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@arrdem.tirefireind.us
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Proprietor tirefireind.us. Puppet master of @joe.tirefireind.us. Building @contactlight.gg. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy. Stay frosty. We keep us safe.

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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 4h
Technically I got some a while ago because I needed steel toes, but didn't like their fit and finally had time to go try on the whole store and find something I'll live with happily
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 4h
Got them redwings finally
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 7h
post your desk
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 8h
it’s Very Bad that testing this stuff is basically impossible. you can’t step in the same river twice
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 8h
being a C++ developer is vice signaling
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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 12h
this is not just a meme btw. solar can't be stopped even when governments are blatantly against it this is the real tech of the future. it's here, it's getting adopted whether idiots want it or not, even if more slowly it just makes sense on an economic level www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Byron Donalds says solar power is a ‘fad’ but Florida utilities are expanding its use
Despite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large scale projects that ...
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 8h
We're tool-users! Go make some goddamn tools! Make something cool and weird that you want with them!
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
There's cool creative stuff specialists could now go do with enormously expanded effort budgets. We can expend far more energy on inspection testing and quality than before. And there's tons of just useful stuff nonspecialists can do _at all_. And the best you can come up with is a todotxt.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
At work I interact with a vehicle depot team. They've been able to vibe up all sorts of what is to us in engineering random bullshit, but to them is real process / daily labor wins we didn't or wouldn't get to unlocking. Utterly unsexy, but makes their lives and daily grind better.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
I also think it highlights a lot of magical thinking/cultural poverty in failures to recognize the real-but-not-2x sort of adds. The SV narrative has been hunting 10x+, and "great vision". Reality is stacking +5%s for decades to make things better.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
It's cool and good that we have such hugely expanded effort budgets. Can make all sorts of stuff now! It absolutely reveals that many lack ambition and creativity beyond another todo list, and that the bots can't help you with.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
This is being underwritten massively by loss-leader products and so at cost maybe the actual lift I'm getting sans subsidies would be closer to 5-10x but ... that's still enormous. That gives me personally the output of what was previously a team. Instead of a whole division. Still enormous.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
Obviously lines of code themselves don't mean anything and are a terrible proxy for lots of other things, but this is a _terrifying_ and _transformative_ amount of output capability. The XKCD curve of effort required to solve a problem has substantially shifted. xkcd.com/1205/
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Is It Worth the Time?
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
CryEngine etc. are order 2-5Mloc? Okay? And? Again line count means nothing but plausibly give me what. 14 months? That it's even possibly in reach instead of being the work of a division with person-centuries of labor is absolutely bananas.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
Not counting code added to the rest of the TireFire stack variously in tools and config management to support the project. That's what. More than a 28x increase in my "personal" raw output capability?
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
Just using numbers from the @contactlight.gg project -- My annual code output was maybe 150kloc steadily for years, split variously between work & side projects. While holding down a full time job I've been able to put to date 700kloc into CL in the course of about two months.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
"The cost of getting an interesting result cratered, the cost of getting a real one remains" I don't fully agree with. I think _for some things_ cost of prototypes has cratered to near zero. I think a substantial chunk has been shaved off of "finished artifacts" too, but agree the bar remains high.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 9h
Absolute banger jardo.dev/hardly-prome... and solid dunk on DHH's failure(s) of imagination.
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Hardly Promethean | Jared Norman
On bottlenecks, low standards, and calculators.
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 12h
If openssh which basically the entire internet relies on doesnt warrant mythos access then what does? Whats the criteria? Why isnt that criteria transparent?
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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026
observing for no particular reason that you should be treating inference providers as dumb pipes because their only way to ramp up the extraction machine on you is to sell a product that you can't get out of
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 20h
It's a low bar sweetie
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21h
everybody say good work clod
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21h
Oh drinking and driving you mean the national pastime for all ages
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
nzhistory.govt.nz/the-six-oclo... god I'm actively afraid of drinking with kiwis decades of knock-on negative consequences from having an hour to pound as much as you can.
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'Six o'clock swill' begins | NZ History
Six p.m. closing of pubs was introduced as a temporary wartime measure. It ushered in what became known as the 'six o'clock swill', in which patrons drank their fill before closing time. The practice ...
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
If you can drive a car or sign your life away to serve or to student loans, you should be able to buy a damn beer. Moving the goalposts from 18 to 21 when you aren't at home with a support/supervision network or more is net-negative and yes I'm aware of the neurosocience on 25-27 being maturity.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
Yeah. The more "21 shots at 21" we can unwind as a culture by making access less freaking taboo the better. The HS kids with the cool dad who let them throw basement parties came out so much better adjusted than the puritans (me)
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
Fun Arrdem Lore: I have literally gotten in fights over the fact that I do not take shots anymore.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
The drinking age being 21 creates all sorts of absolutely fucked incentives and supports a culture of abuse that's harmful to pretty much everyone for every purpose.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
100% this signed the founding president of a "social org"
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
`certified replyguy`
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
Dave if you don't label me a `coward` and a `bot` I'll be disappointed
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23h
Wait Brian you mean I shouldn't have just given claude a gun?
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
mmmm bots. lovely. garbage future.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
The correct amount of time for a test suite to take is less than 240s. More than that is a skill issue.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
kill the part of you that cringes etc
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
assigned shoggoth at training
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
Do recommend
A Platypus 2011 in gold cobalt and black
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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't you trust me?
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 30/09/2026
predictable diversity win: problem not solved by adding more quarter-zip-wearers to a zoom call solved efficiently by adding vendor team's staff transsexual to the call instead
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
Why give away perfectly good profits when you can externalize the costs and keep getting away with it long enough to buy a fourth island?
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026
I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Yeah I ain’t dealing with that go away
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Oh. No. My orbits are all on rails. Ain’t no way I’m bothering to integrate gravity.
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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 29/09/2026
im wit da union pal. if claude's not working i'm not workin
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Right up there with the Anthropic “political neutrality” benchmark
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Getting the procgen stack bolted into the Godot editor so I'm able to generate, inspect and drive iterating on these productions more or less live. Workshack stations need a bunch of love, but they're the first thing I've gotten ported over
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Oh good so you're the person I'm gonna call when I inevitably do Too Much Fixed Point and need to GPU offload some of the sim.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 29/09/2026
“stay at home parents, and non parents, don’t benefit from free public daycare” wrong. i can’t hit on single mothers if they’re at home instead of at the club
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Why is PyTorch
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