@webdevMason Unfortunately @elonmusk refuses to make cars with properly adjustable seats (immovable headrests) so for tall people like me Teslas are not an option 🤷🏼♂️
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Blake Gentry
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Blake Gentry
@blakegentry
Building @StainlessAPI and River. Formerly @MuxHQ, co-Founder @DistruApp, Opendoor and Heroku alum.
Austin, TX Katılım Kasım 2009
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We just got a 7-seat model Y, and we're gonna make that itty bitty third row work for us by hook or by crook because **** I love this car
Full self-driving is the first real life changing quality of life improvement I've gotten from a product in as long as I can remember
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
MAKE A MINIVAN, ELON.
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@gtmom My expectations have gotten pretty low reading stories like these over the years, and yet every week I’m floored by how much worse things are than what I expected.
Our tax dollars go to systems like iReady. The people who chose them still have jobs. Absolute malpractice.
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@blakegentry the status quo is... very bad x.com/karenvaites/st…
Karen Vaites@karenvaites
<cough cough> iReady "isn't personalized by question type. That is the funny thing. It is personalized by score. If you get a score of say 458 on numbers and operations or vocabulary, you are placed at the same lesson as all the other kids with 458."
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People are undervaluing that even getting the SAME academic results from quality AI-powered tutoring would be a win - if it saved on time & teacher effort.
In fact, we are seeing positive academic results AND "without increasing instruction time or teacher workload"
Ethan Mollick@emollick
AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"
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@NYCMayor My street is dark at night, light burnt out. Can’t report burnt out lights for some reason. Please fix thx. You are the ultimate system administrator.
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@marcjoffe @harjtaggar Could get effective reimbursement with a ballot initiative to outlaw public sector union bargaining in CA
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SEIU's Billionaire Tax may prove to be a net loss for California. If it is, will the union reimburse us?
Joshua Rauh@joshrauh
Just out: California's wealth tax proposal has a NEGATIVE $25B net present value. We project only ~$40B collected (vs. $100B claimed), with ~30% of the tax base already gone and lost income taxes wiping out gains. w/ Ben Jaros, @gregkkearney, John Doran & Matheus Cosso: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Blake Gentry retweetledi
Put together a post on some of the history of job queues in Ruby and our experience transitioning the Heroku API over the years from Delayed::Job → Queue Classic → Que.
Original commits from DJ and Resque were from @tobi and Chris Wanstrath. How cool.
riverqueue.com/blog/ruby-queu…
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@nikitabier some days I really miss Tweetbot features like time limited mutes. Lots of people have interesting insights but occasionally go way overboard on a current event and I just want to keep them out of my feed for a week or month temporarily without permanently muting.
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I just stumbled upon Andurel, an effort by @mbvisti to bundle together a curated stack for Go web development. It's so cool to see that they chose River for its background job queue 🚀
github.com/mbvlabs/andurel
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@markimbriaco Truly the only reason we didn’t get wiped out, unreal goaltending performance
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Hellebuyck should get an extra gold medal for that performance.
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@markimbriaco Depends if you were jumping up and down as much as me when they won 🥇🇺🇸🏒
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Trying to get back into working out regularly. Does the zone 2 heart rate from watching the hockey game count?
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@mschoening It’s been a fun ride everyone, time to pack it up, industry’s over
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck…
Jim Cramer@jimcramer
Software decline seems overdone to me at this time....
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@nejatian OG Opendoor @juliadewahl spent some time working on Starlink before getting into nuclear energy
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Is there anyone that works at Starlink that follows me? If so, please DM me. I'd like to talk.
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True, install a @Tesla Powerwall to have uninterrupted power for your house.
When your utility goes down, you will be one of the few in your neighborhood with working lights, working refrigerator and able to charge all your devices.
Sam Korus@skorusARK
Bringing energy storage to the home is like indoor plumbing. Your toilet tank has storage. Your water heater is storage. You don't know it yet, but you're electrically living like you're in the 1930s.
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@jon_stokes Are you not getting good results from having GPT 5.2 Codex actually write the code? In all cases I’ve tried it simply produces better code than Opus and requires much less handholding. What is Opus doing for you at that point that Codex won’t do better?
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The job of Opus 4.5 is to give Codex some concrete code to analyze and review. Opus 4.5 is essentially a model that I use for prompting Codex with code plus a ticket plus a PRD.
So my workflow is:
1. Codex investigation to solve the problem, where output is a PRD & basic phased implementation plan.
2. Claude (Opus) takes the PRD & plan, & breaks it up into tickets.
3. Codex analyzes the tickets & fixes all the many problems & misalignment that Opus introduced
4. For each ticket:
a. Opus pulls ticket & PRD in plan mode, makes a plan, then writes the initial implementation
b. Codex pulls ticket & PRD, analyzes the Opus effort on the current branch, reviews & then fixes the (usually many & serious) issues it finds.
c. Repeat the previous step (Codex review + fixes) in a fresh context until Codex can no longer find anything serious to flag.
d. Ship to github as a PR, with Opus writing the PR description
What you should notice here, is that I'm leaning on Codex to do the most high-value work. Opus's job is just producing text/code artifacts for Codex to analyze & improve. Again, the Opus output is not so much code as it is rich context that Codex can anchor in & focus on.
This way, when it comes time to actually get the code in shape, Codex is not starting from nothing. It's starting from something that's like 80% there, so all of its cycles can go to that last 20% that is where most of the real work is.
The results for this are spectacular, BTW.
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This is absolutely true & I'm using it as a kind of filter on my TL to know who is just a poseur or is churning slop vs. who is trying to ship real code. Actually, let me take this a step further & tell you my workflow in the next tweet...
Stefan Streichsbier@s_streichsbier
Yeah, it's always been like that. Opus seems great unless you know what you're doing or are using Codex. When Codex reviews Opus's code, it finds really meaningful and correct issues. When Opus reviews Codex's code, it gives a bunch of garbage. It's comical. Opus is great for well-defined tasks. Just don't let it write your code.
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@jon_stokes From the sequence it sure looks like we’ll get a heavy layer of ice followed by some snow, plus strong winds. Assuming it’ll be 2021 until proven otherwise and preparing accordingly
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We very well could have Austin Snowpocalypse 2.0 here in a few days. Austin-area people better pay attention.
Ryan Maue@RyanMaue
Every utility truck (+whoever else) should be ready to head south for potential of catastrophic power losses due to trees / lines down similar to destruction of hurricane traveling from Texas to North Carolina over land. Brutally cold temperatures will turn deadly w/o power. This will be a 2-3 day precipitation event but the freezing cold remains for a week.
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It seems the dropoff started mid 2010s as teenage smartphones with Instagram & then Tik Tok became ubiquitous. Aligns pretty clearly with @JonHaidt theories on this.
I wonder if the trend is improving in places where phones are banned at school. There’s probably also a lot of blame on the complete elimination of standards & expectations as @gtmom often writes about.
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This is very bad. New grads are going to be less productive for a while.
Average ACT scores fell sharply after 2020. Before that, they mostly drifted within a narrow band for decades.
Math fell first and fell the most. This is systematic learning loss.
Dr. Sean Mullen@drseanmullen
2/2 LOOK at those ACT scores. They’re falling off a cliff.
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@Stammy I could never understand the people who crave an ultrawide with low density, especially for programming where the text is fuzzy. I eagerly await the next gen of 32”+ screens with respectable 200+ ppi
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this seems impressive until you read that it's only 129 PPI. you really want 200+. bjango.com/articles/macex…
Michael Dell 🇺🇸@MichaelDell
Now my screen is finally big enough to monitor the situation 😂 Dell UltraSharp 52″ curved 6K (6144x2560) Thunderbolt Hub Monitor. 120Hz, IPS Black, 129 PPI. The world's first and only. youtu.be/InKoJ3ZTxFk?si…
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