Nick Blow

Wrangling agents @ Former CTO @ Wakelet. Dad to 2 daughters. No relation to Jonathan Blow. Implicit IMO.

[Chapter Master Valrak @CMValrak]

Very sad news to hear the passing of John Blanche, thank you for all the amazing art that made me fall in love with Warhammer. RIP mate.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@RhysSullivan Cursor's tab complete is so damn good but the rest of the IDE sucks. I wish I could use it as a plug-in or something.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@adamhjk @ibuildthecloud agree with everything except nextjs. TanStack much better & supports solid too!

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@ThePrimeagen Malazan Book of the Fallen
Chronicles of the Black Company
The First Law Trilogy
City of Stairs Trilogy
Discworld series
Red Sister Trilogy

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@onehappyfellow @devabram Cauliflower is the golang of vegetables. I will not elaborate.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@gwenshap In defence of this:

I’ve seen some libraries that do a connection per request so you end up getting throttled on parallel requests.

I had this for a redis client a while back before we moved to one that did pipelining/multiplexing.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@ThePrimeagen Start with the older and better edition!

https://t.co/WGRprMip9p

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

YMMV but I can consistently get false negatives by feeding enough of my writing into the context and then asking it to write in my style. Though I did put about ~40k words there, so nontrivial effort at that point. Haven't done any particular digging in to find the threshold though as I'm mostly using the 3 free pangarm credits.

I suspect student who already wrote a long enough thesis by hand (e.g. undergrad) could probably AI wash by passing that in.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@_heyglassy @ndrewpignanelli Yeah it also keeps referencing the planetscale free tier and the usage based pricing they had a while back

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@honorablepicnic @QiaochuYuan @voooooogel Eg in the linked post, it’s entirely possible it’s the editing and formatting that triggered pangram, combined with formal prose. I do agree it’s probably a bit too over enthusiastic in marking everything as completely ai though, but I haven’t seen any convincing counter examples

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@honorablepicnic @QiaochuYuan @voooooogel Personally I have seen (and reproduced) many false negatives, but I have yet to see a false positive that passes my vibe check. Which is probably the right side to land on? That still doesn’t mean 100% correct, just means that it’s underestimating the amount of AI.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@devabram @sudo_goreng @effectfully Big problem with that is it messes up cache which has an impact on cost, I guess you can still keep a stable prefix but it’s not quite as good as a steadily growing conversation.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

You’ve heard of Forward Deployed Engineers. Now introducing Backward Deployed Engineers.

Strap in, you’re going back to 2016 to save that gorilla.

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

@rickasaurus Isn’t there a stereotype of having an affair with your secretary?

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

Tech trees have done irreversible damage to people’s psyche, people just think we need to explicitly research something when lots are accidents!

GLP-1 - gila monsters
Artificial sweeteners - a chemist not washing their hands before lunch
Penicillin - mold in a dirty lab dish

[Nick Blow @NickBlow]

The data centre discourse in a nutshell.

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@mikusingularity You just needed the first four words of that sentence TBF

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@slimjimmy moo

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@BuffBiffalo @Swole_Medic @felpix_ Alphafold uses the transformer architecture and is being actively used in drug R&D