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  Between children’s toys that were essentially a tube of flammable goo that allowed you to blow colorful balloons, and kitchen tools that were the equivalent of plugging a hot dog into to mains current, it’s remarkable that my generation survived to adulthood

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  “Why I Am not Going To Buy A Computer” Wendell Berry [1987, 2000] https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf

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  Gooner Goggles ➡️ Goongles ➡️ Google

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  Wow, performative breathing much, my man?

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  I won’t say “hero graphic,” ‘cause what’s a “hero graphic?”

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  If I’m a little bit late, it’s because I got caught up in a quail jam

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  Soon It has been dry, so the berries are smaller than usual, but the ones that are ripe are very sweet

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  “Then AI raised the stakes. Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond. Meeting that expectation means making LLM calls, and LLM calls cost money.”[1] User don’t expect this at all. Users don’t want this. If it’s impacting your unit economics that’s an unforced own-goal

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  Two exclamation points above a letter is a “boomlaut,” or explosive diaeresis

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  Lest there be any question

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  Meet a person on the beach this morning. “I wasnt expecting this wind,” she says “Yeah. It’s been in and out of the forecast. They’re not really good at it anymore,” I say “Please don’t ask why. Please don’t ask why,” thinks my wife

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  A love letter to Stevie Ray Vaughan regarding his love letter to Jimi Hendrix. Almost note for note (and captures the tone!) until around 4:20, when he makes it his own https://youtu.be/ZMLEBbEny7E

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  “That’s not in your diet…” “Cheat day!” “You’ve had it.” “I’ve had one, yes. What about second cheat day? Wednesdies?”

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  I used to really despise interviewing software developer candidates. Then I did so much of it I got reasonably good enough that people would look to me for advice about it I’m glad I don’t have to do it today. So glad

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  “On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML” I think I hurt my neck

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  If I look straight down into the water, and I can see the bottom, does it make a sound?

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  I joke with my partner that conditions like this are “boring” What you cannot see in this photo is the egregious amounts of guano floating on the surface

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  Let’s go, people! This chamber isn’t going to echo itself!

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  There’s nothing like going out and visiting people to reaffirm my reluctance to go out and visit people

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  _____ is all you need

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  Promethic has claimed their latest version of Conflagration is capable of setting the entire atmosphere ablaze, killing every living thing on land and sea, and may be too powerful to release to the public

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  “Going around, Alaska 529” “Alaska 529 git gud, lol”

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  Do chatbots ever say things like “One theory is that $THEORY, but the sources for this view all give off a serious Time Cube vibe”

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  The vector embedding is not the territory

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  Charlie Wilson’s Warbler

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  Ah, shit, cool it, y’all. Cops.

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  He is rizzle, fo shizzle

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