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hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch & maker of snappy videos and articles at @bearcove.eu ✨ be kind, be curious

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(cw: llm) big "building tools with your tools" moment
It’s trying to ask for permission again via Telegram, which will hit the same error! This is a catch-22 situation. Amos, we have a bootstrapping problem: I need your permission to exit plan mode Permission requests go through Telegram Telegram is broken because it can’t parse HTML with angle brackets My plan to fix it contains angle brackets in the explanation Options: You could temporarily disable the permission system for me I could write an extremely minimal plan with zero special characters You could manually approve me to proceed without the permission system Let me try option 2 - an ultra-minimal plan with no special chars:
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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me: I wonder if
wilfred:
wilfred last week: wow a lot of people have
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Claude is ex-Adobe confirmed:
Claude has cast an immutable reference into a const pointer, into a mut pointer to assign something.
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Crossing the binary ✅
Crossing the binari 🚫
Alt text: “Sign at a train station warning passengers not to cross the railway lines. The sign reads in Italian and English: ‘Vietato attraversare i binari. Servirsi del sovrappassaggio. Do not cross the railway lines. Use the footbridge.’ A red prohibition symbol with a walking figure is on the left. Below the sign is a blue instruction sign with a hand symbol next to a green ticket validation machine. Platform 2 and a train are visible in the background.”
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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my AI agent just... cancelled itself???
I see the issue - the operative mission update-mission-system-to-thread-system-naming is stuck in an infinite loop because it’s calling await-mission on itself! This is a recursion problem. Let me cancel it and complete the work directly:
November 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Philomena??? get outta here
room CUNQ doesn't exist or has ended
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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👻 github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
an LLVM miscompile
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I don't know, Amanda from Patreon. Is yours?
E-mail from Patreon: Is your pricing aligned with your value?
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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update:
LLM output saying: JOHN CENA WOULD BE PROUD
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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did you know? if you pass "-trust" to tokei it only displays "trusted" languages:
tokei -trust showing 100K lines of Rust, incl. 15K lines of Markdown
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Ran out in 3.5 days 😭

@anthropic.com I need a Claude Max 40x sub I think
Weekly limits, All models, Resets Thursday 10AM — 100% used.
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Why do half the CSS framework website look like this???
hard to describe, but it's chaos
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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codex just murdered me
screenshot of codex output (the AI agent) saying "quickly anchoring the Kahoot meets PowerPoint positioning"
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🏎️💨
1749 lines now
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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ooh the full `specialization` feature allows specializing on `Copy` but.. in a const block, rustc doesn't know about the blanket impl, and it thinks Foo doesn't impl HasCopy

play.rust-lang.org?version=nigh...
the trait bound `Foo: const HasCopy` is not satisfied
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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unfortunately static_assertions doesn't work on generic parameters
can't use generic parameters from outer item
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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mhh TAIT is a dead-end because the inferred `T` is not concrete, it's opaque and all we know is that it impls Sized...

cf. play.rust-lang.org?version=nigh...
cf. playground link
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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not local, but...
ChatGPT 5 discussion with prompt: You are a Unix shell that has bind tools installed. Reply only with the results of commands that are inputted. —- $ dig A google.com Then ChatGPT answers with 142.250.74.14 Doing a curl to google.com with the given IP address works.
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The guilty party:

(I ended up ordering secondhand replacements, they'll do)
pretty white kitty
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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wasm is good wasm is fine
INFO src/host_view.rs:87 HostRoom component rendered with room_code: PWPL atomic.rs:3942 Uncaught RuntimeError: memory access out of bounds at atomic.rs:3942:23 at mod.rs:804:1 at CLOSURE_DTORS (wat.js:266:45) $func5605 @ atomic.rs:3942 $func6069 @ mod.rs:804 CLOSURE_DTORS @ wat.js:266Understand this error patch_console.js:1 panicked at /Users/amos/.rustup/toolchains/stable-aarch64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/src/rust/library/alloc/src/rc.rs:3566:13: unsafe precondition(s) violated: hint::assert_unchecked must never be called when the condition is false
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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god damn it
randomly generated 4-character room code is "LEWD"
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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That's what you get when you play with release candidates I guess 😎
This is a Python script that edits cargo.log directly, it replaces the version 0.7.0-rc.2 with rc.1, and then it removes all the checksums
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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beast
October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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mhh I wonder what they'll say
Should I choose Ada from adacore.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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lmao, code generated by dioxus's #[component] macro is doing a denial of service on zed's autocomplete: it prefers acronyms than verbatim matches:
symbol search in zed, the input is `handle_` and it's showing a generated symbol called `HostPasswordInputPropsBuilder_Error_Repeated_field_server_conn`
October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM