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I haven’t tried it myself yet but I’m under the impression that Hermes Agent might be what you’re looking for?

We build text-based (e.g. SMS rather than voice) agents for various medical conversations (e.g. preparing people for complex appointments).

Our user base skews elderly. Going in, I was really skeptical about how much engagement and value we could provide to these older patients. I'm blown away how well it all turned out and how valuable it's been for our patients and client clinics.

For example, we were able to reduce no-shows for some high-cost appointments by 80%. Turns out that the reasons why people don't show up are a complicated and diffuse — everything form anxiety, to not speaking english, to being confused about how to get into the building — and properly configured LLM-based systems are really, really good at dealing with exactly this sort of problem.

There are many strains. You will develop immunity to one strain, but not the others.

I assume a vaccine would try to be multivalent.

Also bad news if your dog is prone to seizures, as mine was.

If you found this interesting, you might want to check out The History of the English Language podcast.

I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying it. And I can’t believe I have 195 episodes left.

Apple Music has a totally separate app for classical music. It was specifically designed to address exactly this.

For each composer, it shows all their well known works, and then you can tap on each to see all the recordings of that particular piece.

Smart move on Apple’s part, if you ask me.

NYC is very different in that regard from most anywhere else in the US. Random people tend to talk to each other. There’s a vague sense of “we’re all in this shit together”. Maybe it’s something to do with living on a cramped island, with no choice but to work together.

I find that Claude almost always ends its response with some sort of follow up question, despite my system prompt telling it not to.

I never really used ChatGPT much though so maybe Claude is just relatively less egregious?

Some mushrooms, like many oyster species, are saprotrophs and will grow on just about any waste organic material with enough cellulose.

Or Pixelfed, for a decentralized fediverse option.

We've been using Zulip for our company chat for 2 years now. It does what we need it to do — while letting us control where it's deployed and where the data is stored (!!). But the UI is dated and awkward. The general feeling I get is that everyone at our company is okay with Zulip, but no one loves it. It just has that air of mediocrity about it. It's "okay".

Glad to hear E2EE is coming soon, but it’s been “soon” for probably a year now. It’s a bit odd that encrypted notifications still don’t work, and I’d argue it’s a very big caveat with regard to privacy and security.

Our main reason for using Zulip is that we work in a highly regulated space (healthcare) and would like to be able to safely talk about things. I suspect this sort of situation is a major motivator for Zulip adoption, so it’s weird that transit encryption was left as an afterthought.

Yes, exactly. The lack of any sort of permission controls for extensions in VS Code gives me the creeps

Not a lie, a potential misinterpretation if anything. Google has never factually countered the allegation, and now it’s before the courts in California. I’m going to wait and see how Thele v. Google plays out before turning this back on, and looking for alternatives in the meantime.

This has been “down” for me for a few months now, ever since Google tied this functionality to the same toggle that opts you in for using your email data for AI training. So now you can’t filter this stuff without also agreeing to a whole swath of unrelated and opt-ins.

Ive since gone on an unsubscribe campaign, and things seem bearable now.

It’s a bit odd though that Zulip charge $ for mobile notifications but still don’t have basic end-to-end encryption for those push notifications .

Maybe because what.cd picked up the torch and carried on for another few years? For me there was some sense of continuity between the two.

I don’t get why people ask questions like this nowadays when the Wikipedia article or an LLM will give you a much better answer than what someone could type in a reply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

also take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Judging by the murderous sounds you hear all night here in the summer, I would not want to be cornered in a dark alley by a gang of adolescent raccoons.

Toronto, Canada is hands down the raccoon capital of the world. Something like 100k raccoons live in the city.

I can’t get my head around how such big animals manage to live all around us in such densely populated place. I suppose it helps that they are cartoonishly adorable.

But they are increasingly getting really, really big. It’s just a matter of time before the chonker living in my neighbour’s shed bullies me out of my house.

I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc.

I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a simple noun .com domain.

That’s a great way to discourage anyone ever doing any large scale refactoring, or any other heavy lifting.

AppStore says it’s not available in Canada for some reason.

I don’t want OOP. I just want the language to include a system for imposing constraints that prevent entire categories of bugs and make it easier to safely do large scale refactoring.

It’s really hard to go back to living without this once you’re used to it.

Just wait until the Quebecois government here in Canada hears about this. They are militant about avoiding english at all costs. They changed all the STOP signs in Quebec to ARRET because STOP was too english.

A robust static type system is what was missing for me, at least last time I looked.

The Canadian and American automotive industry was (until very recently) tightly integrated. 1 in 10 American cars were made in Canada, with parts going back and forth across the border sometimes multiple times in the assembly chain. The automotive sector is also a significant portion of Ontario’s GDP.

So a lot of incentive for Canada to side with America on this. But Trump blew up that relationship, and this is the consequence.

They are going to be the chat response.

I don’t think this is representative of the majority of traefik’s users. Most of us use it as an HTTP entrypoint for a container stack (docker compose, in my case) or for local development, and the FOSS version works great for that, with better dev tooling than anything else i’ve seen.

Further up in this thread someone remarked that she did not receive any equity as part of her original compensation.