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magic is real, we just call it electricity

@bernhardsson @diptanu @tensorlake doesn’t gVisor have resumable / suspendable socket APIs?

@diptanu @tensorlake Live migrations are tricky (open sockets etc) but it’s something we’re very interested in at Modal!

I am curious why most sandbox infrastructure APIs (other than @tensorlake, sprites, exe dev) still have timeouts associated with sandboxes. If users want their sandboxes to be suspended when a process is idle or if there are no inbound network connections - it's possible. If you want to be able to roll out new hosts without disrupting the guests - that's also possible via implementing live migration. KVM has all the machinery to do live migration at this point. Let the agents live longer!

If you sponsor `react-prosemirror` and are building any kind of a rich text editor, DM and I will consult for you pro bono. I am extremely good at this, and I can definitely help you, this is a good offer. :) Also I have no connection to this project other than being a big fan.

you know how everything is made out of plastic and feels like crap but still technically works we've been headed this way with software for a while but at least we used to be embarrassed by it now people are proud of how much they don't care

NYC housing market is so broken that *venture capitalists* are getting priced out of Fort Greene

it’s not even bleeding edge 😭

hmm i’m an oddball here

Previous experience of my newest 12 manufacturing hires: - donut shop worker - accounting assistant - elderly caregiver - janitor - bartender - AI data analyst - call center rep - nurse at the VA - associate at Dollar Tree - hospitality associate (?) - school custodian - graphic designer I'm asked all the time about "how will manufacturers find skilled labor as we scale and reshore" and the answer is we have to create it ourselves. Relying on someone else (a school, the government) to create skilled labor for you means you're gonna be waiting a while. Just do it yourself. On-the-job training is the only way I've ever known how to hire. I think I was really lucky to come from a small town where OJT was common, and often the only way to learn how to do something. We have a 19 year old running a $1M Matsuura MAM, and a 70 year old running another machine next to him. Both produce great parts. The labor supply is endless if you are willing to put in the effort.

@yacineMTB @max_paperclips x.com/sdamico/status…

@max_paperclips that's what i'm saying. it should work. all the fancy field solvers are dogshit run on windows computers on CPU

why couldn't you just simulate the entire PCB? like what happens electromagnetically. why? tell me why you stupid bastard

@tenobrus One thing I've learned working in tech is that most companies are very far from logical profit maximizing machines and are much more subject to the weird whims, personalities and ideas of various executives. And they're often impermeable to anything that contradicts their ideas.

@difficultyang blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the…

@difficultyang so many harness blackpills

claude code reflexively slapping "| tail" on every command is such harness blackpill

Chinese High-Speed Rail Built Since 2008, Overlaid on the U.S. and Canada

On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast. On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there might be a downside to all this speed:

issabout speed, issabout flow, issabout fun, issabout go!!!

example to illustrate: one of steve jobs' best moves was to do nothing and wait for the right opportunity. it's hard to point at and talk about. it takes discipline and conviction etc to do nothing when the default expectation is that you should be busy x.com/visakanv/statu…

i've noticed that some people think of high agency as the ability to win many + difficult battles, ie a master tactician. presumably because such agency is very visible it's subtler to identify or even notice the high-agency strategist who shifts and slides almost like a ghost

shades of norvig's spell.py - nice one @karpathy

@reboplim I think programming is a younger field - to take your example as a starting point, arm64 cut loose all the arm32 strangeness and risc-v is starting from a clean slate. both are not repeating the mistakes of x86’s past. physics has epicycles and dark matter

When I did low-level programming, I always felt unsatisfied after learning why computers worked the way they do. Many design decisions felt like arbitrary choices made by some guy in the 1980s, and we had to deal with the ramifications. E.g., every modern OS has to enable the A20 address line to access even-numbered MBs in memory. This is because programmers used undefined behavior in the Intel 8086, where any address above 1MB "wrapped around" to zero. On newer processors, instead of letting things break, Intel pandered to the programmers and created a latch that set the A20 line to zero by default. I've never felt this way in physics. Every detail in the theories I've learnt felt intentional, and it always led me down rabbit holes to deeper concepts. I'm drafting a thread on one of these rabbit holes - the Bloch sphere representation of a two-level system and SU(2) being a double cover of SO(3)!

We have become too articulate about our suffering & too inarticulate about our strength. The more elegantly we describe our wounds, the harder it becomes to leave them behind. When a struggle becomes part of your identity, overcoming it feels like a betrayal of who you are.

claude just ate a claude code prompt from the web ui again. this happens consistently across both claude and claude code and makes me want to switch providers lol the prompt is precious! don't lose my data!