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Always Be Learning: robertritz.com
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\nI get it. It’s a way to force your worldview by voting with your attention. But I question the need to force a worldview on anyone. Isn’t it better to promote the good things to the people that need converting than to huddle together preaching to those already converted?
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\nBut when the direction isn’t clear, it’s really tough. There is no one to decide but you.
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\nIf you support video in your app there isn’t a lot of content to watch, and it’s all hosted on YouTube anyways.
\nNot sure about YouTube’s TOS but I don’t see why an app doesn’t find the videos from their channel and just post them together in a single app. Choose your watching/listening medium.
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\nYou add up the number of cards you have left at the end of the round. Once you reach 25 you are out. I held my own and was second to leave the game out of four. It’s not really my game but it’s good fun.
\n
Long running task in Codex: robertritz.com
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\n\n\nI believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code
\n
I couldn’t agree more. The thing should do what it is supposed to do. The person directing the LLM agent is responsible for checking that manually or autonomously. But looking at the code is a suboptimal use of time.
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/169387/2026/97b5bb6580-m.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/169387/2026/83a5eb76fb-m.jpg\")
\nFrom Numeric Citizen Blog:
\n\n\nI don’t know if I should trust the news, but it seems that opposition to data centers and artificial intelligence is growing.
\n
I get the same feeling. The sense I feel is that people genuinely think AI companies are trying to take peoples jobs, and that data centers are causing increases in electricity prices as a result.
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Traveling in Mongolia for Naadam and testing out GPT5.6 from the room.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/169387/2026/image-m.jpg\")
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