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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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      What do we say to the God of Death?
      
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      What do we say to the God of Death?
      
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      interesting thing about the demo is that editing a page updates "backlinks" of associated pages automatically, and also that *only* backlinks section regenerates (body content is reused)
      
      so it's really kind of like "signals" but for build. in the code none of this had to be done explicitly
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    18. Brittany Ellich

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      I've been experimenting with some automated bugfixing workflows, to easily go from "hey this thing looks broken" to a PR ready to test, and rolling up to my computer with ten PRs with green CI ready for me to review and test is incredibly satisfying.
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      However many billions of dollars, tokens, and trees burned on AI, and Slack can’t work out ‘teh’ is a misspelled ‘the’
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      This whole article is a rebuttal to the claim that Claude is conscious, which is a claim Anthropic did not make and in fact went out of its way to avoid making. It is so strange. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
      Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil SethDespite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...
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    30. Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫

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      what do you MEAN the AQI is over 600
      AQI 602 - Hazardous
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      And they're battling a lawsuit
      
      They're still my canary in this hype era for these reasons

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      Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
      
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