jolux

Joined 12 years ago

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Interests:

- programming languages, especially functional programming and static type systems

- operations research and logistics

- policy analysis, especially around urban land use and mass transit

- business strategy

Formerly at the MBTA, currently building transit operations software at Swiftly (opinions my own).

Shoot me an email: [email protected]

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Comment · 20 days ago
also poorly organized and formatted.
Comment · 22 days ago
It’s a travesty but I think “never going to come back from this” is a stretch. There is no immediate replacement for the position the US holds in global politics. China has no interest in being the guarantor of freedom of transit in international waterways, to pick one example.
Comment · 24 days ago
yeah but it doesn’t replace the remote resolver, in most setups PiHole is another layer on top of the remote resolver
Comment · 25 days ago
10ms? Good grief that’s slow.
Comment · 27 days ago
Treating pleading the Fifth as evidence of guilt is exactly the kind of unfairness the Fifth Amendment is meant to protect against.
Comment · 1 month ago
“first-order approximation” is pretty different from first-principles thinking in my opinion.
Comment · 1 month ago
Arguably they already have, GLM-5.3 is insanely good at offensive security tasks, especially for the price.
Comment · 2 months ago
what do you mean by reset at every turn? context stays until compaction. if you remove the reasoning tokens after every turn you will be constantly blowing cache which is far worse than filling up context.
Comment · 2 months ago
The creator of Nix soft-forked it and started a company, that sort of inevitably leads to bad vibes I think
Comment · 3 months ago
ChatGPT has over a billion monthly active users.
Comment · 3 months ago
They probably should rewrite it in Rust, but also, I think the Bun guy wanted to rewrite it in Rust because he thinks Rust is a better choice for Bun, independent of Bun being used by Claude Code.
Comment · 3 months ago
Love the new site!

Minor typo in the Erlang card:

“Elixir also excels at IoT, distributed systems, and everything the Erlang is renowned for”

should probably be “everything the Erlang VM is known for” or “everything Erlang is known for.”

Comment · 3 months ago
I am not really sure how much yet another post complaining about async/await that ends with “thread-per-core is the way to go” adds to this discussion. Granted I’m both an Erlang programmer and a big fan of Tokio and Rust’s async/await implementation in general and I think this post and many others like it betray a fundamental misunderstanding of these technologies so I am probably biased.
Comment · 3 months ago
No, it’s a desktop with an Intel processor.

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