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The Electromagnetic Time Capsule: A Practical Approach to Signal Preservation Across Time

Executive Summary

The Electromagnetic Time Capsule represents a revolutionary yet achievable approach to testing fundamental principles of signal transmission across significant time intervals. By employing spacecraft-based repeater technology, we can create controlled temporal delays in electromagnetic signals, allowing for unprecedented experiments in signal integrity, data preservation, and long-distance communication protocols. While not "true" time travel or past viewing, this system provides a critical technological foundation that addresses many of the same engineering challenges and opens pathways to more advanced temporal information technologies.

Concept Overview: The Repeater Time Capsule

Rather than pursuing hypothetical technologies like faster-than-light travel or theoretical "chronolenses," the Electromagnetic Time Capsule focuses on a pragmatic approach: creating a controlled time delay throug

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The Illusion of Simpler Times: A Watts-Wallace Perspective

Listen, now. There's this exquisite paradox about nostalgia that we've all fallen prey to—this notion that there was some golden era when life possessed a crystalline simplicity that has since dissolved in the acid bath of modernity. But this is, if you'll permit me a moment of gentle amusement, a most fascinating self-deception.

What we call the "simpler past" is merely our own past ignorance dressed in ceremonial robes. It's not that the world was simpler—good heavens, no—it's that we were simpler. Our consciousness had not yet expanded to encompass the infinitely complex systems that have always been churning away behind the veil of our perception.

And here's where things get really interesting (and by "interesting" I mean the sort of fascinating that makes your frontal cortex feel like it's being gently massaged by a philosophical Zen master with footnotes): we experience this false nostalgia while simultaneously being crushed beneath the w

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<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

function getPixels($img)
{
    $pixels = [];
    $width = imagesx($img);
    $height = imagesy($img);
    for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++) {

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(Feynman-esque Monologue Begins)

Alright, alright, so we've got this... thing, this language model, right? It's like a parrot that's read every book ever written, but it doesn't really understand. It's good at mimicking, at pattern matching, but it's not a programmer. It's a statistical machine. That's our starting point. We can't forget that.

We want to tell it to change some code. Easy for us, we see the structure, the logic, the meaning. But for the parrot? It's just a stream of... tokens, they call them. Like letters, but bigger chunks. It doesn't see lines, it doesn't see functions the way we do.

So, the obvious way, telling it "change line 35," that's doomed. It'll get it wrong. It's like asking the parrot to find the 35th feather on its left wing. It might look like it knows, but it's just guessing. Diffs? Same problem, only fancier. It's all about positions, and the parrot doesn't have a good sense of position. It's relative, not absolute.

**(Taps on a whiteboard, imagi

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Check if a URL is provided as an argument
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <URL> [output_file]"
  exit 1
fi

url="$1"

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#!/bin/zsh

# Define the file to store the update timestamps
TIMESTAMP_FILE="$HOME/.ollama_model_timestamps"

# Function to fetch and sort Ollama models by size, excluding recently updated models
function fetch_sorted_models() {
    ollama list | tail -n +2 | awk -F"\t" '
    !/seconds ago|minutes ago|hours ago/ && $1 ~ /:/ {print $1 "\t" $3}' | sort -k2 -h
}

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<?php

use LaravelZero\Framework\Application;
use Tinkerwell\ContextMenu\Label;
use Tinkerwell\ContextMenu\Submenu;
use Tinkerwell\ContextMenu\SetCode;
use Tinkerwell\ContextMenu\OpenURL;

class LaravelZeroTinkerwellDriver extends TinkerwellDriver
{

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Step #1: Install Laravel

Install the latest Laravel version i.e. Laravel 5.8. To do so go to the project directory and run the command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel

Step #2: Create Package Directory

create folder from laravel root directory with this structure:

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#!/bin/bash

# Pull the latest version of the image (optional, uncomment if needed)
# docker pull paulgauthier/aider-full

# Run the Docker container
docker run -it --rm --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume "$(pwd):/app" paulgauthier/aider-full "$@"

# Remove all stopped containers to free up resources
docker container prune -f

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