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Software engineer making grass greener

[will @wblazer_]

Wait I’m about to be 5 min away from the kudzu Arby’s and I didn’t even realize, this is incredible

[will @wblazer_]

Based. This + conversation branching is the holy grail

[Zed @zeddotdev]

Great software always took shape in conversation, not the commit. With agents, the conversation that generates the code is becoming the true source of our software. And Git can't keep up.

So we built something that can. Meet DeltaDB: https://t.co/x0UHntKy9m

[River Kenna @the_wilderless]

https://t.co/Khs5buTEQH

[will @wblazer_]

@tautologer kudos, we need more of this

you can just not do things

[will @wblazer_]

omg I'm going to vibecamp

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

—

The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[will @wblazer_]

@SCHIZO_FREQ You’re telling me you don’t like socializing in environments where you can’t hear the person next to you???

[will @wblazer_]

Breaking news: token salesman thinks you should use more tokens

[will @wblazer_]

@larosadelicata well now I have to add banana to the next soup I make just to see

so many unexplored combinations of food, there's gotta be so many undiscovered bangers out there

[will @wblazer_]

@larosadelicata I feel like the sweet in sweet and savory generally doesn't come from soggy fruit

[will @wblazer_]

@isabelunraveled Same

[will @wblazer_]

@valigo The bit about not respecting users is what gets me. These install scripts tend to make bad assumptions and ignore standards. And as already touched on, don't always tell you what they did (or how to undo it)

[will @wblazer_]

@promptprincess climbing fake colorful rocks. it's like going to the gym but more fun and social

[will @wblazer_]

@christineist I’m a tpot lurker from the midwest and this is making me consider a trip. Would love to meet some likeminded people. Should I go to vibecamp (kinda last minute but probably doable) or do a week long nyc trip? What events could I schedule around coming up in nyc?

[will @wblazer_]

@abacaj Getting the most out of the models by only making projects from benchmark scenarios

[will @wblazer_]

Adam Ragusea found the courage to hate (some) farmers. A lot of farmers kinda suck and should not be immune to criticism

Reminds me of this family being praised for refusing to sell their inherited land because farmers = good and AI = bad
https://t.co/RfpfFpcIa1

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.

"If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."

[will @wblazer_]

@LukeParkerDev Do you mean connected to multiple servers simultaneously?

[will @wblazer_]

@zeeg It’s not about “chat per repo,” each session just needs a selected directory to execute tools in. You have complete control over what you place in that directory. You select a directory in IDEs for all the same reasons.

What are you imagining instead?

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

Can we PLEASE
for the love of all that his holy
STOP NORMALIZING THIS INSTALL METHOD