Arian van Putten

I perform @nixos_org witchcraft at @mercury

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@AntithesisHQ RunescapeBench

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@tthomasdd Mercury planning all the on sites in the same month 😭

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

Hello Chicago.

Where does my jetlagged ass get breakfast before 5 here?

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@DrWhax 48 minute walk . That technically makes it a 6 o clock diner

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@cjc I’m working on fixing this

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

Throwing a drop party at Falador park when we hit 2147m next year

[Kevin Galang @kevgumba]

Tres commas club. Well earned by the team.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@kevgumba

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@Andori3042 It’s amazing

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

Replaced all my CI with a 128 core ampere Altra and it’s literally idling most of the time.

If you’re a friend and you are strapped for compute DM me and you’ll get access for €10 per month to help cover internet, electricity and depreciation

https://t.co/yRC7QTgCsE

[Justin Poehnelt @JPoehnelt]

I moved my some GitHub action runners to a new M5 Ultra Mac Studio and off of @useblacksmith. The price of compute for Blacksmith was $400+/month. You can lease a M5 Ultra 96GB for ~$110/month and have compute to spare.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@bexbsd @0xnfrith Up to date BOM is in https://t.co/XJIz7XTecE

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@bexbsd @0xnfrith Good eye! It did not! I had to send it back and buy the one you linked ;)

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@amaanq01 @0xnfrith Yep. Set up @bot to monitor for good deals. With a bit of waiting I think you can snag them. A lot of automotive industry is dumping a lot of ampere old stock as they’re switching to AmpereOne or NVIDIA

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@0xnfrith It’s gonna get worse before it gets better I’m afraid. But this is not investment advice :) talk to your advisor and your wife before selling your house for some compute credits

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@tthomasdd @dakdevs

[Zack Jackson @ScriptedAlchemy]

Bazel isn’t glamorous. You’d have to hold a gun to my head to make me use it pre AI.
But my god, when the entirety of my interaction with setting it up was “use Bazel” and a week later “add remote workers for distributed compile”
It’s phenomenal.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@VantagePointijk Gotta call out the idiots for being idiots to outsurf them though. So take my opinion to heart. Or not. I’m gonna keep complaining about assholes

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

I see the "We can fix everything" guy has moved back to the "remigration fixes everything" playbook.

Thanks for giving this populist idiot a platform.

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Developers will be like, "I don't like paying $1 per build, I'll just buy this $15,000 mac studio so all my builds are free"

not an accounting class in sight

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@nateberkopec Yes I do 50k builds per week

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@alittletyper @mercury But philosophy is that anything that needs a turnaround of days or hours instead of weeks is buck2 and the rest is nixpkgs at the moment. Mostly so we can piggyback on all the packaging already done

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

Buck2 + Nix is how we’re tackling moving at AI scale at @mercury . Really excited about the work Farid is doing here.

[Ron Efroni @ronefroni]

Nothing. Nix is the only way we scale our infra into what agents have in store for us.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@alittletyper @mercury I think Farid’s blog post is a good start to the things we’re doing

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@amaanq01 Based