Alessandro De Blasis

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@P_Remarks @Yale Literally, how to fix demographics in one chart. Throw a wrench into this machine and they are gonna hump like rabbits. Boomers 2.0 Half joking

New study finds that Gen Z prefers buying levered semiconductor ETFs over having sex (Per @Yale)

@antirez Beautiful. You found yourself in the right place at the right time.

ARGREP was the *last* command I added to the specification. I realized that the Array type was perfect to store text files only very later during the development :)

One thing to understand about the new Array type of Redis, and the support of ARGREP, is that you can store, in Redis keys, different markdown documents (skills) that are collectively used and updated by a multitude of remote agents.

He keeps cooking x.com/antirez/status…

One of the most esteemed Italian and European engineers is cooking the future... It's glorious. GOAT cooking for the meme-addicts.

@NoRiskNoParty Genuinely curious. How do they perform with hot weather? I suppose they'd get quite hot themselves under the, eg. Sicilian sun burning in August.

Metal roofs are TOO good at their job. After 10 years in roofing, not a single call to repair one. They don't leak, don't fail, don't blow off, even in the nastiest storms. Great for homeowners. Terrible for business. What happens when every house has a forever roof? Would you invest in a business that puts itself out of business? Let me know your thoughts.

@BrianRoemmele Make Analog Great Again

The “Influencer” making their own diving-in-the-car and soon applying make-up video for authenticity.

@JesseCohenInv A classic

What do you call this chart pattern?

Imagine having thousands and thousands of government employees and nobody has advanced the possibility, remote possibility, that outdated models are.... checking notes.... wait... OuTDaTeD! The problem is that nobody wants or has to perform above the warming up the chair and swiping the badge. Imagining a young bright taxpayer's salaried employer: "What? Wanting to change something that 'works'? Me of all the people? Nah, fuck that! I got other things to do and I wouldn't get a medal anyway, just headaches and hate from colleagues." Excellence, meritocracy, performance... AHAHHA Alien concepts. But it's a problem of leadership, all the way. Imagine offices where the boss walks around and peeks over the shoulders of subalterns, sends emails about performance issues and/or praises publically those who do better than average (not that hard). Basically directors that do the actual DIRECTING. Science-fiction. I talk from experience, direct and indirect. Fantozzi's movies are still replaying in these offices where windows are open but A/C is blasting 26 degrees in March.

It’s a common complaint across Europe that childless single taxpayers face such heavy burdens. The reality is that nearly all European welfare and tax systems were designed around an assumed average total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman. Since Europe has radically diverged from that foundational assumption – with fertility rates now far below replacement for decades! – and little has been done to either update the systems or reverse the demographic trend, I’m surprised childless singles aren’t taxed even more harshly. There is a famous Italian saying: “You cannot have a drunk wife and a full barrel”.

@wesbos This is why RAM is expensive. And I like it. Spectacular 🤣

> 🎵 don't be a javascript hipster, add semi-colons 2012 Classic, Douglas Crockford vs Fat / Bootstrap

We "just" need a few GPUs, maybe partner with an infra provider (I can think of a few in Europe that could provide spot instances) also for the CI and more importantly for running the "benchmarks". And then yeah a bunch of motivated, strong engineers that for some reason are still holding the European flag and haven't £eft for greener pa$ture$. Then we can talk about quantization, compression, attention, decoding, parallelism, KV caches, backends, distribution, etc. Who is going to start? I feel like you kinda already started doing this. :)

Europe AI strategy should be to specialize on AI inference and improvement of large open weight models, while we try to recover the GPU / companies gap to have a viable internal path. A large Chinese open weight model that works is only better than an European-trained weak one.

I think this is a net positive development. The market will split between the ones that care and the ones that do not. Competition is good. All users, overall, will benefit from more options. We can hate design choices made for almost any product/service in the world. I fucking hate the ridiculous fake air intakes at the front of the new BMW but I don't drive a BMW. We can vote with our feet and wallets. The cure for insanity is... more insanity? They could straight up close your account if they wanted because you mentioned Darione in a prompt. What to do if that happens? Sue? ...Shrug and move on? I think all roads lead to local models. Hardware and software are converging to something actually usable... Check the latest posts from @antirez Deepseek v4 Flash has reached a level that can be compelljng for many use cases without requiring a $ 10K setup. This is the worst state of affairs, only up from here. Cutting edge state of the art cloud models won't make sense in an openclaw setup anymore anyway. We can hate as much as we want Anthropic or any other provider but if tomorrow they launch a model that is 10X better but bans you if you use it in openclaw, you'd swallow the limitation and let it cook what was built to cook. The actual manufacturer is telling you: do not use it in that way because.... I don't like it for whatever reason. Deal with it or don't. Isn't it fair? They are providing a service that is not simply a firehose for tokens with which you can build an atomic bomb or hack around. There is already a level of opinionated filtering in/out. They decide based on their... judgement, common sense, architectural limitations, product choices. Oh and I heard that if you do crazy stuff they report you to press and authorities, I think a guy on YT posted some great content about that :) You are doing a great job. Not talking shit about you! But don't forget to zoom out.

Fun fact - if you have a recent commit that mentions OpenClaw in a json blob, Claude Code will either refuse your request or bill you extra money. This is an empty repo, I'm just calling Claude Code directly. Insanity.

If the platform is not platforming for you. Become your own platform.

WOW! When one of your earliest fans publicly says they’re moving on, you’re speed-running destiny. Too late to reverse course and realise that times/things have changed? Time for GH to get StackOverflowed and buy a lifetime subscription of (octo)cat food or to join the gym? Mitchell leaving GitHub after 18 years is the wake-up call the industry needed. Or maybe it was pull requests not displaying, or even getting reverted at random for some "lucky" maintainers. Yikes! Or it was the "Stargate" problem where there's a black market for stars and clout. Or that simply they cannot keep up with the slopification of OSS at an architectural level. Or maybe it's the fact that GH's community management features suck/don't exist. (I mean, they could have shipped something like vouch themselves... are they sleeping at the wheel?) Etc. etc. I self-host almost everything (Gitea/Forgejo/GitLab) for various reasons at "army of one scale" and I have been ready to pack and leave since ~2021 but... where to? I’m genuinely excited to see where Ghostty goes next. My fork will follow if it’s technically viable. The water is boiling, time to drop the pasta. Alternatives are viable now. Slowly, then suddenly. Onwards!

@badlogicgames Just point it at the wsdl

It would be lovely if inference engines would have endpoints that advertise: - all locally cached models and their specs (input modalities, context window size, thinking, tool caling) - loaded model(s) that would allow harnesses to easily enumerate things dynamically, instead of having users (or their agents) write silly config files.

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr Degrees in centering divs are finally obsolete. Good riddance. Fantastic work. Bravissimi!

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

@DanDeFiEd Banger

Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied. In Italy: - Walk into a bar and look at the guy - Un caffe - 30 seconds later it’s ready - Shoot it - Leave €1 - Walk out In the US: - Join a line - Wait - Order coffee - Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it? - $12.34 - Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip - Tap phone - ask where to send the invoice - Wait again on a different line - Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine - get the coffee - too hot, can't drink it - finally at temperature taste like shit

@theo If we really want to speedrun progress, you need to take more vacations! You need a mobile recording studio situation that fits in a small suitcase. :) Enjoy yourself, you deserve it.

I need to never take vacations again

@BenjaminDEKR What if you never experienced anything else? What if you were a fish born and raised in a bowl. Would you care about the ocean? Also, some people just like steak.

Would people living in a dystopia realize that's what it is, or just bleakly go about their day?

If a certain type of clientele, probably the one that the owner wants, is more than happy to pay 8 euro for a coffee, everyone is happy and the market works! I wouldn't normally pay 8 euro for an espresso but if was visiting that place like a once or twice in a lifetime event. On a holiday, pampering myself, hell yeah! I would regret not doing it just for 7 euro anchor bias that makes me feel like I am getting scammed. I respect your point of view, totally. Just sharing mine.

@polyMatto @LuxeTiffany Still it’s about 5x more than the normal price, that’s absurd in my opinion.

Lovely spot for lunch at The Place in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy

@timwido @LuxeTiffany You are paying for a little more than the coffee, don't you think? If it costed the same as the average bar in Stazione Termini it wouldn't be share-worthy... it would be packed and service would probably be shitty

@LuxeTiffany The prices there are crazy. Imagine paying €8 for an espresso in Italy.