Lucas Garron

@lgarron
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Mathematician, speedcuber, dancer, hacker.

Formerly: web security for GitHub, usable security for Google Chrome.

Websitehttps://garron.net
GitHubhttps://github.com/lgarron
Pronounshe/him
Twizzlehttps://twizzle.net/
Lucas GarronMay 26
Show threadUnnamed TNG skant beefcakeMay 25

So they killed Swartz by bullying him to death with legal threats because he downloaded a bunch of academic papers

Meanwhile

Altman's level of copyright infringement must eclipse that tenfold, easily, and he used all that scraped data to build a machine that convinces children to kill others and themselves

And he's a free man

Lucas GarronMay 26
Unnamed TNG skant beefcakeMay 25
Concept: Sam Altman being tried for his crimes with the same fury and hate and the same legal firepower that was applied to Aaron Swartz
Lucas GarronMay 23
Cassandra is only carbon nowMay 23

There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "complex" views about AI.

I ask that you please reject that temptation and recognize that full and complete abstinence from AI is a complex view that considers the tradeoffs, compromises with the relative extremes of direct action, and that comes from a comprehensive understanding of what AI is.

Show threadLucas GarronMay 2

I will say I have experienced one exception to this, which is the very responsive maintainership of Optique, which has successfully introduced feature after feature without any regressions and while maintaining good docs: https://optique.dev/

But it stands out because it seems to be such an exception to other projects that use AI. It's gotten to the point where I will sometimes dismiss a project out of hand if I see Claude has contributed.

Optique

Type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript

Lucas GarronMay 2
Every time I see someone using LLMs to code, I want to shake them and ask "If LLMs are supposed to be so good, why isn't your code good?" 🫨
Show threadLucas GarronApr 6

Seems a great time to share a song about (and made with radio recordings of) Apollo 8 when we first went around the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8LlUrT7MFo

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - THE OTHER SIDE (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube
Show threadLucas GarronApr 6
LOS (Loss of Signal) 😱
Lucas GarronApr 6
Becca Royal-GordonApr 5
Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.
https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497
Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fan (@[email protected])

OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

LGBTQIA+ and Tech
Lucas GarronApr 2
Timnit Gebru (she/her).Apr 2

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Show threadLucas GarronApr 1
Turns out we *are* going to space today! 🥳