Lion ponderings

 Lions do miss the way programming was done when they 1st entered the industry.  Not sure most of the AI pundits praising the last 30 years of advancements are doing anything but chasing engagement. There was nothing but O'reilly textbooks, Kerninghan & Ritchie, numerical recipes in C.  There was very little example code.  Most animals got in the industry because they were attracted to a way things were done & a certain type of output.  There was a process of discovery & a value in a hard earned solution that just did what it had to do.  The complexity of designs was constrained by animal intelligence & the capability of the tools, which was less than animal intelligence.  Not convinced someone like 8 bit guy who spent years programming 6502 assembly with a vintage environment really enjoys making AI movies & software as much as he says he does for engagement. Biology majors once called the industry fast paced in the 90's.  Now...

 Pondered how a lot of retail investors on the sidelines since 2008, on the cusp of 1M, jumped in the stonk market during the dip in 2020, at the same time, then instantly crossed 1M.  Then based on stonk market returns, they all hit 2M 6 years later & now are getting the hell out at the same time.   Investment behavior is like a row of metronomes that all synchronize over time.  Large events of selling & buying eventually tend to line up.       Military defeat was not on the lion kingdom's bingo card.  Defending a shipping channel was pretty important for bond prices.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Magic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34dAyDUglrI  From the department of stuff you didn't know.   No open source/stack overflow/claude. Just bookshelves.   No sampled audio or captured video. Just text ...

    Got the very last one at .63 per ounce. Now .88 per ounce. Allah 4ever.        Funny how the blue ones  contain  the  knowledge based  stuff which became automated since 2023 while the red ones  contain  the manual labor which is in demand.  Where have you gone, dot com boom?  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoring ancient audio software    Again set to the task of reconstituting the lion kingdom's mac 68k environment of 30 years ago.    When this journey began, the only emulator was super expensive ARDI.  After years of unsucessful basilisk installations, new to the chat was Mini vmac.  https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/    The problem seems to be the large number of bits they require assembling from scratch & the strict enforcement o...

  Feel the pain of 30 million rejections.  Truth be told, polyamory & cohabiting replaced most of that.  The percentage of truly single men is much higher in silicon valley.  60% is a more likely number here.    ------------------------------ As expected, the delayed trades after Friday's inflation miss executed over the next 2 days & then we were down 3% from the all time high in August. Then the fall accelerated after the interest rate hike. Now they're saying to expect 4% by year's end.  It could be more jawboning to lower long term yields.       The retiretube permabulls of the last 5 years are now bailing out of the S&P index fund because for the 1st time in 20 years they can get a bigger return from bonds than stonks.  The Dave Ramsey plan just about died in as much time as it grew. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The day job completed a long awaited...

  Imagine not knowing if keyboards, joysticks, light pens, mice, touch pads, touch screens, or spoken language were going to be the chosen user interface.  In a time when lions could scarcely imagine reaching a double digit age, it really felt like we'd be drawing with joysticks forever.    That was us before 1984.  To lions old enough to recognize artifacts from that era, that's a blue/green screen.  They were never interacting with a user interface.  It was composited later.     Laid down a bruiser.  1 month after the last 10mph effort broke things down again, went back to alternating between walk & run days to try to increase the intensity.  A steady decline throughout August ended in barely being able to hit 6mph.  The walk/run pattern got back up to a 7m45 mile.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------  After fixing a regression in the keyframe paste function, embarked on fi...

 Besides senioritis, other trends from college have returned after 50.  Lions noted working part time instead of borrowing was what the over achievers did in college & the path to success.  Working part time after retirement is now being seen as a similar path to success, as if our college phase was starting over again.   The abundance of gootubers worth many millions yet continuing to work after retirement was the 1st big sign that the part time working, college over achievers were coming back for retirement.  Instead of uploading copyrighted music & producing value, they choose to jump all the hoops for monetization, produce rehashed click bait, comply with AI art requirements.  It definitely feels like the desire for a higher standard of living is going to create the same hierarchy of over achievers & slackers in retirement as college.  Working in retirement is going to be a new rite of passage.  At the same time, in the l...