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Social media sites like TikTok are currently awash with women telling their own stories of men abandoning them on adventures, with the phrase āAlpine divorceā coming up often. That term was originally the title of a short story of a man trying to kill his wife during a trip to the Swiss apps, but these womenās posts make it clear that it isnāt a case of premeditated homicide. For instance, this woman. She later posted this video. Her boyfriend didnāt leave her in the hopes that she would die. He just didnāt give a shit.
A fascinating overview of how Lego bricks are designed and manufactured:
LEGO demonstrates that micron-level precision is achievable in mass production, but only if the entire system - material, mold, process, quality control - is designed around that requirement from day one.
The home for computer configuration enthusiasts!
Coding agents hallucinate APIs and forget what they learn in a session. Context Hub gives them curated, versioned docs, plus the ability to get smarter with every task. All content is open and maintained as markdown in this repo ā you can inspect exactly what your agent reads, and contribute back.
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See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311815
A robust, full-featured, and user/programmer-friendly Python IRC bot, with many existing plugins. - progval/Limnoria
Iām looking into how to build their app image from scratch; at least that way Iām sudoing something thatās free software and not a random binary.
I later found that this issue is known but marked as a WontFix on their issue tracker.