Notices by Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)

@tealeg @GossiTheDog Yep, saw and shared this on bsky…

@tealeg I'm pretty close to giving up on X and maybe also Mastodon. (-:

Take out food coloring and half the things sold will look inedible. Cheetos sales will go to zero. Will totally tank the economy.

My physiotherapist this morning got confused between QR codes and URLs (this particular one was a QR code pointing to a URL) and called it "QRL", and honestly this is brilliant and we should just all adopt it.

TIL that "golconda" is a word in the English dictionary ("a source of wealth, advantages, or happiness"). Text from
https://casetext.com/case/limone-v-us-3?et_rid=1039201653&s_campaign=rhodemap:newsletter

To: hr@opm.gov
From: Me

RE: What did you do last week?

1. I let freedom come my way
2. I started out of town
3. I saw Sheriff John Brown
4. I shot the sheriff
5. I went back and shot the deputy too, because he seemed woke

Sincerely,

@ahfrom A sequence of miserable little characters.

BREAKING: Trump signs executive order rescinding the undecidability of the Halting Problem, claiming it holds back American progress. All major chip manufacturers immediately slave through the night to add HALTP to their instruction sets in compliance.

Just learned about this recent case where a transgender person in Karnataka, India successfully challenged the Registrar to accommodate name and gender changes (not possible by prior law). Progress that I couldn't have imagined decades ago.
https://clpr.org.in/litigation/ms-x-v-state-of-karnataka/

Trying to figure out why Elon's transgender child is real estate news…Oh, I see, I'm on the WSJ, so this is perfect clickbait for the median readership.

@aral Zoom was a genuine improvement over its predecessors, and is still better than Teams, so I don't think that's fair.

Of all the UX improvements Zoom needs, they have decided to make precisely zero and instead enshittify it. Can't wait for someone to do to Zoom what Zoom did to Skype.

EDIT: You can turn this off, instructions here:
https://x.com/ajay9470/status/1876363012011180114

It's funny ("funny") how it turned out there are two ways to build a fash social network: you could start from the bottom (like 3-4 did in the past few years) and struggle to get past like 100K users, or you can just buy X and lose a lot of people. The latter is clearly much more successful.

I seem to be on a "defend LLMs for personal use" kick. It seemed like fun to see how I've used them in the past month. In most cases, I first did a search that proved useless (often, spending a long time following links that looked like they *could* be helpful…but weren't). ↵

"Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code" by @tonofcrates.
https://blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/evaluating-human-factors-beyond-lines-of-code/

A while ago I had a Twitter thread encouraging people to write more books. @neeldhara urged me to turn it into a proper blog post, and I just have: "You Too Can Write a Book!"

https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/write-a-book/

@landley I too grunt (like @robpike), but when I'm in a more friendly mood, I instead go "Ahoy, ahoy!", because that's how Alexander Graham Bell answered the phone. It serves the same purpose as a grunt or "potato" but has the added edge of letting you pass on an anecdote to your caller if they're a good person to hear it.

@inthehands @chrisamaphone Well played.

@rk @inthehands @chrisamaphone But to do this properly the prologue would have to be written by the system.

Good advice not only in life but also in formal semantics.