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Saturday October 31st, 2026
Some people when faced with the
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Some people, when faced with the problem of CMake and Ninja, think "I'll add Pixi!"
Now they have 3 problems...
(Also, fuuu..., when did the differences between gcc and clang get so annoying? And when did gcc get ahead on features? And WTF is Dan doing solving build errors on a Friday night?)
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So somehow whatever I'm currently
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So somehow whatever I'm currently playing on my phone is showing up on Charlene's phone's lock screen. I have cleared caches, disabled services, removed permissions, and yet what I'm playing continues to be broadcast.
This feels like a massive security issue.
Friday October 30th, 2026
Trying to figure out where I read LLM
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Trying to figure out where I read "LLM coding agents are to app development what Geocities was to the web".
(I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that analogy.)
To install the Conda package manager
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To install the Conda package manager for Python on the Mac, please either install the super
annoying desktop application, or run:
conda install anaconda::conda
in the terminal. What sort of bullshit recursive thing is this? The actual answer
appears to be:
brew install --cask anaconda
Reader, the answer was not, in fact, that. At least not directly. Feels like another
situation like Qt where the goal is to make the command line use as annoying as possible to
rope people into the additional telemetry of the GUI tool.
Nationalize the Federal Government!
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Shannon Prickett
@Binder@petrous.vislae.town
Oh, that's a good idea. We should nationalize the Federal government so it'll be
responsive to the people.
Chat is it a good sign when you
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Chat, is it a good sign when you find:
from shlex import _find_unsafe
at the top of a Python file?
(Despite importing shlex, and using this deprecated method to tell if it should be escaping the string, it then manually escaped the string...)
wanted to see a cult up close
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meat & dairy linked to lower T
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Last modified: Thu Mar 15 12:48:17 PST 2001