Josh Tompkins

@joshtompkins.codes

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Distinguished Engineer @ Charles Schwab. Recovering coder. Fried okra is my kryptonite. He/Him. Austin, TX.

A screenshot of a very stupid Fox News segment with the chyron “Libraries turning into drug-infested sex dens”, which is a thing only a very stupid person or someone who’s never been to a library would believe.
A DLSS 5 meme with the band Ghost as "DLSS 5 Off" and the band Sleep Token as "DLSS 5 On"
A screenshot of a newsletter that says "ChatGPT is smarter than the average person but most things worth reading are produced by people significantly above average."
A screenshot of Apple's "Liquid Glass" YouTube embed, with several letters covered by the Play button, making the cover image say "liquid ass"
A screenshot from Obsidian. The text reads as follows: Python is a neat language with great libraries but the build/project/dependency ecosystem is completely broken and awful. ### Something maybe specific to AI/LLM but still this ecosystem sucks why is it so bad? A bunch of the LLM tools seem to have dependencies built on Rust. The python ecosystem wants to build those dependencies locally when you install them into your venv. There is absolutely no warning about this, but this means, *by implication*, that you must have a *working Rust build system locally*. The error messages are really, really unhelpful here. Here's how to do that: * Go to the [Rust homepage](https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started) and follow the install instructions That's it, because Rust is a sane language with a build environment designed to make sense.