If I be more noble than you, it is b/c I have suffered more. intersect(Jesus, code, design) Berkeley EE Physics @thegrid linkedin.com/in/dan-tocchini
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5 Jan 2024
1 year ago today, my son Aeon died when a 120ft redwood snapped 40ft in the air & free fell on our house crushing him just 5ft away from me.
From the abyss of suffering, I return new born, having shed my skin. Aeon's death saved my life.
This is my testimony.
An evergreen 🧵
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Adobe proposed CSS Regions 15 years ago, shipped a polyfill for it. Google's blink/chrome team killed it. Still bitter about it
wired.com/2011/05/adobe-envi…
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Feb 25
reinstalling Omarchy in CA next year just to feel alive again
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California Law to Require Linux, Windows Implement Age Verification by Jan 1, 2027
A new California Law (AB-1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires all Operating Systems (from macOS to FreeBSD) to implement age verification, at the system level, this year.
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Feb 11
backdoors wikipedia god-mode
blocks ip of anyone reverting changes
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2 Nov 2025
In the upcoming release of simdjson, you can just create an array from a JSON expression with...
auto array = " [1,2,3] "_json
And so forth. C 26 required (coming to LLVM/clang and GCC next year).
Joint work with @GeimanThiesen
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1 Nov 2025
It’s important for programmers to understand that simpler code doesn’t always need to waste computational resources. Sometimes, techniques will both simplify *and* minimize waste. Too many assume mutual exclusion, so they miss all of the best wins.
1 Nov 2025
It's depressing that software engineering mostly wastes the hardware advantages to make programming "easier" and "cheaper" = sloppy code. Every 2 decades we get 1000x faster hardware (Moore).
I'd like to see real improvements, like 1000x more players MP:
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31 Oct 2025
A programmer who never encounters a problem where recursion is a valid solution, is a sad programmer
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13 Oct 2025
My account was completely deleted.
My appeal was denied with no consideration and no process.
all my history is gone.
no chance to export and save my data.
I am completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
I have absolutely no idea why @sama would do this to me. @OpenAI
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2 Sep 2025
Spotify's initial library came from thepiratebay, ceo of Spotify was ceo of uTorrent
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"It takes ten years for the culture of a great company to fall apart once the CEO seat is given to someone without an engineering or product background. That's been the story of Boeing, Intel, and now Apple." world.hey.com/dhh/the-great-…
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18 Sep 2025
"Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs."
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11 Sep 2025
"And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one."
- Jesus
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5 Sep 2025
Couldn't agree more with Linus here. Making your code running as fast as possible (or just faster than someone's else code) is the best feeling you can get from programming
The issue that it is extremely hard to find the project that will pay you for instruction level efficiency
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5 Sep 2025
Should have owned the emerging open standard you built instead of shitting on it
Without a compelling argument for why this required non backward compat, feels like an icky blatant attempt to artificially lock-in developers
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30 Aug 2025
8-29-25 🕺🏻 💃🏻
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28 Aug 2025
HUGE
GLM 4.5 beats Claude in Agentic Workflows
> beats them head-to-head
> 72x cheaper than opus 4 ($207 vs $2.9)
> 15x cheaper than sonnet 4 ($41 vs $2.9
> leading the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard V4
I have been saying this for a month now :)
1 Aug 2025
GLM 4.5 > KIMI K2 > QWEN 3 235B NON-THINKING > Qwen 3 CODER 480B
For Agentic coding tools
GLM 4.5 with Claude Code is the closest thing to Opus 4 imo
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