Chris Alfano

I build tech in Philly, with Philly, and for Philly: @weareJARVUS @CodeForPhilly

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@PhilaParking so let me get this straight—you get penalized for renewing your permit early by losing days off your existing permit? why can't the start of my new permit just be the end of my current one?

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@jgebbia @ndstudio Works of the US federal government aren't copyrightable

It's great that Trump fired everyone who already knew things like this and we have to watch you newbs figure everything out again from zero

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@hwd3t0 @SenatorKimWard @SEPTA the books are already open dummy, just because you don't care to actually know anything doesn't mean no one else does

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@YouTube how are y'all gonna sell season passes for Resident Alien season 4, then not post the whole season, and then deny refund requests?

I had to buy it again on another platform and the my refund request got denied. Never buying a season pass on YouTube again

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@VincentJCurtis1 @the_transit_guy no, it's where poor people lived because the rivers were polluted and post-industrial and highway construction was billed as a way to "solve" urban poverty and traffic in one swoop

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

how is it 2025 and @UPS / @FedEx still can't just have an app that gives you a push notification when the truck is ~15 mins out and then shows you it on a map

"out for delivery between 7am and 7pm and you better catch when we tap on the door once" really???

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@jongeeting meanwhile those counties think they're the ones propping up SEPA

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@wackawackaETM @JohnnyWalsh__ did you miss the part where 42% of the state's budget comes from the region SEPTA serves? Public transit is a critical part of that economic engine. SEPA is the one bailing out rural PA. They wouldn't have roads or police or healthcare without us. Biting the hand that feeds

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@Cris49048966 @RepScottPerry your districts are net recipients of state funds while the region served by SEPTA is a net contributor—and SEPTA is a major reason why

Your constituents didn't elect you to bite the hand that literally feeds them

[BURKOV @burkov]

People waiting for better coding models don't realize that the quadratic time and space complexity of self-attention hasn't gone anywhere. If you want an effective 1M token context, you need 1,000,000,000,000 dot products to be computed for you for each of your requests for new code.

Right now, you get this unprecedented display of generosity because some have billions to kill Google while Google spends billions not to be killed.

Once the dust settles down, you will start receiving a bill for each of those 1,000,000,000,000 dot products. And you will not like it.

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@elonmusk If you actually believed that, you wouldn't have replaced all the highly skilled people of 18F with your 20 y/o minions whose main qualifications seem to be having a connection and being loyal to you

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@JimMarhevka @elonmusk @SenWhitehouse People who know the fields he babbles in know that he's wrong 99% of the time, because he doesn't fundamentally care about being right he cares about getting likes on Twitter

You're lauding the tiny faction of cases where it was immediately obvious how wrong he was

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@JimMarhevka @elonmusk @SenWhitehouse It doesn't bother you at all that he didn't have the most fundamental detail of "which system is the current one" straight before deciding and announcing that the best solution was for him to be in charge of it and his company to get contracts?

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@realJonButtz @william_sh36802 @DOGE @SecretaryTurner I guarantee you these guys have no idea what this money is actually for or the implications of cancelling it

Bulls in a China shop and our economy is going to be suffering from this for decades

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@wlkissee @epaleezeldin @DOGE @EPA these audits they're just teenagers Ctrl+Fing for words they don't like and cancelling things they don't understand

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@AIBuzzNews @kimmonismus I don't know who "the AI space" is, but those of us using LLM's to ship code and build business applications know exactly where Anthropic is

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@elonmusk Proof positive that you're a fucking idiot

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@doitqplus_ @elonmusk @RayInsideOut @HouseForeign Sharing names and places of employment is expressly not a violation of X's terms

Nevermind that federal employee rosters are supposed to be public data

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@beffjezos @elonmusk @RayInsideOut @HouseForeign Names of people working for the government is public information, it would be doxxing if people were posting personal information about them outside their jobs

Also funny that Elon Musk had no problem with exactly this when it was him posting names of climate workers

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

@Microsoft @Google I say as I wait to be let into a Teams meeting that was on my Google Calendar that I was invited to from Outlook but has since been deleted but is still on my calendar

This is a weekly occurrence—as is never knowing who is coming to a meeting because we're split btwn G/Teams

[Chris Alfano @themightychris]

Dear @Microsoft and @Google

Please make your calendars work correctly together.

Sincerely,

Fcking everyone