Mark Jaquith

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@peterrhague In the moment, someone should give him a kick when he’s maximally off-balance during an assault pass. A broken jaw might make him rethink his violent pursuits. As for authorities? I dunno. We don’t have good corrective tools.

How do you punish this behaviour? Its reckless and antisocial, but prison would obviously be excessive. Our other options - community service, fines etc. - he would probably laugh off and ignore. Maybe we need to bring back the stocks...

@InWonder_Ali @nonregemesse It’s the main type of drywall wall texture in American homes! And for our ceilings “knockdown” texture is popular. Popcorn hasn’t been done since around 2002.

@markjaquith @nonregemesse I can’t believe there really is an ‘orange peel’ wall (literally just looked it up bc you confused me) 🤣

What even is this supposed to be?

@sm0olr Honestly shocked that you’re a runner

mental stages of long runs: 0-2 miles: I’m so fat and out of shape this is terrible 2-3 miles: okay maybe I’ll survive 3-7 miles: I’m invincible. I can run forever. 7+ miles: okay actually yeah I’m a little tired

@InWonder_Ali @nonregemesse Hey! That’s orange peel not popcorn! 😏

@nonregemesse LMAO popcorn wall ass armor 💀

@maiab They should at least let you arm wrestle for it, geez

ok well I flew to Portland to buy a car and someone else literally bought it while I had it out on a test drive

@e0syn 18 bottles of fragrance is 19 bottles too many for a man

this feels like an image I would find of a lesbian woman's apartment sorry not sorry

@nickreese @opencode I’m definitely tempted. Just trying to keep tool sharpening from taking over my life. We’ll see! Ask again in three months. 😏

@markjaquith @opencode Ah nice. I love `pi` I just handroll the functionality that is needed with codex, glm, or kimi and you get the speed and exactly what you need.

Been battling this ~daily macOS kernel panic for the last month. But it didn’t happen yesterday. You know what else didn’t happen yesterday? An @opencode update. Hmm. Turns out the bug is this: You’re using a coding harness like OpenCode or Claude Code, and you installed it via bun or npm. You’re running macOS Tahoe. You have harnesses open, doing harness-y things which usually involves reading a bunch of files. Then your harness updates (via bun or npm). The old harness is “gone” but still running. And it’s looking at files. There is this part of the OS called EndpointSecurity that is intended to report low level system events to thinks like antivirus and CrowdStrike sort of things. And in this “the executable was deleted but is still running” scenario it causes the macOS Mach kernel to start asking for 1024 byte blocks (kalloc.1024) that it never releases. On my machine kalloc.1024 has a maximum size of 20GB so once it hits that and asks for more, kernel panic. The solution is to install Claude Code or OpenCode via their curl installer and not bun or npm. Those use a better upgrade-in-place system that doesn’t trigger this kernel memory leak. Here’s a script to trigger this issue: gist.github.com/markjaquith/b6… (Just run it long enough to trigger the issue… it spins up harnesses to “fix all bugs” in the codebase you point it at, haha) If you’ve been doing crazy stuff with parallel agent harnesses and experiencing kernel panics, maybe this is why.

@eduwass @opencode I could do this for personal stuff. But I could also just run it on a desktop home machine and connect to it via Tailscale. Hmm.

@markjaquith @opencode never looked back x.com/eduwass/status…

@jkudish @claudeai How do you feel it compares to 5.6 Sol? I only tried Fable a little bit before realizing it has no ZDP

@markjaquith @claudeai If Fable wasn’t as good as it is, I’d be doing the same.

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity.

@nickreese @opencode I’ve spent very little time with Pi. My fear is it will be a time suck. Also for work I need MCP support. I’ve been tempted. Waiting to see if OpenCode v2 solves some of my performance concerns (better server architecture) and see if v2 has deeper extensibility.

@markjaquith @opencode What do you like about opencode over pi?

@IanLandsman Our horses have been so hot @sarcasmically bought them a splash pad (they love playing in water)

Sony 50 1.2 sharpness at 1.2 is nuts

@Youkhna I discovered these undelivered messages on my son’s iPad years afterwards and 😭😭😭

Okay, this one got me. A 5-year-old learning her letters on a real keyboard and sending her dad little messages throughout the day. 😭

@christophrumpel I’m sorry. There is something deeply and spiritually upsetting about this. Your home is supposed to be a refuge from the elements and when the elements win a battle it can feel like a betrayal or a failure. But you’ll get through it. You got this.

Third big water damage in three years and every time a different way into our house 😥 This was not on our todo list for this weekend with the kids 😬

@TBL_Hockey Wow this poll is almost evenly split four ways. That’s an accomplishment. Also what an embarrassment of riches we have.

Who’s gonna have the most goals for the #GoBolts next season?!

@EdMorrissey One of the biggest belly laughs I ever had was when I saw someone on Twitter call the film “Grinding Nemo”

@markjaquith Absolutely!!

The English Patient Between My Legs. Gotta be more interesting than the original.

@IanLandsman I’m tempted. Also tempted by just getting like one of the small fixed lens fujifilm guys. Part of me is just grumpy that my iPhone is so convenient and feels “good enough.” It was an easier decision to drop $10k on a photography system when the results were so stark.

@markjaquith Oh man that's a big boy. Yeah, those FX lenses can be used on a mirrorless body with an adapter when you want to upgrade. Though you are missing a lot of the benefit of mirrorless with generally smaller lenses.

Sometimes I like to bring a telephoto zoom on walks but for full frame they're big lenses. So a trick I do is rarely own the big 100-400 but instead the APS-C version for the mount. In this case 70-350 (105-525 ff equiv) for 1/3rd the size/weight.

@dillon_mulroy @kentcdodds Sigh ::arranges another weekend mid-air refueling of the airplane factory::

there is so much alpha and great advice in this video from @kentcdodds youtu.be/kbmv3HIuKyk?si…

@Shpigford Jevon’s paradox: you have made hugs cheaper by making them your response to angst, but this will actually induce more bad faith responses because there is near-infinite demand for hugs. 🤗

@jkudish @claudeai Yeah I have no idea what this means but TBH I churned off an Anthropic sub because I was tired of the “I’m not sure I love you anymore j/k never leave me” high school girlfriend rollercoaster

@claudeai 50% of the current 50%? 🤔