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Matchbox the movie? Seriously?

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I’m sorry AirMail, but are you nuts‽ A ten fold price increase‽

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I started watching Pluribus and while I enjoy it, I find the main character to be pretty inconsistent.

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@vincent well, good luck with the project. I’m curious to hear how it goes.

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@vincent although it was different when I was still actively working. Back then I had terrabytes to sync on the desktop. iCloud was definitely not made for that.

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@vincent I keep trying different solution, but I always come back to iCloud due to the iOS lock-in. It just does work for me to to have a syncing solution that only works for macOS. I work too much with my iPad or iPhone. I need to have my files in sync in all the places.

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@vincent a noble goal. Sadly, as with all other cloud solutions, it won’t have iOS integration in a way that is useful (to me). Or is Apple allowing iCloud feature parity these days? Meaning mostly that it works in the background without me having to open an app.

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@chockenberry the name is wrong though. It should be called „How fast can you break the hinge?“

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@SciPhi probably needs a female science based writer to capture a female experience.

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@SciPhi yeah Artemis was sadly not at the same level as his other works.

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One of the biggest downsides of having no kidneys and daily dialysis is the constant fluctuations in energy. Some days I feel great and get some work done. Others I make breakfast and am so exhausted that I need to lay down for an hour again. It sucks, because it makes planning really tough.

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The Tanzwerk production of „Ronja Räubertochter“ was amazing. Much better then their Peter Pan adaption from two years ago. I was entertained for the full two hours.

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📍

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My daughter‘s ballet performance is about to begin. Two hours of ballet, hip hop, classical dance. Fun for all parents. Because let’s be honest, 99% of attendees will be parents and family members.

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@danielpunkass also, AI probably can create some app, but definitely not your app. For that is still needs a developer to provide guidance.

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I have a hard time deciding between Hermes Agent and Pi Coding Agent for my projects. I love both and both have their strengths and weaknesses.

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Just wachted Protector. No idea why I did that to myself. What a terrible movie.

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@vincent I need to get back into things. But after a week in the hospital and two more weeks of antibiotics I think I’ll wait a bit more before easing back in.

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Story of my life though. I train for two or three weeks and then something (usually health related) interrupts me for a few weeks.

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@bloftin2 @vincent although she watched me play Alien Isolation when she was seven or so. So maybe Alien? Na, probably not for a few years still. 😁

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@bloftin2 @vincent all great choices, but all a bit heavy for a nine years old. The Martian and Project Hail Mary have more of a popcorn quality to them.

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Warten auf den Entlassungsschein. Pure Folter.

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Not sure why, but I just thought of a time in my teenage years. I knew a nice girl. She had this huge white Husky. Beautiful and kind creature.\nI had a crush on both I believe.

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@numericcitizen it’s just such a lazy way to grab my interest.

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@vincent I think I have heard good things about the REPs as well. But the PowerBar mechanism is practically indestructible, whereas I heard those turning locks tend to be a bit fickle.

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@vincent I have the Sport 24 ones. They grip well. But I think the Pro ones have a knurled grip, so should be even better.

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Don’t mind the coming soon. I think they said the same when I bought them three years ago. I got mine from Amazon.

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@alexanderkucera.com All good points. Sadly none of them applicable to me. But just due to my situation.

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„I know what I want, but why would I ever cheat myself out of a better idea?“

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— Robert Altman (when being asked why he listens to ideas from other people)

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If your YouTube video uses a headline like „I did X. Watch what happens.“ you can be certain I don’t watch it.

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@marc0janssen oh. The TestFlight version works with email sign-in, but not the other two.

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@vincent PowerBlocks. Love them for my tiny home gym.

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powerblock.com

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@marc0janssen I just installed MicroSphere from the App Store (and then TestFlight), but I am unable to sign into Micro.blog. No matter which login option I try it always tells me my session has expired.

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Looking out the window I always think for a split second the Enterprise has landed. But alas, it’s just a helipad.

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I think one can tell I am sitting in the hospital for the seventh day. My posting frequency has gone way up.

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All sitting around and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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@danielpunkass ooh. That’s me. Your talking about me. (fires up his podcast player)

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But maybe it’s just me. I am prone to setting up „smart“ systems for myself and then forget how they work after a week. Rather then figuring out how to use them again and again, I just do the work myself.

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Also, I feel like all this orchestration stuff feels pretty stupid at times. Look, I made a script that calls these scripts which triggers these script that call these scripts. Congratulations.

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Setting up AI agents so they work together is something very intriguing. I started setting up different agent workflows before. But I usually realize I don’t really have something to use them for in the end. My life is rather boring in that respect. No business to run. Nothing to hustle towards.

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I love The Martian and Project Hail Mary just the way they are. But now we need some kickass science fiction movies with female leads. I’d love to show my daughter something that makes her go: wow. I could science the shit of of things too!

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On the one hand I love the Metroid Dread is unapologetically hard. On the other I am sad that it is too hard for me and I had to stopped playing because I couldn’t beat that one boss.

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@hallo war im Netflix Fall User Error. Hatte meine Email bei Netflix falsch hinterlegt.

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@hallo irgendein Grund warum manche Emails erst Stunden später oder gerne mal gar nicht ankommen? In diesem Fall Bestätigungen von Netflix.

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@AlexKucera then again, I find the romantic threads of Ted Lasso much less interesting then all the other relationships.

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@jsonbecker agreed, but I find the other half of that scene much more tropy. Someone under the influence or in their sleep professing their love to the wrong person.

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@gregmorris great article. I’m torn. On the one hand I agree wholeheartedly. On the other staying silent cannot be the answer.

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Maybe it is the threshold we apply to responses. Not everything needs to be replied to.

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@eurobubba haha. Well Michael Dammit. Pleased to meet you.

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I find the witch-hunt behavior some people display for @manton to be exhausting.

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For years I’ve introduced myself as Alex. Especially in English, as I find saying Alexander sounds very pretentious to my ears.

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But I’ve come to the realization that my parents named me Alexander. Why would I not use my given name?

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I feel like I made myself smaller by using the shortform.

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Are AI products stale the day they ship? alexanderkucera.com

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Sitting at the bus stop after realizing that the bus schedule I had in my head was wrong. The line doesn’t run every 30 minutes, but every hour. So 40 minutes of wait. At least the sun is shining.

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This is a useful way to use LLM video generation.

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Every wondered how it was on the Titanic?

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youtu.be/zh21cvZrt…

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