Luke W.

Senior Director of Engineering @dell leading AI application development, my tweets are my own. Programming with codex any given day.

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@cyb3rops This comment rings particularly true: “You realize AI coding increases output much faster than it increases certainty.”

[Utah 2034 @utah2034]

The new legacy starts now.

https://t.co/g8ONMJgLZm

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@bryce Sounds like a great idea!

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@bryce https://t.co/aBNBwMknyC get the skirt steak!

[DHH @dhh]

@_vincentritter Dell Precision desktop on the right side of the desk. Great machine when you don't care about a pretty chassis 😄

[Christopher Voss @fbinegotiator]

My book, Never Split The Difference, has over 40,000 reviews on Amazon.

If you’ve read my book, retweet this.

I want to see something….

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@bryce Yes

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

I'm starting to think we're going to actually need a lot more engineers in the age of AI-infused software.

Way more.

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@JamesNiehues @SundanceResort How would one go about getting a print of this from you?

[Utah 2034 @utah2034]

It’s official! IOC names Salt Lake City 🇺🇸 preferred host for 2034 Winter Olympics! #Olympics #SaltLake #Utah #SaltLake2034 https://t.co/XtH9TlDYlF

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@aprildunford Got it!

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@aprildunford Count me in!

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

If I had a dollar for every time someone criticizes The Ocean Cleanup with the phrase “if your bathtub is overflowing, you wouldn’t get a mop, but you would first turn off the tap”, we wouldn’t have to accept donations anymore.

It is not only a cliché, but it’s also just plain wrong, for a few reasons:

1. Humanity can do more than one thing at the same time. Why not do both? Get a friend to start mopping while you work on closing the tap! One does not compete with the other; the cost of cleaning up the legacy pollution is negligible compared to what we spend on dealing with the waste on land.

2. The analogy can be used to criticize the *timing* of cleanup, but instead it’s being used to criticize spending *any* effort on anything cleanup-related. When your bathtub is overflowing, surely you’re happy there were people who developed the mop? Presumably you still have a mop at home?

3. The longer the water is on your nice wooden floor, the more damage it does, so you’d still want to mop up the water rather quickly. Similarly, the longer the accumulated plastic remains in the ocean, the more harm it causes.

4. We don’t disagree that stopping the inflow should have highest priority. Yet, due to the persistency of the plastic, that’s not the only thing we should do if we want to return to clean oceans.

5. The Ocean Cleanup works on closing the tap, too! The closest analogy to the faucet are rivers and that’s exactly where are are intercepting it to prevent it from flowing into the ocean. Instead, these activists often put river interception under the header of ‘cleanup’ too.

6. Many of those that use the bathtub analogy argue we should stop producing plastic. If we take the analogy seriously, that’s not ‘closing the tap’ but closing down the complete water supply.

7. The analogy suggests that you’d have to clean up as fast as it is flowing in to have any effect, but that’s not how the plastic problem works. Almost all the plastic that flows into the ocean washes up back onto land within a few months of being emitted, essentially removing itself. Only a tiny fraction persists. This means that just a single full scale ocean cleanup system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which specifically addresses that persistent fraction, will, in fact, be capable of removing persistent plastic faster than it is flowing in.

Let’s retire this dreaded analogy.

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@SundanceResort @SkiUtah Nice work on the new Twitter content!

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@hunterwalk Curious if you all give feedback on the decks too or just decline?

[DHH @dhh]

Contrast that with just this one example of insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell. The first R6525s have 256GB RAM, 3TB NVM, 2x10G net, 2x AMD EPYC 7513. Second, same, but 2x AMD EPYC 7443. So that's a total of 288 vCPU, 15 TB NVM, 1.3TB RAM for $1,287/month over 3 years!

[Luke W. @Luke4OSS]

@skiheavenly ^ @WasatchSnow this is up your alley :)

[Wisen Tanasa @ceilfors]

Do you struggle to code after a meeting? In the morning? Do you struggle to pay attention to a meeting after a deep work?

We know that context switching is costly but we rarely talk about how we can be more interruptable.

Here's a simple interruptible workflow that you can try: