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building exchanges | co-organizer of

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

I wanna build cool software

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@BenjDicken I’ve been hosting paper discussions through Madison Systems with @_TylerHillery. It’s been really fun and often thought provoking.

[Tyler Hillery @_TylerHillery]

Another great Madison Systems paper discussion!

[Tyler Hillery @_TylerHillery]

3 more days, get to reading!

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@bernhardsson Livny’s Law iykyk

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

I hate to break this to all the people with strong opinions but the correct answer to almost every question is “it depends”

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

Ilya Sutskever explaining why OpenAI has a for-profit, under oath in a federal court:

"if there's no funding, there's no big computer."

in the running for quote of the year

[noah @Noahbout_it]

new cleveland

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[Alexander Lacherbauer @lacherbauer]

A proud Rust Belter.

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@DominikTornow Excited to see what you got cooking. I use Go daily and I have been wanting to work on using DST for some personal projects

[Tyler Hillery @_TylerHillery]

Great discussion today! A surprising amount of Ceph mentions and I had to bring up the napkin math repo a few times

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@dejavucoder 👋

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@_TylerHillery @iavins I really like the Oxide and Friends podcast. A lot of the hardware stuff goes over my head but the software stuff is great!

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@jxmnop When Gemini 2.5 Pro was SOTA, I was using it for coding and it was pretty good. Things have changed but their models aren’t the best for agentic coding atm. I’d expect this to change soon.

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@pmarca SQLite and curl come to mind

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@eatonphil It’s been super rewarding to organize paper discussions with Madison Systems. Thanks to the other organizers as well! @_TylerHillery @abigale_kim @MOVNTDQ

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@AdityaMandal_ Did you implement a scheduler for the jobs?

[Kwik Trip @KwikTrip]

ohio is the comic sans of the midwest

[patrick @_patrickbrophy]

@_TylerHillery I used it a lot during undergrad because a lot my development had to be done on a remote machine. So it was nice to be able to have many windows for one ssh connection.