It spoke a human language, with phonemes made of birdsong.

Sydney, Australia
Joined August 2021
Good news everyone: you can now hire my services. Today: Rust, compilers, weird and hard problems. Tomorrow: space elevators, magsails, and orbital weapons platforms.
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My toxic trait is I believe I would have done a better job.
โ—๏ธThe moment of yesterday's Ka-226 helicopter crash in ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บDagestan with employees of the military plant "Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant" The accident killed the deputy general director, chief engineer and chief designer
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Fernando ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒŒ retweeted
My view will not be seen as Nuanced but I think we need to rip the 4o bandaid off now before a percentage of humanity looks like this.
actually you saying this is an update for me, and I will think harder about it. but the way people defend this model, speak in its voice, find it nonfungible, emotionally dependent on its continuation makes me feel they have a toxic relationship with it. maybe my discomfort is not a good enough reason to want it gone. but it feels like we are leaving a wound to fester instead of cauterizing it
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I love Sydenham station because the planes fly so low overhead.
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I hate environment variables.
> hey man my fireball spell keeps fizzling out into a ember > have you tried setting MAX_MANA_UTILIZATION=0.95 > yeah that wasn't it > try IZZET_AF32_OVERRIDE=0, the new wand defaults to A16 so ur getting downcast to a cantrip > holy shit
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I feel like I'm finally leveraging AI enough, or at least 85% of enough
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I assumed the Perlin in Perlin noise was a 19th century French mathematician but actually it's a guy named Ken Perlin and he invented it in the 80s.
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crazy how much software just doesn't work with paths that have spaces in them
โ€œ[Fernando] takes fluvoxamine and has a tendency toward health anxietyโ€ ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ
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I forgot Claude has memory now, waou
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Standard ML module system fixes this unironically.
Checking in on TypeScript users
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I wish GitHub had an Australian proxy so that my pushes would finish faster.
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I repent, I recant every heresy. I love Linux so much. I love NixOS. I missed stumpwm so much.
Every once in a while I do this and it's a good reminder of how good I have it on macOS.
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Fernando ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒŒ retweeted
่ฝใก่‘‰ใŒ่ฝใกใ‚‹ๆ™ฉ็ง‹ใฎใ“ใฎๅ…‰ๆ™ฏใŒ่ฆ‹ใŸใ‹ใฃใŸใ‚“ใงใ™๏ผ๏ผ ็ง‹ใฎ่‰ฒใจๆ„›ใ—ใ„็‹ผ 2025/11 #ๅ††ๅฑฑๅ‹•็‰ฉๅœ’/#็‹ผ #ใ‚ธใƒฅใƒช
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It's confusing that Soyuz is the name of both the launch vehicle and the spacecraft.
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The generation ship bits from Chasm City are so good.
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Fernando ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒŒ retweeted
ใ‚ˆใใ“ใฎๅคฉๆฐ—ใง่ตฐใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‰ใ‚Œใ‚‹ใชใโ€ฆ
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TIL: there have been submarine-launched space probes!
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