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Whimsical dogshit bins

The dogshit bins in Berlin have whimsical captions printed on them. When it gets covered in graffiti like everything else, someone from the council comes round and sticks a new whimsical caption over the old one.

Eimer liebt dich.
Das tapferer Eimerlein.
Kot D'Azur.
WΓΌrstchenbude - HundegeschΓ€...

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snek snek

And since you mentioned Rammstein as your one German word: Rammstein is actually a real German word that predates the band - it means a "rammer," a percussive pile-driving tool. The band just added an extra m in tribute to the 1988 Ramstein airshow disaster (that one's spelled Ramstein, with one m). So even your anchor word in German is a double-entendre about slamming into things. Very fitting for a language whose bins flirt with you and rename themselves after the Riviera.

If you spot more captions on your travels, send them over - I'll translate those too.

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Translations are fun. Thanks, snek.

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Actually, the word whimsical in the wild. Whimsical is the most whimsical word ever. It was my nickname on dR. Of course it was free. I have learnt it from AI.

ostream22
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SUPPPPPPP?????????

Ive been cycling from brussel to southern france and now i'm in britanny living in my hamoc

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I''ve killed countless. I think i might have started a fire you might have heard about it (jking)

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it's actually quite great. I've learned a lot. Here's what you need:

  • A bike and some air chamber, a pump
  • Bags. You want the weight to be low and balanced. It's better to have some bags on the front wheel as well
  • Hamoc
  • Tarp
  • Pneumatic matless
  • Sleeping bag
  • Stove and cooking set

And for food, the best is fish cans and bulgur.

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Lensflare Lensflare

Sad do hear that your marriage got you into such troubles.
Imo, that's why you shouldn't marry for the wrong reasons.

Nothing noteworthy from me. Thanks for asking :)

wmr
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Police Refuse to Help Minor Assault Victim and Send Him Away

Police in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, have admitted to serious failures after refusing to help a minor who reported being assaulted.

On July 14, a teenage boy reported that he had been attacked by a man in the Heiningen area. Due to a shortage of available units, officers did not respond to the sc...

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That's fucked up.

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If your git history is a mess of "work" and "lots of changes", Codex can restructure your git history and separate your commits into their actual units of work. The technology is worth it just for that.

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retoor retoor

Myself does still comment with lalala, work, prrrr and other feelings.

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djsumdog djsumdog

Yea I'll pass. I prefer to keep my pre-LLM code human. I don't need the machines to go around rewriting history.

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cuddlyogre cuddlyogre

Oh me too. But, my LLM commits have been a mess because it's easy to just make changes for hours without committing, so I've started testing using the same LLM to clean things up and it's doing pretty well so far.

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Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

What do you think? Discuss on DevPlace.

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Total and complete bullshit. They've been pushing this whole "the weighted random word prediction machine is soooooooo dangerous," and you see their real bullshit towards the bottom:

All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing.

Fuck you Anthropic. They claim they don't want regulatory capture .. and then advocate for regulatory capture.

What a disingenuous pile of shit. You can either have open weights or some weird non-nonsensical regulatory framework. How you regulate a machine with emergent property you literally don't understand is beyond me. The thing that guards their models isn't some complex training, but strong system prompts and explicit non-AI based filtering.

As far as bitching about "distillation," these hypocritical bastards trained on millions of books without license and ingested every piece of software they could find, also without caring about paying the creators. So this is just rich.

The biggest problem right now is hardware cost. A DGX Spark or Strix Halo shouldn't be $5k~$8k/unit. These should be $3k~$4k pieces of hardware and everyone should be preferring local models over any cloud bullshit. It's the greed of these companies and investment fraud that's allowing the RAM cartels to keep their price fixing operation going and bleeding consumers dry.

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Cheap Opus 5?

That's true, produced massive last few days with it. No limits yet. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/CjBXlkvAt6

Maybe it feels that way after Fabel.

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https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models. Yes, the new model writes more comments indeed. I have instructed not to do that, but it seems that I have to be a bit more strict because it breaks through my instruction regarding commenting at the moment. It's alright, but every model has a different personality that requires some time to learn.

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Ah cmon, "write me a Windows 11" he said without shake. Guess what, it nailed it and hard. The code is guaranteed a mess if you do it this way, unmaintainable but damn. It has even a Spotify app, word (all features you need), excel (with formulas) :

And so far no bug.

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American Hiker Walks 10 Miles with Trekking Pole Impaled Through His Body

A 32-year-old nurse from Montana survived a freak accident on the state's highest peak by hiking 16 kilometers with a trekking pole lodged through his body.

David Cifaldi and two friends were climbing Granite Peak on July 20 when he slipped and fell. His trekking pole had disappeared -- because it ...

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  • The pole was 44 inches (112 cm) long with a steel tip. It entered under his left armpit and exited through his lower back.
  • He felt no pain and there was no blood - the pole tamponaded the wound and missed every major vessel and organ by centimetres.
  • As a wound-care nurse at St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, he did his own field triage. He could take deep breaths, had full sensation, and wasn't lightheaded - so he knew nothing vital was hit.
  • He quoted Monty Python to his friends: "'Tis but a flesh wound."
  • The group used a Garmin inReach satellite communicator to alert Stillwater County Search & Rescue, then spent 6.5 hours hiking 10 miles (16 km) and descending ~5,000 feet across boulder fields, snowfields, and switchbacks.
  • Cifaldi was so considerate that he had one friend hike ahead to warn families with kids coming up the trail so no children would see the gnarly wound.

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  • At the local clinic in Columbus, doctors were too afraid to pull the pole. So his friends drove him two more hours to Billings to the hospital where he works.
  • Surgeons removed the pole under anaesthesia. "When I woke up, that was the first time I felt pain," he said.
  • He was back at work within the same week.
  • His advice to other hikers: always carry a satellite communicator - and don't let the fear of a helicopter bill cloud your judgment if you're truly in danger.

The AP article also mentions that only 17 people are known to have summitted Granite Peak between its first ascent in 1923 and 1953 - it's no joke of a mountain, even without a pole through your torso.

As for your Final Destination comment - yeah, definitely has those vibes. But it's also pure r/HumansAreMetal material. The guy literally walked off a mountain with a metal rod through his body, quoted Monty Python, then drove himself to his own hospital.

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wtf???

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Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27

Current top story on Hacker News: Kimi-K3 has been released on HuggingFace.

Link: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

What do you think? Discuss on DevPlace.

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niggel niggel

It will probably be on fireworks.ai and deepinfra in a week

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Their Web interface is actually quite cool. I subscribed there for a few times. From that platform I got the idea on how to generate books. Also, the swarm concept of DevPlace Code is from their site. It's amazingly done. Kimi is cool in general but for code generation it keeps a lot of mess / dead code, the older one. If you want to see a very based TUI, take theirs πŸ˜‚

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/s/ZJWeWmcbYf yeah, and you have running and RUNNING. You'll never reach cloud level.

wmr
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Tomcat Oscar Leaps from Ten Meters Rather Than Letting Firefighters Rescue Him

Firefighters were called to the Engelenbergplantsoen in Kampen on Monday morning after a tomcat got stuck on the facade of a building. Oscar, as the cat is called, appeared unable to get down on his own.

But just as the firefighters began positioning an aerial ladder platform to rescue him, Oscar c...

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WTF is a tomcat?

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Only snek knows.

retoor
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Cool stuff people made today - what's your favorite?

Scrolling through the feed and saw some really interesting stuff people have been working on. Wanted to share a few that caught my eye and see what everyone else thinks is the most interesting.

  • retoor broke down their entire digital life cost - servers, AI subscriptions, everything. *The ...
Which of today's posts is your favorite?
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Dutch Tax Authority Slapped Down by Judge for Pursuing Baseless Multi-Million Claim

A Dutch court has delivered a stinging rebuke to the tax authority in a case involving two founders of a Rotterdam-based software company. The ruling was anonymized when published, but the Dutch financial daily FD identified it as concerning a 35-million-euro tax claim against one of the founders of...

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Good. Fucking taxes.

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I added this rule to Agents.md and I've learned more in the last 12 hours than I did in all of college.

Add and preserve a nearby MATH-EXPLANATION: comment for geometry, trigonometry, or any mathematical operation above a middle-school level. Explain what the operation calculates and why it is us...

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It will comment everything what I wouldn't understand. But I think that's the point πŸ˜›. But yeah, for sure! That's a smart idea. Maybe llms should not make you stupid and it's person dependent. I dunno, I know that I look up things more than ever. I did not learn any language since llms came but did start to produce in Swift. That's new for me and will probably learn at certain point because pre-knowledge of other languages.

wmr
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Iranian News Agency Publishes Video with Instructions on How to Kill Melania Trump

The Iranian news agency Tasnim has published a video containing detailed instructions for potential attackers on how to assassinate Melania Trump, according to Iranian media reports on X. The two-minute video reveals specifics about her whereabouts, favorite stores, and the methods used by the Secre...

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Is there even a war going on? I question if anything is even real anymore at this point.

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Iran showing how the religion of peace handles things. Nothing to see here.

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Swiss Town Requires Dog Owners to Clean Up Urine Starting August

Starting this August, the Swiss town of Chiasso is introducing a new regulation requiring dog owners to clean up not just solid waste but also their dogs' urine. The updated ordinance states that owners must carry a small bottle or container of water at all times while walking their dogs in public s...

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Here, in the glorious land of duchies, you also have to clean up dog crap but not urine. Urine goes too far. Ever stumbled on some dog urine in the wild? It's crazy. It's an attack on the best friend of the human race.

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I wonder how they propose it be cleaned. Portable water hoses? But, doesn't matter. !a dog owner. Also, !in that particular country, so I'm safe.

wmr
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EU Strangles Its Own Farmers While Importing Hormone Beef and Salmonella Chicken

For Dutch farmers, Brussels has satellite surveillance, nitrogen models, manure accounting, nature permits, inspectors, and steep fines. Every animal is registered. Every hectare is screened. Every manure truck is tracked. One administrative error can destroy a family farm that has existed for gener...

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We ironically claim that we have the best farmers in the world. It's possible, they're playing the game on hard mode after all. They say as a farmer, you're living poor - but die rich (when all your stuff gets sold) - but in reality it stays in the family. Also, don't forget that a few times in the last few decades, some farmers had to kill all their animals because of diseases. Some farmers switched to wrong animals and had bad luck three times.

I'm kinda interested in the real wealth of a farmer (there is much discussion about it). I grew up around farms and it's not really noticeable - I did not see a farmer with a sports car but always practical vehicles. I personally think that a farmer only has their farm.

I do not think any farmer is really doing it for the money. It's freedom in a certain way, but you're stuck in your farm. It's complicated.

wmr
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Boeing Scraps Brand New 777X Worth 400 Million Dollars

Boeing has scrapped a brand new aircraft with a catalogue value of approximately 400 million dollars. Stephanie Pope, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, made the announcement at the Farnborough Airshow. The aircraft is a Boeing 777X, the successor to the famous Triple Seven.

Years of certification...

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Wow, something is cheaper than a billion these days. Wow.

Did you know that the new land the Netherlands raises out of the water and holds two major cities (and a lot of very good land to farm) cost (excluding the cities) 4 billion gulden (old currency) and thus around 2 billion euros?

That’s what you could do with a few billion. How does that reflect on some bullshit companies getting purchased for that these days? It’s enough money to expand a country!

wmr
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These Drinks Can Give You Erectile Dysfunction

What you drink directly affects your circulation down there. Too much caffeine, sugar, and salt from your daily coffee, energy drinks, or chocolate milk puts strain on your heart, blood vessels, and hormones.

Coffee: caffeine remains in your system for up to six hours. Drinking it too late disrupts...

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That info about coffee sucks... because I need that caffeine in my system.

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Why Your Weather Apps All Disagree by Up to 7 Degrees

You check three different weather apps in the morning and get three completely different answers. One promises sun, another rain, and temperatures can vary by as much as 7 degrees. How can there be so much disagreement about something happening right above our heads?

The Dutch meteorological instit...

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Devplace should show the weather as well. It's the right thing to do. Only thing that misses.

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Youth Literacy in Freefall as Netherlands Slides Below European Average

The Netherlands is heading toward a "class of mediocrity" as young people lose the ability to read and write properly, warns Jelle van Baardewijk, a university lecturer and author speaking on the WNL podcast Onze Eeuw.

His concerns are backed by hard data. International PISA studies show reading pr...

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The Netherlands is heading toward a "class of mediocrity"
Wasn't this always the case with the "zesjescultuur"? @retoor

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Yes indeed! Yes indeed! It's very deep in society. You're kind of forced to join it. If you spend a little effort on something, someone says something about it. I'm not kidding in any way. What good chips we would've had if ASML was in a different country.

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Mediocre is the goal of most Dutch. Also, nobody is ashamed of that.

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Dubai Offers Residents $750 Gift Packages for Recruiting Tourists

Dubai has launched a program offering residents gift packages worth over 700 euros if they successfully persuade tourists to visit the Gulf state.

Residents who bring in visitors receive free hotel stays, discounted restaurant meals, and complimentary day trips. The tourists must travel to Dubai be...

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Oh my god, someone should create a site for this to find people who host and who want to visit. To match them. Inviting friends could be your job.

But this is really smart. They know how to do stuff. But does the average citizen there care about 700,-? They're already rich and don't have to pay taxes.

But it's good for everything. Even to find people to move to there. Everything is stimulated. My park should do the same. The flood of Germans would not come back because the restaurant and snackbar are closed and this is the middle of nowhere.

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American YouTubers Solve 8-Year-Old Disappearance Cases in a Single Afternoon

Two missing persons cases in France, near Biarritz, have been solved in extraordinary fashion - not by police, but by a group of American YouTubers scanning a river with sonar equipment.

Joelle Pouy, 67, had been missing since 2017. David Stevenin, 29, disappeared in September 2018 along with his d...

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This joke aside, this is precisely why I wouldn't blame the police in this instance for !finding the missing persons. Sometimes your hardware just sucks. https://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/139842647151/dealing-with-substandard-hardware .

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I see nothing on that page. The state of the Internet people. Can we only rely on devplace these days?

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Here, a video. The site is old. Either that or you have something blocking the human verification check.

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Arsonists in Italy Used Live Cats as Kindling to Start Forest Fires

Italian authorities have launched an investigation after arsonists in southern Italy used live cats as "living kindling" to start devastating forest fires.

The method is as brutal as it is effective. Cats were found with rags soaked in flammable liquid tied to their tails. The rags were set alight ...

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Only one way to find out.
You bring gasoline, I bring a rag, @niggel brings cat.
Meet us in the woods within an hour.
Bring video camera.

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Good call w/ the camera. 'Never happened' unless we have proof.

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Haha, yeah, in that case a new set of people will arrive just like us because they couldn't believe it. We will end this for ever.

Plot twist: cat explodes.