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help I'm trapped in a profile description factory
I wonder how many abandoned accounts they're accounting for, for starters (1.66% here and that strikes me as about right if it's really all users)
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I wonder how many abandoned accounts they're accounting for, for starters (1.66% here and that strikes me as about right if it's really all users)
"suburbs" kind of a strong word for it (not so much in the current year, but back then)
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"suburbs" kind of a strong word for it (not so much in the current year, but back then)
I happen to know one of those languages a little better than the other, so...
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I happen to know one of those languages a little better than the other, so...
Throw in the GameCube games while they're at it, pretty similar as I vaguely recall (it's been many years).
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Throw in the GameCube games while they're at it, pretty similar as I vaguely recall (it's been many years).
I liked the N64-era Bomberman games a lot and I'm not sure why they backed off from that style.
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I liked the N64-era Bomberman games a lot and I'm not sure why they backed off from that style.
We've also recently learned how many reputable new organizations... aren't. Either never were, or got WaPo'd.
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We've also recently learned how many reputable new organizations... aren't. Either never were, or got WaPo'd.
Reposted by ken
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
I would enjoy knowing what inspired this post.
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I would enjoy knowing what inspired this post.
It's weird, maybe we should make some changes to Discover about it
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's weird, maybe we should make some changes to Discover about it
This sounds like it depends a lot on what your goals are. Generating brainrot and memes? Sure. Trying to do something pretty specific, like generate evidence for a hoax? Might be trickier depending on your quality standards.
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This sounds like it depends a lot on what your goals are. Generating brainrot and memes? Sure. Trying to do something pretty specific, like generate evidence for a hoax? Might be trickier depending on your quality standards.
reminds me of certain game console makers underproducing to generate "sold out everywhere" headlines. I wonder how often people have tried that across various industries/markets
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
reminds me of certain game console makers underproducing to generate "sold out everywhere" headlines. I wonder how often people have tried that across various industries/markets
vibegoated with the agentic sauce
sorry sorry trying to delete it etc
sorry sorry trying to delete it etc
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
vibegoated with the agentic sauce
sorry sorry trying to delete it etc
sorry sorry trying to delete it etc
Publicly owned is when you post on social media and get double-digit notifications
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Publicly owned is when you post on social media and get double-digit notifications
so, like, the spectrum runs from "next edit suggestions" to "pasting ChatGPT output" to "Claude Code as pair programmer" to the guy I know who gave the new Opus a very big and detailed specification file the other day and it seemingly oneshot everything in the spec using subagents. there's a lot!
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
so, like, the spectrum runs from "next edit suggestions" to "pasting ChatGPT output" to "Claude Code as pair programmer" to the guy I know who gave the new Opus a very big and detailed specification file the other day and it seemingly oneshot everything in the spec using subagents. there's a lot!
In this case "vibe," to me, implies feeling something out with a relative lack of rigor. There are times you can't get away with that, and times you can.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In this case "vibe," to me, implies feeling something out with a relative lack of rigor. There are times you can't get away with that, and times you can.
I think we need a richer vocabulary to delimit this, but generally I see "vibe coding" as a pejorative/negative-connotation equivalent to "agentic coding", where most of the lines of code are generated by e.g. Claude Code (but there are also a bunch of variants there)
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I think we need a richer vocabulary to delimit this, but generally I see "vibe coding" as a pejorative/negative-connotation equivalent to "agentic coding", where most of the lines of code are generated by e.g. Claude Code (but there are also a bunch of variants there)
I do find the headline a little implausible, but not for that reason--speculatively, maybe they were looking at the tears for other reasons, saw some unexpected stuff in the mix, and went "hey wait this reminds me of XYZ"
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I do find the headline a little implausible, but not for that reason--speculatively, maybe they were looking at the tears for other reasons, saw some unexpected stuff in the mix, and went "hey wait this reminds me of XYZ"
I was always told it was from the phrase "in the black" i.e. it's the day most retailers hit enough gross revenue to cover the full year's expenses, so the rest is profit (as opposed to "in the red" for making a loss). Sounds pretty apocryphal to me, but w/e.
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I was always told it was from the phrase "in the black" i.e. it's the day most retailers hit enough gross revenue to cover the full year's expenses, so the rest is profit (as opposed to "in the red" for making a loss). Sounds pretty apocryphal to me, but w/e.
I was more annoyed that a very well known "materialism is not the point of Christmas" story got coopted to shill Wal-Mart. Not surprised, but annoyed.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I was more annoyed that a very well known "materialism is not the point of Christmas" story got coopted to shill Wal-Mart. Not surprised, but annoyed.