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Y’all. free.law/store. Or become a member and we’ll hook you up.
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I was just coming to flag the same bundle. For anyone else searching -- $44 for the complete works of Terry Pratchett is... obviously not legit.
There was a great e-bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
Consider going the other way and all physical: www.discworldemporium.com/product/disc...
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You've probably seen it, but neverssl.com is good for this explicitly.
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Also now is probably a good time to plug that we have an open SRE role. Looking specifically for someone with recent bare metal experience and/or BGP and DC/Internet networking experience - jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
Fleet management and DC networking are places we could use some help!
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I really like Elicit for research paper discovery in that vein.
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Domain specific lorem ipsum, essentially?
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It certainly didn't save me any time or energy -- I'm very impressed by what LLMs can do (I think Simon Willison does the best practical exploration), but they are fundamentally bullshit machines. It's disappointing relative to what I want AI to be.
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You definitely, always have to verify everything it says. Constrains most use cases to instances where accuracy doesn't matter and tone/shape of output is what actually counts. Pablum, essentially.
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I found ChatGPT failed to sort alphabetically (e.g. Winter Jasmine, Wood Anemone, Wisteria).
My conclusions from one experiment:
1. LLM was useful in generating flower names as long as I didn't care whether the flower names were real.
2. All steps required verification.
chatgpt.com/share/680f9c...
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I was curious if a newer model would do any better, and it did.
I only replicated the first part of your experiment, and I didn't try to reproduce my own results. I verified locally with standard sort and uniq.
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It's such a nice edition!
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We use Honest whenever we need to bridge, and that makes sense. Haven't had that problem with Coterie, but that is a definite deal breaker.
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Oh man, we've been on Coterie for a few years -- what's better? TO has taught me to trust your judgement completely.
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That was a hell of a thread to read for context on this exchange. Delightful dive into DC history what if!
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The jump from M1 to M4 is significant. M1 to M2 not as much. I'd probably spend the extra $300 on the M4 now and be set for another long stretch (based on past and current systems I'm using).
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Can you share a link here or DM? Sounds pretty reasonable.
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Love those panels! I'm using led tubes that are nice, but these feel more evenly distributed. How do you like them?
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I don't even dislike Kevin's work, but this was the best burn of this continuous inferno of a year.
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Telling the entire world you got catfished by a Speak-and-Spell is one thing, but being deliberately disingenuous about science is another matter entirely.
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I feel like @older.bsky.social's Infomocracy did a beautiful update on franchised democracy, but it didn't sound any more desirable there, either.
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From the first year using Tailscale at Close.com to working with the amazing team to running in my homelab, I can't imagine the future of my networks without Tailscale #5yearsofTailscale
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Whether it came from chatbots, looks like the method is genuine: nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...
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We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
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So sorry :( that feeling when you think maybe you've gained and then find out it's the opposite sucks.
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No, I liked your joke, I was just putting a hat on it. Although this has prompted me to learn that his father's name was Herschel HaLevi Mordecai and his eventual surname was only adopted in ~1818 (I'm not digging into citations, so if this is wrong, that's on me).
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Ah common confusion, that's Markist propaganda.
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Happy to already follow both of you. Sad that your work is ever more relevant.
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Looks like some people don't know how to use the three shells
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Underrated skeet. In-group naming conventions and decades long layering of wordplay are too real.