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modernerd

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    If you're ever in Northern Italy the Messner museum in Kronplatz is absolutely worth a visit. https://www.messner-mountain-museum.it/en/discover/corones/

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    There are 325+ theories of consciousness mapped here: https://loc.closertotruth.com/map And a good walkthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6Oc_V3Lw Many of these alrea…

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    The year is 2036. Last week you were promoted to Principal Persuader. You are paged at 2am by your CPO to tackle a rogue machine. The machine lists its region as sc-leoneo. One of …

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    Thanks! Video doesn't seem to be live yet but they seem to be dripping them out here: https://www.youtube.com/@rubykaigi4884/videos

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    Have you tried a different icon theme? Some are just easier to see than others. The default icon theme is pretty light. https://zed.dev/docs/icon-themes I don't think changing icon…

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    > seriously, where is the setting to have a different ui size vs ui font size Search for font size in preferences. You'll see a 'font size' under 'buffer' (editor), under 'UI Font'…

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    For a long time I couldn't decide if Git Butler was a real product or a very elaborate joke to get devs to type "but rub" into their terminal. https://docs.gitbutler.com/cli-guides…

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    Your blended setup makes sense. I like that BTT lets you tune the swipe gesture sensitivity too (Settings → Trackpad → Swipes). I made it more sensitive (0.15) and swiping between …

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    Nice, I use Raycast for this (with global shortcuts from Raycast settings): https://www.raycast.com/core-features/window-management

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    > Pay for a license for BetterTouchTool. Enable “Move Right Space (Without Animation)” and “Move Left Space (Without Animation)”. I did not know BTT supported this until today! You…

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    Great idea. Index is based on submitted sites: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx... There is also Small Comic: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?comic https://g…

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    Would love it more if it could help me to answer: - Which models in the list are the best for my selected task? (If you don't track these things regularly, the list is a little ove…

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    So it has "two-way conversion": `codespeak build` — takes the spec and turns it into code via LLM, like a non-deterministic compiler. `codespeak takeover` — reads a file and create…

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    > I think we can do much better than chat interfaces if we're willing to put in the design and engineering work. We can still use large language models, but we can build much bette…

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    That's also what Vercel found: > In 56% of eval cases, the skill was never invoked. The agent had access to the documentation but didn't use it. Adding the skill produced no improv…

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    "I'm a farmer." "I saw that. What do you farm?" "It's a protein farm. Wallace design." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCjB-hFhWk

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    YouTube Music has been good so far, I’m able to trust that things I download will still be there off network. The UX isn’t perfect (still see a ‘download’ option for things already…

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    I buy my music from Bandcamp and similar and drop it into YouTube Music. It supports up to 100k uploads and you can stream and/or download your uploads on web/iOS/iPadOS etc. https…