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And even then it was cheaper than this. Shit even when the phone number to get the current time connected you to a live operator to read it to you off a wall clock it was cheaper than doing this. This is such a solved problem, it is one of the solved problems of all time
February 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Brother it is hard to overstate how much it is completely free to ask the computer for the current time. Your friendly National Institute of Standards and Technology has even set up NTP servers for you so you can do this with a great deal of precision, at zero cost. What are we doing man
Don’t worry, he eventually figured out how to make it cost much less each time his computer asked the remote AI model what time it was
February 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It just had a major release like a few weeks ago. It's still around!

The legacy Rails app I'm in charge of is absolutely riddled with it lol
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Yep, just need to implement an extremely basic caching mechanism, and I already have a perfect place to invalidate it
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 AM
tfw when this template actually gets called every frame, and takes about 80ms to run for each call, grinding the whole UI to a halt

It's fine, it's fine, I can fix this
February 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Just discovered by accident: you can just leave the shebang in there and it gets stripped out of the pkgs.writeShellApplication derivation. So it already works _almost_ exactly how I want, except the shebang packages and runtimeInputs don't sync automatically. I can live with that!
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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JE: Elon, any interest in stopping by for a “little” party favor later

Elon: Sorry too busy. Could only make time for overt pedophilia haha
January 31, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Like a wrapper command that can get the runtime dependencies from the writeShellApplication options and generate the equivalent shebang...hmm
January 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM
For sure, but the Nix shell shebang is so damn good for writing them initially. Kinda makes me wonder if there's a way to kind of do both, like I already have a writeShellApplication script I want to hack on but iterate rapidly without re-evaluating, and without copying it somewhere else...
January 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM
This post taught me this trick, and I've been using it all day. It's absolutely perfect for working on a script that I'm eventually going to wrap with `pkgs.writeShellApplication`. I can call my script from the comfort of my usual `fish` shell, dependencies contained, without re-evaluating the flake
January 31, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Are we not all sick of the people who won't even do anything to curb endless unsolicited scam calls just sitting right beside those with their own incessant, begging text spam?
January 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
That's exactly right
January 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM
(placing this here before anyone makes a `jo` joke)
January 31, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Really hope Stack Overflow stays online in one form or another. For all its faults, it is a massive, incredibly valuable store of _vetted_ information from expert humans, and it still helps me with shit like every single day
January 31, 2026 at 7:54 PM
100% of the AI industry that isn't one of those 3 companies is literally just a script that pre-formats a prompt and another script that retries it against the API until it gets the desired structured output. You too can launch an AI startup with a smattering of Bash
January 31, 2026 at 3:28 PM
3 companies which light unimaginable amounts of money on fire per minute they spend operating these services
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 PM