2023-12-12

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 00:28

oops i meant to go to bed a couple hours ago

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 09:07

🎶 it’s beginning to look a lot like #Christmas

🎶 around the Puget Sound

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 13:39

Jumpy Dog waits for @IamMrsGeek to get home from an in-office day.

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 14:41

lot of “technically correct” going on in my API design over here

which is of course the best kind of correct

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 15:05

dammit I went and brought a sync chainsaw to an async winebar

again

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 15:08

Meaning my solution works and implements things exactly as the ticket describes but not in the accepted manner for its surrounding context, so I’d be breaking glasses, getting sawdust in the bottles, generally upsetting the other patrons.

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 15:21

looking at how my code is supposed to trigger a task configured by some dynamic yaml to launch a lambda in a step function to invoke the logic in my code instead of just calling the function and anyways

#NowWatching

The Mess We’re In by Joe Armstrong - YouTube

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 15:47

my new fitness lifestyle employer: “What’s your favorite way to sweat?”

Me: test in prod

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 16:59

Decided it’s time to learn a little about AI in computing.

So naturally I start with John McCarthy’s 1959 paper “Programs With Common Sense.”

I follow trends but not necessarily along the straightest line. That’s boring. And limiting.

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/mcc59.html

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 17:48

And now I have a better understanding about how the chatbots are descended from / inspired by McCarthy’s “advice takers,” unfortunately still lacking in common sense.

Also? God help me but his breakdown of the advice taker’s operations kept making me think of SQL explain.

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 19:00

There’s an air fryer.

It’s like our own little in-home leaf blower.

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 20:08

Do you see the nonsense I have to put up with? Do you see?! Ridiculous.

#DogsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 20:12

unnerving levels of synchronicity tonight

hackers.town: 2023-12-12 Tue 23:09

@rabcyr The smaller units aren’t too bad, but one of the folks in the house brought a larger unit for larger portions. Additional factor is my hearing in one ear isn’t doing too great, and kitchen’s on the good side. So all I’m gonna hear for 4-6 minutes is the air fryer.