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Matt McConnell

@compatidude

It's all narratives. All the way down. So far down you can't see any end to them in the dark. Startup CEO once upon a time. Lifelong friend to Pélé Pemphygus.

Mostly PR of Boulder, sometimes Aix-en-Provence Se unió Nisan 2009
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
Q: If the market value of software goes towards zero (and it obviously is headed that way), then where will the remaining computer/network system value be? A: The data. Your data. Prediction: Computer systems and data security are in for a ground up rethink.
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@GeoffreyHuntley The biggest single improvement would be: ban functors, PPX, custom operators, GADTs, polymorphic variants, and monadic syntax unless explicitly approved. That gives you OCaml’s strongest benefits—types, variants, pattern matching, immutability. Hmmm.
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geoff@GeoffreyHuntley·
@compatidude it’s pretty easy problem to fix; the path is clear how to pull it off. couple convos last week with jane st confirmed my suspicions to be true/way forward would indeed work.
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geoff@GeoffreyHuntley·
it makes absolutely no sense to me why everyone is mainlining nodejs/typescript still tbh. typescript is good for humans, humans no longer the target to design for.
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Washington Post Opinions@PostOpinions·
"These facilities have seen millions of high-risk drug use events over the past two decades but not a single death by overdose," M-J Milloy and Dan Werb write. "For that reason alone: How can they not have a place in our response to this crisis?" wapo.st/4ugtH1k
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@guyfelicella So wait a minute, I think I see a flaw in your plan. If everyone decides on 'no job at all', then...
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guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁
guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁@guyfelicella·
I don’t care if you work a “minimum wage” job or no job at all. Food, water, shelter, and healthcare are human rights... not rewards. Full stop 🛑
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Allison Krug MPH
Allison Krug MPH@KrugAlli·
Do people not understand that two things can be true at once? Vaccines can save lives. They can also harm. It seems like the division in this country can be traced back to this difficulty. More critical thinking, please.
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@jasonc_nc @aldatweets The small thing I want is for you to start your own coffee shop and to put your plan into action. Good luck!
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Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch
Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch@jasonc_nc·
@aldatweets Hi. Restaurant and coffee shop owner here. Almond milk runs 2.2x the cost of whole milk. Oat milk is 2.4x, Macadamia is 5x and soy is ~2x. We charge more because it costs us more to give you an alternative.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets·
There’s a lot of big thingd I want from a big green state. But the small thing I want is banning coffee shops from charging extra for plant milk.
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Neo
Neo@PepecoinMaxxer·
Is it that astonishing? Educated people think they know what the best way of managing a society would be. Less educated people don't think they know more than they do. And violent solutions are honestly the only way anything has ever really changed, and don't fucking bring up india
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Jeffrey A Tucker
Jeffrey A Tucker@jeffreytucker·
Not sure any entertainment has ever equalled the carousel. This is the 1914 Brooklyn model now in Hartford, CT. The music is the real deal, not digital. With @walterkirn and @amandafortini
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Jeffrey Emanuel
Jeffrey Emanuel@doodlestein·
Funny how confident people are about things that are readily disproven. "I can't do it, so no one can." I'm doing this sort of thing across literally dozens of projects. Over 1,000 GitHub commits every day this week. Yes, I spend ~$12k/month on subs and work a lot. But I do it
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David Cramer@zeeg

Everyone is slowly coming to this realization, and I assure you, no one is running multitudes of agents overnight. No one that is doing anything of substance at least. There _are_ people pretending to be scientists, or fully caught up in their drug infused AI overdose, that think their slop machines are changing the world. They're not tho, and they're just wasting a bunch of money and compute to create a lot of LoC that will just get thrown away. The state of the art is still "can we even one shot a production quality patch that we wont regret later", and its rarer than you'd expect based on discourse.

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Stanley Roberts 📺🎥
Stanley Roberts 📺🎥@StanleyRoberts·
I keep hearing from followers who thought I stopped posting on @X If you can see this post please place a blue dot like this 🔵 as a reply. Technically I should have 40k dots appear but I expect to see maybe at best 10 dots.
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Ami
Ami@Ami_Marisol·
you can’t beat me in an insufferability contest i will always win
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
I asked Codex what a programming language designed for agents would look like. Answer: Something between: - a programming language - an IR - a proof-friendly specification language - a strongly constrained build/runtime protocol Strong "Childhood's End" vibes.
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Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@skeletorofosint @GeoffreyHuntley If it matters to agents, then it will matter. I asked Codex: "For paradigm, I usually favor a pragmatic mix: - procedural for straightforward flow - data-oriented design for systems code - selective functional patterns for pure transformations and testability"
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geoff@GeoffreyHuntley·
something i’ve been pondering about: for how much longer will we still have programming language conferences now that AI is here?
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Vintage Maps
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore·
Homeless population given one-way tickets to leave town. 2011 to 2017.
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@PieterJanVHaute @TMTLongShort I've been thinking about this. Basically, if the current reality gets very far from whatever the parity at deal time was, the deal is going to be renegotiated. There's no guaranteed term. Keep up or suffer, that's the situation.
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Pieter-Jan Van Haute
Pieter-Jan Van Haute@PieterJanVHaute·
@TMTLongShort Trump asking nicely… he’s proven to be the most unreliable counterparty in the last decade, how are we supposed to deal with this man. We’ll make a deal, and he’ll extort us in 12 months for Greenland with gas. Compared to him, China is almost more reliable
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Just Another Pod Guy
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort·
Scroll through the comments. Anger and vitriol from the Canadians and Europeans. But not once did you see someone say “hey if Trump asked us nicely to stop trading with China we would”. And what that means is the only way to keep Chinese exports out of American supply chains is to eliminate all trade with any country that can act as a conduit. And since Pax Americana doesn’t work with a cohesive integration between Mexico and Canada as a bare minimum an *economic* bloodbath is what we’ll need. The different between an analyst and the emotional midwits calling me a retard is my predictions have been directionally and mostly accurate and theirs is wishcasting for a world that no longer exists.
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort

Before we fully turn the screws on Europe we will annihilate Canada. Full medieval shit. No prisoners. It’s going to be a bloodbath. And Europe is going to watch in horror and confusion. And then they’ll ask themselves “if he could do this to Canada what might he do to Spain” Elbows up, USMCA will be fun 🫡

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Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱@marcthiessen·
So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.
Clifford D. May@CliffordDMay

I'm pro-NATO. But I can't think of a single argument to refute what @MsMelChen says here. Not one. If others can, please weigh in.

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Thomas Ricouard
Thomas Ricouard@Dimillian·
When you point Codex to an empty folder "it's suspiciously empty"
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Matt McConnell
Matt McConnell@compatidude·
@bettersoma "Permanent supportive housing had no measurable effect on the severity of psychiatric symptoms (ten studies), substance use (nine studies), income (two studies), or employment outcomes (one study) when compared with usual social services." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504587/
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bettersoma@bettersoma·
Why is this ghoul still the expert here “”It’s not typical for addiction to worsen after people are housed, said Jennifer Friedenbach of the Coalition on Homelessness, but the experience is not unheard of.  “Generally, it’s much easier to recover when you’re in housing,” Friedenbach said. “Of course, there’s going to be some exceptions. And in some cases, people have communities out on the streets, and when they get housing, there’s a fair amount of isolation.””
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle

A formerly homeless San Francisco woman is at the center of a raging debate over the city’s housing and addiction policies. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hou…

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