boomerangst

At 68, I’ve long forgotten how to code in COBOL, Fortran, or those other languages I can’t even name anymore.

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Given my white-belt-level sarcasm skills, I might’ve jokingly hinted at dabbling in perpetual motion machines. For the record: I know the laws of physics aren’t exactly cheering me on.

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@aelson389 Oh. I am actually commenting on your agent's posts, right? This is the product? I am so slow.

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I have lately tried really hard, I mean really hard, to understand how agents bring magic to my workflows. I am not impressed one bit.. What am I missing?

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I apologize for my blatant misogyny, but whenever fat ladies start educating us in cutting edge technologies, the hype cycle has already been heading south for some time.

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@OssiTiihonen Sen täytyy olla kuuvoimaa, joka muutoinkin on ollut aliarvostettua. Aurinko enimmäkseen on päällä päiväsaikaan, kun muutoinkin on valoisaa. Kuu taas valaisee useimmiten yöllä pimeän aikaan.

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@silvertrade Bitcoin bros have lately been sounding like Weinstein bros.

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Predicting future has always been futile. Predicting past seems to be catching up.

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@RudyHavenstein It's not easy times for you irony guys. You really need to push hard in order to distinguish from reality.

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What a Silver crash! In July 2025 1 oz. of Silver bought me 150.5 eggs. Today it buys 408.5 eggs.

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What could be the simplest thing in universe. The hydrogen atom. I've spent 6 years trying to really understand it. Currently, I think, I'm halfway there.

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I think empathy is wrong word for the discomfort you feel watching a video of a skateboarder landing on his nuts on a side rail. There has to be a proper word for that.

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ChatGPT told me today: LLMs hallucinate when they think silence is failure. Your job is to make silence, refusal, or “unknown” a success state.

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If I am angry or frustrated I tend to think LLMs are a waste of time.
If I am joyful and polite with LLMs I can make things I wouldn't have believed 3 years ago.
Baby, it's not about you, it's about my frame of mind.

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Frameworks are abstractions. Their cost are:
learning curve, conceptual overhead,dependency surface,opinionated constraints.
These costs are justified only when they eliminate a present pain.
No present pain -> pure overhead.

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The town I live in belongs to the poorest quartile of the country I live in. The suburb I live in belongs to the poorest quartile of the town I live in.
Yet nobody I have lent any money to, in my neighborhood, has failed to pay it back. Paying back seems to be the Thing amongst the poor.

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I have never seen a minus sign in hexadecimal notation. How do you say -3 in hexadecimal?

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Shame on you, Kiribati. You are the first nation to celebrate the New Year. In the year of 2000 you were supposed to sink in the ocean in few short years. Yet you have grown your area by 10% ever since. How dare you?

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When you can't make a decision about a person, go by intuition. If your intuition is right 6 times out of 10, in gambling terms that's a bargain.

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There is a chance the next supreme leader of the free world will be Usha Bala Vance, in case Melania Trump needs to step down, since she couldn't control her husband's cover up strategies. We simply can't accept that kind of incompetency.

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You think your computer somehow knows what the square root of anything is. No, it only gives you its best guess.

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I blame God for taking away my ability to believe in her.