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Patrick Reynolds
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Currently: software engineer at PlanetScale
Formerly: distinguished engineer at GitHub
Always: father of two living in Carrboro. Woodworking, cycling, photography. he/him.
Reposted by Patrick Reynolds
I think people want AI to be useless, to consume huge amounts of water, etc. because that lets you find another reason for it to be bad that isn’t: it’s useful and that’s why it’s bad. The thing works and is getting better, millions have found use cases for it, and that is why it is bad.
May 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
MCP = Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic invented for getting LLMs to talk to the outside world. Seems like a Tron reference?

Here's an example where Claude generated a query with both LEFT JOIN and GROUP BY in it. It's pretty good at writing SQL for all the things I've tried so far.
April 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Directed by Lance Bangs, from Jackass
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
At the risk of overinterpreting an innocent coincidence, April 20th is Hitler’s birthday
April 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Patrick Reynolds
/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach.

They should get the sticks.
April 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How many of those 65,000 voters have moved (within the state or not) or died? Likely over a thousand — it’s been five months.

Those votes were perfectly legal at the time even if the voter is unreachable now.
April 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🍿

But also, a very bad precedent to say Republicans can just re-run any election they lose.
April 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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North Carolina Democrats WILL fight this decision. But make no mistake, the statewide court of appeals bench has cowered to political pressure and corruption from their own party. The NCGOP and RNC are trying to steal an election and test the waters for future election denial.
April 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There are twelve streets in the Netherlands and eight more in Belgium called John F Kennedylaan.
April 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
White shoes, white flags
April 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Settings > Moderation > Muted words and tags

At least on the iOS app
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM