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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 3h

Has anyone measured how far to the right (or not) the Balmer Curve shifts now that we have clankers?

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 06/10/2026

Imagine paying like $7k for a fucking laptop and IT does this shit to it. Now I gotta beg for an exemption.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 03/06/2026

Imagine Kalshi pretending they aren’t 100x more predatory than regulated sportsbooks.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 11/02/2026

Been working on a thing. Getting close.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 03/02/2026

I'm officially an agentic coding expert.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 26/01/2026

New paper accepted to ICLR. arxiv.org/abs/2505.11839

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 10/01/2026

2x brand new out the box DGX Spark GB10s. $4k each. A super computer in the palm of your hand! Reality: 400ms+ ping with insane variance on wifi. SSH isn't even usable at 400ms latency!!!! Disable wifi power management shit and it's ~10ms (still spikes to 100ms). I totes trust the DAC will work...

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 03/01/2026

Tina looking pathetic at the groomers.

An Irish wolfhound sitting in a bath tub at the groomers. The groom is over and the dog is dry.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 03/01/2026

These kalshi mother fuckers pretend they aren’t a sports book and then show me ads like this non-stop. Pretty diabolical.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 20/12/2025

We have reached levels of cope that I did not know where humanly possible.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 18/12/2025

Passed out on the couch at 5AM after a hard night of sleeping.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 04/12/2025

At the same time, this is pretty annoying.

A picture of the rear end of a Focus RS demonstrating how hatchbacks get filthy in winter.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 04/12/2025

I’m from Florida and I still find winter weather a fun novelty,

A 2017 focus rs with white oz racing rally wheels with mountains in background

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 02/12/2025

Just had my winter wheels and tires put on yesterday. First big snow of year today. Mashallah?!?

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 28/11/2025

Man, it must fucking suck to be an ICLR chair right now. It definitely sucks to be an author and have your rebuttal etc. reset.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 28/11/2025

It’s seriously just non-stop “wtf?!?” this year. Really the stuff of legends.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 20/11/2025

I'm still amused every time Claude slips into my style of speech.u

a screenshot of claude code. screen reader should work.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 10/11/2025

And just like that, the code works and we be steering. Revelation!

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 09/11/2025

Been working on some LLM inference time experimentation using mistral-rs and candle (vllm and PyTorch equivalents). 1. Compile times are pretty annoying, but not that terrible (~10 minutes for a release build). 2. Type system helps understand wtf is going on. 3. My experiments hard failing,

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 04/11/2025

idk if this type of issue would be obviously apparent in C/C++, but it's starting to become clear to me that claude is lacking when it comes to multithreaded stuff. It's wanting to fix concurrency problems by just moving the serial bottle neck to a different part of the code.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 04/11/2025

Without something like a traditional CS background, I don't see how AI code assistants are going to be particularly useful. This is Nth time I've had to push claude in the right direction wrt performance.

Screenshot of a claude interaction. Screen reader should work.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 02/11/2025

We have hit the need for a "sophisticated approach" that is related to the only (required) unsafe code I've written (in Rust of course; I've written plenty of unsafe code in C).

more chat bot logs. screen reader should work.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 02/11/2025

Now we're cooking with fire.

convo with chat bot. screen reader should work.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 02/11/2025

I didn't realize that progress bars and live stats were so out of distribution, but claude has not figured this out in several days and I got tired of watching it fail.

Chat bot discussion. Should work with a screen reader.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 01/11/2025

Hrm. Claude """"""""""sees"""""""""" me.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 01/11/2025

One of the killer app type of features of code assistants is that they have the context of your code base. Yet, I find myself having to forcibly "re-educate" when existing code base already has a solution for the task at hand. Not good news for clueless human users.

Screenshot of convo with claude. Screen reader should work.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 30/10/2025

Some more examples of Claude trying to do dumb things that you need to know wtf is going on to catch.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 30/10/2025

Trying to use claude with a more out of distribution project starting with a code base that makes pretty heavy use of concurrency to maximize throughput (both wrt async code and blocking code). I haven't touched it in a year or so. I've caught several poor architectural choices claude made so far.

A claude code interaction. Image contains text only and can be extracted with a variety of tools if needed.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 28/10/2025

I burned trees to verify I'm not delusional. Look at that. Not even gemini is dumb enough to mention reliability concerns and instead mentions the ride quality. Also, for good measure, the Audis and Mercedes in its super hatch list are both automatic dual clutch transmissions vs the RS's 6 speed.

An AI summary of the Focus RS's standing with respect to other super hatches:

Summary of the Focus RS's Standing

• Handling & Driver Engagement: The Focus RS is frequently praised as one of the most fun and involving super hatches, largely thanks to its unique, aggressive All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) system with torque vectoring that can even allow for controlled oversteer (Drift Mode).

• Performance: It offers a strong blend of power (350 hp) and AWD launch capability, placing it ahead of cars like the Golf R and Civic Type R in the 0-60 mph sprint, though it can trail the more powerful Audi/Mercedes rivals.

• Daily Drivability & Interior: This is where the RS takes a hit. Its ride is famously stiff (even in its softer modes), and its interior quality and comfort are generally considered a step down from the more premium Golf R and Audi RS 3.

In short, the Focus RS is the loud, brash, and aggressive enthusiast's choice in the super hatch class, prioritizing raw track performance and fun over daily comfort and luxury.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 26/10/2025

Almost time for winter tires to go on.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 18/10/2025

NB: the attached image doesn’t have the full list of conspiracy theories she is into. Have to scroll to get to the last one (deep state satanic rituals).

A screenshot of the various conspiracy theories Danica Patrick has expressed belief in:

In a June 2024 episode of her podcast, Danica Patrick discussed the "lizard people" conspiracy theory with guest and "spiritualist" Elizabeth April. April claimed that certain celebrities, such as Justin Bieber, are "shapeshifters". Patrick entertained these ideas on air, and her history of promoting various other conspiracy theories suggests she may believe in the concept.
Other conspiracy theories Danica Patrick has promoted on her podcast include:

• The moon landing: Patrick has stated on social media that she believes the United States faked the moon landing.

• Alien reptilians: The guest on Patrick's podcast claimed that a group of reptilians created money to control humans and that these reptilians are now afraid of humans gaining power.

• Pyramids as an energy source: Patrick has claimed on Instagram that the Egyptian pyramids were built as an energy source rather than tombs.

• Chemtrails: She has also publicly supported the chemtrails conspiracy theory on social media.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 13/10/2025

I definitely have plenty of old and tattered T-shirts, but it is weird to me how some people have one specific outfit that they think is special and wear to every event for the past 10+ years. I wonder if they realize how obvious (and sad) it is?

Marge Simpson with a pink channel suit that she kept modifying to make it seem new but it was just the same dress she’s was trying to impress people with but everyone knew it was the same dress and they were not impressed, and in fact, felt bad for her because it was kind of pathetic.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 10/10/2025

Someone made the mistake of posting a Hasan meme in the group chat and wasn't really familiar with my game...

a screenshot showing a message from whatsapp indicating there are an additional 26 Hasan related memes that can be viewed by expanding the list.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 09/10/2025

I was also using Claude in the VS Code plugin vs web ui with Gemini. That said, Claude seems to have performed much better. I hit session limit pretty fast and it took over 2 hours to get the app running tho. Still need to read through code; seems like a lot of rust LOC for a relatively simple app.

A `tokei` output:

```
===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
CSS 1 411 329 17 65
Dockerfile 1 49 20 15 14
HTML 1 196 173 7 16
JavaScript 1 678 540 35 103
JSON 1 52 52 0 0
Rust 11 1356 1105 100 151
Shell 1 81 58 9 14
SQL 2 75 49 16 10
TOML 1 45 26 9 10
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Markdown 2 324 0 242 82
|- BASH 1 11 8 2 1
|- JSON 1 12 12 0 0
(Total) 347 20 244 83
===============================================================================
Total 22 3267 2352 450 465
===============================================================================
```

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 30/08/2025

When k8s works it is for real magic.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 27/08/2025

And just in case anyone has illusions as to what 2A really means to extremists in the gun community, it’s not an unalienable right and they are perfectly happy to implement restrictions as long as they target the right demographic.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 16/08/2025

Babka is doing her first show this week. She has won every time she’s been in the ring!

A woman holding a Lowchen and several ribbons it won at a dog show.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 13/08/2025

Ok. I might be in too deep now.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 13/08/2025

I’m getting too deep into the AI companion stuff. The male consumer crowd seems focused on image/video generation vs voice/text that the female crowd seems to be interested in. Makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why the images produced by male crowd have the most vulgar, 90s style “bolt ons.”

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 12/08/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2z... The first album I ever heard from Turbonegro is pretty intense.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 12/08/2025

I just burned like 50 trees to make this image of a clanker breaking up with its toxic human girlfriend.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 02/08/2025

Having a nightmare of a trip with Delta. Flights cancelled, rebooks with 2 connections. Rebooked flights getting delayed resulting in getting rebooked again. Etc.

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Jeremy Blackburn @mrjimmyblack.com · 31/07/2025

You are subsuming their power. Life imitates art.

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