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Interesting because I'm building ooxml-cli right now, for editing pptx, docx, xlsx. At work I had to adapt a pptx to a corporate template and tried via agent. It kept failing so I started building and then it was able to relatively quick and accurate do what I needed. Then I needed it to make tables, add pictures. Recently wanted to get data from an xslx and replace text in a presentation etc.

So the tool is growing and maybe this would be interesting to have as the non LibreOffice dependent viewer...

Map of Metal 2 months ago

In case you haven't seen it, Metal Evolution is a great documentary by a sociologist tracing the different ages of Metal.

Some have mentioned Sabbath, mc5, Stooges etc as origins.

Sam Dunn (documentary producer) says Paganini has a big influence in the guitar solo, demonstrations of virtuosity by the players etc. interviews this crazy swedish guy can't remember his name.

I had a nice Thai Omelet once in a restaurant and then looked up the recipe. Now I always add a bit of fiah sauce into my eggs, with chopped garlic and some soy sauce and a bit of water so it gets fluffy in the hot oil. Never thought fish in omelet would work but it's quite tasty!

A series that hits even closer is BrainDead, about an alien that gets into politicians' heads and polarizes them completely. It's very fun, and each episode recap at the beginning is done via lyrics of a folky song. Worth a watch and laugh. And cry.

Slice THEIR hands. They might say yours are rigged.

I'm a non dev and the things I'm building blow me away. I think many of these people criticizing are perhaps more on the execution side and have a legitimate craft they are protecting.

If you're more on the managerial side, and I'd say a trusting manager not a show me your work kind, then you're more likely to be open and results oriented.

Welcome to Gas Town 7 months ago

Look at cc-mirror, and use the mclaude there.

It unlocks a (still) hidden multiagent orchestration function in Claude code. The person making it unminified the code and figured out how to unlock it.

I find it quite well done - I started a orchestrator project a few days ago and scrapped it because it'll be fully integrated soon it seems.

Have you seen the feeling great app? It's not an official therapy app but it's based in TEAM CBT, made by David Burns and team.

Burns is really into data gathering and his app is LLM based on the rails of the TEAM process and it seems to be very well received.

I found it simple and very well done - and quite effective.

A top level comment says that therapists aren't good either - Burns would argue that mainly no one tests before and after and so no measuring effect is done.

And of people I know who see a therapist, practically none can tell me what exactly they are doing or what methods they are doing or how anything is structured.

If I may disagree: I live in a flat with a fully electric vehicle. It's just a matter of planning around charging a bit. Once you think ahead (and it's not dramatic), you don't notice anymore.

I find plug in hybrids make no sense: electrification is the future.

I recently discovered a blog by a historian that tries to describe life as it was.

Here's the post about what's needed to feed society with bread (there are many others) https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...

To my understanding, much of the work was backbreaking, disease was a big problem, starvation around the corner every year. And governance and freedoms were mostly reduced to service to a local strongman.

And this is before the industrial revolution, working in insalubrious factories, belching smoke steam engines etc.

Nowadays I think things are significantly better for the majority of people.

Weren't we all complaining 20 y ago that music labels were giving bands pennies on the dollar and the only way they could actually live off of the music was by touring and selling merch?

I think Radiohead then did the groundbreaking selling of mp3s for a pay what you want fee.

Now the baddie is Spotify.