Posts posted by GenXer
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I scored big this year. I got a couple new patagonia fleece jackets with explicit instructions to toss out my old school north face one that acts as a magnet for cat and dog hair.
I got a Made In griddle that I just seasoned.
Big score was a brisket BBQ class at Goldies
Already told my wife that she can expect me to come away from the class with a need for a smoker.
Wife made out pretty well. Ralph Lauren purse, a 1967 first press of The Master and Margarita by Harper and Roe, and a legit oasis los angeles tshirt with the pop up store tag because she wants the original because reasons. We went to a chicago and LA show; I wasn’t going to wait in the pop up store line in hollywood after spending 4 hours doing that in chicago.
It was harder to find the oasis shirt than the book from 1967.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
There is one real scary aspect of that.
The stay decision depended on an interpretation of the phrase "unable to enforce federal law using regular forces" or something very similar, with regular forces being the key phrase.
The parties assumed regular forces meant civil authorities like cops and ICE.
The amicus law professor brought up that historically, that meant the regular military.
So the upshot is that POTUS can only mobilize/deploy the Guard when the regular military is insufficient. And that means there must be some exception to the Posse Comitatus Act that would allow domestic deployment of the military before the Guard can come in. Trumpco argued Insurrection Act, SCOTUS said nuh uh, tentatively.
So that decision may actually encourage Trump to attempt to use the regular military domestically. I don't know that they really have the stomach for that, but we'll see.
Or, if the regular military is insufficient due to being engaged in a war in, say venezuela.
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42 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
Chat GPT found a mistake in my website's code that kept it from displaying properly on FIrefox on phones. Every other browser displayed fine. I had two developers/webmasters look at my code for days and they couldn't find it. ChatGPT found it in a few seconds.
claude helped me write two oracle stored procedures that repairs data our packaged fulfillment application fubars. Got them tested and deployed to production in a few hours.claude wrote a complex query for me this morning that looks at orders that our fubared fulfillment system doesn’t send the shipment message to our OMS so that stores and customers can get their shipment information and we can recognize revenue.
I asked our DBA two weeks ago for help configuring oracle in AWS to enable email notifications based on an oracle trigger. No response. I’m gonna ask claude about it tomorrow and send the DBA instructions on how to do it.
I’ve done a couple weeks worth of work in about a day.
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When I evaluate candidates for a position, I begin by listing a clear definition of the must have skills, preferred skills, and nice to have skills. These go in the job listing.
I put a weight of 1-10 for each of these skills: 10 being the most important and 1 being the least important.
I evaluate each resume against these skills and give them a rating from 1-5. 5 being the best.
My spreadsheet then gives a point rating of sum(skill weight * candidate rating). Highest scores are candidates for an interview.
I told HR that I’d prefer not to have names on the resumes to eliminate any subconscious bias. My team is technical so I get some candidates with bachelor degrees in india so it’s impossible to rate all candidates blindly.
I assumed everyone had a similar approach.
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16 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
My problem is I have an idea and I think "This is stupid. No one would fall for this". But they would...because they're stupid.
Once again, I’m the outlier. I’m working through a complex parcel shipping server and fulfillment system messaging issue, and the infrastructure team recommended a load balancer to throttle the traffic to the currently overwhelmed parcel system complete with SYN, ACK, PSH, FIN messages. I described what the infra team recommended for a Monday action plan meeting and asked claude to make some images. 10 minutes of prompts resulted in pretty good images to facilitate the proposed multi-phase solution discussion with non-technical leadership. Sorry snagit.
Haters gonna hate.
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20 hours ago, GenXer said:
I feel like an outlier. Claude.ai helps me write oracle stored procedures, job schedules, triggers in seconds. I do have to make corrections because it doesn’t know our db schema that well. But it will generate the syntax for artifacts I’ve never created before. It’s made me >10x more productive. I come up with the “what do I need”, explain it to claude, and claude does 90% of the work.
It’s also helpful to interpret 1000 lines of audit logs and summarize it.
Shit. I’m on a system integration issue call right now with a parcel vendor and enterprise system vendor where we have too many end point connections to the parcel vendor system and it’s causing errors in the enterprise system’s manifesting. Claude looked at a screenshot of the connections and diagnosed the issue.
The call lasted 10 hours yesterday. It will continue again today. There were 10 people on the call at any one time up to and including the CTO.After all was said and done, the vendor made a recommendation. After the call concluded, I entered the same findings from our research in claude, and claude made the exact same recommendation as the vendor.
I am a claude fan.
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4 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
I'm a noted bear on *this* particular flavor of AI and this AI bubble (while noting that AI is a transformational technology which will change everything we have known about labor, work, social, etc. in the future).
That said I was listening to one of the world's prominent quants talking about pod shops and hedge funds and we all know they are super advanced on all things technology to make a buck, and he made the point in a way that I've been thinking about it: today AI is not ready to take over. It's only synthesizing words and videos and text and images that man has already created for it to process (upon processing). But one day, in a few years even, maybe? WIth the advent of the sensory stuff (Meta glasses) and other stuff that will come (touch, taste, tactiles, etc.). The complexity of human sensing and consuming will get closer to what a machine can also consume and sense.
It will be an AI version of the meme "The Yellowstone Park Ranger has noted there is a large overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human, upon trying to create a bear-proof trash can".
The overlap between the dumbest person and the smartest machine COULD be a critical mass. And then maybe there is a tipping point.
And then what to do about the useless eaters?
Saw this and it makes one think:
Will ai be able to read that cause I can’t?

Christmas 2025
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I’ve already sent her the link