Shadow Feline

Shadow Feline

@shadowfeline.bsky.social

Discovering the world's gems, one bijou at the time #worldsbijou Retired engineer, investor, mentor.

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Funny how there are no peanuts anymore in american bars, but there are often in European bars... Allergies and lawsuits drove peanuts out of america.... land of the free, my ass... land if the sued more likely

Still cannot understand why people think louder car means faster? Don't they know that these days most powerful cars are basically silent? Loud cars are a sign of poor folks and those with a small, hmhm, muffler.

Irony: if you support government, you are against people. It is true. Every government was always to enslave and "guide" people. You support it only because you cannot imagine living free. #livefree #resist

AI conversation is basically done. With Donald Knut, Martin Scorscese, Linus Torvalds, and (why do I include him) George Lucas (and many more smart, not rich people) are naming AI as a useful tool. If you are still against - compare yourself to 5g towers burning crowd.

Rewatching Scrubs. Episode where they steal everything from hospital. Soundtrack "If I had a million dollars, I'd be rich". 25 years later... I think it should sound "billion". Prices are so high, million makes you safe, but doubtfully rich...

To people protesting AI datacenters: you have a chance to force rich to share profit with you. But you decided against it. They will build datacenters in space and ocean, all profit will go to Musk and Thiel, you will get nothing. And you will blame rich again, but it is you fault. #AIDC

Accidently watched football Norway vs France. Dear Norway, maybe you should pick football players according to skills, not skin color? Every single one looks like a poster boy for 3rd reigh, and behaves badly, and plays poorly.

Tourist traps are awful usually (or worser than nearby places) since they do not need to work hard. Humans are lazy, it is not a tourists fault that local business is lazy... Cheers is awful, McGee is subpar... Aye vaye... #NYC #bars

I really love Manhattan - life could suck anywhere, but only here (almost, sorry London, Tokyo) you turn around when everything is gloom and find a place like this. #NYC #AwesomeNYC

Investments as well: Wednesday, crypto is slightly down, markets at jittery at 0. By Monday plus 1.2% on major indexes or more? Or is it the sign? Hah, hope not. Not for another 4 months

Kubuntu based laptop decided to drain full battery in 3 hours, refuses to charge, lost its app panel on additional monitor that was disconnected hours ago.... Canonical developers are trying hard to prove that it was the right choice not to hire them anywhere.

Some places in #NYC are just great beyond description. Siberia was recently reopened. If you don't know about it - Google, it has a long history. And now you can meet the founder again. He is amazing!

Not to criticize Tony Awards, but there is a big difference between some "best musicals". Random example: primitive "Book of Mormons", that looks more like high school drama production. And "Outsiders" that are just brilliant...

Re: NYC congestion pricing. It seems NJ forgot the foundation of democracy: the needs of the many (MTA service area population ~15M) outweigh the needs of the few (NJ pop. ~9.5M) #HandsOffNYC #NYC

What is your #onlyinnyc moment? Not one that cannot happen anywhere else, but the one that you associate the most? Mine: walking down the street with my partner holding hands, a bit reluctantly, car passing by, man sticks out the window and yells "you look great together!" #lovenyc

With all the changes promised to the public education system in US, I can't help but thinking about apprenticeship system - isn't it essentially a distributed education vs public which is centrally controlled, centrally abused and spof susceptible?

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