rustweek is good.

I wonder what percentage of global carbon emissions are the result of software engineers choosing shitty wire formats because they’re “self-describing” and you can “read it on the wire”

Acausal secret santa

> In docker once you give a container a name you can also use that name when killing it > because names have power

To put this another way: if you're not able to type out what you have in mind it's because you *don't actually have it in mind*. You are doing exactly the same thing LLMs do: hallucinating that you know the code/material without actually knowing it

An antimeme. No matter how many times monads are explained, nobody ever retains what it is.

Monster Energy is technically vegan And just as tasty as any meat-based soda

Every packet is sacred, every SYN is great; if a byte is wasted, God gets quite irate.

rizzing up this security researcher & throwing "i wanna be ur girlfriend" and a timestamp into sha256 to finally get past my precommitment issues

My proposal is to add an infix tetration operator `***` to JavaScript. For example, `3 *** 3` would evaluate to `7625597484987`; this would be one of about five possible meaningful results the operator was capable of producing (maybe ten if we allow BigInts)

@bcantrill.bsky.social i’ve now spent something like half an hour looking for the talk you reference in corecursive.com/024-software... > …And in one talk, I likened, going from JavaScript to Go is like going from Somalia to Turkmenistan… I can’t for the life of me find it, and would love to.

chalcopyrite or "fools fools gold"

it's my birthday 🥳🥳🎉🎉 have a sketch

NGC 4826 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iEerHS

auspicious juxtaposition

aerospike engines look so goddamn cool

Folkert and Waffle have submitted a project goal to move explicit tail calls forward in 2026. In this blog, Folkert explains the work ahead: trifectatech.org/blog/tail-ca... @wffl.ihatereality.space #rustlang

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀 This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version servo.org/blog/2026/04...

linguistics researchers are massive dorks. "ARPABET" is a ridiculous name in itself but if you made a large pronunciation dataset, what would you name it? ..not "WikiPron", right? well. they would.

guy who pronounces mutex like latex

"Reid Wiseman reporting four green crewmembers. That is not their complexion, that is ... that's the fact that they're in great condition. That's what that means." thank you nasa explainey guy

enjoying a flight of directed acyclic graphs at the Innsmouth crafthouse

Mythos

claude shannon was serving here

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

ITS BEAUTIFUL

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

the pumping dilemna: there are a sequence of s people tied to a railroad track, s drawn from regular language L. if s is big enough, you can pull a lever l, you can split s into subsequences x y z, such that the trolley only hits y, the subsequence x z is still in L.

but i don't want to use SPSA. i want to use some bullshit i half-remembered seeing on arxiv

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY CAR EXTENDS VEHICLE

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

fossicking ... Let me check the logs. Something's not right here. stickybeaking ... grep roentgen working ... Oh. Okay. 3.6 roentgen—not great, not terrible. Let's get back to work.

The increasingly-hyperbolic METR graph is actually good news for safety. We just have to survive a brief singularity in March, and then afterwards the models will never be able to do more than undo a few hours' worth of work

"this is my daughter R'lyeh, pronounced Riley"

all this from a 20W blob of wetware computronium that's simultaneously managing a million other things

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

if you close and immediately reopen the same app your phone should discharge a powerful electric shock

i dont like cellular automata research because i know one of the rulesets is going to be isomorphic to the feed from a camera that doesnt exist which follows me around 24/7

visual metaphor for something