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hey peeps.

hot take: "consumer " doesn't exist. at most it's just better search, but the ai assistants like grokbot or now instinct aren't ever going to be big. new devices and personal agents are DOA

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Hello! Is anyone else trying local AI? Im dont know what im doing but lately ive been trying "Llama 3,2 3b instruct q5km" on my phone and its been surprisingly good.

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Its to replace using central ai for basic tasks like text editing, analysis and brainstorming.

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If you have Mac, you might check out this app: blaizzy.github.io/nativ/

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i think the best you can get right now is qwen 3.8 27B. youre gonna need 24 gigs of some fast memory though, i heard theres decent quantizations that can also make it run on 16. im quite excited about open/local models, but theres big investment overhead with the prices right now

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You might be able to try out colibri, its quite good and the models are a bit better. I am unable to connect any of the cli agents to do things with it though, probably due to context limits, but try it out. OlMoe is the lightest

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I arrived Seoul, now. Stay for 5 days.

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Apparently, Xiaomi is making a DGX Spark competitor.

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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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I have a novelist friend, she usually starts with the characters and the ending and as you wrote, "filling" the details backward/forward

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

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The best Mcp server I have as Claude Connector is Emacs running on my Homeserver. It has one tool - eval-elisp. Using it Claude can do almost anything. My top 1 pinned chat is “Run agent-start-claude-code using HotterEmacs in dir …” - after that I have a ready to use remote-controlled session running on my homeserver.

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This sounds like a really interesting idea. What would you say are its advantages over having the agent use the shell, write shell scripts, etc? Just your personal preference for elisp or something else?

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To load a skill I literally type - “load (◊doc 'slack) and browse channel X for today”. The idea is my text stays English but repeating concepts are real reusable elisp functions that stay fully deterministic. (◊doc 'agent) and Claude knows how to talk to open code and pi agents.

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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.

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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.

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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 :)

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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?

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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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Isn't the medical advancements in preventive medicine and accessibility to healthcare increases the life expectancy?

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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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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.

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Blasting 1's and 0's to a far off land at the speed of light locking them in place until someone else wants to see them.

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can imagine this like Pink Floyd lyrics

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One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.

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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski, Ho

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Maybe it'll end up being a case of stated vs revealed preference, but I feel like Apple's really missing the moment with their latest products. People by and large want less tech in their lives right now, not screens and AI stuff everywhere.

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You would not download a car... You would not upload a collection and ask the user to log in now... Send api requests 1998 style.. lightweight and without tracking github.com/alainnothere/mailBoy news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50359814

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Textlog for me is a meditation to slow down. It somehow nudges me towards working on my penmanship.

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Only images of handwriting allowed? I share this sentiment about textlog entirely. All my other social feeds are so "information" dense and distracting.

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Why did the scarecrow keep winning all the awards? It was out standing in its field.

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Denshattack! - easily gets my OST of the year vote. Absolute pleasure to both listen to and play.

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