dek @SubstructureDek

Building @ https://t.co/4phkZKwN5s (@substructureone) | Open source maximalist | Creating new avenues for open source adoption: https://t.co/XNNlKGuwug Joined December 2021

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dek @SubstructureDek

10 months ago

I'm fascinated by stories of movies getting their endings completely changed at the last minute due to a bad screening from a test audience. How often does such a fundamental last minute change happen with other products? Was there ever a software app that 3 months before launch…

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Abe Murray @abemurray

a year ago

@hpierrejacques Love this, tell my kids this all the time. They are competing against themselves, competing alongside humanity against nature, competing in how much they can grow the pie not to capture more pie. Also tell them comparison to others is thief of joy. Jealousy is just the worst.

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dek @SubstructureDek

a year ago

Asahi Linux on M1 is so close to being an amazing experience, but the power management issues are rough. Finding your laptop battery dead after a couple days because you didn't think to plug it in or shut it off is a major downer. But it's so close.

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dek @SubstructureDek

2 years ago

Diving in to update the kestrel documentation and noticing the last commit is from 10 months ago... that's embarrassing.

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dek @SubstructureDek

2 years ago

A 5 MHz 286 PC with 640kb of RAM could've stored the database of friend lists in ~a hundred k of memory and looked up all friends-of-friends for a given user at least a couple hundred times per second. What have we done.

Nikita Bier @nikitabier

2 years ago

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

2 years ago

Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the…

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dek @SubstructureDek

2 years ago

My oddly phone call specific social anxiety exemplified - always bringing up the phonetic alphabet in a browser window before calling any customer service line just in case I need to spell something out.

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dek @SubstructureDek

2 years ago

Google has seemingly released a new feature where if you search for certain terms on mobile and scroll down far enough you descend straight into the depths of hell.

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Simon Willison @simonw

2 years ago

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-…