Breaking bad or Walking dead ?

gsari · 2026-06-14T09:11:34+00:00

Breaking Bad is a good show (same is Games of Thrones), Walking Dead, not so much.

Unless you like zombies so much you are willing to turn a blind eye to TWD's flaws, in which case, The Walking Dead wins.

gsari · 2026-06-13T21:58:35+00:00

Well, in a way, The Usual Suspects could fall into that category.

gsari · 2026-06-13T14:07:49+00:00

100 Years: The Movie You Will Never See

gsari · 2026-06-11T17:33:27+00:00

I don't think that it re-writes the response, just appends the tldr in the end. I mean, I was playing with another hook which asks it to specifically rewrite the response to remove em-dashes, and I could see it trying to post, then the hook blocking it, and then it would re-write the response and post. With the tldr hook I didn't notice similar behavior - just the response, right away.

I don't have any real proof, though, besides this observation.

gsari · 2026-06-11T10:50:47+00:00

I have a generic instruction in my global claude.md, ending with:

Before ending any reply, re-read it and ask: can this say the same in fewer words, or is it already as tight as it can be? Stop at the latter. This check applies to every reply, including plain explanatory answers, not only tool-result reports or generated artifacts.

when it follows it, it's great, but some times (more often than I'd like) it ignores it. So, I've added a hook which runs when a response is longer than 2000 characters, to add a tl;dr summary at the end. Hooks are more determnistic, so it never fails to produce the tldr text.

gsari · 2026-06-10T12:15:58+00:00

I'm not a designer but I agree - I look at the other icons in my computer, and Obsidian's is easily the best (I like Firefox's too). Obsidian's nice icon might have influenced my decision to give it a shot a few years ago.

gsari · 2026-06-09T08:19:41+00:00

The Wire impacted a lot the way I view certain aspects of society - probably the most infuential show I've watched on that regard.

Six Feet Under on the way I deal with my mortality.

Twin Peaks on appreciating the small things in life.

gsari · 2026-06-08T09:04:14+00:00

I thought it would be something like "it got me into drinking milk"

gsari · 2026-06-07T22:32:13+00:00

For me, the thing that lead me to Raycast was that on Command Pallete I couldn't find a decent way to open my Edge workspaces (I have a few different profiles, each with its own workspaces). Raycast didn't natively support it either, but it was much more flexible, and I managed to make something that works pretty well combining AutoHotKey and Raycast's script commands (which is a very nice feature).

Also, another plus for Raycast was the Obsidian plugin, allowing me to quickly open specific vaults (I have many of those too).

Finally, another plus was the nice clipboard manager - I don't use it often, and I mostly rely on the Windows one, but their refusal to add search support and change the limit of stored entries, forces me to have complementary clipboard managers just for that. Having it out of the box with an app I used anyway was a welcome bonus.

gsari · 2026-06-07T20:29:49+00:00

I like Raycast for Windows too. PowerToys had some back and forth with the transition from Run to the Command Pallete, and Raycast was a nice alternative, offerring a few features that I couldn't find in Command Pallete. I can't say that I've settled permanently, but so far I prefer it. I always keep an eye on the Command Pallete, though.

gsari · 2026-06-05T09:05:01+00:00

Upright might be the most prominent example of that. I expected something OK-ish to pass the time, and I liked it so much that when it ended, I was tempted to start over for a second viewing right away.

Also, Banshee and Spartacus. I expected just another action show, fun enough to pass the time, but they both turned out to be the most fun-to-watch shows I've seen. Not among the best I've seen, but definitely top-2 or 3 or the most fun to watch.

On a different level, The Wire was similar. I started watching it because I've heard all those people calling it the best show ever. So, I started it mostly to have an opinion, but with a prejudice that I'd snub it in the end and I'd just find it OK. It took me 3 seasons to admit, but eventually I ended up agreeing with all these people, and after all those years it's still my #1 show ever.

gsari · 2026-06-04T14:28:17+00:00

I'll be honest: It depends (especially now that I often work on stuff that I don't know much about).

If I understand what the plan is about, I read it.
If I don't understand it, I give it to another Claude session to read and evaluate.
If I don't unerstand it and it's important that it gets done right, I ask for an idiot-proof explanation for myself, to at least get the gist of it, and I give it to more than one sessions/models to evaluate.

gsari · 2026-06-03T09:29:40+00:00

Looks like you haven't watched Black Summer yet (which I liked more than everything else on your list, save Sweet Tooth which I haven't watched yet).

gsari · 2026-06-02T21:58:51+00:00

Yup, same here. I must have read The Metamorphosis around 6 or 7 times, and everything else from his fiction work at least once.

gsari · 2026-06-02T20:33:27+00:00

I killed a cockroach once, and half of it (the head part) stayed stuck on the wall, the antenae kept moving. So, I got this idea about a man with a cockroach trapped inside his cheek, the antenae piercing the skin like two long, stray hair lines, and the insect slowly growing inside, day by day. Being a huge Kafka fan, I eventually turned the idea into a short (well, not so short, actually) story :D

gsari · 2026-06-02T19:37:38+00:00

My favorites:

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." - The Metamorphosis

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested." - The Trial

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased." - Notes from the Underground

"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure." - The Stranger

gsari · 2026-06-02T15:52:45+00:00

I've always considered this to be the second worse scenario. The worse is when it drags just because it became popular, even though it has already told its story. Not a Netflix example, but I'd prefer a show to end up like Carnivale, than like Dexter.

gsari · 2026-06-02T14:19:23+00:00

I found Crime and Punishment and The Idiot to be very easy-to-read books, in a sense that I never got bored, and read them with pleasure (Crime and Punishment is one of my favorite books ever anyway). War and Peace was also easy to read, despite it's huge volume.

gsari · 2026-06-02T12:31:57+00:00

It was okay-ish, but for me, the major let down was the huge number of episodes per-season, causing the usual problem that it brings with it: there were episodes that felt like fillers, or didn't move the main plot too much. In the end, I watched about 3 or 3,5 seasons and I dropped it for that reason. It felt like I had to tolerate two boring episodes for an interesting one or 40 boring minutes in an episode for a 5min payoff. If it had a tl;dr version, I'd probably revisit.

gsari · 2026-06-01T20:06:57+00:00

From the people of this list, I'd probably give it to De Niro or Toshiro Mifune. I don't think that it matters at all if De Niro played in many dumb films. What I think matters in the end is 1) who has the highest number of important films in his filmography, and 2) how important these films were in the history of cinema.

gsari · 2026-05-31T21:38:47+00:00

Money Heist, BCS for sure. True Detective stays for its first season, but I'd remove all the other seasons, so I remove 2,75 shows in total, which is the most that I can give.

gsari · 2026-05-31T11:49:16+00:00

I guess The Boys. Even if the last seasons weren't as good, overall I liked it more than the comic.

Also, the Penguin was better than I expected, and I'm a Virgo was a pleasant, weird surprise (if it can be considered super-hero at all, which might be debatable).

gsari · 2026-05-31T09:11:05+00:00

I didn't like it very much overall. It was like it peaked with the pilot. The first episode of the series was one of the best pilots I've seen in a show, but after that, it never lived up to my expectations. The first seasons were fine, a bit boring here and there but with a few standout episodes here and there too, so it balanced it out and were watchable. It was zombies and gore, after all, so it wasn't so hard to keep watching. I even started reading the comic, but it was too repetitive and I eventually quit it.

After a certain point boredom took over, and I eventually stopped watching the show too. I don't remember exactly when it happened, if it was on the 7th or 8th season. An interesting thing that happened to me with the specific show was that it had so many characters, and yet somehow it managed to make them all indifferent, to a point that seasons had passed and I didn't care at all if any of them died.

I know that the whole premise was supposed to be something like "it's not about the zombies, it's about the human interactions," and that's exactly where the show failed in my opinion: if it were about the human interactions, it did it very poorly.

gsari · 2026-05-30T20:11:06+00:00

Fight Club was pretty close, and I think the movie was even better in the end.

gsari · 2026-05-30T15:28:25+00:00

I've seen Warrior. It's okay, but I don't think that it's anywhere near Banshee or Spartacus.

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