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Hi, I'm Luca Masters. lucamasters.com

Just a software engineer from North Carolina. I like bicycles and housing co-ops.

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lkbm··on From Hierarchy to Intelligence
Non-Twitter version: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence
lkbm··on FFmpeg Is Moving to Rust
Just a dumb April Fool's joke.
lkbm··on My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned
Google Takeout[0] seems to have basically everything selected by default, so I don't see a need for another tool.

[0] https://takeout.google.com/

lkbm··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
Update: Maybe the difference is that I think I was just using the vscode extension at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586176

I go back and forth between vscode and claude in the terminal, but that day I think I did vscode.

lkbm··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
Technically, this was Friday morning, so I think I was still in peak hours.
lkbm··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
I've heard this a few times lately, but this past weekend I built a website for a friend's birthday, and it took me several hours and many queries to get through my regular paid plan. I just use default settings (Sonnet 4.6, medium effort, thinking on).

I'm guessing Opus eats up usage much, much faster. I don't know what's going on, since a lot of people are hitting limits and I don't seem to be.

lkbm··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
Keep in mind this is memory used by a browser tab, not "how bug the website is". Probably a memory leak as the feed is scrolled or something, but it is a massive download when you first load the page.

I'm seeing 72MB in the network tab (7MB transferred--that's due to compression). An incredible 10MB is HTML (800K transferred), a more incredible 11MB of CSS (500K transferred), 25MB of JS (3MB transferred), 16MB XHR (1MB), 17MB images (1.7MB transferred).

A lot of the HTML is inline JS in `window.__como_rehydration__` -- letting a server-side rendered be dynamic as if it were fully client-side rendered.

The size of the CSS also presents in bloated HTML. Why not have 18 classes on your button? `<button class="_5732bd68 _4cbf0195 _00dac29f _737a8a8c b241f848 _9572431e _56fd9a8a ff367c5b f7a6e63a aa661bbd b1e8a5cc d6e0deb3 _0582e059 f7e4b8f0 f9d5d3fb e037a5e8 _340d09d4 fbc7d17b" ...`

lkbm··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Nope, none of these are things I said or implied. I was asking whether you were referring to it having reset already.

The chip on your shoulder doesn't make for productive conversation here.

lkbm··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
What are you referring to? I set this to "Disabled" months/years ago and it's retained the disabled setting.
lkbm··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
If you use Github, you should have an email from ~2 days ago with the subject "Important Update to GitHub Copilot Interaction Data Usage Policy". Easy to skip over assuming it's just one of a million private policy update emails.

If you don't use Github Copilot, this shouldn't effect you, and may be why you got no email. The current headline is fairly misleading--it's about Copilot usage, not private repos per se.

lkbm··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Still at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemet... for me.

It's not a new setting, fwiw. I opted out years(??) ago.

lkbm··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
They also sent an email.
lkbm··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
Apartment complexes. Mostly "luxury" apartments, but including ones with some % of affordable units. Some were replacing houses, but mostly replacing parking lots, vacant lots, or even older, smaller apartment buildings -- in a neighborhood that was already almost entirely apartment buildings.
lkbm··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
That's part of it, but I definitely have known quite a few renters who opposed building more housing. Denial of supply and demand, as well as general dislike of "rich developers" is strong in many groups.

Incentives are typically the strongest force to watch, but so are various cultural/political narratives people come up with. People clearly don't all vote in our own economic interests in many situations. I'd assume this is largely because in the current information ecosystem, people don't understand what's in their economic interests.

lkbm··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Note that the risk factor of diet in your chose to highlight exactly one food to avoid: red meat.

Yeah, you should probably eat more low-processed foods like veggies, but the Beyond Burger is used as a replacement for beef, not for carrots.

lkbm··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
What micronutrients are you getting from ground beef that Beyond burgers don't have?
lkbm··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Same. I don't see a lot of micronutrients in ground beef that the Beyond patty doesn't have. You usually don't choose meat for the vitamins.
lkbm··on What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
I don't know why I'd trust TikToks when I also shop at multiple grocery stores every week.

Maybe there are a few outliers, but food inflation is definitely nowhere near 75=100+% YoY. The official price inflation numbers are much closer to what I've personally observed irl than what you see in viral TikToks.

TikToks get attention for being outlandish/exceptional, not for being an accurate representation of the norm.

lkbm··on What the new "Nova" design of Firefox looks like
I don't love the "grid of rounded squares" design, but overall it doesn't impact functionality at all, which is the real concern I have with redesigns.
lkbm··on Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices
https://archive.is/tywxb
lkbm··on Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
That toolkit looks great. I have a big ol' userChrome.css removing ~15 menu items, but I may switch to this next time I work on improving things again.
lkbm··on Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)
I haven't played this since probably around 2015, but I think about it regularly. I want there to be more programming games like this, but have yet to come up with any ideas as perfect as this one.
lkbm··on Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
Of course not, but that's completely unrelated to what's happening here.
lkbm··on Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
Ah, good catch. I misread.
lkbm··on Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
They sure do. They've also been sued for it, too, because it's bad. It's also bad for Greenpeace to do it.
lkbm··on Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
They specifically weren't found liable for on the ground activity, so the fact that only six employees were on the ground seems like a bit of a red herring.

> how does this happen? did greenepeace just run a bad trial? or lose all public trust?

Alternative possibility: they were actually guilty. Seems likely. The idea that Greenpeace was intentionally spreading misinformation doesn't require a big leap of faith.

lkbm··on How to talk to anyone and why you should
Introvert does not mean "doesn't like talking to people".
lkbm··on Switch to Claude without starting over
I recently asked about baby-led weaning. If my baby were 2 months old, it would have been smart to mention "not yet!" but it knows she's 8 months old and was able to give contextual advice.
lkbm··on Switch to Claude without starting over
> It knows what resistor and capacitor values I have on my pick and place machine, and when I ask for divider ratios it will do its best to calculate based on those values to the degree that it will chain 1-2 resistors together to achieve those ratios.

Also relevant: it knows that you know what a resistor and capacitor is, and is able to tune responses to your level of knowledge. (It's not great at this, in my experience, since domain knowledge is still so jagged, but I think it's better than nothing.)

lkbm··on Switch to Claude without starting over
Yeah, I've always been a little confused why people use ChatGPT so heavily. It's better than it used to be (maybe thanks to custom configuration), but it still tends to respond like it's writing a Wikipedia article.

Wikipedia articles on demand are great, but not usually what I want.

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