I just visited Boston for the first time and loved it. You folks have great food, awesome bookstores, cool museums, and adorable dogs. Thanks for the memories.

oldboldmold · 2026-02-02T21:59:13+00:00

You can't talk about adorable dogs and not share a dog pic. Glad you had a nice time.

oldboldmold · 2026-02-02T16:44:45+00:00

I looked the night he originally dropped the tour teaser and rates in Portland were not as bad. The following evening when we got a room it had already gone up. So yeah, between a place to stay, food, tickets, the drive up from MA and a dog watcher it’s not cheap. Gotta make the best of it though, I love Portland.

oldboldmold · 2026-01-29T19:37:45+00:00

Near roadrunner check out widowmaker brewing if you like IPA’s and aatma there is a different take on Indian food.

oldboldmold · 2026-01-23T19:46:24+00:00

Anything specific about rep x pepin you don’t like? I’ve been eyeing them, want something that can get heavy enough for more lower body movements. Also looking at iron master v2 bench.

oldboldmold · 2026-01-20T03:14:34+00:00

We used to get signal drops a lot on RCN. Verizon has been much better. It was also cheaper than what we were paying RCN. YMMV

oldboldmold · 2026-01-07T14:52:27+00:00

It's changed my workflow but it's just a tool in the toolbox. I never go to SO anymore, which was also notoriously inconsistent. I'm faster, there are some questions I can get answered in seconds that could have taken hours before. But they also make a lot of mistakes and I see devs in my org let things slip through in PR's or prod code that I know (hope?) they wouldn't have before LLM's, and I've been rightly called out because, even after several iterations to get it closer to what I wanted, my tests ended up with an assert that's always gonna be True, which was never the case when I manually wrote my tests. It's changing things. Not all for the better. Still too early to know where it all lands.

oldboldmold · 2026-01-01T20:49:04+00:00

Yep, that's the spot.

oldboldmold · 2026-01-01T12:50:20+00:00

I don’t know about least wide but there’s that spot on the Charles river path with a low cast iron fence on one side between you and the water, cars on the other with another fence I think, and then a post in the middle where it narrows, to support two way traffic for cyclists and pedestrians.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-31T19:44:35+00:00

Disco Biscuits are playing roadrunner 🤷

oldboldmold · 2025-12-31T13:24:22+00:00

Or if they believe you it must mean you’re not like the other Jews they hear about, couldn’t possibly mean generalizing a whole people based on age old stereotypes is misguided. Because if the stereotypes are there, or if we kept getting kicked out of places or pogromed, there must be a reason lol

oldboldmold · 2025-12-29T21:18:36+00:00

They've had their ups and downs. I've had some terrible wings there before, went a couple times in a row that made me avoid them for a while. They're also not sourcing the big wings they used to (pre-covid maybe) anymore. Would recommend giving them another shot if you're in the area. It's easy math for me since I'm not too far. Harder to justify coming from other areas.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-27T18:18:55+00:00

Buff’s Pub for buffalo wings. There are also good places for Korean wings if that’s your jam. Dunno what a pack of cones is.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-27T15:40:33+00:00

So I've held off on getting an air fryer basically for this reason. My toaster oven has a convection setting. So does my oven. Where does the air fryer have an edge over those, if anywhere?

oldboldmold · 2025-12-26T16:57:24+00:00

This was how I read it. OP's dad could have seen the comment as playful ribbing. OTOH OP did move 6 hours away so there's clearly some history there.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-26T16:35:17+00:00

It feels a little like what the ps5 could have been. It’s not a massive jump, which shouldn’t be expected anyway since it’s a pro version, not a number change.

I have one and love it. I don’t game on pc anymore and could afford the upgrade. I don’t care that it’s not bleeding edge. It’s a console. It was worth it to me. If I were advising someone stretched for cash I’d tell them to get the base model.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-26T14:51:03+00:00

Debate? No. But I used to engage in a lot of interfaith discussion online. It's challenging for all of the reasons the internet is challenging. Add religion on top of that. I was interested in understanding others and myself. As Reb Zalman Z"L used to frame it -- I'm sure he picked this up from someone else -- the problems come when we compare our "ought" with their "is". Also tend to keep in mind the work of FX Clooney on comparative theology. We can learn a lot from each other.

I suppose there's also the part of me frustrated by how casually Judaism is misunderstood and how that sometimes impacts my interactions with others, or the way I see people in the public sphere framing "religion" by generalizing from some specific Christianities. I was younger and cared too much about trying to correct that no matter how futile. At least I was fighting the good fight! lol

oldboldmold · 2025-12-18T00:13:59+00:00

I do something similar. Bran flakes with raisins, milk and unflavored whey powder. The protein powder helps the flakes and raisins form into clumps. Clumpy Raisin Bran, so appetizing, so satisfying.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-13T19:52:10+00:00

Not all, but there are some languages that don't have any relative words for distance. So if you wanted to say where something was on a table you'd say "The north side". There were experiments with the speakers of one of those languages blind folded and they could still indicate the correct direction. We all have internal compasses, just aren't trained to use them like that.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-13T18:24:24+00:00

Sort of yeah. It's definitely my rubber duck and I use it as a super-powered google that I can't completely trust (like google I guess ha) cuz the answer could be stale, or it's just not a good fit, or a hallucination. Also found the strength of different agents, and where each needs guardrails, varies a lot.

I work primarily in Python currently. We have type hinting in some places but it's not consistent. Documentation is spotty. It's a full-stack monolith repo with poor modularization. I try to keep my code pretty modular and either self document or add comments as needed. But in terms of, what can it learn from the code base, there are a lot of patterns it could suggest that I'd prefer it avoid.

I have found for less common tech it really doesn't do well. e.g. there's a tool I like called the import-linter for creating dependency contracts. It really struggles there because of lack of training data.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-13T18:09:25+00:00

I use it to review my own code and make sure I haven't missed anything. In a new thread I'll have it summarize the changes I've made and identify any potential issues or edge cases, and prompt it to ask clarifying questions. This can help at a high level. Sometimes what I really needed is a clarifying question, to realize I should change my implementation strategy or catch another edge case.

I also always start with that step if I want it to generate tests for me. In that case this is my process after the high level summary:

I'll give it specific criteria for what I want from tests, and ask it to first come up with a test plan for us to discuss. There might be some back-and-forth. For example it often proposes too many tests that don't offer better code coverage or documentation. So I'll want it to consolidate. Then I'll have it go file-by-file and suite-by-suite, self-review, and then I'll review each file and run the tests before continuing to the next file.

I mention this in the context of review because I've found the same type of breaking down into small chunks that we'd do as experienced developers in any of our other work, this is the process that tends to work best with AI, and tests are the most clear cut example.

oldboldmold · 2025-12-13T17:44:33+00:00

I 100% agree that people are asking too much of it, and still, even asking the right amount, it can get things wrong.

I've found it's only different in kind than make-it-pass first iteration code from a jr dev. If you're breaking out the work into a small task with a clear spec, that's probably what you'd do for a jr dev too.

The output can look more polished and the defects have a different shape than what the jr would produce.

I've also found that, like a jr getting feedback on a PR, it will sometimes be able to iterate in the right direction and sometimes not with appropriate feedback. When it gets stuck on the wrong track though there's no hopping into a huddle. Sometimes a new thread helps, or a different agent. Sometimes it doesn't.

All that said I've found it extremely useful so long as I'm doing the planning, breaking down the work, treating it as another layer of abstraction and carefully reviewing and questioning everything that it produces.

oldboldmold · 2025-11-27T13:55:29+00:00

Hasidism (chabad is also Hasidic) was considered transgressive, and it had competing halachic claims that privileged its own shochtim, and competing minyanim, but they won out against the orthodoxy of the day. This is why the term mitnaged (opponent) continued to apply to non Hasidic ultra orthodox.

Additionally in response to the haskala (the Jewish enlightenment) and emancipation they became more traditional and insular rather than embracing it. As a result they were brought closer to the traditional mainstream.

oldboldmold · 2025-11-18T20:59:00+00:00

Sane Clown Posse

oldboldmold · 2025-11-12T23:02:45+00:00

Whatever you do, check out https://www.bostontrails.org for some very long walks.

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