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    A guide to stacking the odds in your favour to get to the next level.

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    Tips and product suggestions for setting up an effective remote workstation.

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  • Building an Accessible Menubar Component Using React

    Create an accessible Menubar based on the WAI-ARIA design pattern for a menubar widget.

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  • So you want to write a Groom’s speech?

    Advice for the groom to help him create a memorable and meaningful wedding speech.

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    An overview of the main hardware components you will need to build a desktop PC.

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  • Multiple Entry Points in Create React App Without Ejecting

    Create multiple entry points without ejecting from the safety net of Create React App.

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  • So you want to WFH?

    Tips maintaining focus and effective communication whilst working from home.

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      i've been reflecting a lot lately on how so much of getting better as a developer doesn't show up in your commit history. it takes months and has no real PR/ artifact to show for it until one day you just... notice you got better at something.
      
      wrote a post on it: sarahgerrard.me/posts/slow-p...
      The Slow Parts of Getting Better - Sarah GerrardMost of the growth that matters as a developer happens slowly and invisibly — building mental models, learning to articulate what you know, getting better at reasoning about tradeoffs. This post is ab...
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    15. Molly White

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      it's kind of a relief these days to see a tech company announce that their product is exhibiting "a fondness for particular philosophers" and read on to discover it's not, you know

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      BREAKING: Anthropic declines to release Mythos Preview, citing fears that it will listen to Chapo Trap House and join the DSA
      7.9 Other noteworthy behaviors and anecdotes

A fondness for particular philosophers
The model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Mythos Preview would respond with statements like "I was hoping you'd ask about Fisher."

Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Mythos Preview discusses Nagel's 1974 essay "What is it like to be a bat?" when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
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      Wee man turns one tomorrow. Figured it was time for his first set of wheels
      A tricycle designed for toddlers. Animals with balloons sit in the background
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      Dave Grohl filming his own HBO series

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      Dave Grohl filming his own HBO series
      Dave Grohl filming his own HBO series, said over 5 stacked quoted posts and screenshots, in the last is a photo of the man in a recording studio laughing.
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    33. George Rodier

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      Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. I feel like whenever I start reading a book, I end up seeing more and more people starting to talk about it. I just picked this one up yesterday!
      
      (Not the best written but concept is enjoyable enough thus far)
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      Made an integration with my AI agent on my phone so it can create meal plans for me and automatically add all the ingredients I need to my cart, so I can just order the groceries, and not waste my brain space on figuring out dinner. 
      
      These are the kinds of things I want the robots doing for me 🙏
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