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Using Notion and Next.js ISR to sync content across platforms

Create an optimised workflow that synchronises content across multiple platforms

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  • So you want to game the system and get promoted?

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

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  • So you want to work remotely?

    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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  • So you want to build a PC?

    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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      Let's see what all the @atproto/api fuss is about
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      I forgot one of the most important recommendations for tracking (and predicting) your child's sleeping pattern:

App - Huckleberry

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      In honour of my kid turning one at the weekend, here’s my list of recommendations that saw us through. Hopefully it’ll help any new parents out there!

Sleepwear - MORI

Book - Maybe (Chris Haughton)

Food - Nuby bottles 

Toys - Lovevery 

Music - Brent Holmes
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      EXTREMELY confused by reports that a robot has beaten a human running a half marathon, we have been able to do that since cars were invented surely
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      10 Alpe du #Zwift summits in just over two weeks. Worth 😎

With the Everest Challenge complete, I’m now the proud owner of a Tron bike!
      Zwift concept bike (Tron)

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      67/75

Tron Summit (10/10) 🏆

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#75DaysOfMovement
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      22. dan

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      i haven’t read it but it tracks

      conputer dipshit

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      this looks like a really interesting paper (that people will post without reading)
deepmind.google/research/pub...
      The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness Alexander Lerchner1 1Google DeepMind Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypoth- esis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundamentally mischaracterizes how physics relates to information. We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful states. Consequently, we do not need a complete, finalized theory of consciousness to assess AI sentience—a demand that simply pushes the question beyond near-term resolution and deepens the AI welfare trap. What we actually need is a rigorous ontology of computation. The framework proposed here explicitly separates simulation (behavioral mimicry driven by vehicle causality) from instantiation (intrinsic physical constitution driven by content causality). Establishing this ontological boundary shows why algorithmic symbol manipula- tion is structurally incapable of instantiating experience. Crucially, this argument does not rely on biological exclusivity. If an artificial system were ever conscious, it would be because of its specific physical constitution, never its syntactic architecture. Ultimately, this framework offers a physically grounded refutation of computational functionalism to resolve the current uncertainty surrounding AI consciousness.
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      28. Brian

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      The character swap in the 2nd panel of this poster kind of changes the meaning. It becomes a story about a child who chokes and dies while his parents look on sadly 🙃
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      31. Kristen Seversky

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      Speaking for myself, I *despise* how critical of a lens I've had to keep on tech hype from people that otherwise align with pro-tech and social stances. 

AI is one thing, the hype is another, and the latter is the lesson we refuse to accept as having consequences for future excitement/adoption.

      dame

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      we desperately need a radically pro-technology leftist movement, one that rejects palantir and silicon valley’s vision of “technology” without also becoming radicalized against technology
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