Nostr notes by Pomegranate County Irregulars

I read it and can’t fault the analysis, though maybe the ...

2026-10-27T11:47:24Z

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I read it and can’t fault the analysis, though maybe the Brooks’ essay “No Silver Bullet” may have been a more interesting compare and contrast in these days of LLMs. Maybe not.

But a small team of four floundering would benefit from a fifth member who understood the problem and solution. Either the author was or wasn’t that person; citing Brooks to walk away seems glib and pseudo-rational.

Mr. Cuban is somewhat right. It’s a fight about the ...

2026-06-26T13:43:57Z

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Mr. Cuban is somewhat right. It’s a fight about the misapplication of scarce resources and fatiguing capital to foster environmental degradation so a few select already-wealthy loons can capture the value for thinking and creation.

Yes, is he standing above the ground? That’s Warren.

2026-06-06T21:11:22Z

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Yes, is he standing above the ground? That’s Warren.

I’m okay with the slow count as long as it doesn’t butt up to ...

2026-06-05T21:28:48Z

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I’m okay with the slow count as long as it doesn’t butt up to the certification deadline.

By the way, my ballot (Los Angeles) was nine pages. The County of Los Angeles has more people than many states and there are dozens of cities and legislative districts.

But, you want faster results? Talk to the Post Office which seems to slow walk the ballots, thanks to Autocrat DJT and his hit squad for public services.

Yes, indeed, it did appear to be an explosion.

2026-05-29T03:26:14Z

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Yes, indeed, it did appear to be an explosion.

Did a quick scan. Boolean Math/Logic (and the author is ...

2026-05-22T12:21:57Z

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Did a quick scan. Boolean Math/Logic (and the author is addressing “reasoning”) is about a set with two members, call them flip/flap if true/false confuses, and operators: not, and, or, etc.

We all know that computers use 0s & 1s. We may not realize that with real electronics, the on state is a range. Yes, the real world is messy. As Graham Parker (Back to School Days) put it “They told me it was all black and white, there’s so many shades I can’t see.” It’s spectra not binaries? Shocking

Who selected the Anthropic co-founder as a source for wisdom? And ...

2026-05-19T00:41:02Z

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Who selected the Anthropic co-founder as a source for wisdom?

And how pretentious to label his thoughts an encyclical?

I would argue there is an eighth, or maybe a 0th, ur-language to ...

2026-04-19T12:42:44Z

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I would argue there is an eighth, or maybe a 0th, ur-language to add: machine language.

No abstractions and bound tightly to the hardware, its excessive detail work was the reason computer languages became necessary.

Bytecode is the evolution of that and has changed the way interpreted and some compiled languages work.

It’s straight-forward and works?

2026-04-03T19:27:15Z

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It’s straight-forward and works?

One could fill libraries with what I don’t know about F1. If ...

2026-03-14T16:53:11Z

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One could fill libraries with what I don’t know about F1.

If one is faster in the corners than is one not recharging the battery completely and fading a bit in Shanghai’s long straight-aways?

Seems to me Hamilton is adapting to the new car fairly well and Vestappen is not.

I guess, then, I’m a lazy so-and-so for declining to use it.

2026-03-06T23:13:23Z

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I guess, then, I’m a lazy so-and-so for declining to use it.

Last I knew there was officially no such thing. If you call it ...

2026-03-06T03:02:48Z

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Last I knew there was officially no such thing.

If you call it DOW
You have no spine now.

I heard of it. Only saw Season 1 and that was all I needed.

2026-02-18T03:22:51Z

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I heard of it. Only saw Season 1 and that was all I needed.

Okay, but it’s good practice when implementing a presentation ...

2026-01-11T13:56:10Z

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Okay, but it’s good practice when implementing a presentation to be precise rather than sloughing off parts to the parsing and rendering engines.

And don’t gas-huff the pro-AI hype.

2026-01-11T13:34:55Z

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And don’t gas-huff the pro-AI hype.

Back in the 1980s, the then owners of the Jack in the Box fast ...

2026-01-06T04:28:31Z

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Back in the 1980s, the then owners of the Jack in the Box fast food chain worked up a new sandwich which had Monterey Jack cheese. They called it the Monterey Jack and in their excitement, perhaps bolstered by positive focus group response, there were reports they were going the change the name of the whole chain to Monterey Jack.

The sandwich came. It was okay. They didn’t change the name of the chain. The sandwich left the menu.

So, Copilot, not Office. La de da.

Of course they are. When something disrupts your business, ...

2025-12-12T14:30:36Z

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Of course they are.

When something disrupts your business, clearly the best response is to degrade the experience for your decreasing customer base.

I guess. Have you ever processed expense reports, gotten people ...

2025-12-12T04:32:12Z

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I guess. Have you ever processed expense reports, gotten people to hand in time cards, tracked down a missing packing slip.

Writing something that post transactions and maintains a general ledger? I could and did write that.

“Well, my AI said it was a valid tax deduction. It wasn’t and it’s going to cost me what?”

I don’t know, but I can guess it’s without involvement of ...

2025-11-30T04:51:31Z

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I don’t know, but I can guess it’s without involvement of Phil Collin’s or PeterGabriel.

Ooooh us oldsters, with quaint notions that software should ...

2025-11-27T13:36:50Z

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Ooooh us oldsters, with quaint notions that software should generate consistently correct results and execute and operate with least surprise.

We just don’t get the untold trillions left on the table because we are repulsed, and dive into debug mode, when the agent works out that 1+1 is cheese.

Damn shame it is not within his power. This is sarcasm in case ...

2025-11-20T04:42:22Z

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Damn shame it is not within his power.

This is sarcasm in case you forgot I have no respect for the self-dealing, mendacious, narcissistic sociopath-in-chief.

At the beginning?

2025-11-15T23:28:54Z

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At the beginning?

It is a scurrilous rumor that a “Wink!” concludes each ...

2025-11-01T03:19:18Z

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It is a scurrilous rumor that a “Wink!” concludes each relevant paragraph.

Sounds like an impound event.

2025-09-30T09:36:54Z

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Sounds like an impound event.

Let’s not put all the development eggs in one basket. We should ...

2025-09-27T00:59:55Z

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Let’s not put all the development eggs in one basket. We should look into the My Neighbor Totoro giant cat bus.

Wait, I like programming in Lisp. (I like programming in racket, ...

2025-09-12T15:12:31Z

Wait, I like programming in Lisp. (I like programming in racket, scheme, ocaml, and f# more when I’m feeling fully functional.)

I have Audacity installed. (Though, again, I prefer working in Logic and Sound Studio.)

Link followed and bookmarked for later exploration.

(Not immediate because while on vacation, I’ve been breaking away from the doomscrolling to learn python. You know, for work.)
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115191016399163101

The logo has color. Why are the Smurfs not blue?

2025-08-02T13:17:50Z

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The logo has color. Why are the Smurfs not blue?

“Writing programs should be no harder than writing a resume.” ...

2025-07-06T03:48:54Z

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“Writing programs should be no harder than writing a resume.”

Well, that wins the prize as the most glib statement I’ve seen in a while.

Resumes don’t have to work. Programs should. Does one have to seek an O(n) way to express an O(n^2) work experience?

It is suggested that today AI resume readers are consuming AI written resumes, so my observations from vetting resumes is quaint, yet here it is, 90% of resumes are written poorly with cliches and puffery.

So, resumes aren’t that easy.

I would disagree regarding these non-hypotheticals: the LAPD ...

2025-06-30T05:06:51Z

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I would disagree regarding these non-hypotheticals: the LAPD destroys a homeless encampment or an occupying force bulldozes evacuated houses. Destruction of property is to deny living things means of shelter, survival, livelihood, and, often, a bald demonstration of a power to inflict misery without consequence. I would add destruction of a commons is an act of violence against a community.

I sort of recall talk about automating programming back in the ...

2025-05-30T23:29:01Z

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I sort of recall talk about automating programming back in the 90s and I thought some said they had done some of that, but, please, go on.

I’m backed up working on how many angels on the head of a pin. ...

2025-04-06T02:15:57Z

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I’m backed up working on how many angels on the head of a pin.

Without any study, my initial thought would be, it’s not a cover, it’s a performance.

In connection with that, let me mention The Pomegranate County ...

2025-03-27T04:26:28Z

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In connection with that, let me mention The Pomegranate County Irregulars.

It’s spelled exactly as it appears T-h-e P-o-m-e-g-r-a-n-a-t-e C-o-u-n-t-y I-r-r-e-g-u-l-a-r-s.

We’ll put the “oot” in your hootenanny.

Where a Shakey’s Pizza used to be. Politics aside, how smart is ...

2025-03-22T01:33:31Z

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Where a Shakey’s Pizza used to be.

Politics aside, how smart is it to build a restaurant where a pizza place failed, where street traffic is terrible, and as to left turn access for car traffic? Forget it.

Raising the obvious question, who was stupid enough to think that ...

2025-02-21T14:04:48Z

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Raising the obvious question, who was stupid enough to think that a) it was a good idea, b) it wouldn’t be slammed if known, and c) someone, maybe a rival, would not leak it if it was set an internal secret.

And may I opportunistically again attempt to flog my music video “Hold Music 23 (Your Call Is Important to Us)” https://youtu.be/Auean5R0tHs

Well, one thing led to another and... "Hold Message 23 (Your ...

2025-02-16T19:28:06Z

Well, one thing led to another and... "Hold Message 23 (Your Call Is Important to Us)"

https://youtu.be/Auean5R0tHs

I have a question. Is this allowed? Could I petition the Court to ...

2025-02-07T18:49:16Z

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I have a question. Is this allowed? Could I petition the Court to take another look at Citzens United or last summer’s Presidential immunity ruling?

Based on the reporting I read, this feels like Sharpie to prove ...

2025-02-01T02:22:49Z

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Based on the reporting I read, this feels like Sharpie to prove Alabama was at risk again.

Someone Federal ordered a water release without coordinating locally (people can drown and farm equipment damaged unless it’s moved out of the way.) Why? To retcon a Trump tweet about turning on the water.

The water released? Stored for Central Valley farmers’ summer. The closest thing to rationale? For So Cal (it doesn’t go there) to fight fires (it’s winter and we’ve started getting rain.)

Drop in deliveries should lead to a stock decrease. If I were a ...

2025-01-02T19:52:40Z

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Drop in deliveries should lead to a stock decrease.

If I were a shareholder and believed in the myth of Musk, I’d be thinking about selling as his attentions seem not on Tesla, but on being Trump-whisperer, unelected disrupter of governments, and whatever the heck he’s doing with his identification on X.

But I’m not and never will be.

Well, no cable tv, so if there was an MTV like thing, I ...

2024-12-27T20:11:58Z

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Well, no cable tv, so if there was an MTV like thing, I wouldn’t be watching.

My Apple Music subscription allows me to watch videos and there’s at least one video channel, but I’d have to be really bored with podcasts, radio-like streams, YouTube rpmusic rabbit holes, and not working on my music to even be in a mood where I seek it. Watched it maybe twice in the past year.

And not to control Europe’s wheat? Silly me to think that.

2024-12-12T00:23:17Z

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And not to control Europe’s wheat? Silly me to think that.

Yes they did. Seems likely they’ll want a return. In big ...

2024-12-09T19:32:32Z

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Yes they did. Seems likely they’ll want a return. In big picture terms, it really wasn’t that large an amount invested.

I’m not smart like them, but I’d take the lesson from EM that if you prefer polemics and elevation of hateful voices, your investment’s value plunges.

So maybe ads are coming. Bad ones, I’ll leave. So maybe moderation skews right and cruel. I’ll leave.

Right now, it’s different in complementary ways to here, so I’m at both places. And I’ll never go back to X.

I’ve been thinking about this recently. The music of the 1960s ...

2024-12-09T15:45:42Z

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I’ve been thinking about this recently. The music of the 1960s and 1970s has a much higher profile today than the music of the 1910s and 1920s did fifty years ago.

But, music of the 40s and 50s did have a long run on the radio back then. Because radio homogenized, Boomer music persisted. And then we went digital/streaming.

About the 1920s, people did collect and deeply dove into those acetates. It provided a critical spark for an explosion of folk and blues in the 50s and 60s.

I don’t listen to Sirius XM, but Little Steven’s Underground ...

2024-11-19T03:18:18Z

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I don’t listen to Sirius XM, but Little Steven’s Underground Garage channel is rooted in that era, and will program new tracks.

Here’s the way I look at it, you can always go home musically—it’s not going anywhere. But, I want the excitement I had 50 years back: being blown away about something new and unexpected.

But, yes, it’s difficult and radio is so constricted in its approach.

I welcome new listeners. Here’s my Bandcamp link https://pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/. You might like what I do.

Well, hold on. While the ownership, the technology, and the ...

2024-11-16T14:51:33Z

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Well, hold on. While the ownership, the technology, and the moderation do affect the experience, at the end of the day, it’s the people participating who make a site what it is.

Will BlueSky ownership change, will its tech be used to monetize and degrade the experience, will control be given to arrogant misanthropes who anti-moderate? All possible. Then we move.

In the meantime, it’s okay, and I feel positive about being there as well as here.

Dr. Friesen’s (UCSB Spring 1975) final lecture for History of ...

2024-11-09T08:00:25Z

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Dr. Friesen’s (UCSB Spring 1975) final lecture for History of Western Civilization detailing the assassination of Archduke Prince Ferdinand. And thank you for…

Wait, we’re asking you?

Well, he had a monopoly, right. It’s as if your team’s ...

2024-10-29T00:35:17Z

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Well, he had a monopoly, right.

It’s as if your team’s pitcher is lobbing a ball for you to hit with no fielders out there and, when you step on home plate, you take kudos for an inside-the-park home run.

Isn’t that “an LLM”?

2024-10-18T03:39:11Z

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Isn’t that “an LLM”?

I’m ruling out Poughkeepsie.

2024-09-24T09:50:25Z

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I’m ruling out Poughkeepsie.

Learned this in 1969. Let it fade away. The trick for 11s lasted ...

2024-09-21T18:48:07Z

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Learned this in 1969.

Let it fade away. The trick for 11s lasted the longest.

I like polkas, I like accordions, I like Yankovic. You have Czech ...

2024-09-15T03:39:14Z

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I like polkas, I like accordions, I like Yankovic.

You have Czech roots. My father is Argentine.

Okay, I missed the satirical intent. I’m not getting what assumption of mine needs to be challenged with a fantastic extension of logic into darkness. I guess I’m an idiot.

Today, I tracked a song—a satire —called Lonely War Lord. But I’m not sure if it’s incisive or what mark I’m trying to hit. Autocrats are bad? Satire is hard.

https://soundcloud.com/daniel_orias/the-lonely-war-lord-2024a

It’s always a risk when one delves into satire; it often ...

2024-09-15T03:23:03Z

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It’s always a risk when one delves into satire; it often isn’t as obvious as the authors believe.

Some people have terrible Dads. I don’t and I hope you don’t either.

Frankly I skimmed that part and just focused on the Yankovic slander. I’m glad you do not think Yankovic was slandering polka with his music.

I think you misinterpret. To me, the “Weird” arose from the ...

2024-09-15T03:13:07Z

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I think you misinterpret. To me, the “Weird” arose from the parody nature of the lyrics with its antecedents in Mad Magazine, Doctor Demento, and Spike Jones.

I have a fuzzy recollection of Yankovic coming down from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara to be a guest of Greg Drust’s KCSB program right about the time he was breaking out. If Yankovic was ridiculing polka, hell would freeze over before polka expert Drust would have him on the program.

Aren’t you two quite the Paris?

2024-09-13T13:14:17Z

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Aren’t you two quite the Paris?

I don’t know, if something is witnessed and the officer had the ...

2024-08-25T23:12:07Z

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I don’t know, if something is witnessed and the officer had the foresight to turn off their camera, it would seem to indicate an intention to break the law.

For a constricted definition of merit that is likely to ...

2024-08-22T00:49:07Z

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For a constricted definition of merit that is likely to constitute self-congratulations.

How many of those folks chose MIT because regardless of how they actually do at the school, they figure four years, the institution’s name on the degree, and it’s an easy slide into a high paying job?

He’s not the best bass guitarist by any measure, but the one ...

2024-08-17T18:45:37Z

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He’s not the best bass guitarist by any measure, but the one for who I absolutely listen to everything they do and am thrilled when they do it well is me.

only one way to reduce the debt without GDP busting and cruel ...

2024-08-16T18:45:13Z

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only one way to reduce the debt without GDP busting and cruel austerity.

Tax the super wealthy.

{ “Q”: “How’s it going”, “A”: “Fine.” }

2024-08-08T01:16:53Z

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{
“Q”: “How’s it going”,
“A”: “Fine.”
}

Yes, and they hedge their bets.

2024-08-07T00:48:23Z

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Yes, and they hedge their bets.

As I’m sure we all know, and this even may not need be said, ...

2024-08-07T00:45:58Z

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As I’m sure we all know, and this even may not need be said, the donor class will give to who looks like winners, eventually.