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Oscar Boykin
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Some guy on Maui
In Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" he discusses how in general people who never met Hitler were better able to see him for what he was, and people who met him face to face were more often taken in by the lies. I wonder if the same effect is at work with Trump, e.g. Whitmer and Bill Maher.
Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’

Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.

This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽
Gretchen Whitmer greets Trump in Michigan
April 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Track Day at Kamehameha school on Maui.
April 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
sane discussion of AI in congress from Kevin Kiley (R-CA): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJh... -- a problem with politics is that actually most are sane people, but the media isn't interested in sanity. That doesn't sell ads or go viral. They love Trump because he sells ads and gets eyeballs.
Kevin Kiley Delivers Remarks On The 'Exponential Growth' In Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Oscar Boykin
Hiii 🔥 new profile pic we’re ready to go!
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
interesting data on US 2024 EV sales: electrek.co/2025/01/14/t...
January 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pumped about seeing Goonies in the theatre
January 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A little post Christmas hacking I implemented a semver Version type in Scala: github.com/johnynek/bos...

Very well tested and I think a good API. Feel free to copy it to your projects if you like.
Add semver Version implementation by johnynek · Pull Request #1338 · johnynek/bosatsu
github.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I love this song. It’s my favorite Christmas song. It’s amazing that it was released in 1961 and hit only 76 on the chart. It took 11 years to finally hit number 1 for Christmas singles in 1972. Goes to show: good stuff often isn’t appreciated right away.
December 24, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Finally got my programming language (bosatsu) fully compiling to native code and in a naive benchmark of computing Fibonacci numbers the silly recursive way it is 32x faster than Python:

github.com/johnynek/bos...
Make a simple fib computing program for naive benchmarks by johnynek · Pull Request #1308 · johnynek/bosatsu
comparing python on 37: took seconds 4.24458909034729 >>> fib(37) 39088169 bosatsu C: oscar@patricks-air bosatsu % time c_out/test_exe 37 fib(37) = 39088169 c_out/test_exe 37 0.13s user ...
github.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Reposted by Oscar Boykin
OH: Taco Bell is the AWS of fast food. 12 ingredients, 200 products.
December 4, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I’m implementing big integer division and mod in C. My strategy has been to implement it in Scala first, then property check it like crazy against the JVM implementation along with many assertions of properties at various stages. Then translate the algorithm but remove the assertions.
December 3, 2024 at 7:47 PM
For the first time, generated C code from my pure and total functional language called bosatsu runs and even passes 19/21 basic List tests:
November 27, 2024 at 2:41 AM
hot take 0: follower count navel gazing posts are like telling people about your dreams. No one is interested.

hot take 1: pretty sure that all such counts encourage gamification that leads to the toxicity of social networks. I wish the system didn't even show metrics like that.
November 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I really hope the "billionaires want a plan B" critique of space exploration disappears soon. This is clearly false. Mars and the Moon are utter *shitholes* compared to any place on Earth's surface (and the vast majority of them below).
November 20, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I’m disappointed and discouraged about the direction of the country, that said, I’m in this space to focus on tech and science

One lesson I took from Twitter is I don’t want a rage bait machine. The world is full of tragedy and injustice. I don’t want a firehose of it 24/7.
November 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
do any of y'all have some weird C lore to share that is also up to date about using ternary vs if/else? e.g. if I can just as easily generate ternary expressions when I have an expression, vs if/else and assigning to tmp values in the branches, will it matter on a modern compiler?
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Working on my compiler for my functional programming language and for the first time I have it generating C code that compiles:
November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Tree supports are amazing
November 16, 2024 at 7:57 PM