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Cooking for Engineers maker
https://gisthost.github.io/?e3f665e39ecdcc11d6339d6cb0cfb8e8
It's a webpage that you can add to your home screen. You can copy an LLM prompt that will turn any recipe into JSON. This page then turns that JSON into a Cooking for Engineers table. You can then add a URL which opens that specific table to your home screen.
Mood
Before anyone says anything, yes, I know they were mostly just fortunate enough to be sent a wave by life that they then surfed. But it is still a mood.
Cutting people off
I hate that I do this, but there are friends/acquaintances in my life that I would mask around, and my mental health and general motivation has been very bad lately, meaning that when they reach out to me, I just don't have the mental stamina -- which I usually had -- to open that message/take that call and reply to them. We were friends sort of out of inertia from the past, and I was kinda hoping we'd drift apart naturally, but they keep calling me even though I told them that my mental health is bad rn and I'd reach out later. I just want to be left to be depressed in peace rn plus seeing them again I'd have to address my compounding guilt of ghosting them, and that's something I'd have to mentally barge though. But it's not their fault that I'm tired 'of them', so it's a tricky situation and I feel like a terrible person for it ending the way it does.
There's so many more ways that something can go _wrong_, than ways that it can go _right_.
This alone should explain why history is full of catastrophes.
Attached an actual fisheye lense onto my phone a while back
(Not a large camera one, just a tiny cheap one off eBay)
I wonder when we'll be getting GMO with AI slop DNA
It's can't be that hard to generate — it's a linear character sequence just like text — and there's gigabytes of public domain training data literally floating around us
For the unmedicated: Dynamic Pomodoro method
If you struggle to be productive due to your workflow being too unstructured, allowing you to get distracted too easily, this is one way I have found structure your time:
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In essence, you switch from centering your attention around the task to centering it around a timer.
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You start at a timer. You plan what your next step will be (baby steps), and write it down. You allocate yourself time to do that task. Repeat.
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The one sentence goal statement is crucial because it reminds you what you are supposed to be doing during the timer if you get sidetracked.
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If the timer runs out before you finish, that's fine, but you are obliged to come back to the drawing board and re-write the goal statement.
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Snoozing the timer is a bad habit.
How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this??
There is no clear way to get the toast out without using a conductive implement like a fork or your finger.
We've been to the Moon ffs
Edit: Woah seems Lemmy really likes this kind of casual post
I wonder how long it'll be before we get a political party run by AI
The representatives, the strategists, the marketing campaign...
On some fronts I am sure it would have a competitive edge over human parties. The question is who the owner would be.
Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
I’ve started calling this domain human reserved. I like the phrase human reserved because it makes me think of nature reserves – places where we could put buildings and roads, but we choose not to because the loss would be too great.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/bill-gates-human-reserved-jobs-ai-takeoverOpen linkView original on lemmy.ml