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Oscar Boykin

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Some guy on Maui

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

30.04.2025 00:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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).

30.04.2025 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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).

30.04.2025 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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…).

30.04.2025 00:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.04.2025 00:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

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?

30.04.2025 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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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:

29.04.2025 22:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

29.04.2025 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

29.04.2025 21:15 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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?

21.04.2025 00:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Track Day at Kamehameha school on Maui.

12.04.2025 17:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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).

12.04.2025 16:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

12.04.2025 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

14.03.2025 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

07.03.2025 01:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh my goodness. Who could have guessed!?

15.02.2025 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

11.02.2025 18:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kevin Kiley Delivers Remarks On The 'Exponential Growth' In Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
Kevin Kiley Delivers Remarks On The 'Exponential Growth' In Artificial Intelligence Capabilities YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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.

11.02.2025 18:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of Firefox's Bluesky profile. At the top there's a purple banner with the number "20" celebrating Firefox's 20th anniversary. The profile picture is a red panda that is licking their nose.

A screenshot of Firefox's Bluesky profile. At the top there's a purple banner with the number "20" celebrating Firefox's 20th anniversary. The profile picture is a red panda that is licking their nose.

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

15.01.2025 21:36 👍 949 🔁 154 💬 54 📌 25

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

27.01.2025 01:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

27.01.2025 01:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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interesting data on US 2024 EV sales: electrek.co/2025/01/14/t...

26.01.2025 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've almost never regretted buying tools

23.01.2025 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

21.01.2025 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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".

21.01.2025 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0