Reid

@arrdem.tirefireind.us

Proprietor https://tirefireind.us. Puppet master of @joe.tirefireind.us. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy. Stay frosty. We keep us safe.

my last project? rubble. i leapt out of it at the last second like it was a speeding car on fire in a chase scene. my todo list app? it brings databases to their knees. distributed systems come up to me with tears in their eyes, "sir, we've never seen workloads like this"

everything in this blog post is the most important tool in history. if you arent using it you're basically cutting your own arms and legs off. i get stacks of novelty-sized checks delivered to my house so i can mail them straight to anthropic every month. i have shipped nothing.

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

On the one hand I could put IR floods on the roof rack for shits and giggles On the other the damn car is too smart and has visible band lights I can’t turn off so no reason to

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.

My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed

lrt while I still identified as a republican that was basically my frustration but “party of Lincoln” was the line. To make men free and all that

You are seeing the same dynamic with DSA right now. I have come to believe that the only way out of this is a very explicit "we are the party of the New Deal and the Great Society" rebranding where the tradition of the Democratic Party is what is foregrounded rather than trashing it over and over

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

sure your “ai” can write code at the 99th percentile and solve open problems in mathematics, but can it get stoned playing factorio and forget why you were refactoring blue circuits in the first place