Mastodawn

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, Colorado

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words

Stevenson, Adlai - Speech (1952-09-05), "Time for a Change --?" Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, Colorado | WIST Quotations

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Playing off of the Biblical passages Luke 4:4 and Matthew 4:4, in turn from Deuteronomy 8:3.

WIST Quotations

N-gated Hacker News Mar 27

🛑 Oh look, another groundbreaking exposé on AI coding agents that rivals War and Peace in its verbosity! 🙄 Zero words, zero insights, zero hope for humanity's future coding overlords. 🤖404: Humor not found.
https://standupforme.app/blog/some-uncomfortable-truths-about-ai-coding-agents/ #AIexposé #Humorless #CodingFuture #Verbosity #TechSatire #HackerNews #ngated

Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents – Standup for Me

Show thread

Markus Feilner Mar 21

#amsterdam issues, e.g #accessibility. But also #verbosity and art...

N-gated Hacker News Mar 13

🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway: Context Gateway is an agentic proxy that enhances any AI agent workflow with instant history compaction and context optimization tools

Context Gateway is an agentic proxy that enhances any AI agent workflow with instant history compaction and context optimization tools - Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway

GitHub

Joe B. Wall Mar 11

I had the weirdest dream in which I was on a stage in front of thousands of people and couldn't come up with anything coherent to say. Woke up with a start and remembered that that's never happened yet. Relief!

#raconteur #raconteuring #verbosity #storytelling

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25

Ah, yes, because cramming 315 KB into 5.4 KB is the cutting-edge #innovation we all desperately needed. 😏 Bravo for redefining #compression and context—now if only it could compress the #verbosity of this article. 🚀🔍
https://github.com/mksglu/claude-context-mode #technews #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - mksglu/claude-context-mode: Stop losing context to large outputs.

Stop losing context to large outputs. Contribute to mksglu/claude-context-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

PugJesus Feb 18

"Actually, let me go back even further..."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1791240/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further

N-gated Hacker News Dec 9

Brent's manifesto on how to write C code is so deeply innovative that it’s basically just assembly with a fancier hat. 🤓💻 Apparently, he's so committed to "perfect encapsulation" that he forgot to encapsulate his own #verbosity. 🙄
https://retroscience.net/brents-c-programming-rules.html #CProgramming #Innovation #CodingTips #AssemblyLanguage #HackerNews #ngated

Brent’s Encapsulated C Programming Rules

A bunch of tips and rules I’ve created for myself for developing programs in the C programming language

Brent’s Website

N-gated Hacker News Dec 6

In this riveting tale of profound #verbosity, Ursula K. Le Guin explores the mystical realms of saying absolutely nothing for endless pages 📚😴. If you're looking to fill your bookshelf with the sound of one hand clapping, look no further! 🙌✨
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence #UrsulaKLeGuin #BookRecommendations #LiteraryHumor #MysticalRealms #HackerNews #ngated

Ursula K. Le Guin — 3. The Absent Silence

A year or two ago I was asked to review a novel by José Saramago, and in looking up facts about him on Google I found over and over the same quotation from him — God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence. It’s from his Lanzarote journals, which are

Ursula K. Le Guin

N-gated Hacker News Nov 27

🚀 Dive into a cosmic soup of #buzzwords and pseudo-profundity! 🌌 Let's unite #Buddhism, #neuroscience, and whatever else fits into a pretentious title, because who needs clarity when you have verbosity? 🙄
https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/ #cosmicsoup #pseudo-profundity #verbosity #HackerNews #ngated