Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The irony of the secret calculator is that it underestimates the difficulty of implementing a "is this free text asking an arithmetic question and if so, what is it?" classifier, which would have been impossible before LLMs 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If this is Gmail, search for "larger:10m". Those emails are your enemies 061
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My former employer's (very large tech company) holiday party in 2007 was at the rainbow room at the top of the rock. In 2008 it was in the abandoned fifth floor of a random building on 36th st. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Interestingly, in Turkey, we had Knorr brand bouillon growing up. I'm now realizing one was a Unilever and the other a Nestle product. I think it was a side effect of not having liquid broths at the store because nobody bought any food item in a container -- they just cost too much. 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There's a bit of an opposite problem in parts of Europe like Spain and Italy, where the coffee shops do not open before 8am! But generally they are open pretty late. I've been to a Starbucks in Istanbul open 6am-1am 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The most important and influential technology person of the 21st century. Key person in every step of the Big Data -> Cloud -> AI progression. Enough Google insiders know this to cause the price action that happened today. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Poached if I'm allowed to add yogurt and make this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%...en.wikipedia.orgÇılbır - Wikipedia 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Stupid question: how do you define "net buying"? Isn't there a seller on the other side of every trade? 100
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I think the problem is that before the tournament nobody thought he'd be in this list, so they are hesitant to overcorrect their priors. I mean the guy hasn't even consistently started at Real last year. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I'd love for this narrative to be true but it really isn't. Even worse, the opposite is the reason the US does not produce world class soccer players (unless they leave their family as teenagers to go to Europe). Top Norwegian players are no different. 110
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Sorry but this is a bad take. If we're talking about soccer, the European way (including Norway) is way harsher for kids. They go professional at age 16 or 17, never go to college. Most don't finish a real high school. 5140
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Have you been to Spain or Italy? I live in Seville where virtually everywhere has AC in zillion year old buildings. To install a mini split, you just need to drill a hole through a wall. Next question? 040
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It was painful (I'm Turkish). More so because the tactics of both teams were so predictable before the game and Australia's worked perfectly. 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Unfortunately the Mexican food in Spain sucks because it's modified to conform to Spanish taste, which means no spices. 120
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Yes. IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS THE ISLAMABAD MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSER 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 10/06/202694 World Cup final was played in Pasadena, CA at 12:30pm local time in 100F weather. It's not like they learned their lesson. Everything is scheduled for prime time TV in Europe. Personally I think a daytime game looks horrible on TV, too, regardless of the temperature. 190
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026This brings back fond memories of when I moved from Turkey to Ann Arbor for graduate school. I vaguely knew the existence of college sports (mostly basketball), but definitely was not prepared for what was waiting for me. 1100
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I don't have first hand experience in Mexico, but if it's anywhere close to Mexican food in the US, I can assure you that is a lot more veggies (and spices) than Spanish food. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I think you're giving too much credit to the typical European by assuming they're familiar with Midwest casseroles lol. The typical American food hater believes that Americans eat McDonald's every day. The US having so many subcultures is causing people to believe that it has no culture. 070
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I moved from the US to Spain (Andalusia) last year, and hard disagree. The lack of vegetables in Spanish (restaurant) food has been a shock. 140
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This Bear Grylls? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIG...youtube.comMan vs. Wild - Pacific Island - Bear's EnemaYouTube video by Discovery 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026A lot of these aren't even "second" homes in the traditional sense, but essentially the primary residence for a rich guy who actually lives in NYC but makes sure to sleep > 184 nights / year in his Connecticut home to avoid NYC taxes. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026enjoy long years of retirement with (relatively) small withdrawals (and conversions) under lower tax brackets. Note you can always convert pre-tax to Roth (minus taxes) but the other direction is not possible. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The rough rule is "Roth if you expect a higher tax rate when withdrawing in the future", and this reflects most people's life arc and thinking. However, pre-tax contribution is more popular in the high savings / early retirement community where people... 120
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Haberde yanlış yazılmış. Sheila Jackson değil, Jonathan Jackson. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The "American accent" is mostly making sounds that do not exist in the learned language. English, and American English in particular, is very rich wrt sounds (vowels in particular). This makes it hard for most people to speak English without a heavy accent, too! 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I believe it's the difference between u and ü in German or Turkish. I'd describe it as "say u but touch your bottom teeth with your tongue". 260
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The funny thing is he thought he wasn't getting enough credit for this law he "signed earlier this year", so he just decided to raise its profile and go viral. 020
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Yes, I think the thinking for those who jumped (and many didn't) is there's more upside than downside. More so than any other "startups" in the past. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026And open AI + anthropic is almost all people who left Google because they wanted to get paid more than seven figures. 100
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Also, DoorDash seemingly beat others that supposedly should have had network effects? I used Seamless, Grubhub, and to a lesser degree Caviar and Slice for years. 110
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026media.tenor.coma group of white balls are hanging from a string on a black backgroundAlt: a group of white balls are hanging from a string on a black background, swinging back and forth 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026He's the worst person a sunny place (Santa Monica for god's sake) has ever produced. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Also, Spain is currently the only major European country with a left leaning gov (except the UK, but their politics are weird) and these things can change very quickly after an election. Pedro Sánchez seems popular though. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Yes! (I'm a Turkish-American currently living in Spain). A big caveat is that the vast majority of the undocumented immigrants here are Spanish speaking people that have arrived by plane and simply overstayed. I'm not sure the public would have been as receptive if they were mostly, say, African. 110
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Lol it's not even one of a hundred suburban cities around LA in the most suburban place in the world. It's a whole different midsize city. 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026That's why it feels so strange if you're surrounded by mostly nice and polite and smart people. You don't get to interact with a single Trump voter on an average day, but here we are. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I often wonder what the old world DID eat before discovering the New World. It's like bread, cabbage, fish and meat if you can find it. Mediterraneans were lucky to have olives, grapes and fruits in general, but not much else? 000
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026To be fair to the commenters, eugenics is mentioned towards the end of the article. The whole thing is so cringe that I suspect a lot of people (myself included) hadn't read it that far. 010
Güneş @goonzerk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Christmas trees are still up, people are still nursing their headaches from the new year's eve. Median American's radar is turned off right now. 020
