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  This is not a defense of AI or LLMs, but I'm seeing some Strong Opinions on Fedi this morning, and my 2c: If your argument against GenAI is "copyright infringement!" or "jobs!" or "computers can't think!" - it's worth some deep internal reflection.

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  Set mem_sleep_default=deep on my kernel cmdline to try and troubleshoot lockups after waking up from sleep and... waking up is like it's 1990 all over again, but at least there haven't been any hard locks.

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  ya'll who think mythos/fable are NBD are not checking your logs.

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  https://pitchfork.com/story/kavinsky-dies-at-50/ :( :(

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  Hmm, Signal has a "Name not verified" badge on some of my contacts - I guess ones that aren't in my Android address book? Weird.

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  holy crap the RTX 5090 is $4-5k

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  13:12

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  @SynAck@corteximplant.com This sounds like a culture fit issue. And remember, Streptococcus thermophilus doesn't ask.

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  Those of us who haven played Satisfactory already know that plastic is basically free. Whether you're extracting natural gas or oil, it comes with monomer by-products like ethylene and propylene. They might sound familiar, because they are the base molecules cross-linked into plastics like high-density polyethylene (milk jugs) and polypropylene (which is the plastic part of all your metallized/mylar-style chip bags, and even things like your polycarbonate water bottles start off as propylen...

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  Hmm, fuck dynamic pricing.

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  I was looking at a bug trap we have set up to catch spotted lanternflies, an invasive pest. It's a sort of net cage that is easy for bugs to fly in to, but difficult to fly out of. Looking at it from a few feet away, it's easy to see how to chart a course out of it, were one to be trapped. But if you're in it and don't know about the big picture, you're stuck. Been wondering if we humans are in the same kind of trap. If we are, the efficiency and effectiveness of language...

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  There is a type of developer who enjoys a burger loaded with grilled mushrooms, and decides that grilled mushrooms are delicious. And so they find some mushrooms in the woods, and cuts up those mushrooms, grills them, and eats them on a sandwich. The developer then dies slowly and painfully.

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  Had to break out the old OG Pixel XL today to test something, and idk if GBoard was just that much better on old phones, or it's just memory, but gosh typing on that keyboard feels so much better than on my modern Pixel.

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  https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-children-museum-could-possibly-183150239.html :( :( :(

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  😲 Vivaldi Browser comes out of the box with a Mastodon plug-in as part of the initial user experience.

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  Broke: Let me Google that for you Woke: I don't know, but here's what ChatGPT says (woke = also broke, even more broke, actually)

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  I clicked a "Share via E-mail" link in Zillow and LibreWolf opened Emacs and my Emacs isn't even configured as an email client. 2026 is so weird.

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  The boost copyright file is 2MB and I have 23 identical copies of it installed on a modest Ubuntu 24.04 box. (Talking /usr/share/doc/libboost1.83-dev/copyright etc)

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  guh https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/str/mod.rs.html#121 /// Returns the length of `self`. /// /// This length is in bytes, not [`char`]s or graphemes. In other words, /// it might not be what a human considers the length of the string. why is programming in 2026 like this? (turns out i actually need floor_char_boundary because truncating strings is hard)

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  ELF files are just archives, you can just 7z x them, extract an ELF file at home today!