Making things on the web since the dial-up days. Values: truth, curiosity, and improvement. ❤️ @sarcasmically (Jaquith is pronounced JAKE-with)
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- “Ask” is not a noun
- “Begs the question” doesn’t mean “raises the question” — it means “assumes the answer”
- It is never correct to say “honing in”
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If the Times can do “True Detective (Season 1)” they can do “Westworld (Season 1)” and “Fargo (Except for Season 4)”
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Mark Jaquith retweeted
The following, I maintain, is true:
1. Breaking Bad is the best TV show of the 21st Century
2. Better Call Saul is not the best TV show of the 21st Century.
BUT
3. Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad.
The New York Times ha finalizado su lista de las mejores series del siglo.
Breaking Bad tomó el primer puesto.
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I feel like that German World Cup fan guy has been in America for four months.
Europeans really do be like “und now for a little holiday” and leave work for two seasons
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Just caught myself replying to a realtor spam text saying that I don’t own the property in question.
But now I am considering that this probably isn’t a realtor at all. It’s just spammers warming up their reputation by sending a text that I would respond to.
Well played.
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After a couple days of use, I gotta say that Opus 5.5 is very good. They really listened.
I have a place for that, but also for the gpt-6 Luna, Sol, Astra models. We have an abundance of good models at prices that don’t hurt.
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I am so tired of reading LLM slop prose
It’s seriously poisoning my soul
I feel (-2HP) (-2HP) every time I read this garbage
I’m so sick of websites with an h2 an h3 an h4 with increasingly cringeworthy banality
You’re the one driving the model and YOU decide what to push
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Mark Jaquith retweeted
new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
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The universe just torturing me with the worrying fact that Nikita Kucherov hasn’t yet re-signed with @TBLightning #gobolts
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Made a thing where I can do /jev in OpenCode and ask a binary question. It feeds in the last four messages.
Using it for when an LLM barfs out 8 paragraphs of eye-crossing text.
I do:
/jev so is it fixed?
Instant answer with certainty %.
None of it goes into LLM context.
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IRS O*NET job classification using Jev (1,016 possibilities)
Query: "I scoop scoops and sprinkle sprinkles"
Result: 35-3023.00 Fast Food and Counter Workers
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someone who is good at the economy please help @typesafeai price this. their families are dying
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