the number of routes to a particular point on a manifold scales witih its dimension

am I crazy for thinking that prompt injection and jailbreaking are fundamentally unsolvable

I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be leading a session at this year's inaugural Rust NYC Unconf! Come by if you'd like to talk or hear about using Rust to underpin common, cross-language implementations of business functionality.

Shockingly, the right has suddenly forgotten how much leftists love cancelling people

Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me. oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...

Today I was shocked and appalled to learn that `Path` doesn’t have any const constructors 😫

If I ever make my own shell, the #1 feature it’ll have that I haven’t seen yet is a comprehensive ability to trace where variables are being set from

If I say that, like, a thrown Exception won’t be caught. Or a method will be called on a null Object. Nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the *plan* But if I say one little ol’ `Err` will be unwrapped? Well then everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS

cool job at a very special computer company - write TypeScript and Rust - everyone makes $235k - fully remote - everything is open source

Extremely funny that by far the most reliable source of accurate information is also overwhelmingly the most likely to have that information evaporate in 2-4 months

If I say that, like, a thrown Exception won’t be caught. Or a method will be called on a null Object. Nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the *plan* But if I say one little ol’ `Err` will be unwrapped? Well then everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS

Please stop thinking in terms of what would narratively be most cathartic & instead in terms of what endemic violence as a normal part of people's lives actually entails. To put it more bluntly: please accept that normalizing revenge doesn't mean you get your revenge, it means you're a victim of it

It is really genuinely startling how many problems are solved with SQLite

"serving my time" isn't a real thing in this country. this place operates on the basis of once a criminal, always a criminal. every crime carries a life sentence. if you committed a crime at any stage of your life, you arent allowed to be part of society. ever.

I feel like there are problems that should have been permanently solved. Not like “we know how to solve it” but like “why would anyone ever write their own web storefront under any circumstances”

/2 Just to be clear, 5th Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith’s dissent is wildly emotionally incontinent and so bizarre it can’t even be called unprofessional. If someone I loved wrote it I would be very worried and investigate dementia.

That would make zero difference. The issue here is not the panic vs Result - propagating result all the way and returning 500 by hand would be just as bad in terms of impact. A lot of ppl are focusing on the error handling snippet when it's not _the_ issue nor would've fixed one.

“So, what, you just crash the WHOLE PROCESS super loudly?” Uh yeah you’d be amazed at how quickly monitoring detects that and how readily it’s fixed when the crash site is near the problem site

I love how every corporate rust adoption story is like “yeah, all of our memory safety bugs went down and our performance doubled, but the downside is that Rust PRs take half the time to merge”

So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1

There are like entire religions around why this is a bad thing.

JESUS

cloudflare themselves get it: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-... writing their code differently is only one of four steps here. because this kind of mistake should not be able to cause this much damage. that's approaching problems in a systematic way rather than via band-aids

This bothers me SO MUCH about `unsafe` discourse. There’s a refrain that `unsafe` is “too scary” a word and unjustly discourages people from dipping into unsafety.

People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem. People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Corporate IT installs random shell stuff as scripts instead of shell aliases challenge (0% success rate)

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

Then: noooo you can’t just say *everything* is a social construct Me, pointing at “reliable” TCP “connections” and especially their inherent ephemerality given the underlying OSI network layer: social construct.

I’m halfway convinced that this would have been the more sane way to do… all interactions with memory. Like strictly speaking pointers never NEEDED to exist. It could all be indices into slabs.

This is completely correct. C has a lot of sins but I think this one might be the absolute worst of them all.

"if you pass an array to a function it can no longer tell how big it is, you have to tell the function how big the array is in advance" - they made the language wrong then! (i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)

So if no one uses Rust but everyone uses Python which is now written in Rust does that mean we’ve made it discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-ru...

And now CLOUDFARE is having an outage? Wtf is even happening

bio: senior staff writer at the atlantic pinned tweet: the "those who do not learn history" quote thread: it's not fascism unless it was developed in a munich beer hall in 1923

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

Scene from the James Comey grand jury room.

Relatedly: probably my most individually radical economic position is that anyone selling a house should be required by law to prefer an offer from anyone who will live in the house vs someone who will rent it / “invest” in it, no matter how much worse the offer is.

The reason his feels so insane to me is that it seems like the obvious move is to give free checked bags and charge for the privilege of carrying on.

The Supreme Court made up the "major questions doctrine," under which the Court gets extra powers when things are a Big Deal and what's a Big Deal is up to the Justices. Why not make up a new "signature policies" rule where a president can put things beyond the court's reach, like a franchise tag.

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The hackers of yesteryear accomplished actual magic, true sci-fi shit, by refusing to do the same task manually more than once. This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.

Okay then. This again? This is going to be a chain of skeets, because as a widower I have a lot to say on this topic. 1) This is desecrating the dead. That’s the nicest way to describe the atrocity of animating the image of a dead loved-one, stealing their voice, and claiming to speak for them.

I don't know if foreign product support teams know how alienating it is for Americans to be called "friend." I'm not your friend I am your customer and if you're not telling me to drink fucking dog water I don't know if you have it in you.

also, whatever life-altering OC you create, just get ahead of the curve and make them transgender from the start, save yourself the work later

LOSING IT

The problem statement looks like this: we want to deduplicate the Fizz and Buzz cases, but we also don’t want to introduce new state bools to decide whether or not to print the integer

AT LONG LAST I FIGURED IT OUT AN ELEGANT FIZZBUZZ

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."