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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I’m sorry for my grating tone. That was not my intent. I didn’t mean to annoy or disrespect you.

Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

Anyway. Sorry, it sounds like my replies were unwelcome. I didn’t mean to impose. I thought our interactions in the past made it safe to speak directly, but maybe I misread and I’m invading your space with these replies. Sorry for that.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

The sad thing is it seems we both share a desired goal but we struggle to find common cause. Doesn’t fill me with hope that we can get a large group to come together.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I agree with you somewhat here although I suspect we differ on the details, for instance I thought the original quote tweet was self-righteous without offering anything constructive (the one from Molly), but perhaps you think I’m being self righteous without offering anything constructive.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I am sorry men have blamed you for that. I am also not involved in locker room talk. I can’t tell if you feel like I am one of these people or not. I’m not trying to hold you responsible for Trump not being less popular.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I don’t think Trump support is secret. The men that support Trump seem happy to talk about. It’s just that they don’t know or care what some liberal like me has to say (and they likely have some cartoon evil villain view of how I see the world).

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

This is my point about the groups: I hang out with educated people in Hawaii. We all voted for Kamala. I gave money, put a sign in my yard (not that it matters, probably all my neighbors voted the same way).

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I think society is incredibly sorted right now. That’s why Trump supporters believe the election was rigged: everyone they know supports Trump. Likewise I have zero friends that I’m aware of voted for Trump.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

I get that people are upset and scared and sometimes they just want to vent. And maybe it feels good to blame someone else, and we can imagine if only they had done better (for instance in my examples I can blame mainlanders or the less educated, etc…).

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

How does this help us build a movement? What do we do with the groups that had support > 50% for Trump? Which groupings should we consider? We have at least gender, geo, race and ethnicity, education level all massively changing the picture.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 30/04/2025

Right but for instance how do we design the buckets we put people in? White women went for Trump by like 53% in 2024. So do we say, we don’t worry about that because enough black women stepped up and opposed him? And then what about the education divide?

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 29/04/2025

We can always find others to blame! Don’t worry about me. For instance if only men voted my state would still have gone for Kamala so I can safely blame mainlanders for the issue:

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 29/04/2025

in fairness, these numbers are +/- 2.2% so Millennials are not significantly different from Boomers (and the gap in Gen X to Boomers/Millennials is barely into significance range). I know this narrative violation which makes me a fool for posting.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 29/04/2025

In Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" he discusses how in general people who never met Hitler were better able to see him for what he was, and people who met him face to face were more often taken in by the lies. I wonder if the same effect is at work with Trump, e.g. Whitmer and Bill Maher.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 21/04/2025

Minor suggestion: the main readme on github should have a bit more documentation you can guess but questions I have: how would I set this up to unify test and main in sbt (I guess some conditional bit of sbt magic). Are there any constraints on the def strings?

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 12/04/2025

Track Day at Kamehameha school on Maui.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 12/04/2025

It would be interesting to require the hash of some set of other skeets to prove that they happened before your skeet. Then with enough of the graph (definitely at least log S hashes per skeet where S is the total number) you could reorder the skeet graph (approximately with high probability).

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 12/04/2025

I think it’s that there a lot of more people who are deeply distrustful of government now than during the Cold War. But I’m not a scholar of that period so maybe I’m wrong.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 14/03/2025

We aren’t good at testing random number generators or hash functions. I’ve written code to convert such tests to binomial distributions with bounded probabilities and then use the Chernoff bound to test.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 07/03/2025

I wish I could say it was the first time I saw that.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 15/02/2025

Oh my goodness. Who could have guessed!?

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 11/02/2025

@calr.is and I used to have the heuristic in scala 2: ideally each function is so small you don't need braces.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 11/02/2025

sane discussion of AI in congress from Kevin Kiley (R-CA): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJh... -- a problem with politics is that actually most are sane people, but the media isn't interested in sanity. That doesn't sell ads or go viral. They love Trump because he sells ads and gets eyeballs.

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Kevin Kiley Delivers Remarks On The 'Exponential Growth' In Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Firefox @firefox.com · 15/01/2025

Hiii 🔥 new profile pic we’re ready to go!

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 27/01/2025

So sorry for your loss. She sounds like an extraordinary woman.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 27/01/2025

www.etsy.com/market/tooth...

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 26/01/2025

interesting data on US 2024 EV sales: electrek.co/2025/01/14/t...

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 23/01/2025

I've almost never regretted buying tools

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 21/01/2025

to go one step further: I think the lesson is every terrible belief is still with us. Every generation has to keep up the struggle and at any moment letting guard down can result in retrograde motion.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 21/01/2025

maybe breaking the rule, these guys with a dictatorship fetish, are they really like, "and yeah, I would still support it if someone got in who I totally disagree with and they just rule for like 50 years, still it's better".

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 17/01/2025

it's so depressing how Martin convinces himself that some weird syntax is really important (this, the given stuff, getting rid of braces). Meanwhile, people are begging for better IDE support but that's not his problem. Rust is right there, y'all.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 12/01/2025

Pumped about seeing Goonies in the theatre

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 10/01/2025

I really wish we had some good machine learning library that could accurately predict time remaining based on history and current state.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 05/01/2025

Thanks for Cascading, Chris!

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 03/01/2025

Yeah it’s just stored in a big blob of weights. Amazing right?

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 28/12/2024

Isn’t part of the problem the fact that 240 is rare? I heard a podcast with a group working on this in LA where evidently they chose to run 240 to the light posts.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 27/12/2024

Have you tried to restart the phone? There are some other more extreme networking restarts I seem to recall.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 27/12/2024

While we are at it why not go nuts: 364 days (earth rotations) a year, 28 day months of which there are 13. And move the moon so the lunar orbit is exactly 28 days. I do worry slightly that this could perturb the solar system and possibly cause a major catastrophe, but look at the benefits!

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 27/12/2024

A little post Christmas hacking I implemented a semver Version type in Scala: github.com/johnynek/bos... Very well tested and I think a good API. Feel free to copy it to your projects if you like.

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Add semver Version implementation by johnynek · Pull Request #1338 · johnynek/bosatsu

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 26/12/2024

I think using AI well is currently a management skill: how do you decompose and then recombine tasks effectively? Maybe this won’t be needed in 5 years but until then it is.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 24/12/2024

I love this song. It’s my favorite Christmas song. It’s amazing that it was released in 1961 and hit only 76 on the chart. It took 11 years to finally hit number 1 for Christmas singles in 1972. Goes to show: good stuff often isn’t appreciated right away.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 20/12/2024

I wish everyone who criticized them drove an EV. Too many people are waiting for someone else to take action on climate and setting climate as a 4th or 5th priority which means it doesn’t matter at all in practice.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 20/12/2024

It’s a great library! You should be proud of the impact! Long live fs2 and cats!

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 20/12/2024

Not a popular opinion around here but I think the Cybertruck looks really cool. I think it’s awesome to have vehicles that look like scifi props and I love 70s and 80s wedge design of Giugiaro that influenced Hans in this design.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 19/12/2024

Tell me again how super intelligent AI is right around the corner and Google has an unassailable lead.

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Oscar Boykin @posco.dev · 19/12/2024

I hope you talked her into another EV.

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