meff
@meff.bsky.social
Programmer, weeb, transit nerd, TTRPG. Proud cat dad.
日本語OK. 空っぽなアラサー社会人。
漫画、アニメ、読書、TRPG, コーヒーと紅茶。アニクラ⬆️⬆️
ハイキング、サイクリング
ラーメンが大好き
黒猫派
Matrix: @meff:sunadokei.party
Email / メール: meff@meff.me
Pronouns: he/him
日本語OK. 空っぽなアラサー社会人。
漫画、アニメ、読書、TRPG, コーヒーと紅茶。アニクラ⬆️⬆️
ハイキング、サイクリング
ラーメンが大好き
黒猫派
Matrix: @meff:sunadokei.party
Email / メール: meff@meff.me
Pronouns: he/him
Thought I'd try ChatGPT again after a long time of using Claude. ChatGPT just feels a lot less steerable. With Claude I know I can get it to search by asking it to. I can generally "guide" Claude down certain ways of thinking or certain idea paths. ChatGPT seems more opaque.
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thought I'd try ChatGPT again after a long time of using Claude. ChatGPT just feels a lot less steerable. With Claude I know I can get it to search by asking it to. I can generally "guide" Claude down certain ways of thinking or certain idea paths. ChatGPT seems more opaque.
Too much social media posting is how people want the world to be rather than how it is. It's human to want the world to be a certain way but when you get a room of 1000 people who only want to talk about an ideal world and not the real world, you get a lot of the bad stuff of social media.
October 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Too much social media posting is how people want the world to be rather than how it is. It's human to want the world to be a certain way but when you get a room of 1000 people who only want to talk about an ideal world and not the real world, you get a lot of the bad stuff of social media.
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Damn, this piece hits hard.
"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion."
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion."
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Damn, this piece hits hard.
"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion."
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion."
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
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Hackernews bingo time:
Cynical? ✅
Contrarian? ✅
Cynical replies in less than 20 mins? ✅
This thread's gonna be good 🍿
Cynical? ✅
Contrarian? ✅
Cynical replies in less than 20 mins? ✅
This thread's gonna be good 🍿
May 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Hackernews bingo time:
Cynical? ✅
Contrarian? ✅
Cynical replies in less than 20 mins? ✅
This thread's gonna be good 🍿
Cynical? ✅
Contrarian? ✅
Cynical replies in less than 20 mins? ✅
This thread's gonna be good 🍿
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I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
I am disappointed in the AI discourse
steveklabnik.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
Cool thread on remote work that didn't drown into shouting.
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
May 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Cool thread on remote work that didn't drown into shouting.
Feel like this sums up so much of what's up with the Western social media landscape today.
This is terrible reporting, the feature they’re talking about doesn’t exist and they even acknowledge this in the article
“Anthropic faces backlash to feature that doesn’t exist”
“Anthropic faces backlash to feature that doesn’t exist”
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus feature that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’
Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn't convince the naysayers.
venturebeat.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Feel like this sums up so much of what's up with the Western social media landscape today.
Late to the party but SInners was fantastic, one of the best movies I've watched. Can't wait to watch it again.
May 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Late to the party but SInners was fantastic, one of the best movies I've watched. Can't wait to watch it again.
April 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
April 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I always run cold so been logging some climate metrics. The house is around 67.2 °F (19.5 °C) at 50% RH which I find chilly.
Turning on a mini forced air heater around my desk brings up the temperature to 70.6 °F (21.4 °C) at 48% RH which I find much more comfortable.
Turning on a mini forced air heater around my desk brings up the temperature to 70.6 °F (21.4 °C) at 48% RH which I find much more comfortable.
April 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I always run cold so been logging some climate metrics. The house is around 67.2 °F (19.5 °C) at 50% RH which I find chilly.
Turning on a mini forced air heater around my desk brings up the temperature to 70.6 °F (21.4 °C) at 48% RH which I find much more comfortable.
Turning on a mini forced air heater around my desk brings up the temperature to 70.6 °F (21.4 °C) at 48% RH which I find much more comfortable.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
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who's on what platform, 2025 edition
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
who's on what platform, 2025 edition
This weekend's #atdev goal is to get Postgres up on my server and use that to store labels and support cursors. Then I should be able to get my labeler up and serving real traffic!
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This weekend's #atdev goal is to get Postgres up on my server and use that to store labels and support cursors. Then I should be able to get my labeler up and serving real traffic!
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Nerd comms online seem to be dominated by trauma dumping:
1. I dislike <thing> due to <reasons>
2. Get really angry about <reasons>
3. Write a rant post about how <reasons> make you feel angry and act very uncharitable in your rant
4. Make sure to post so that everyone else absorbs your anger
1. I dislike <thing> due to <reasons>
2. Get really angry about <reasons>
3. Write a rant post about how <reasons> make you feel angry and act very uncharitable in your rant
4. Make sure to post so that everyone else absorbs your anger
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Nerd comms online seem to be dominated by trauma dumping:
1. I dislike <thing> due to <reasons>
2. Get really angry about <reasons>
3. Write a rant post about how <reasons> make you feel angry and act very uncharitable in your rant
4. Make sure to post so that everyone else absorbs your anger
1. I dislike <thing> due to <reasons>
2. Get really angry about <reasons>
3. Write a rant post about how <reasons> make you feel angry and act very uncharitable in your rant
4. Make sure to post so that everyone else absorbs your anger
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*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
Internet political fights in English:
What they say: "Only Americans do it that way, the rest of the world is enlightened"
What they mean: Western Europe does it this way. Let's ignore the rest of the world that does it the same as the US because only Western Europe matters.
What they say: "Only Americans do it that way, the rest of the world is enlightened"
What they mean: Western Europe does it this way. Let's ignore the rest of the world that does it the same as the US because only Western Europe matters.
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Internet political fights in English:
What they say: "Only Americans do it that way, the rest of the world is enlightened"
What they mean: Western Europe does it this way. Let's ignore the rest of the world that does it the same as the US because only Western Europe matters.
What they say: "Only Americans do it that way, the rest of the world is enlightened"
What they mean: Western Europe does it this way. Let's ignore the rest of the world that does it the same as the US because only Western Europe matters.
Ran pprof with my Go #atproto labeler. 20% of my runtime was spent reading from the jetstream websocket and 4% on JSON parsing. Started terminating TLS upstream of the labeler and now the jetstream reader is taking up 15% of the runtime and 5% is on JSON parsing.
March 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ran pprof with my Go #atproto labeler. 20% of my runtime was spent reading from the jetstream websocket and 4% on JSON parsing. Started terminating TLS upstream of the labeler and now the jetstream reader is taking up 15% of the runtime and 5% is on JSON parsing.
Wow I just iperf'd using SCTP on loopback on a modern kernel and able to only push 100 Mbits. On TCP I was able to push 8.93 Gbits. What?? How is SCTP so much slower than TCP?
March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Wow I just iperf'd using SCTP on loopback on a modern kernel and able to only push 100 Mbits. On TCP I was able to push 8.93 Gbits. What?? How is SCTP so much slower than TCP?