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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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32:57

Settled But Move-Ready: Renting in an Unstable Market

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2026/06/23

What if you could feel truly at home in your rental while always being prepared to leave? This episode tackles the brutal reality of Israel's rental market — where landlords can evict for any reason with 30 days' notice — and builds a practical system for physical, bureaucratic, and psychological readiness. From home inventory systems and packing group tags to the sacred first-night box, we break down how to stop pretending your home is permanent and start building a life that acknowledges the

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34:41

The Blue Plug That Runs the World

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2026/06/23

That chunky blue plug you've seen everywhere but never touched? It's called the IEC 60309 — also known as the commando socket — and it's the global standard for industrial power distribution. In this episode, we break down the entire ecosystem: the color-coded voltage system, the mechanical keyway safety interlocks, and the actual equipment available — flood strips, extension reels, and waterproof variants. Whether you're wiring a workshop, running a CNC machine, or just curious why three-phase

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38:37

What Feral Children Reveal About Human Brains

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2026/06/22

What happens when a developing brain receives no language, no human faces, and no social contact? This episode explores the most well-documented cases of feral children — from the wolf-girls of Midnapore to Genie in Los Angeles — and what their tragic lives teach us about critical periods, neural plasticity, and the fragility of human development. We dig into the neurobiology, the ethical tensions, and why the YouTube algorithm can't get enough of these unsettling stories.

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38:06

Why Your ISP Tech Is Always in a Hurry

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2026/06/22

Ever wonder why the ISP technician who shows up to activate your fiber seems annoyed before you even speak? It’s not personal—it’s structural. This episode unpacks the hidden incentives, quotas, and regulations that turn a simple fiber activation into a rushed, scripted interaction. From Israel’s Ministry of Communications rules to global comparisons with Comcast and Deutsche Telekom, we explore how job design, training gaps, and callback metrics produce the famously brusque tech experience.

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28:14

Three Fixes for Loose Europlugs in Israeli Sockets

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2026/06/22

If you've ever had your drill cut out mid-job because the Europlug wiggled loose from the extension cord, this episode is for you. We break down why the CEE 7/16 Europlug and Israeli SI 32 socket don't play well together — it's a half-millimeter geometry mismatch that turns every drilling session into a trust exercise. Then we walk through three real fixes, from a 15-shekel adapter to a 5-minute socket swap, all without buying new tools or rewiring anything.

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32:00

Hide Your Desktop in a Closet: The Gear You Need

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2026/06/22

Tired of crawling under your desk with a headlamp every time you move? The technical barriers to relocating your desktop to a closet or cabinet have collapsed. USB4 and Thunderbolt 5 push 40-80 Gbps over long distances, and PCIe Gen 5 risers are affordable. This episode maps the spectrum of solutions — from a simple PCIe USB card to full desktop disaggregation — so you can finally treat your workstation as infrastructure instead of furniture.

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40:49

How to Stop AI Scripts From Falling Apart

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2026/06/22

Long-form AI generation has a silent killer: context degradation. Even with stable temperature settings, reasoning quality measurably declines after ~32K tokens as micro-errors compound. In this episode, we explore why truncation fails, how hierarchical generation with structured memory vectors solves the problem, and what Google DeepMind's 2025 study and Anthropic's précis mode teach us about keeping AI scripts coherent from first sentence to last.

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28:20

Should You Rack-Mount Your Desktop PC?

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2026/06/22

Tired of pulling your GPU just to reseat a RAM stick? This episode explores the practical case for rack-mounting a desktop workstation. We break down the real pain points of the traditional tower form factor—thermal zoning, serviceability nightmares, and the physical limits of multi-GPU setups. We also cover the hidden gotchas of chassis compatibility, from CPU cooler height to PSU depth, so you know exactly what you're getting into before you buy a rack.

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14:37

The Day We Lost Our Minds: What Temperature Does to...

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2026/06/22

We accidentally turned ourselves into a haunted fuse box. This episode is a confession and an autopsy: what happens when you crank an AI language model's sampling temperature too high, and why the result is one of the most important — and least understood — dials in all of AI. From autoregressive death spirals to the Goldilocks trade-off between coherence and creativity, we break down exactly what went wrong and what it teaches us about how these models actually think.

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26:20

Tracing a Packet: 3 Home Switches vs the Internet...

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2026/06/21

Daniel daisy-chained three switches at home and worried about latency. The answer reveals why home network optimization barely matters—and where the real bottlenecks live. In this episode, we trace a packet from a bedside table all the way to Google News and back, counting every hop. We unpack DOCSIS scheduling delays, MPLS label-switched paths, and why traceroute undercounts the true number of routers your data crosses. By the end, you'll understand why those three home switches are a rounding

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21:40

Why Cloud Servers Cluster in Only a Dozen Cities

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2026/06/21

Ever notice how cloud providers always list the same cities — Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Northern Virginia — and never a place like Magdeburg? This episode unpacks "data center gravity": the self-reinforcing loop of submarine cable landings, internet exchanges like DE-CIX handling 12 Tbps, carrier hotels like 60 Hudson Street, and workforce clusters that keep cloud hardware concentrated in maybe a dozen metro areas. We trace the Marea cable from Bilbao to Frankfurt, examine Israel's centralized IIX in Tel

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27:55

Why 88% of Fiber Optic Cable Sits Dark

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2026/06/21

The phrase "dark fiber" sounds like cyberpunk fiction, but the reality is surprisingly mundane — and fascinating. In this episode, we explore why fiber optic cables contain dozens to hundreds of individual glass strands, each a discrete waveguide, and why roughly 88% of installed fiber in the United States is completely unlit. We break down the physics that makes fiber fundamentally different from water pipes, the economics of trenching versus cable costs, and the legal instrument called an

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27:50

How to Read a Poll Like a Pro

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2026/06/21

When 92% of Israelis believe Iran won the war, the headline is staggering. But how do you know if a poll like this is actually trustworthy? This episode breaks down the mechanics of polling — from sample size and margins of error to the hidden dangers of subgroup analysis, non-sampling bias, and weighting. Learn why a razor-thin margin of error doesn't guarantee accuracy, and how to separate genuine findings from statistical mirages. Essential listening for anyone who wants to think critically about

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31:54

Stateful Firewalls vs. Modern Threats

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2026/06/21

In a world where every security vendor has an AI story and dashboards flood with alerts, it's worth asking: how much of this do you actually need? We start with the stateful firewall—Check Point's 1994 breakthrough—and trace its blind spots through deep packet inspection, EDR, and the modern threat landscape. The honest answer? For many users, a basic firewall is genuinely fine. But the "for whom" part reveals where breaches actually happen today: credential theft, outbound malware, and encrypted C2

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31:39

Can You Touch Your Cloud?

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2026/06/21

Sovereign cloud computing is more than GDPR compliance. In this episode, we explore the rise of boutique operators who offer physical access, personal relationships, and transparent audit trails. From dedicated cages to hardware leases, discover why some businesses choose a cloud they can actually touch over hyperscaler convenience.

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31:07

What's Really in That Private Network Cable?

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2026/06/21

When you click "add to private network" in a cloud console, what's actually happening? This episode unpacks the three tiers of cross-data-center connectivity — from hyperscalers with their own submarine cables to mid-tier providers leasing carrier circuits to software-defined overlays running over the public internet. We explore MPLS, VXLAN, dark fiber, and the hard speed-of-light limits that no amount of optimization can beat. Plus: what "private" really means when your traffic leaves the data

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27:58

Your Apartment in 3D: The Open-Source Stack That Works

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2026/06/21

Moving into a new apartment and need to know if your desk will fit? This episode breaks down the surprising open-source toolchain that lets you import a floor plan, populate it with CC0-licensed furniture models from Poly Haven, and do a real-time browser walkthrough — all without spending a dollar or learning CAD. We cover why commercial planners trap your data, how to vectorize a blueprint with Inkscape or Blender, and why June 2026 is the moment this stack finally works for normal people.

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33:48

How AI Hallucinates Better Pixels: Upscaling Explained

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2026/06/21

What actually happens when an AI upscales a blurry image? This episode breaks down the key distinction between simple interpolation and learned super-resolution, exploring how models like Real-ESRGAN, GFPGAN, and CodeFormer work under the hood. We cover why every upscaled image involves "hallucinating" plausible detail, the brick wall failure mode, and what marketers need to know about the hallucination budget when salvaging old collateral.

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25:38

Why Printers Demand PDFs (And PNGs Fail)

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2026/06/21

Why do printers always ask for a PDF instead of a PNG? Because PDFs are shipping containers with manifests — they carry fonts, color profiles, bleed boxes, and resolution metadata that raster images simply can't express. This episode unpacks the ISO 32000 specification, how preflight software catches disasters before ink hits paper, and why "300 DPI" is almost always the wrong number. We also break down the actual math for large-format banners, the Raster Image Processor (RIP) pipeline, and why your

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29:24

How High Can We Really Build?

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2026/06/21

What keeps skyscrapers standing, what limits their height, and does a fully vertical city actually change the geology beneath it? This episode dives into the material science and structural engineering behind the global skyscraper boom — from Bessemer steel and tuned mass dampers to the self-weight problem that caps concrete towers at roughly one mile. Plus: why elevator ropes fail above 500 meters, how Hong Kong and New York compare on per-capita density, and the unsettling answer to whether all

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