Stack Overheards

Quotes from the Stack Overflow company chat, often devoid of context. Managed by @caro_guindon, previously by @balpha & @bethadevine. Not at all official.

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"My parents still think I work for the New York Stock Exchange, and I don’t have the heart to tell them."

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"Ooh nice. I was going to bulk select on each page like some kind of rube"

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1. I haven't been able to use my new ski googles this season
2. the goggles do nothing
3. you're just not mountain biking high enough

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"Ok understood. You understand my understanding and now I understand your understanding."

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That's a lot of tokens to describe "interesting"

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"I could give them a finger painting as a design spec"

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"Even if we fail, we've succeeded more than we ever have before"

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"made me notice just how many f's you're hogging in your username"

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"I'm more of a hedge witch than a wizard, but I've been doing a lot of stuff in there."

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1. I propose ƃuı̣ɥꓕ :4321-SWⱯƎꓕ as a compromise so nobody is happy
2. Some people just want to watch the world burn

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"I'm on the classic: my family thinks I answer programming questions on a forum"

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"I do my best thinking shoogling babies, and I've had a horrible revelation."

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"everything dies... as we expect..."

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1. Vibe coding didn't help, need to take a sick day if my allergies don't get better, body thinks the grass will kill me
2. Touching grass is taking a whole new meaning here
3. I choose to interpret this as "Claude gave me the plague"
4. Sometimes the vibes are full of pollen

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"Here in Canada we like to relax in our La-Zed-Boy recliner and listen to some Zed Zed Top."

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"It's mind boggling how difficult it is to publish a static site"

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"Are you concerned that Bruce Forsythe is going to want his jacket back?"

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"Widely regarded as one of the people who work here"

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"I fought with claude for quite a bit and yelled at zcaler (for nothing this time)"

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"I think all updates should be shared in the form of poetry references from now on"

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RAG is just another spelling for LLM (at least usually, technically you could RAG without an LLM)