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Whenever I'm building a JSON document, I revert to the old %s syntax just because it's more tidy than an f-string.

I'm so full that I may have to run for public office.

> if the cost of a resource goes up, the total spend on that resource can go down. Not unlike hiking taxes on the rich, seeing them vote with their feet, and revenue subsequently c…

Ouch. I knew three of the deceased. #RIP

The feeling of becoming the product and requiring a Familiar loaded with Apps that amount to passive spyware cannot be escaped. Very glad to be closing in on retirement.

We hand-wave at each other. The repeatable experiment would be another universe itself. Cutting to the chase and declaring you the winner of the discussion.

> rarely, if ever, evolves beyond primitive intelligence. Given the complexity of the Periodic Table, molecules, DNA, &c can we agree that life is a low-probability event? Previous…

The Astralcodex link has a YouTube URL to a woman purportedly reading the Epic in the original tongue.

An interesting tangent to the language discussion is the Epic of Gilgamesh => https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-epic-o...

> That does not mean that LLMs are great writers: their prose lacks lucidity and elegance and is often formulaic. AI is regression to the mean. That is, being the next great writer…

Ah, yes, the difference between the tool and the wielder is an old observation: "If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is…

This article recalls the Steven Wright joke: “I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates. I couldn't believe it. I called my roomma…

How quickly would you drop a non-deterministic compiler for the source code of a project?

No, no, TFA is about python: "self" aged well.

I guess I don't follow admitting to a religious dimension in mathematics, and then eschewing the religious answer to the existential problem cited: prayer. "Lord, this situation bi…

Living this dream with the CI/CD pipeline deploying to a cloud system. It's really, really hard to shrink the problem and troubleshoot with large, opaque, containerized chunks of f…

Me: "Claude, give me a fair taxation system that supports a balanced budget in a debt-free federal government." Claude: "Dude. Do I look like Lloyd Schumer[1]? Lay off the dope, so…

A third alternative, to quote Dirty Harry, is "A man's got to know his limitations." https://youtu.be/CG2cux_6Rcw?is=44LjSt5DpEhY6BWr

It's not impossible that everything in the universe can be explained within the scope of human reason. Life just seems to exceed that scope, is all.

"The Gästeführer would like a word with you..."

Can confirm for some dumb joke subs. You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through. Yeah, not bothering with all that.

I went to a party in Germany some years ago. It was a birthday for someone. What was fun was that people all offered jokes or poems or whatever. I remarked at the quality of the of…