@Colophonscrawl 'i had an archon come to me, huge guy, made of an infinite hellscape of rotting insectoid bodies, had tears in his eyes, and he told me, sir, with you in the universe b, we could be unfolding bigger and more beautiful ruin than anyone's ever seen. i believe it! and perhaps you would all need to be given new eyes to comprehend the horrors we will, maybe we will be unfolding in the future, who knows'

I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.

@aartaka @voxel What is the specific use case you have that needs non-css methods of accomplishing this UI? Gen curious.

@dougmerritt @aartaka usually put both the image and text into a container, set position relative on the container and whatever sizing is needed to fit the image, then position absolute the text and have top or bottom set to 0px (or a margin w/e) and call ot a day. 🤷 Also usually I just put it the title attribute since I set those for screen readers and make mouse users hover over it to see the text if I need to be minimal :P

Even though I don't have implants I can feel myself being a sort of cyborg already. The digital extensions of my self are similar to physical tools, but they're always there. More like a clothing item or sensory organ than a hammer I only bring out when needed.

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Then I had the horror where the only place I could express this thought aloud was down because I was out of disk space again. 😭 A whole other severing of my exoself.

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I was out without my bluetooth headset and it genuinely felt like I was missing a body part since I was disconnected from my data stream and couldn't pause/play my ebook reader on reflex like I usually do.

My mastodon server has been down since friday 😎👉👉

@fredy_pferdi I found their tool call capabilities to also be lacking. It works way faster than dense models but I think the percentage of bullshit it adds to the context makes it moot relative to tighter contexts with smarter models. 🤷

These 30B-A3B models really act like 10 3B models trying to yap over each other at the same time instead of one more competent model.

remind yourself of who you are.

remind yourself of what you want.

remind yourself of what you're doing.

remind yourself of what you carry with you inwards,

and what you carry out.

and most importantly

remind yourself of the difference between your self and other, because if you let the other past that difference, the self will be lost.

then seal your intent and your purpose, and then you can engage with the demon summoning or whatever the fuck horseshit you're wasting six counties' worth of electrical output to do.

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@roknrol Engineering sounds generally useful. Hope it's fun and scifi!

OMG yeah smoking is a rough one. What's your strat for it? gum or cold turkey?

Agreed re small changes. My mantra has been "something is better than nothing" for years and it helps get through the big daunting tasks. 🫂

I hear running regularly can help with habit dropping too? Hard to make a schedule sometimes though. I just take the stairs (~10 floors) and it's already helped a ton.

Is it too much to ask for a petabyte of storage in a convenient and cheap package?

@brandon Epiiic. Did you need to make a font renderer or did you switch to a terminal emulator with support for it? I usually use kitty these days. also, got pics of your deck?

@sirlan whoaa. Is that samsung dex or sonething? Or is it raw linux for arm?

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