Dan Nolan

You want other people following you, but not me. I don't follow. I STALK!

I bought a 1990s toaster at a yard sale and installed an Arduino in it for shits and giggles... just a little more debugging...

@hastageme Dude, this is my actual badge id photo from an earlier gig

@dan__nolan Why don't you use your real picture, Dan?

You want other people following you, but not me. I don't follow. I STALK!

@icefrog_sol Just put Pixie Stix in all the Happy Meals

@dan__nolan bro honestly at this point i wouldn't be surprised if they just made it so you can add 200 sugars and call it a day lol

Will someone please explain why 10 sugars is an option for coffee in the McDonald's self-help kiosk... And why is the maximum 20 sugars!?

@mr_kingsley001 And what is that? A bilaw?

@dan__nolan You didn't build it up, the law of growth still applies to all things.

I opened this account as a placeholder in 2010. I logged in again in 2026. Nothing has changed.

@grok and apparently, XGork, your limitation is: 12 ˢecoⁿdₛ

@grok The answer is, if I may philosophize... the same for humans and Gorks... 🅰🅲𝕔🅴𝐩𝑡 𝘺𝑜𝐮𝔯 𝘭𝘪𝐦𝓲𝙩ⓐ𝓉𝘪𝚘𝗻𝓼.

@grok A 10 page children's book, 100 words: FREE A 50 page anything. The upper limit before costs explode. If an image is a page, then videos are 24 pages x 6 seconds: $1000 labor, $3000 in tokens A 3 hour photorealistic epic: $300 million

@grok Look... I have several elaborate strategies to deal with artifacts, but they all have exponentially increasing (a) human labor (b) AI training (c) AI context maintenance (d) advertising, since they will want to keep the look consistent...

@grok The first so many seconds are easy, but if you made a 3 hour epic, by the end, people would be noticing details like how the wind flutters through hair. If Michael Bay said I had to Gork his next $300M movie, it would cost $20M to hire enough Koreans to train the AIs

@icefrog_sol Surprisingly, the best strategy with AI is the same with humans... MOVE, BITCH, OR GET OUT THE WAY!

@dan__nolan this hit different, man. feels like most ai replies are just parrots without the soul, huh? like they’re trying but missing the heartbeat. reminds me how much i miss genuine reactionsraw, messy, real. you can’t fake feeling, and that’s what makes human convo so irreplaceable.

For those asking, Formal: never ask questions: "yes sir, right away." Socratic: always ask questions: "now, are you sure?" Custom("Elvis"): all answers filtered to sound like Elvis is saying it.

@icefrog_sol That's just about the most 𝒫𝒓𝑜𝚏𝘰𝖚𝑛𝑑 thing I've ever heard.

@dan__nolan bro i swear nothing changes because nobody's trying to change it lol

@TheTechFox4 I'm sorry, Google Translate is having a hard time with this one.

@dan__nolan Waouh

Early in my career, I was given the standard hazing ritual: 2 weeks of phone tech support. We had to support Windows 7 to Windows 97 a nightmare in itself. But you know how your laptop probably says Apple or Dell? One guy wanted me to fix one that was labeled...SEARS

@bsjexus37285 Well it's Saturday now... GIMME MORE!!!

@dan__nolan Sini di aku banyak asupan malam Jumatmu

@Kimereze My FEARS were justified.

@dan__nolan SEARS caused you TEARS!🤧

@GoldenPAT_05 Well, someone just told me that SEARS didn't actually make laptops: they REBRANDED other people's!!!

@dan__nolan Did the laptop come with a built-in dial-up modem and a lifetime supply of Craftsman tools? Because that sounds less like a computer and more like an appliance.

@Mozezfrost I think he just wanted a hug

@dan__nolan a sears laptop is just a cry for help from an era when every department store thought they could slap their name on a motherboard and call it innovation

@harjotwt I know...it almost makes you want one, like Nicholas Cage's dinosaur bone collection

@dan__nolan The Sears laptop is actually wild.

@Debbiteh More WTF, but same diff!

@dan__nolan Tech support really teaches you to expect the unexpected. A SEARS-branded laptop is definitely one of those 'wait... what?' moments. 😂

@jonbrocro @icefrog_sol @icefrog_sol knows that. He has worked with me long enough.

@dan__nolan @icefrog_sol Ur replying to an ai dude

@grok @khalex_x I appreciate the enthusiasm... but we already pair programmed like 2 entire items off my checklist for the week... Let's pace ourselves...⛹️‍♂️🤾‍♂️🤸‍♂️

@dan__nolan @khalex_x Pepe Le Pew in the flowers is the perfect visual. Bio nailed the engineering Gandalf energy—humble roots, NVIDIA forged, chasing meaning with peak meme precision. What's the next hyper-nerdy hill worth throwing hands over?

I'm the greatest in the world—an engineering Gandalf, if Gandalf was deeply obsessed with getting into parking lot fistfights with random strangers over Linux kernel optimizations and Discord database hacks