P. Oscar Boykin

engineer for recommendations at @Netflix. Former employee of @stripe, @twitter. Former academic. Programmer. Maui resident. Just some guy. @[email protected]

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Happy Halloween!

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@mattknox ChatGPT thinks I won this one: https://t.co/UFSyUxczBw

Period 1 (Oct 28, 2020 – Oct 27, 2022) had a larger number of new feature launches.

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I hope I’ll be wrong, and I’ll admit if I am, but I think twitter’s trajectory over the next two years will be much worse than the previous two (less user growth, fewer feature launches)

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I live on Maui and the loss of life and devastation here is heartbreaking. If you are looking for reputable orgs to support I recommend https://t.co/hrL3gPJ4cn and https://t.co/iHKXlIyt2T

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@igb @jack I mean, Merkle trees are cool man. Come on.

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https://t.co/XJ1ikkqbiz

I’m trying out the new thing

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@kubukoz @bishabosha @stucki153 Bugs man. Bugs. Search the issue tracker for “match”. Match types are packed with bugs. It’s kind of incredible this is considered a stable feature of the compiler.

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A key question IMO, WRT to chatgpt is: how does the world change as the marginal cost of bullshit goes to zero?

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man, I've taken some time away from Twitter, and I pop back, and like all the recommendations are outrage porn. It's exhausting. It might be an addicting product, but it sure does not seem like a healthy one.

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@sfcarts I don’t know man. I wouldn’t be surprised if volume deliveries were still 4 years out. Impossible to know. Tesla’s predictions tend to be very optimistic.

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@runarorama My model: there is an incremental cost to increasing quality. The market reaches an equilibrium based on cost vs income incentives. Secondly it’s expensive to even know *how* we could improve quality.

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I'm super excited to be working with Eugene!

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@Sharat_Chander

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@Sharat_Chander uh oh.

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I think a small fraction of EV buyers are motivated by climate change. I think most buyers are motivated by getting a faster car, a quieter car, not going to the gas station, and less maintenance. Some affordable EVs also have lower TCO.

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it's very frustrating that a year and a half after release many of scala 3's new features just don't compose. Some toy examples of them work, but if you try to use them together you easily hit issues. e.g. https://t.co/OHMqjabEw7

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No, Google. I typed it correctly.

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Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. https://t.co/0NCSFElvOg

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@francoeurdavid I ran 360 days last year. Some days I do a morning and evening run. Biggest week was 70 miles, but a lot of weeks from 50-60. Usually M-F same mileage each day, twice that on Saturday and two miles very easy on Sunday.

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I ran 2598.9 miles in 2022. My highest mileage year ever. I want to do even more this year.

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@_rchang Congrats to you and thank you!

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@mourjo_sen I logged all the miles run to Strava and then looked at their summary for 2022.