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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 1d

probably the social contract should be quiet work incurs a debt paid by chatting with a friend in the same place another day

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 1d

don't know how to reconcile that i like working in coffee shops but also "study hall" is a horrible vibe

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

actually i can but just not in firefox ;___; bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

1999148 - Service worker does not immediately activate in iframe

UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Core - DOM: Service Workers. Last updated 2025-11-09.

bugzilla.mozilla.org

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

i hate doing cursed web development. what do you mean i can't use webassembly to dynamically decompress a zip file in a service worker for requests intercepted an iframe

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

- Vannevar Kush

a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

As We May Toke

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

As We May Toke

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

ah FUCK

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

As We May Design Drugs

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 2d

first dynamicland, now hazel... the future of programming is in the wet lab

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 6d

i am calling on mayor wu to take a brave stand and affirm publicly that boston is the zagreb of america

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 14d

ya our garbage collection is actually web scale

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 24d

didn't see any of this in boston but saw several in photos of red/purple state protests. paid protestors must be getting pushed hard in rw media

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 24d

and really an emperor is not a king either, so

And George Wendt @trumancapps.bsky.social · 24d

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today.

ME: That's right.

CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3.

ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair.

CHOTINER: Oh?

ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count.

CHOTINER: I see.

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 24d

?????

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 24d

generational report from boston no kings:
- boomers: unhinged facebook resistlib signs
- gen x: generic no kings signs
- millennials: andor or hamilton meme signs
- gen z: inflatable costumes and signs with inscrutable references

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 26d

I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Mar 27

Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University
@bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!

CDS building which looks like a jenga tower

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 27d

ah, erm, yes... i am actually quite parallel. it's a little embarrassing

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 10

an old man sits in the next row, watching fox news on the inflight tv. a pallid student speaks through airpods to a blonde anchor. the passenger, bored, pulls up TikTok. a young woman dances in an american flag bikini. swipe, it's sora footage of mr rogers talking to elvis presley. he lingers. swipe

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 7

like many things in this space, you can thank karpathy for this one

a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Jun 20

LLMs are just like an operating system [puts up a picture depicting an LLM as a CPU, not an operating system]

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 6

don't quite get the general motivation, is the question "what types of monadic / effectful computations make sense to embed in a dataflow computing paradigm"?

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 6

that means it's time for a P H D

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 5

clippy noooooooo rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/...

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 5

when doing this kind of research, are you just reading the generated code, or are you also reading a generated report about the research?

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 5

i regret to inform you this means mojo is praxis

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Oct 5

does this cover modern use cases of decorated types though? in the examples above only OxCaml seems to fit the mold of "decoration to avoid GC"

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