄

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apparently there is some filtering. can't say "hit*s with hand".

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Finished watching Titanic with kids. One of the best movies ever.

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“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it.”

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Friyay!

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Should be working in the car on a . Instead, I'm writing while we are 30 minutes out from camping at a pizza farm.

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thanks to ai I genuinely hate the word "genuinely" now 😭

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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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I've written a small persistent agent wrapper for agent.py. I'm impressed with how well it works. I feel like a CEO issuing global memos to all my agents after reading their status reports.

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After running them for a weekend and spending $2 on openrouter I've put the wrapper script at public.swiley.net/agents.sh

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Football > Liverpool Research behind Liverpool’s last minute veteran-substitute-provided-draws and the talented but uncompetitive players they replace.

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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

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’ keybindings are easy and the best out there, they are mnemonic. C-c k p l - kubernetes-pods-list M-g n - go next C-h v - help on variable M-s o - search occurrence

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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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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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Installed Hermes Desktop and starting to build out my team of bots. My experience with Hermes so far has been great: it keeps surprising me by being what i need it to be ... but I'll reserve a final judgement until after a proper period of use.

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