Main Battle Dad

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Ugh: I got a CPAP recently (a curse of age) and I hate it. BECAUSE IT WORKS. I wake up feeling rested, and my partner does too. But feel like the Space Jockey from Alien when I strap in.
Child is annoyed by having to brush their teeth. So I show them "Ren's Toothache". Better dental hygiene practices through trauma!
I always want to write "Thank you" whenever I have an LLM answer a question for me. I wonder if there's an analysis about when etiquette comes into play when interacting with non-human actors. E.g. I never say thanks when dealing with an IVR, even though they do have human-ish dialog and responses.
I joke with the kids that their favorite food is rocks and hair. I’ve included ziplock bags of rocks and hair with their snacks but I discovered that I can reseal bags of Little Bites (their favorite snack) using a hot metal spatula. Much eyerolling ensued.
Coming back to code I was working on before the winter holidays
This hotel gym has an honest-to-god deadlift platform! Unpossible!
Glad to hear it but yikes
Continuing to clown on Comcast, at 1pm they let me know about their *guaranteed* arrival between 1-3pm. Then at 1:14 they let me know they would be missing their guaranteed window. Classic
At a conference where no one showed at the Comcast booth. At least the cable company is consistent when it comes to blowing off appontments.

Speaking of work, when your CEO asks for a summary of recent customer communications, the normal answer is to spend ~30 min to write the doc and never think about it again.

The abnormal answer (i.e. what I chose) is to spend 4+ hours figuring out how to pipe my helpdesk tickets through a LLM on a $20k GPU and let it do the work for me. No ragrets.