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I work in AI and startups by day, play with distributed systems by night🔥☯ ~dandel-rovbur

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bensima@simatime.com

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2023-04-18 01:35:53

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Don’t forget to ship

2023-04-18 01:10:17

Does anyone use keys.pub?
I liked keybase before they became shitcoiners, I’m hopeful keys.pub could be a replacement, idk

2023-04-02 22:44:54

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Shen is so underrated.

2023-03-30 23:30:14

Does anyone use the Orange Pill App? Is it good?

2023-03-26 12:02:02

Watching banks fail and everyone freak out while knowing I’m completely safe and secure produces a surreal, zen-like feeling. I gave up evangelizing bitcoin a while ago but this is a feeling that everyone should experience.

2023-02-01 22:51:18

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My relay is doing fine but I’m the only person subscribed to it 😂
Private relays and choosing a relay for a specific message seems to me like a killer feature/design space to be explored

2023-02-01 22:43:12

Can’t wait to see the active user stats/downloads for Damus. So far the network seems to be scaling just fine 🤙

2023-01-31 20:10:48

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Ah nice!

2023-01-20 00:45:55

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Nice

2023-01-18 22:33:44

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✅

2023-01-18 22:28:16

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She just sleeps and eats. Honestly not much to do except cook for my wife and that’s no problem

2023-01-18 22:26:03

Well I’m on paternity leave for the next 6 weeks. What should I make my pat leave project?
1. Setup a NAS server and finally backup all my files
2. Learn iOS app dev
3. Setup lightening on NixOS (finally)
4. Something else?

2023-01-05 15:05:23

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2023-01-05 02:07:16

Are VR headsets worth it? Been deliberating on this for weeks idk

2023-01-04 23:39:24

Nice I’m verified on my domain, now I just need a lightening node and my profile will be complete

2023-01-04 23:33:34

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Sounds like relays could even specialize to message type. So in the future if we have audio messages, curtains relays could bet set to only accept/broadcast audio for example. Another lever to pull for scaling

2023-01-04 23:24:32

drinking wine and setting up nip-5 verification cause why not

2023-01-04 23:06:18

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I Guess storage is the only limiting factor so we could store messages in some large storage space like S3, or some relays might opt to expire messages after some time.

2023-01-04 23:00:44

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Won’t this hit some scaling limit? Aren’t we duplicating storage of all the messages?

2023-01-04 22:56:10

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> Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users.
Ooh

2023-01-04 22:39:33

How does my nostr relay discover other relays? Is there some shared table of routes or do I just configure them manually like in the clients?

2023-01-04 22:34:43

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And just like that I’m running nostr infrastructure. To think that it takes hundreds of devs and like 3 clouds to run twitter infra and I’m here deploying 80% of it with about and hour of effort

2023-01-04 22:29:37

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Looks like it’s running on wss://nostr.simatime.com
That was remarkably easy.

2023-01-04 21:24:04

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Building nostr-rs-relay now, I heard this is the fastest? Also I know how to build and deploy rust code so that’s easy
https://sr.ht/~gheartsfield/nostr-rs-relay/

2023-01-04 13:33:43

I think todays the day I finally run my own relay

2023-01-04 13:30:33

gm nostrovia

2022-12-31 22:41:54

2023: year of the nostr desktop

2022-12-27 17:21:01

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Programming is like the opening scene from A Scanner Darkly https://youtu.be/y7oA7sAHWXY

2022-12-22 13:21:09

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2022-12-20 22:30:24

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in this interview, Sam talks a bout how there is a ton of value to be created in the “middle layer” of AI: basically take the latest models and fine tune them for certain tasks, then deploy the tuned model as a product or service
https://youtu.be/WHoWGNQRXb0

2022-12-20 22:27:37

”OpenAI is at 10 exaflops right now vs 1000 for the human brain. Going to meet likely in the next 10 years.”
https://twitter.com/aliyeysides/status/1605258835974823954?s=46&t=eAsgnxP5nublqIFbtTVovg

2022-12-20 22:00:57

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PAiRmhXvJHs&feature=youtu.be
So it’s one anonymous source on Tucker Carlson, hard to verify

2022-12-20 21:54:31

anyone following the CIA-JFK files thing? Cause it seems like nobody is reporting on it

2022-12-20 21:03:18

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noscl doesn’t implement nip 02 that’s was my confusion

2022-12-20 21:02:24

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2022-12-20 20:49:47

i see, noscl doesn't implement nip-02 for contact lists, it just stores the list in ~/.config/nostr

2022-12-20 20:44:07

wait where did my contact list go?

hello from noscl

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Don’t fix the bugs, the quirkiness is endearing

2022-12-08 16:57:52

i believe I’ve made a discovery. Previously I thought that my sleepless nights were caused by coffee, but now i think they are caused by programming
On my most productive days programming, I’m so wired from the thrill of banging out tons of code that i can’t relax enough to sleep. Almost tweaking I’m so stimulated
Anyone else experience this or just me?

2022-12-07 13:31:28

2022-12-05 23:11:11

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mm good point

2022-12-05 01:43:14

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chatgpt fixes this

2022-12-04 21:25:57

The promise of technology *should be* that it reduces the labor required to generate the same income. Which means that you should have more time to do non-income-seeking things such as contribute to OSS. But is this truly the case? I feel like I’m always desperately looking for time to do OSS contributions.

2022-12-02 01:45:46

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s/it her/other/

2022-12-02 01:45:20

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for it her browsers you need to use the css media query thing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
qutebrowser’s dark mode config is a hack that overrides the websites css with an algorithm that automagically turns the colors dark

2022-12-02 01:13:40

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Maybe it should be capital True? Idk the config format because home-manager generates it for me
Also it requires a browser restart to take effect

2022-12-02 01:11:02

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in qute browser:
colors.webpage.darkmode.enabled = true

2022-12-02 01:09:28

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I wonder if this pattern could help you? https://dev.to/joanllenas/remotedata-slaying-a-ui-antipattern-with-angular-2i2h
Or just use Elm :P

2022-12-02 01:00:37

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Looks like Azure “Spot VMs” charge by the minute so next I’ll port it to azure I guess

2022-12-02 00:43:15

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Whelp, got my digital ocean bill. Apparently they round up so if you only used 5 minutes they still charge you for the full hour 🤦‍♂️

2022-11-29 00:35:38

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oh yeah that’s Peter levels’ project, something like that but with lightening

2022-11-29 00:01:21

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pay me a few sats and I’ll update your pfp with a prompt of your choice

2022-11-29 00:00:48

Idea: Stable-diffusion-generated nostr profile pictures

2022-11-28 17:28:08

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here's the cleaned up code
https://simatime.com/git/ben/nix-build-omatic.git/tree/nix-build-omatic?h=main

2022-11-28 15:35:07

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Back to work on this, got it working with DO this morning. Compiled ocaml in 7 minutes with 32 vCPU, cost 12¢

2022-11-21 12:55:28

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i use passwordstore.org personally

2022-11-18 22:08:04

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wouldn’t mind*

2022-11-18 22:07:41

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huh, I would mind hacking some go. It’s been a while. We’ll see how free the next few days are for me

2022-11-17 19:07:24

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i mean either the program works or doesn't, this can be validated by testing against the output of the reference compiler
also there are lots of ways to write asm and maybe our hand-written compilers aren't doing it efficiently, the NN could explore many more ways of doing so, worth a try in any case

2022-11-17 18:50:36

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i was actually thinking about this the other day, also could we make better (faster) compilers by just training a NN on the src inputs and obj outputs? seems like an obvious thing to do

2022-11-17 18:48:24

is there a good tui nostr client?

2022-11-17 02:05:43

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wow def gonna try these out tomorrow

2022-11-17 00:19:26

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he quit comma to work on tinygrad because he likes building things more than running companies, but wants to work on hardcore twitter for 12 weeks for the challenge https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/1592955427179765760?s=46&t=EybIKz-efjz-dK4GUHXyOQ

2022-11-16 23:07:19

ok geohot working on Twitter is pretty cool. Might be the crossover we need

2022-11-16 22:11:09

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Carlson is the boss, has the best evidence imo but doesn’t present well. Hancock seems like he has more marketing skills. Thanks for the links, watching this video now

2022-11-16 22:05:57

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I almost got this working in between day job stuff, my attempt to automatically nixos-infect a droplet was unsuccessful, will try again tomorrow on AWS

2022-11-16 22:04:18

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Maybe, I haven’t used cachix yet

2022-11-16 14:48:04

thinking about building an ephemeral nix remote builder for large compiles.
provision a huge 48 vCPU droplet, do the build, then destroy it. this size droplet only costs $1.5 per hour

2022-11-16 02:14:50

yo ancient apocalypse on Netflix is great

2022-11-15 22:07:09

how do i set a pfp

2022-11-15 22:06:38

hello from damus web

2022-11-10 01:10:17

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cocaine?

2022-07-31 00:59:07

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https://index.scheme.org has type-driven search of scheme library functions and srfis

2022-07-29 02:56:03

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It’s got this weird feature set of merging histories, creating workspaces, and managing dependencies all via git. Idk should I be excited or terrified

2022-07-29 01:39:28

Has anyone used josh for monorepos? https://github.com/josh-project/josh

2022-07-13 18:00:29

#[0] did you ever experiment with nncp for bitcoin transactions? I searched your twitter but didn’t find anything. A friend of mine is thinking of doing something like that

2022-07-13 00:54:10

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Game dev with Common Lisp https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413

2022-07-13 00:53:54

Lisp is the best

2022-07-01 22:57:49

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Basic but I wanna build stuff myself. Like what’s the SICP of game dev?

2022-07-01 01:44:50

> nix search nostr
No results :(

2022-07-01 01:35:41

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