Nick Benthem

Software Engineer. I tweet about data, finance, and memes.

[Nick Benthem @NickBenthem]

@bushidocodes Wasn’t that a big part of the meme for the movie? “spared no expense” - but the white haired boss generally cheaped out on basically everything. Seatbelts didn’t work on the helicopter even.

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Did some technical design work. Realized 30 year old DOS games aren’t common knowledge with my coworkers 🤣

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100% a ploy. Claude doesn't stop you and ask "you hit your limit, want to keep going?"

Nope. Just starts using that extra usage.

Already burned through half the credit in a single session.

[Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein]

Was this all a ploy to get people to turn on extra usage in Claude Code so that once the $200 credit gets used up, people start racking up huge bills? It's very easy to miss that it's doing that. I kind of hate this, now I need to watch stuff like a hawk to know when to stop it.

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@AriX Pretty impressive. I did a one shot to get Codex to start playing chess.

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I've been working on a Bomberman64 Static recompilation project recently. I've finally got some new progress!

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@georgeguimaraes You used to be able to spoof your github history (because it’s based on the commit date, not when you actually pushed).

Seems not great to deal with all the access issues when you can just make whatever history you want?

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Does anyone use agentic supervisors, where supervisors review agentic terminals and suggest changes to direction (without human in the loop)?

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@DanielcHooper still down lol

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.@BaiEric Love the game Connect the Stars. Is it possible to implement a "show shortest connection" button?

Our graphs get way too long. Would be great to see what connection we missed.

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@_TylerHillery Discords thread are impossible to follow. If there were three threads having a simultaneous conversation the UI would implode

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Pretty good trick for resyncing your base python environment I never knew!

[Tyler Hillery @_TylerHillery]

@davidfowl There was a reason this was one of my more popular tweets (before uv came out)

https://t.co/R76hmi02Dv

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.@teej_m , are you still working on Titan? I'm trying to figure out if titan is planning on supporting Databricks in the future.

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@mim_djo Yeah, it’s good, but cant figure everything out unfortunately

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@mim_djo Also possible your data got cached from the second run.

Really only way to tell is to EXPLAIN the sql statement

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@mim_djo The query planner isn’t perfect, but tries its best. The top root cause I see when this happens is the statistics on the table aren’t up to date. Try refreshing the statistics, then seeing what happens.

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@teej_m @julianhyde back in the day tsql had this, but it required an explicit lateral join.

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@eatonphil It was great chatting Phil!

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@TierZoo Seems to still struggle

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@bob_duffy Default is full each time. Often not possible (size of data usually precludes it), so then move to full.

I'd say it's about 50/50 which one gets used.

[Phil Eaton @eatonphil]

First NYC Systems talks of 2025 tonight! See you there!