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Patrick
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Head in the clouds, feet in compiler output. Climate and sports (basketball, soccer) when I feel like it.
Imagine breaking up a family for a particularly interesting bit of linear algebra.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Kagi is one of my favorite bills to pay.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You're asking a lot of questions answered by my "We're not Enron" t shirt.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Also: Do you even second law of thermodynamics.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Take two pool balls. If one is static, one hit hard, you will see transfer of E. If you start hitting them at each other at various speeds, you will see transfer of E. You hit them at the same speed, you will see zero* transfer of E between the two balls.

Temperature exchange is a local process
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Patrick
While you do not want the WSJ generally writing that about you, you specifically do not want Jonathan Weil writing that about you.
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
laws of thermodynamics say what
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This doesn't happen to me, you might want to check your settings?
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
oh god:

federalism
elections
military command and control
policing
fiat / crypto
email / messaging

I think I just backed myself into my own centralism.
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Distributed or centralized; why not both?

A take for the times, really.
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We talked about it for two minutes once and decided who gives a fuck and we're both happy the other exists.

Vaguely curious how much a person doing gotcha for clout is actually, idk, helping in any way.
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A question writ large:

I give to food banks in the area every year; but not people I see. I see big orgs as economies of scale.

I have a friend that does the opposite and always carries cash for that purpose. He sees big orgs as overhead.
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just be careful if you're the one paying for Claude: I got work paying for Max because of how many tokens this can burn with five or six going at once. I try to start a handful at once and then kill the ones that lose the plot to do myself.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
future is here, use this kind of thing every day:

conductor.build
Conductor
Run a bunch of Claude Codes in Parallel. By Melty Labs.
conductor.build
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
These folks are why there's such robust block system here.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This I crazy. You see the quote that 20% of the remedial students passed a AP Calculus class (no details on actual AP score).
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM