eliza🌻
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e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
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eliza🌻
@elizas.website
· Jan 26
this post is a joke
gf: “what’s the opposite of a Transformer?”
me: “uh, you mean like…a car that *doesn’t* turn into anything? a robot that *isn’t* in disguise?”
gf: “i meant a Decepticon.”
me: “uh, you mean like…a car that *doesn’t* turn into anything? a robot that *isn’t* in disguise?”
gf: “i meant a Decepticon.”
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
gf: “what’s the opposite of a Transformer?”
me: “uh, you mean like…a car that *doesn’t* turn into anything? a robot that *isn’t* in disguise?”
gf: “i meant a Decepticon.”
me: “uh, you mean like…a car that *doesn’t* turn into anything? a robot that *isn’t* in disguise?”
gf: “i meant a Decepticon.”
the other funny thing about it is just that, well, what actually happens if Kat decides to “boycott” free and open source software? because as far as i can tell, the answer is “absolutely nothing.”
you were paying $0 for it before the boycott, and now you are still paying $0 for it.
you were paying $0 for it before the boycott, and now you are still paying $0 for it.
January 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
the other funny thing about it is just that, well, what actually happens if Kat decides to “boycott” free and open source software? because as far as i can tell, the answer is “absolutely nothing.”
you were paying $0 for it before the boycott, and now you are still paying $0 for it.
you were paying $0 for it before the boycott, and now you are still paying $0 for it.
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btw I did some math, and if you had one spaceship with the rust constant, and one spaceship with the swift constant (and both were using f32 for angular direction for some indescribable reason???), they would drift apart 1km for every 4.2 million kms they travel:
play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
btw I did some math, and if you had one spaceship with the rust constant, and one spaceship with the swift constant (and both were using f32 for angular direction for some indescribable reason???), they would drift apart 1km for every 4.2 million kms they travel:
play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
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- AI as a vector for abuse, fraud, misinfo etc, is atrocious, and there is value in fighting against those use-cases
- Justifying "sacrifices in the short-term" (e.g., water supplies, energy) for long-term benefits is wrong and unnecessary. It's possible to build without untethered accelerationism
- Justifying "sacrifices in the short-term" (e.g., water supplies, energy) for long-term benefits is wrong and unnecessary. It's possible to build without untethered accelerationism
January 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
- AI as a vector for abuse, fraud, misinfo etc, is atrocious, and there is value in fighting against those use-cases
- Justifying "sacrifices in the short-term" (e.g., water supplies, energy) for long-term benefits is wrong and unnecessary. It's possible to build without untethered accelerationism
- Justifying "sacrifices in the short-term" (e.g., water supplies, energy) for long-term benefits is wrong and unnecessary. It's possible to build without untethered accelerationism
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the recent AI discourse has me feeling things, so it's still worth stating for the record:
- AI as a "self-justified product" for end-users is usually shit
- AI for tooling does not release you from responsibility of what is produced
- You can (and should) still do things by hand, whenever you want
- AI as a "self-justified product" for end-users is usually shit
- AI for tooling does not release you from responsibility of what is produced
- You can (and should) still do things by hand, whenever you want
January 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
the recent AI discourse has me feeling things, so it's still worth stating for the record:
- AI as a "self-justified product" for end-users is usually shit
- AI for tooling does not release you from responsibility of what is produced
- You can (and should) still do things by hand, whenever you want
- AI as a "self-justified product" for end-users is usually shit
- AI for tooling does not release you from responsibility of what is produced
- You can (and should) still do things by hand, whenever you want
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Almost like it is possible (and necessary) to reason about technology while rejecting both the booster and doomer briefs. (i did a lot of my early work on the history of ag and development simulation, 60s-80s, and you will probably not find a land with more contrasts than that.)
January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Almost like it is possible (and necessary) to reason about technology while rejecting both the booster and doomer briefs. (i did a lot of my early work on the history of ag and development simulation, 60s-80s, and you will probably not find a land with more contrasts than that.)
i wish i could go back in time and uninvent the transformer architecture, and the prevalence of LLMs has had me actively wondering when it will be time to manage my keys, but even i agree that zkat’s callout list stuff is in bad taste and just makes them look like an ass
oh it is undeniably a little bit “and yet you still use a computer” yeah. i firmly do not have the finesse of language to avoid that here and i am frustrated that my own antagonism to genai usage is, i feel, undermined by a tin shield my purported ally is holding
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
i wish i could go back in time and uninvent the transformer architecture, and the prevalence of LLMs has had me actively wondering when it will be time to manage my keys, but even i agree that zkat’s callout list stuff is in bad taste and just makes them look like an ass
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The right place at the right time
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The right place at the right time | The Observation Deck
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January 8, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The right place at the right time
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/01/08/t...
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/01/08/t...
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sir, a second Libertarian Party account has cooked
January 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
sir, a second Libertarian Party account has cooked
today i learnt that i was in the top 0.4% of Strava users for days active last year.
this makes perfect sense if you understand the deep emotional anguish i felt on each of the 16 days i did not go running.
this makes perfect sense if you understand the deep emotional anguish i felt on each of the 16 days i did not go running.
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
today i learnt that i was in the top 0.4% of Strava users for days active last year.
this makes perfect sense if you understand the deep emotional anguish i felt on each of the 16 days i did not go running.
this makes perfect sense if you understand the deep emotional anguish i felt on each of the 16 days i did not go running.
for sale: baby shoes, never worn
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January 6, 2026 at 5:05 AM
for sale: baby shoes, never worn
the thing about spending $2000 on a bedframe is that every time i think about doing it, i realize i could also spend $2000 on DDR4 ECC RDIMMs on eBay, and then i do neither
January 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
the thing about spending $2000 on a bedframe is that every time i think about doing it, i realize i could also spend $2000 on DDR4 ECC RDIMMs on eBay, and then i do neither
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there is consensus in the group chat on this point: "a contraption can scare a horse"
January 4, 2026 at 12:05 AM
there is consensus in the group chat on this point: "a contraption can scare a horse"
i was told that i am “a type of person” because i purchased a cable management arm for my “desktop computer”
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
i was told that i am “a type of person” because i purchased a cable management arm for my “desktop computer”
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if you (programming lang enjoyooors) want to feel driven insane you can always look at the early golang user group
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
if you (programming lang enjoyooors) want to feel driven insane you can always look at the early golang user group
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
the problem with buying whole ebay computers just to get the DDR4 inside them is that you have to pay $180 to have the RAM shipped to your house, and then you have like a 2U 26” deep thing in your house that you can’t use because you took the RAM out of it
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
the problem with buying whole ebay computers just to get the DDR4 inside them is that you have to pay $180 to have the RAM shipped to your house, and then you have like a 2U 26” deep thing in your house that you can’t use because you took the RAM out of it
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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It's kind of funny that the NYCMayor Twitter account just changes names without archiving the old posts so now it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's name on all of Eric Adams' old tweets
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
It's kind of funny that the NYCMayor Twitter account just changes names without archiving the old posts so now it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's name on all of Eric Adams' old tweets
2026 will be the Year of Linux on the Desktop
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
2026 will be the Year of Linux on the Desktop
OH: “you should be able to soothe the Waymo, like a horse…”
December 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
OH: “you should be able to soothe the Waymo, like a horse…”
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me: i'm into some really perverse stuff hope you're ok with that haha 🙈
him: try me 😈
me:
him: try me 😈
me:
December 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
me: i'm into some really perverse stuff hope you're ok with that haha 🙈
him: try me 😈
me:
him: try me 😈
me: