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tyler @leothrix

infrastructure thaumaturge and "technical" "writer" | @BowtieWorks | very tired all the time | 🐘 @tyler@typing.ink

Joined May 2011
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tyler@leothrix
25 Mar 2022
There's a little-known letter from Chaucer that records his tasting flavor-blasted doritos > [...] mye mouthe wys accosted with sych violence by thee triangle I was laid out upon mye bed f'r three nyghts avvash in a dread sweat that did not abate until my humors weir set aright
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Unexpected benefit of running a NixOS server on Oracle’s ARM free tier is the availability of an aarch64-linux builder for my otherwise-minimal SBCs in the homelab when I need to build derivations without binfmt overhead
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Sphere is writing good nix content
HSVSphere
@HSVSphere
Jun 13
Replying to @HSVSphere
rgbcu.be/blog/nix-koans/ cc @leothrix @grhmc @kerckhove_ts
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I think blog posts like this are evidence that LLMs haven’t breached the “good at writing blog posts” benchmark, because a mid writer would prompt “write the best flakes tutorial” or “write a post explaining modules” No. Truly good writing needs a creative angle on it
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“Look, I don’t know who this ‘Fable’ guy is but you boys make some great points and I don’t care if you really do drift upon The Void Which Binds through vacuum foam on a tenth-dimensional brane, I’ll shut him down if the light cone depends on it or whatever”
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I yolo'd a VPS upgrade from nixos 25.11 to 26.05 with an encrypted ZFS root that uses the new systemd initrd and... it worked Very stupid thing to do because I'd be toast if it didn't unlock properly over ssh buuuuuut we good
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TIL that nushell has a nice `sys` built-in that provides a nice, structured view into information about your system (and, crucially, is much easier to parse in scripts than output from `ip`)
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the epistemic legibility of accepting marginal gains from gain-of-function research into gradient descent as it relates to intelligence is orthogonal to however you might think of p(doom) in the limit because recursive self-improvement isn't the fast takeoff you think it is witho
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I read this kind of on a whim and I really enjoyed it Felt very much like a fairy tale/fable in contrast to Le Guin’s other work and got a lot darker than I expected
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Currently 0.1x engineering by pulling out Python modules, functions, list comprehensions, and stdlib out of my head rather than from the models
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After literal years of painstakingly keeping my double-entry accounting records in beancount, LLMs have (via bean-query) a read-only, total view of my finances to help planning and it’s, uh, pretty nice to have
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It avoids - risk of granting actual access to my accounts - headaches of getting access across a variety of institutions - imprecise Q&A between the model the records bc of beancount query syntax And recent models can usually get the queries right to avoid churn
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Weather has warmed sufficiently that I've switched to my cold brew mixture of choice in the morning rather than my French press and I immediately realized how much I've missed it
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I need an artificial intelligence timeline cleanse of, like, a new groundbreaking Mario 64 speedrunning glitch or a new hobby lisp somebody wrote or some Linux distro drama where a furry called an eastern european something offensive
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Kids whomst gambol and cavort. Don’t see much of that these days
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I can’t believe the VC sphere is going to corrupt the term “loop” now. Where is the amish luddite group chat I can join where people continue to think it’s noble to know things
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*youth pastor voice* you know, faith is a lot like goatse. I've never seen it but I don't need to in order to know it's there
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Many are saying that those of us in tech should eschew the amorphous shape of the future in favor of genteel scholarly pursuits and reflection I'm almost there. Almost
tautologer
@tautologer
Jun 8
fun thing about being unemployed is that I can take Monday to recover from the weekend I don't want to have to do this, but it's nice to be able to
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I feel kind of surprised I didn't enjoy Consider Phlebas? Space operas are right up my alley but it didn't work for me
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Committing ritual seppuku because my neat game frontend is only 2.6k Clojurescript LoC instead of 400k of gstack markdown
tyler@leothrix
30 May 2025
the @SpaceTradersAPI project continues
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Overwhelmed by patriotism as I envision Bibi permitting the US government to declare victory for the sixteenth time
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
Jun 7
BREAKING: Iran has now launched a second major wave of ballistic missiles toward Israel, with sirens active across the entire north including Haifa.
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