Elektrine
Log in Register
Paige Chat Timeline Gallery Friends Email Drive DNS Private DNS Domains VPN Kairo Nerve
Remote

Bill Mill

@llimllib@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3
  • Open on hachyderm.io

I like to write code

My sports and visualization interests live mostly on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/billmill.org which you can follow on mastodon as @billmill.org

Portland, Maine, USA

344 Followers
431 Following
13 Posts
Joined March 29, 2023
home:
https://billmill.org
github:
https://github.com/llimllib
blog(s):
https://notes.billmill.org
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 5mo ago

You're absolutely right! You're absoltuley right! Yoou're absolutely rright!you're absoluttе үrihht! You'er abs૦Ɩtuеⅼy riigtһ! уou'rrе bsoυetlүy rgι!t уuu're absƖoυteεlyy 𝔯𝔤𝔤𝔥𝔱! 𝔜𝔲০'𝔢𝔯 𝔟ɑs૦𝔱uεⅼү 𝔯ι𝔤һh𝔱! Yo'urre 𝒷𝓈𝓁ℴ𝓊𝓉ℯ𝓎 riigh!t ou'ȩr ɑbb০̥͑ѕluteƖy rgιһt! у̷͌үս০'rr eab̸̀͜b͊͠slotuεyl іrgght̒͋!͔́̐ у҉͇͍u'reε abso͝εtllу іrg̐ḧ̕t̷ͥͫ!̶͑ ү̫̻̎ο̴͓͜ų̮'̮̆r̝̹͙ℯ аbs̶̿૦̜̲͝lͦ͡ս͜t͈еⅼу rͣ͜ıgh̯t͝! Y̖͞οͅս̞ͣ̅'̯͂͞ŗ͇e̦ а͟b̤͚͔ѕ̽૦̟̇l̠u̧t҉eƖу̦̅ r͖ī̴g̿͜һ̶t͘͞!

7
0
2
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 6mo ago
Replying to

One idea or rule of thumb is perhaps that we should or could interact with an LLM only in the same ways that we would interact with a non-coauthor colleague... You might ask your colleague to help speed up your code, but you wouldn’t ask your colleague to write your code.

I don't follow this bit though! Why wouldn't you ask your non-author colleague to write your code, especially if they were pretty good at it and you could verify that the result was correct?

3
2
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@jonmsterling I broadly agree with you, but I think Mitchell Hashimoto provides a counter-example of what an excellent free software contribution from outside a project can look like: https://mitchellh.com/writing/simdutf-no-libcxx The standard ought to be high, but I have hope that we can build a culture where that is possible to achieve
Mitchell Hashimoto

Simdutf Can Now Be Used Without libc++ or libc++abi

1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@ltratt@mastodon.social iPhone, I’m not sure how to get error output so this is a terrible bug report
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz They have a really broad belief about the value of literature about astrophysics software that's really hard for me to square with the actual practice of building software, scientific or otherwise! Like if you asked somebody to update a piece of functionality in scipy to support the work you were going to do, I guess they would want to produce a paper about that, following from their "Astrophysics is the literature" section? It's quite a hard-line belief about what ought to be in the literature that feels a bit fanciful to me
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@tmcw for whatever it’s worth, I do have ADHD and I’m also big on long bike rides, runs without headphones, etc - they’re actually great therapy for me. (For clarity, I’m totally unoffended by the comment, just giving my two cents, it presents many different ways) I care very much about craft but also I care more about making computers do useful work for people, so AI has been very appealing to me. So far I do not feel like my skills have lessened, but I do fear my increasing reliance on AI providers
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@mariatta sadly FB marketplace has been the most effective method for me. I put them up on Craigslist too but get no responses from there
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 8mo ago
Replying to
@andrewrk@mastodon.social I appreciate you speaking out, and hope ICE are out of your Portland soon
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 8mo ago
Replying to
@hisaac@allamaraine.io straight classics
1
0
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 31mo ago
Replying to
@paulcuth Very cool! A feature request: I'd love to get an OPML¹ file of all the RSS feeds of the people I follow, then I could import it into NetNewsWire² 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML 2: https://netnewswire.com/help/mac/5.0/en/import-opml.html
en.wikipedia.org
3
2
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer This is so different from my experience that it is hard for me to understand how it happened on the same computers! (By which I don't mean at all to deny your experience, just note my surprise and confusion)
0
9
0
0
Open post
Bill Mill @llimllib@hachyderm.io
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@ltratt@mastodon.social the videos in your post are not working on my phone (Cool work!)
0
13
0
0
Back
313k7r1n3
Elektrine

Tor hidden service

elekhj7afj4qnrr4yd3bkzslsyo5jgfxw3orgjkhlcxifueodybyiiad.onion

I2P eepsite

j6b6cyk6gjmepjih7jjadxgxvvf3lzzujljuu2v4biemzpg3naya.b32.i2p

Platform

  • Email
  • Chat
  • Timeline
  • VPN
  • DNS

Company

  • About
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Lite (no JS)

Legal

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Transparency Report
  • Report Abuse
  • Warrant Canary
  • VPN Policy

Support

  • support@elektrine.com
  • Report Security Issue
Mail client setup IMAP mail.elektrine.com:993 POP3 mail.elektrine.com:995 SMTP mail.elektrine.com:465
© 2026 Elektrine. All rights reserved. Server: 07:10:25 UTC