TIL Stockfish in 16.1 dropped all classical evaluation heuristics in favour of NNUE (aka, a machine learned evaluation function).
I get that it performs better, probably faster, definitely less code, but some serious explainability was lost.

Watching deepseek-r1:671b run locally on my AI box (the 1.58 quant version, I’m not a billionaire) is like catting a file over 900 baud.

At 4 tokens per 3 words on average — and I’m getting about 4 tok/s — it’s really, back of napkin, ~50 baud

The biggest winner of the AI race will be distributed systems people. Everything is converging onto a distributed network of stuff and it is only accelerating in the last two years.

An interesting emergent property of switching to jujutsu for version control is I have more active ‘branches’ and even empty-but-described commits with “what I intend to do here”

Because the rebases are so powerful and cheap, I can get code & thoughts out of my head and worry about merging later.

Sometimes the snark takes over in the comments, but you’re still gonna be helpful.

I am become a jujutsu convert. Rebasing whole branches on a whim is what I’ve always wanted. jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest

Watching dog shows at the bar and the Pekingese shows up…

“Ma’am, that’s a tribble” 😂

(All dogs are good dogs, some are tribbles, and honestly, not my taste either)

“Avocado Toast” should be called a “Croque de Californie”. In this essay, I will…

TFW you use a right-wing jerkwad’s useful blog post for the opposite (in this case rename git master->main instead of the reverse (because ‘main’ is apparently offensive to dumbasses))

I used the phrase “is that the 411?” semi-sarcastically today and got blank stares.

I’m sorry. I grew up in the late 90s. Phones used to be phones.

I've found myself adding "(Barak's Version)" to all my forks, READMEs or design docs that explicitly don't take contributions or are too salty to share (h/t Taylor Swift) 🙃

Maybe I’m getting jaded but so much of project planning comes down to “is it big? Or is it _not_ big?”

Today I am "hi my local baristas, can I try some alternative milk today to help my tummy" years old

Also, hello BlueSky! This is going to be my barking-about-technology-into-the-ether place now, because (A) fuck the muskrat running Twitter, and (B) I tried my hand at Mastodon but also have no time anymore to self-host... and if I'm gonna pick somewhere, might as well where the people I know are.

Days since I imaged a new Kubernetes cluster: ~393~ 0