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“What seems to be your main malfunction?”
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2025-12-11

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“What seems to be your main malfunction?”

My dad would occasionally pose this question to one of my siblings or me. I think that he picked this expression up in the army, along with the word “negatory” and other verbal gems. Whether you like or not (please like it), today I’m going to share some of my main malfunctions.

tanh = the worst. digression. ever. (take that, relu.)

ln = recording a beat unchanged

log_10 = recording a beat on a low-pitch instrument with X strings

cos = i concur

I’m not a dad, but in honor of mine, I hereby declare these honorary #dadjokes. I can’t be arsed to see how unoriginal they might be, but he wouldn’t have cared.