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i remember having quite strange & unusual qualia as a child (kind of hard to describe & varied, i remember 2 specifically (not just the old “having more imagination” or “being easier to frighten”, but on a similar level as déja vu)), but these have faded over time as i went through adolescence. i wonder whether this is common. perhaps i should write that up, together with a rough description of those qualia

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setting where uplifted beavers maintain humanity’s hydro plants, beavers go on beaver hajj to visit the Three Gorges Dam, some branch out into solar satellites, others hijack a nanofactory and build the Gibraltar Dam while humanity is distracted

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Wow it’s been a while. Just dropping a quick look to see how y’all are doing

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I’m not an intellectual, I’m just a guy who likes to f**k.

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Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects ⌘ Read more…

GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community ⌘ Read more…

The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net
For a while, I’ve hinted that I’ve been contributing to a project to reprint out-of-print classical and medieval texts that are of hidden value, sometimes even in their original languages. I’ve worked on this project for a while and now it’s live and you can browse the first five books available.

See the site at https://lindypress.net. All works have been reformatted in XeLaTeX so that … ⌘ Read more

If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever. Don’t be clever. The Go Memory Model - The Go Programming Language

@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav interesting, it seems like you uploaded at least two weeks worth of posts sometime between yesterday and right now” -> Yes. I have changed my interaction with the internet a little bit – uploading/downloading in batches, not constantly online, to prevent my attention becoming even more damaged than it is now.

Thou shalt not steal focus in popup windows when users are trying to get work done; no matter what.

halp i want to listen to music but my ears are tired what do

Switching search engines today from DuckDuckGo to Ecosia as ClimateChange has a higher prio than our privacy.

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play/pause/stop is not a great interaction, but it does count. thinking of interactive music as a gradient rather than a dichotomy (interactive vs non-interactive) seems like a healthier way to think about things. #halfbakedideas

initial timekeeping implemented in !zet this morning. right now there’s only a means of clocking in/out and saving the data, and not much else. but it is basically the last thing I’d need in order to replace org agenda.

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all cells scream when they die, those in the ears are just the only ones close enough to be heard

feeling good about !gest today. nearly ready to actually use it.

Installing minikube on my Arch Linux. Going to learn kubernetes sometime

Installing minikube on my Arch Linux. Going to learn kubernetes sometime

Now gytheio can display more than one page and directory listing! (but still i need to do a lot)

Now gytheio can display more than one page and directory listing! (but still i need to do a lot)

trump turned out to not be such a big deal

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Wanted to eat, didn’t eat, got distracted, now I don’t want to eat anymore. Win!

giving the One Ring to a tree to see it become invisible except at night, grow tall beyond measure, drink the light of the stars

Student leaders are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level ⌘ Read more…

I wrote part of a configuration tool with embedded FORTH to validate schemas. It was awesome

I wrote part of a configuration tool with embedded FORTH to validate schemas. It was awesome

Don’t think I can get to 300eur but could probably get 50usd/mo for the pool

Don’t think I can get to 300eur but could probably get 50usd/mo for the pool

Docker for Node.js Developers: 5 Things You Need to Know Not to Fail Your Security ⌘ Read more…

After Home-office time is over I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings.

I think I have found something worth working on relentlessly for the next few days and thats what Im going to do

I’m doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.

So tired of mobile phone vendor lock in and bad usability for the sake of keeping people in their services. Try printing a file from your email inbox to a Bluetooth printer from your Android phone.

Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7 ⌘ Read more…

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Uninstalled Brave browser and went back to only using Firefox.

added shrine to Artisans who inspire me

my little travel pillow arrived today for my feet while sitting in the meditation bench. paired with my foam pad for my knees, I think I can begin trying to test this out for my future portable kneeling workspace. #updates #halfbakedideas

make time for myself in order to write words and code for !gest.

Well I’m happy to accept patches to linebanner if you’d like to add characters. :-) http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

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Calm-computing tip: While ⌥⌘H may clear off a lot of clutter, sometimes you want just one non-full-screened window. Consider making a new Space, moving that window into it, and enjoying its unclutteredness. Spaces are easy to create, re-order, and destroy.

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basin of corrigibility seems to be a reasonably large crux for prosaic alignment vs. miri debates

finished Sandworms of Dune and added some photos to the Earth shrine

I am not the sort of person who worries a lot about their career growth. I never was a manager and I was always happy to just quietly hack on interesting problems. If you can find the right corners to work in, Google is a pretty great place for that kind of attitude. Tech Notes: Leaving Google

nice bullet you got there. would be a shame if someone were to…… bite it

And yes, I was able to reproduce the “test” input. It wasn’t a complicated test, she just beat me to it.

Move your code. Copilot is just one more reason. I maintain an account to work with other projects, but won’t host my stuff there.

I always need to look up how to use pbcopy. It’s counter-intuitive to me.

I will miss being able to multi-task during long meetings while working remotely if I need to get back in the office.

Finally got to e-mail inbox zero. Now for my other inboxen.

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because prune needs to be more calibrated than babble

left not as good at babble as it used to be? more pruney, definitely

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @prologic@twtxt.net 👋 keeping busy. Been working like crazy to put away for a down payment on a new house. Summer is looking to be even more.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @prologic@twtxt.net 👋 keeping busy. Been working like crazy to put away for a down payment on a new house. Summer is looking to be even more.

No, I’m still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven’t gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

Exploring spartan (spartan.mozz.us)! Also trying to make simple client on netcat

Exploring spartan (spartan.mozz.us)! Also trying to make simple client on netcat

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and, not to forget the obvious contender,

Added to the fun.

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Added to the fun.

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the burrito judge needs to be extremely powerful

How to export your complete Foursquare checkin history ⌘ Read more…

Just tried looking at some of my site’s pages’ HTML after they’ve been run through Prettier. It sure looks nice in bat(1), but the extra build step would take entire seconds to complete.

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@novaburst@tilde.team yours is the first site Ive seen that asks to disable Javascript. cool.

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Way to Eden https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/01/eden.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

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TIL that changing a .bashrc alias to a bash function requires you to restart the terminal as calling source ~/.bashrc does not change the alias to the function call.

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Jake explains how to correctly encode data for POST requests as no AI can.

Anyone made a Drum & Bass / Dubstep remix of “Fuel to Fire” by Agnes Obel yet?

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new recipe added to the !food page: !brownies.

The weather of the moment brought to you with the command tweet "$(weather)".

To add another abstraction layer or not, that is the question.

How to Give Alternate Rows of a Table a Different Colour (HTML/CSS) ⌘ Read more…

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Coming back to work today, I found myself still very much grieving for the sudden loss of our dear colleague Filiz - finding some solace in the words of the beautiful song “I grieve” by Peter Gabriel