Andrew Lavery

Former engineer at @replicatedhq. No longer in Culver City. Travel at

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

i'm finding it slightly maddening to catalogue all of this in a manner appropriate for twitter because while there are lots of fun punchy incidents like "german anarchists at haymarket" or "italian terrorist bombings," claims like "deliberate destruction of ethnic enclaves in the 60s by 'urban renewal' and 'white flight' finally forced assimilation by geographic deracination" or "the 18th amendment was significantly about destroying immigrant political organization in saloons" or "actually the entire Progressive movement was a reaction to the dysfunction in American society significantly driven by mass immigration" demand justification and don't screencap well

i'm surveying almost two centuries and a half of blood and conniving and brutal politics to produce a barely-homogenized america in the late 20C. yes, it eventually "work[ed] out fine" i suppose.

my point is that no one connects the dots into a coherent picture of what all of this implies for life in the united states in the mass immigration era because "nation of immigrants" sacred words effectively short-circuits thinking.

it's valid to say "well we're all here now and we made it work," but this is a very different claim than "it was good for native-born americans that their cities were overwhelmed by foreign ethnic masses in the 18th and 19th centuries." and this latter claim is what's relevant to our current circumstances.

in the long run? yes it _might_ work out. but you know what they say about the long run. personally i don't think we need to subject ourselves, and our children, and our grandchildren to that kind of misery for hope of an uncertain future that's an entirely unnecessary departure from the status quo.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@dexhorthy Nothing screws up an agent quite like the plan doc for a feature implemented last year and now deprecated/heavily modified

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@MojaveArtClub That's partly because it's a "YOU LOSE" button, not an "I WIN" button.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@SuitablePolitic I think it's more "your country won't exist by the time your plane gets back"

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@Yield_Finder @thsottiaux Yes this pattern matches to a silly thing people sometimes do. However, I want the in-app browser within the ChatGPT app to tunnel traffic to my dev laptop, not to expose localhost to the world.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@OpenAI @OpenAIDevs

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

Codex updates giveth, and Codex updates taketh away - being able to steer my WSL-based Codex install from my phone has been fantastic, but now apply_patch and process spawning is wonky. Hopefully it gets fixed soon!

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

GPT5.5's bug report:

Codex Desktop on Windows with WSL workspace.

Default exec_command shell wrapper fails to spawn /bin/bash:
Rejected("Failed to create unified exec process: No such file or directory (os error 2)")

But /bin/bash exists and explicit approved /bin/bash -lc works.

apply_patch can Add File in the WSL repo, git status sees the file, but apply_patch Delete File immediately fails with:
Failed to read /home/.../file: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Node helper cwd is \\wsl.localhost\ub\home\...
Node helper lstat on WSL paths returns EPERM.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@MichaelAlleged @redthursdayss @R_P_one Well yes, when you toss 150kt at them ships rapidly cease to be an issue

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@selectsand @aviationbrk For basic SCUBA you bring backup systems twice - a backup regulator (the thing you breathe from) in case yours breaks, plus a buddy within a few meters of you in case something else breaks. Some drivers bring a tiny second tank with an integrated regulator. Cave divers do more.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

Today was my last day at Replicated. It's been a long journey and I wish the remaining team the best.

And yes, I'm open to work!

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@marccampbell @GrantM I imagine that the value of their spectrum has gone up a lot, maybe that's driving it?

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@levelsio @Cloudflare For some reason I've still got an old .pw that I'd love to have out of squarespace

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@lordmiles Now if only all the museums weren't closed today for the May 9th holiday...

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@Powerfuldoggo @GeorgeN28581 Is it flying left or right?

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@kuina_ch The proper solution here is to run a double-elimination tournament bracket. That way, even if 2 loses in the first round, they will get to play their way up the loser's bracket and eventually face 1 again in the grand finals.

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@cremieuxrecueil Monkeys that have been repeatedly captured and given a shot might be traumatized enough to have different drinking habits (in either direction!), so you have to make sure it's the contents of the shot that change things instead of the act of being given the shot

[Andrew Lavery @laverya]

@thsottiaux For local development I want to be able to say "yes you can curl anything at localhost:abcd" - right now there doesn't seem to be a good pattern for this

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

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