@bpiel.bsky.social

Joined April 2008
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11 Dec 2018
In the future, when type systems are perfected: VegetableNameString v = "Tomato"; Compiler Exception: Botanically, a tomato is a fruit—a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato is considered a "culinary vegetable"...
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Soon only agents will google?
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Replying to @claudeai
@claudeai The anthropic billing page took my $6 payment, but didn't credit my account. The help chat bot said it would escalate to a human, but there's been no response. Now it ignores me. It's been 2 days. Can you get them to fix it?
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So you are ignoring me too nowadays? I see how it is
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People don't get that AI is just another tool. And just like how you know that one day that hammer in your toolbox will beat you to death, you can be sure that AI has its own plans too
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Bill Piel retweeted
Having trouble sticking with your projects? Feeling burned out? Check out my #clojure Conj 2025 talk for a helpful guide. youtube.com/watch?v=Alfq8RG8…
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Bill Piel retweeted
I have a 💰 $1,000 USD 💰bounty on the last issue which is preventing jank from using upstream Clang/LLVM. I've outlined the problem in this ticket and I'm calling anyone interested to help us solve this! RT this to help jank. github.com/jank-lang/jank/is…
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I've just built a distributable Arch Linux tarball for jank which can run on a fresh Arch Linux image with a couple of pacman deps installed. We're getting close to easy distro packaging and release binaries. We're getting close to jank's alpha release. 😀
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Live on Twitch, hacking on jank, the native #clojure dialect on LLVM. Come say hi! twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson
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23 Jul 2025
I asked ChatGPT about the immense wisdom in the lyrics for Van Halen's Jump. It explained, "Culture is the unconscious philosophy of its time". So, now I know that
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18 Jul 2025
LLMs don't know what's real; they just know the approximate shape of it.
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27 Jun 2025
10 years later. Time for a Mad Men reboot. 1980: Peggy becomes a Creative Director (as forseen by Pete) and hires Sally. How will they pitch the Walkman?
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Bill Piel retweeted
18 Apr 2025
I wrote an essay: "Where are you on this?" A simple technique you can use to navigate conflict and improve communication.
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sometimes i wonder if i am too stupid for clojure or functional programming
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30 Jul 2024
I'm bearish on hype
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16 Mar 2023
We are in a wild future.
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀
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30 Jan 2023
1. Love the problem 2. Everything is the problem
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Bill Piel retweeted
11 Dec 2018
In the future, when type systems are perfected: VegetableNameString v = "Tomato"; Compiler Exception: Botanically, a tomato is a fruit—a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato is considered a "culinary vegetable"...
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16 Dec 2022
a social network for nerds/coders/whatev that has no gui, just an API, charges per request
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