#verbosity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #verbosity, aggregated by home.social.
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🐒 Well, look who's mastered the art of digital literature with this magnum opus of verbosity—'Click'. Truly, a timeless #masterpiece that captures the essence of... exactly nothing. 📚🚀 Bravo!
https://clickclickclick.click/ #digitalliterature #verbosity #Click #timelessart #nothingcaptures #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, ColoradoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, ColoradoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, ColoradoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, ColoradoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words
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🛑 Oh look, another groundbreaking exposé on AI coding agents that rivals War and Peace in its verbosity! 🙄 Zero words, zero insights, zero hope for humanity's future coding overlords. 🤖404: Humor not found.
https://standupforme.app/blog/some-uncomfortable-truths-about-ai-coding-agents/ #AIexposé #Humorless #CodingFuture #Verbosity #TechSatire #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because cramming 315 KB into 5.4 KB is the cutting-edge #innovation we all desperately needed. 😏 Bravo for redefining #compression and context—now if only it could compress the #verbosity of this article. 🚀🔍
https://github.com/mksglu/claude-context-mode #technews #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
"Actually, let me go back even further..."
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1791240/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1791240/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1791240/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1791240/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1791238/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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"Actually, let me go back even further..."
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1791238/actually-let-me-go-back-even-further
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Brent's manifesto on how to write C code is so deeply innovative that it’s basically just assembly with a fancier hat. 🤓💻 Apparently, he's so committed to "perfect encapsulation" that he forgot to encapsulate his own #verbosity. 🙄
https://retroscience.net/brents-c-programming-rules.html #CProgramming #Innovation #CodingTips #AssemblyLanguage #HackerNews #ngated -
In this riveting tale of profound #verbosity, Ursula K. Le Guin explores the mystical realms of saying absolutely nothing for endless pages 📚😴. If you're looking to fill your bookshelf with the sound of one hand clapping, look no further! 🙌✨
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence #UrsulaKLeGuin #BookRecommendations #LiteraryHumor #MysticalRealms #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Dive into a cosmic soup of #buzzwords and pseudo-profundity! 🌌 Let's unite #Buddhism, #neuroscience, and whatever else fits into a pretentious title, because who needs clarity when you have verbosity? 🙄
https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/ #cosmicsoup #pseudo-profundity #verbosity #HackerNews #ngated -
😂 Oh, look! Another tech "genius" who "invented" sliced bread, but forgot to bring the knife. 🥴 The article is a masterclass in saying absolutely nothing with maximum #verbosity. 🙄
https://wthhyb.sacha.house/ #techfail #innovation #comedy #sliceoflife #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, the classic "chunky" LLM paper that promises to accelerate inference while managing to slow down readers with its mind-numbing #verbosity. 🤯 But hey, who cares about the content when you can bask in the glory of supporting open access by donating to #arXiv instead! 💸✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02361 #chunkyLLM #openaccess #donations #AIresearch #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖💥Oh no! The towering "wall" of doom for large language models, funded by a foundation with a fancy name! Apparently, the only thing bigger than these models' vocabularies is this article's #verbosity.⛰️📚
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19703 #largeLanguageModels #AIresearch #wallOfDoom #techNews #HackerNews #ngated -
In a stunning display of cutting-edge #verbosity, François Chollet enlightens us on the path to #AGI via a #YouTube sermon that only 2025 Google LLC could love. 🤖📽️ Prepare for a deep dive into every buzzword imaginable, ensuring you'll emerge enlightened—or just yearning for a simpler time when #AI meant calculators. 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks #Enlightenment #Buzzwords #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🎉 Behold the latest in tech absurdity: a #Kotlin framework for #AI #agents, ensuring that your machine learning models can now be as verbose and bloated as a middle school essay! #JetBrains has clearly pinpointed the one thing AI was truly lacking: the thrill of idiomatic Kotlin syntax. 🙄🧠
https://github.com/JetBrains/koog #techabsurdity #machinelearning #verbosity #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: An intrepid adventurer survives the perilous #journey to DjangoCon EU 2025 in #Dublin, only to return with the shocking revelation that both the city and the #Django #community are...wait for it...awesome! 🎉Zach Bellay bravely pens a 2212-word #epic to tell us what we already knew, proving once again that #verbosity is the highest form of flattery. 🤦♂️
https://www.zachbellay.com/posts/djangocon-eu-2025/ #DjangoConEU2025 #Adventure #HackerNews #ngated -
@lianna as with most things it comes down to preference. however having them in your text directly means that a #ScreenReader user might choose to lower the #Verbosity of the punctuation they hear, thus not even realising that there were 2 tags there already.
Obviously that only works for speech users and if the tags make sense within the context of the words.
My rule of thumb is to imbed them within my text if they'd make syntactical sense without the octothorpe and add the ones that don't afterward. -
🚀🤖 Oh joy, let's redefine "recursion" by talking to a robot in English while pretending it's 1965 and #FORTRAN is cutting-edge! Because if there's one thing developers need, it's AI-powered verbosity! 😂
https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm #recursion #AI #verbosity #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
👹 In a valiant attempt to redefine literary criticism, Colin Burrow heroically declares #ogres as "cool" in a mind-blowing revelation only rivaled by the discovery that water is wet. 🫧 With the depth of a kiddie pool, this piece offers groundbreaking insights like "ogres are in stories" while barely keeping its head above the swamp of its own #verbosity. 📝
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/colin-burrow/ogres-are-cool #literarycriticism #coolness #satire #storytelling #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, the legendary Go error handling—where writing a novel on "if err != nil" is not just encouraged, it's practically a sport! 🎉🔧 Forget writing real code; the real achievement is achieving carpal tunnel from repetitive error checks. Who knew #verbosity was the new minimalism? 🤦♂️
https://rauljordan.com/why-go-error-handling-is-awesome/ #GoLang #ErrorHandling #ProgrammingHumor #CarpalTunnel #CodingLife #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Another thrilling saga of the academic elite congratulating themselves for acknowledging their patron, the Simons Foundation. In a dazzling display of #verbosity, we learn the revolutionary idea of using "Retrieval Augmented Generation" to detect frames, whatever that means.🙄✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12210 #academicelite #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #SimonsFoundation #innovation #sarcasm #HackerNews #ngated -
🛠️ Let's reinvent the wheel by #coding a #BitTorrent client in #Go, because downloading #Debian hasn't been done enough already, right? 🚀 Forget the power of existing #clients, we're all about reinventing this over-engineered bicycle. 🌐 Also available in several languages, because #verbosity knows no borders. 🗣️
https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ #reinventthewheel #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
@python_discussions I sometimes I abuse this for quick and dirty changing #verbosity in my functions without explicitly writing if statements:
```
verbose = True
verbose and print("some overly verbose message")
...
verbose and print("some other optional message")
```
By switching the boolean to `False` it directly turns off all `print` statements and the short circuiting uses a single line instead of a two line `if` in #pythonI don't know whether I would do so im production code though ...
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A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:
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It is not a Fault in Company to talk much; but to continue it long, is certainly one; for, if the Majority of those who are got together be naturally silent or cautious, the Conversation will flag, unless it be often renewed by one among the…
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/72297/#quote #quotes #quotation #conversation #longwindedness #loquaciousness #monopolizing #shutup #soliloquy #talking #verbosity
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A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:
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It is not a Fault in Company to talk much; but to continue it long, is certainly one; for, if the Majority of those who are got together be naturally silent or cautious, the Conversation will flag, unless it be often renewed by one among the…
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/72297/#quote #quotes #quotation #conversation #longwindedness #loquaciousness #monopolizing #shutup #soliloquy #talking #verbosity
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A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:
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It is not a Fault in Company to talk much; but to continue it long, is certainly one; for, if the Majority of those who are got together be naturally silent or cautious, the Conversation will flag, unless it be often renewed by one among the…
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/72297/#quote #quotes #quotation #conversation #longwindedness #loquaciousness #monopolizing #shutup #soliloquy #talking #verbosity
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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.[Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.]
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https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22408/#quote #quotes #quotation #author #ease #ego #fluency #glibness #pride #skill #talent #verbosity #writing
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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.[Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22408/#quote #quotes #quotation #author #ease #ego #fluency #glibness #pride #skill #talent #verbosity #writing
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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.[Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22408/#quote #quotes #quotation #author #ease #ego #fluency #glibness #pride #skill #talent #verbosity #writing
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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.[Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22408/#quote #quotes #quotation #author #ease #ego #fluency #glibness #pride #skill #talent #verbosity #writing
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File under: #ThingsYouFindInEMACSPackages
https://github.com/nashamri/academic-phrases
Writing your academic paper, you get stuck trying to find the perfect magic phrase to capture your intentions. 'M-x academic-phrases' presents you with a list, organized by the topic or by the paper section that you are writing, with around 600 available phrases so far, based on the freely available Springer PDF "English for Writing Research-Papers - Useful Phrases" (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319260921)
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File under: #ThingsYouFindInEMACSPackages
https://github.com/nashamri/academic-phrases
Writing your academic paper, you get stuck trying to find the perfect magic phrase to capture your intentions. 'M-x academic-phrases' presents you with a list, organized by the topic or by the paper section that you are writing, with around 600 available phrases so far, based on the freely available Springer PDF "English for Writing Research-Papers - Useful Phrases" (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319260921)
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File under: #ThingsYouFindInEMACSPackages
https://github.com/nashamri/academic-phrases
Writing your academic paper, you get stuck trying to find the perfect magic phrase to capture your intentions. 'M-x academic-phrases' presents you with a list, organized by the topic or by the paper section that you are writing, with around 600 available phrases so far, based on the freely available Springer PDF "English for Writing Research-Papers - Useful Phrases" (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319260921)
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File under: #ThingsYouFindInEMACSPackages
https://github.com/nashamri/academic-phrases
Writing your academic paper, you get stuck trying to find the perfect magic phrase to capture your intentions. 'M-x academic-phrases' presents you with a list, organized by the topic or by the paper section that you are writing, with around 600 available phrases so far, based on the freely available Springer PDF "English for Writing Research-Papers - Useful Phrases" (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319260921)
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File under: #ThingsYouFindInEMACSPackages
https://github.com/nashamri/academic-phrases
Writing your academic paper, you get stuck trying to find the perfect magic phrase to capture your intentions. 'M-x academic-phrases' presents you with a list, organized by the topic or by the paper section that you are writing, with around 600 available phrases so far, based on the freely available Springer PDF "English for Writing Research-Papers - Useful Phrases" (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319260921)
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I thought 500-word abstracts were challenging—this 100-word limit is a qualitatively different type of challenge!
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In typical #java #programming #verbosity, the #ApacheCommonsCompression utility requires the following steps to add files to an archive:
1. Open an output stream to a potential archive file. Note that this won't create the file until later.
2. Create an archive entry for every file to be added. You have to supply a path to the file. Note that this neither adds the file, nor the entry to the archive.