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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I read it as he was listening to the siren song of foot music.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Uh, almost want to order this one to see what actually shows up

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

But quality adjustment will tell you that the price of an iPhone is down 87% because it has more ram and a faster processor

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Somewhat unrelated but quality adjustment on consumer devices is largely a scam. And iPhone 18 provides equivalent utility to like an iPhone 4 in 2009. And iPhone4 today is a completely worthless paperweight.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Time to shave your head buddy. Yglesias maxx

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It was one time where Microsoft was actually ahead of the market. It was basically Spotify before spotify

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Delta was another example I was thinking. I really notice the difference from when I used to primarily fly Southwest and recently switched

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don’t care how good you think AI models are, taking your cobol logic and ripping it out and/or extending it to have modern APIs is not trivial. Even just the testing required is challenging, no matter how good the models are

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And some of what’s holding you back is deeply embedded in the how the actual company works at a granular level.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I work in banking so that’s where my mind goes to. But if you’re sitting on a cobol mainframe, and you have a lot of older tech stack holding you back, a good coding harness does not necessarily make it easy to upgrade all the components to get on par with Amex or Chase.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So my take on this is that the technical moats are actually in companies whose primary business is not software or websites. Like chase has technical moat over regional banks, because the level of investment needed to catch up is high.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh I need to go back and look for that episode lol

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Same for me exactly. I use it at work, I actually use more tokens in our coding harness than anyone else in the company (working on developing agentic workflows for some common tasks)…. But god I hate hearing about AI

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I never knew how much he sounds like Ali G

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But I’m not as much more productive as the volume of code suggests because the AI sort of overcodes everything. Very verbose

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think this is true in the sense that when like BASIC came about it did 90% of what programmers did when they were coding in assembly (or whatever). Like yeah, it’s doing a lot of my coding, but way less than 90% and mostly just the volume of code I’m producing is higher.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Goddamn. Mean credit card debt up 5x

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel like both longs and shorts have gotten cooked.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Played through Wolverine with a friend, and hooboy this game sucks ass. Not even worth the GameFly rental

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This doesn’t mean the more regression based nowcast models are any better. Now let’s look at the NYFed Nowcast. This DOES have error bars. But look at them! As of right now, the model says there’s a 50% probability the GDP Advance estimate between like 1.2% and 4.0%. Very fucking useful lol

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What are the error bars on GDPNow? *shrug* it doesn’t have any. Are we going to hit 5? No. Will it drop more? Who the F knows? it’s not actually telling you anything at all except vibes.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A lot of macro nerds need to understand that all the nowcast models suck and provide like almost no value. Let’s start with GDPnoW for Q326. Look at how this has played out? What actually information has this given you? It’s been telling you Q3 would be about 5% gdp growth since July!

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Most of yall aren’t built to understand how funny this is

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve forgotten who Nancy Guthrie even is

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Same, I find if I have fully architected everything out, and give it diagrams and full instructions I have a smoother path to the results.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💀💀💀💀 nopecore

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I respect it, she had enough money to do something tasteful and went yolo

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fml. That’s NOT how it was supposed work Mr President.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Come on, this has to be a bit at this point lol

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Benjamin Button for Senate!

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What I see people actually complain about is dirt bikes powered by batteries. Considering I saw some kid eat shit into back of a neighbors truck trying to do a wheel and then drive away after leaving a big ass dent, uh, I get it.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From what I see in my neighborhood, the complaints are not really about “e-bikes” but “electric motorcycles” that go like 40mph, and 13 year olds are riding them on major state roads. In our local law, e-bikes are in a category where they’re only powered while pedaling. It’s assistive.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, only the range of the special weapons is classified

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot of people that are voting for them want if anything, DHS and military budgets slashed not expanded. But I suspect much of the caucus will think “gee supportin’ the troops is always popular!”

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, I’m personally of the mind that it should not happen. Yes Trump has f’ed readiness because of Iran, but honestly, a little lack of readiness will help keep him from doing more dumb sh*t (maybe). But also I’m not confident in Democratic Party ability to read the room

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you can’t grow sales on the back of $4.50 gas man… I don’t know what to tell you

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I suspect that this isn’t particularly likely to happen under Trump with a Dem Congress.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do we know how long the 2 carriers have been out there already? One relieved pretty recently, but what about the other one?

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like we are soon going to find out that there’s a new special girl

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well if you had done that you would know that you can’t fire missiles on anything until within 2000 meters

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well but what about the design constraints?!?!

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

7 men just breathed a sigh of relief

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t think COBOL is actually that hard to learn, it’s just been “it’s going to be dead in the next 5 years” for the last 40 years.

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw that shit in theaters lol

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I enjoyed watching old. Just groaning through the whole movie

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Definitely. even when theyre terrible tbey are fun to make fun of. Except avatar and the happening. Those movies are dogshit through and through

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King V @mrsaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think there’s no way CIPI closes at +2% basically the times this has happened in the past 6 years are: 1) ramping back up after COVID 2) front running tariffs in Q1 2025.

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