Developer in CA. Enjoyer of Creed and Nickelback. Previously @acorns. Working on a stealth startup.
Orange, CA
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Tim Kendall retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: California has spent $618 million on environmental impact reports for its doomed high-speed rail project. We printed out all 130,000 pages and tried to shoot a .50-caliber bullet through them.
Second time I've gotten this reply from @cursor (across Grok and Claude models so assuming it's their classifier)
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I’m so very excited that Neon Realtime is out! 🚀🎉
Live reactive SQL queries, straight from Postgres
Subscribe to ANY query from the front end, and it will been updated in realtime.
To do this we built a brand new sync/query engine, running inside Postgres.
For anyone who’s worked on a sync engine, being inside Postgres is a bit like being in a sweet shop, it’s all we ever wanted! Everything we could possible need is just there and ready to use.
We’re going to be writing more about how we built it in the coming weeks, but want to say I’m indelibly proud of what the team have achieved, it’s very VERY cool.
I’m looking forward to seeing how our users get on with it!
If you have any questions, give me a shout!
Tim Kendall retweeted
“Hermione I think you messed up the apparition spell, you took us to India or Pakistan”
“This is downtown London Ron”
“What?”
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I have just completed what I believe to be the most comprehensive evaluation of Charlotte NC arrest records in history.
This project has taken me 3 months to complete, combing through over 50,000+ arrest records and mugshots.
I've found what appears to be massive fraud.
Thousands of Hispanics have been labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" in the arrest records... THOUSANDS.
In fact, I found over 500 cases where Hispanics who were arrested more than once... had their "Ethnicity" CHANGED from "Hispanic" to "Caucasian" from one arrest to another.
Horrifyingly, I found HUNDREDS of these "White Caucasians" were actually ILLEGAL ALIENS from foreign countries with ICE detainers.
Perhaps most disturbing...
Many of the illegal aliens who were labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" had already been released back into the public, DESPITE the ICE detainer requesting they stay in prison.
We have a serious problem.
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As good a theory as any I've read 👇
Here's how I think it worked:
- Intentionally shoddy voter rolls are the feedstock
- D SecOfState gives registration data to NGO1
- NGO1 identifies low propensity voters and gives the list to NGO2
- NGO2 oversees a network of local street level ballot harvesters for given lists and targets..which if they do not meet will result in them not being included next election.
There doesn't need to be a central committee or anybody making all the decisions, and the only people really breaking the law are low-level harvesters. The fraud self-organizes, but it costs an enormous amount of money.
Marc Elias and Norm Eisen are the tip of the spear of a huge legal network getting the rules in place to allow the fraud, and all those NGOs and street level harvesters are on the payroll. It adds up.
There were 20-30K democracy/ election related NGOs in the US with reported funding of $3.4B in 2020; that's what the Zuckbucks and Soros paid for. On top of that, there are another 500K "advocacy" NGOs funded at $50B, which is important because the money is fungible and it sloshes around these left wing networks; that's the work
@DataRepublican has been doing.
So much money and tens of thousands of people on the payroll, all with the single job of maximizing @TheDemocrats
votes.
Drying up the money cripples the networks. Cleaning the rolls reduces the feedstock, which is important even if the blue states don't participate because lots of red states have bright blue dots in them; think Jacksonville and Houston. Deportations and ICE drain the front line workforce. And lots of those frontline workers are involved in other shady Learing Center type operations and are gonna be lying low, especially if HSI and ICE are at the polls.
Evidence: NoKings fizzled, and there were no mass protests this summer. Even Cornell7, AI Apocalypse, and Black Girl Lynchings seem half-hearted, and the 2020 playbook doesn't work anymore. It was all manufactured, and the network that produced it is fractured and under assault.
It's a bummer that the SaveAct didn't get passed, but I think all these actions are still going to reduce the fraud, and I further believe that our being a 50/50 country is an illusion. Without the election and census shenanigans, we should already be up 40 seats in the House.
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Software engineers are supposed to do exactly what we’ve always done. Ensure that the composition and structure of the system is robust and maintainable and that the behavior of the system properly serves the needs of our users.
This requires engineering discipline. It need not require detailed reading of the code; just as using compilers does not require detailed reading of the binary.
Tim Kendall retweeted
Thanks for pointing out just how out of touch you are and that everything you say is just a slogan.
You already have that economy.
UBS counted more than 1,000 new American millionaires a day in 2024, and about 1,200 a day in 2025.
That’s the 1,000 you say you want, every single day, in the same system that also produces billionaires.
Those aren’t competing outcomes.
The billionaire’s company is usually how a lot of the millionaires got there: equity, options, and ownership.
Confiscating one doesn’t mint the other.
The numbers: UBS’s Global Wealth Report put nearly 379,000 new U.S. millionaires in 2024, more than 1,000 a day, and about 441,000 in 2025, more than 1,200 a day. Capgemini, counting investable assets only, put the 2025 U.S. gain even higher, at 736,000.
Tim Kendall retweeted
This video of Hillary Clinton saying the quiet part out loud about Christians is going viral again for some reason.
This stuff is only going to grow more prevalent in our culture. Stand firm, Christian.
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💸 As of tomorrow, Los Angeles County will have the nation's highest sales tax rates, with some cities as high as 11.75% sales tax. Because they don't already have enough money with 14.4% income tax, high property/gas/utility taxes.
Highest taxes in the POOREST cities - Palmdale & Lancaster, 16% poverty rates in these desert communities. Now paying 11.75% tax on everything they purchase.
I moved to CA in 2013 from New Hampshire, which had 0% sales/income tax, nearly 0 gas tax & vehicle registration fees, but which had next to zero crime, great roads/schools. Why? Because they don't openly STEAL the money. They don't give drug addicted and/or lazy "homeless" people $2 MILLION beachfront condos for life (including all utilities AND HIGH END groceries from stores I won't even step foot in like Bristol Farms)!
Unless something changes immediately, California will soon become a state for the extremely rich & the extremely poor, with no middle class to speak of. And once the remaining extremely rich are driven out by taxes to pay for all the extremely poor, it'll become a failed state as there'll be no one left to pay the high taxes.
Santa Monica 11.25% Sales Tax
Tomorrow, Oct 1, Santa Monica's sales tax hits 11.25%, the highest in the region. That's a half-cent hike from Measure ER, passed by LA County voters in June. For a typical middle-income household spending around $20,000 a year on taxable goods, dining out, gas, clothes, household items, entertainment, that's about $2,250 a year in sales tax alone. Roughly $188 a month.
And this comes on top of the city's own increases over the last 4 years. Water up 20%. Trash up 11% a year. Parking permits nearly doubled, while parking at the promenade has also increased.
The city says it's for services. But when every bill, every meter, and every receipt goes up at once, families feel it. They deserve a council that asks whether we're getting value before we ask for more.
Santa Monica residents deserve to know exactly where every dollar goes. No more blank checks. No more vague promises. We need real transparency, real audits, and real consequences when money is wasted. That's the accountability our city is missing.
Affordability means keeping money in your pocket and letting you decide how to spend it. That's what I'm fighting for as your candidate for Santa Monica City Council.
A Higher Standard for Santa Monica
Derrick Townsend for Santa Monica City Council
Tim Kendall retweeted
There's been a ton of talk about the role of humans in code review, and when and how humans should be signing off on changes.
I believe that, long-term, humans have no role in routinely reviewing code.
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I’ve put a ton of tokens through Jev now, and...I have thoughts.
1. The big labs lost the script
TypeSafe’s intro video says, “We’re building prod, not God” — and can I just say? Hell yeah. @typesafeai built something for engineers like me, so I can build products for people like your mom (she says hi btw). They’re not trying to create “Machines of Loving Grace”; they’re trying to build things that let OTHER HUMAN BEINGS create new types of products.
The proof is in the pudding. When ChatGPT shipped, we were all blown away by…ChatGPT. When Jev shipped, we were all blown away by what everyone was making with it.
I cannot tell you how refreshing this is. It takes a sincere form of humility to believe that you, the creator of a technology, will not be the best at deploying the technology into the marketplace. The big labs, especially Anthropic, have proven not to have this humility…and now everyone hates AI. Thanks, Dario.
I guess what I’m saying is: Diogo for president.
2. Ultra-smart classifiers were genuinely a missing primitive.
I don’t know how this got missed. Diogo calls it “machine-native intelligence,” and that’s really what it is. I cannot tell you how much bending and twisting I've had to do with LLMs to get them to act like a classifier when they just weren’t. I’m absolutely shocked this is the first time this “type” of model has come to market.
These models will unlock AI utility for entire industries: robotics, trucking, aviation, meteorology, finance, defense, retail…even your smart coffee mug is going to use this.
3. It’s still too expensive
Jev is really, really cheap compared to LLMs. But you don’t use it like an LLM. In my full self-driving example, or any robotics example, you’ll be making decisions several times per second continuously. The #1 value proposition of a model like this is speed and cost.
To be clear, at current pricing, the model will still be successful and well integrated. It will be able to replace a number of tasks that were already being performed (poorly) by LLMs. However, to unlock industrial-scale demand (Jevons paradox), I believe it needs to be roughly 10x cheaper.
Currently, Jev is $0.042/M input, which is actually 7x more expensive than a cache read on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.006). If our industrial application requires decisions at 10 Hz and we provide only 10k of context, that would cost $0.0042/second to operate, or $15/hour, $600/week, etc.
The good news is Diogo said on a recent AMA that they have substantial margin at their current pricing and have already considered dropping the cost further. I hope it's a lot further.
4. Latency is a real limiter
I really hope TypeSafe AI works with an edge network provider to improve the co-location of models and reduce network latency. Ultimately, these models really need to run on-device. I would even be willing to pay some kind of recurring license fee to have a great closed model running on my own hardware, just so I can reduce the TTD (Time To Decision) as much as possible. Imagine running a model like this at 60 Hz, or even 120 Hz.
At that point, we’re looking at a new kind of logic gate — we can’t even imagine what that will be like.
In summary, this one really is a game changer for everyone building AI products, and, assuming cost and latency are further improved…it’ll be a game changer for everyone doing anything.
Tim Kendall retweeted
Introducing Projects, a new way of working in Cursor.
Rather than creating a chat for every task, you work with a coordinator agent in a single, persistent thread.
Like @bot, your agent is always on, proactively manages work with subagents, and improves over time.
Tim Kendall retweeted
iPhone Duo animation on MacBook ✨
Saw a few others recreate this and had to try it myself!
Tim Kendall retweeted
I trained a small model to do syntax highlighting in the browser with GPU.
Meet gpu-lexer from Vercel Labs: Small (27.5KB), fast (runs on WebGPU), and language-agnostic (model guesses the syntax).
gpu-lexer.vercel.app
It is experimental and built for learning!
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The fact that she was “otherwise loving” when she wasn’t busy murdering all of her children does not prove or even indicate that she was insane at the time when the crime was committed. A huge number of murderers are basically nice people apart from the murdering. And a “rapidly deteriorating mental state” also does not prove or even indicate that she was insane. In fact it cuts against her because her mental states were extensively logged and charted and yet none of those mental states were ever diagnosed as psychotic or insane. She was sad, depressed, and frustrated. That’s what the record shows. And being sad, depressed, and frustrated doesn’t excuse murder or mean that you are unable to control your actions.
Actually a huge part of her defense are the dozens of witnesses attesting to her being an otherwise loving and devoted mother with no history of violence or abuse toward the children. In addition to that is her medical records showing her increasingly deteriorating mental state. It’s true her medical records don’t establish “insanity” per se but it is definitely not the case that the defenses evidence amounts to a mere claim of hearing voices.
Tim Kendall retweeted
The state has more than met its burden of proof. It has demonstrated beyond even the smallest fraction of doubt that:
1) She killed her kids intentionally.
2) She was methodical, systematic, and determined while killing her kids.
3) She engaged in premeditation and planning before killing her kids.
4) She clearly demonstrated both before and after the crime that she knew it was wrong to harm her children.
The first point should be enough to send her away forever. The second seals the deal. The third and the fourth remove even the faintest hints of any lingering doubts that the most gullible person might have.
This is one of the most open and shut murder cases we’ve ever seen.
