Eric Fredine

Principal engineer writing code for fun and profit. Lapsed photographer. Husband. Father. Aspiring fly fisher.

[Andrew Gallant @burntsushi5]

I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months.

I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis.

https://t.co/mP0ftCuwpp

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@ibuildthecloud How much of that acceptance is due to structural rather than nominative types?

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@spion @unsafebl0ck @geofflangdale I use it as a way to show empathy for people who are frustrated that linked lists are still hard in Rust.

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@unsafebl0ck @geofflangdale I think you’re making my point. Just acknowledge that it’s an unfortunate and even unreasonable limitation. Technologies often have trade-offs.

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

It’s always an alignment problem

[dax @thdxr]

the whole "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" thing is def real

but now people think looking at any metric is pointless

the root issue is when your team is motivated incorrectly and would prefer to game a metric instead of learning from it

[AJ Stuyvenberg @astuyve]

Wow, AWS just published a great visual blog about building and scaling a flat, random graph network

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@julianharris @antirez Could also be an accident of how they started and how that influenced the next steps? If you repeated the projects with the same models you might get different impressions

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@samlambert You can just do things

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@petersteele As a Canadian I just want to note that you don’t live that far north ;-).

(True of many of us here as well.)

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

As suspected, Jira is indeed Turing complete

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading. beautifully done.

https://t.co/WoYbf80OUN

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

Goose shit making the Montreal Grand Prix track slippery.

Canadian challenge unlocked!

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

Highly recommended

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

This is a beautifully-written piece and extremely accessible to anyone just with mathematical maturity. Highly recommended. Crystallizes so many things that have been jostling around in my head in terms of work I've been looking for (around the Kolmogorov intuition).

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

Also bored of doing this and will be giving this a try.

[Samuel Colvin @samuelcolvin]

I got board of opening spreadsheets with google sheets.

So I've built `spread` a native spreadsheet viewer.

Built with @zeddotdev's GPUI. Can open xlsx, csv and parquet.

Will open a 30M row parquet file in <100ms.

Renders most xlsx formatting.

https://t.co/gkvSxH4p0r

[roon @tszzl]

one ordinary thunderstorm, averaged over its lifetime, outputs about 200 GW. a cat 5 hurricane like katrina is outputting 600 TERRAwatt average. the scope and scale of human civilization is still small even on our own planet

[Tzu Gwo @yochowgwo]

- Open-source self-hosting.
- sub-50 ms P99 latency
- Plain S3 economics, no S3 Express tier
- Quorum-replicated durability and horizontal scaling based on thread-per-core x multi-Raft

That's how we implement this: https://t.co/L3WxDkvXuR

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

I never hear these stories about AWS. And I promise you, I’ve been listening.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Most human tasks are not Markovian, the optimal next action cannot be determined solely by looking at the current state. It depends heavily on the past trajectory, the original intent, and context constraints. An agent that cannot compress and track its past trajectory with absolute fidelity is maybe 20% as useful as one that can.

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

@ThePrimeagen I feel like there will be many more languages that compile to LLVM IR & do useful things before that step

LLVM IR is better as a “universal language compilation target” than WASM (and JS which preceded it for that usecase)

[Eric Fredine @fredine]

@realamlug But the compiler is in Rust?