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The pendulum has swung far in the direction of favouring machine generated content over that from actual people. I wonder when it will swing back?

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What pendulum? The algorithms’? I don’t think any human is happy about their feeds filling with slop.

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Switching from Claude Max to Team, cc was trivial, just another login, but Claude Desktop and on iOS holds sessions in the cloud so need to move them somehow.

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An interesting thought: historically, a major consideration for companies choosing what to use is how many engineers use it (because that will make hiring much easier/harder). Going forward, this becomes "how big of a corpus of this code is out there", because it impacts how proficient are likely to be at using it.

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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'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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Which ancient civilization placed coins on the eyes of the dead? Halloween 🎃

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howdy

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halo :) welcome

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This is my first note, there are many like it, but this one is mine.

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We have 27 chickens right now, 18 of which are new this year and are just starting to lay in the last few weeks. I have collected 13 eggs today so far.

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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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Hi =)

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👋 hi! welcome

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hi

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bonjour

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new semester euphoria is real. its like the only time i ever leave the house in the mornings. stay tuned to find out if itll last more than a couple lectures

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I am trying to wrap my head around Traefik (which I have never used; have only used Caddy for most of my needs) to plan a migration for things I now run on "bare metal” to containers, and then use Traefik as entry point. If you know some good guides, send the link my way, please.

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Hi ! First post : What do we win in the AI race ?

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To understand the latest trends or related software or products, if you are interested or it is related to your own industry, you can learn about and study them.Whether you use it for work or just as a hobby, you can give it a try. I guess.just study.

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How can I change an organisation with hundreds of frustrated employees, when I can’t change my own life with only one person. Does a different person run a company and a different person live their life? I doubt it.

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I think so, actually. My wife runs my household, I run my engineering org. As I get older I do see the two aspects of my personality start to merge but they are still divergent and were much moreso in my earlier years.

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and to be clear, I don't mean that I offload all the work to her by any stretch. It's just that I'm much more outspoken and opinionated on the specifics of work life versus home life.

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in , upstairs the music is 👌

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being a student is great but the tasks are really quite boring. ive worked in academia now a little bit and its genuinely much more fun to work on something real, read papers, do experiments and write. Now i have these last few exams to get through and i cant care for them like i used to.

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how are you all

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fine ig

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a bit sad, but I'll get better

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I hope things get better for you soon, and remember it's okay to have bad days sometimes.

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thanks. it got better :)

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glad to hear that :)

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whats the point of url shorteners in 2026

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I think short urls are still memorable and good. My phone doesn't surrogate all of my recall.

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Short URLs are good. Memorable URLs are good. URLs spat out by URL shorteners are something entirely different.

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Ah, the randomly generated ones. Yeah, agreed.

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The longer the text you need to store, the bigger a QR code needs to be in order to scan reliably. Also, you might be more confident in being able to keep a short URL stable (it's already a step of indirection, so if you want to reorg your site you can just update where the short URL points to). But people don't really take care to maintain short URLs anyway, apparently.

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Counting clicks, although probably not all that accurate with bot clicks

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Also Short.io gives you a sub domain which is pretty nice adamspaul.short.gy/notes

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I got an email from battle.net to confirm my age. Apparently some content may be restricted to minors in the region my account is from. You would think that the account having been created 19 years ago, and with some CD-keys of games from the late 1990's having been added to it would be enough proof, but oh well.

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