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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Let me get this straight. Heat dissipation is the hardest part of space, AND the hardest part of data centers, so their solution is to put data centers in space.

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

Woah, how did I miss that Compiler Explorer allows to add crate dependencies for Rust?! rust.godbolt.org

I got used to it so quickly, I tried rebasing something on machine where I didn't set up mergiraf yet and was very surprised to get a merge conflict.

so a staff member won. isn’t that wild, having the staff included in a craft contest with patients who are all a varying amount of paralyzed. not how i would do it personally imho anyway maybe i should go into recreation management

Mainmatter is looking for an experienced Rust developer to join one of our projects as a freelancer. We're migrating a database from C to Rust. The project is complex and performance-sensitive. That's what makes it fun! If you're interested, send an email to the address in the screenshot.

Apple’s App Store gets a new web interface techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a... And they promptly misconfigured so people could download the source and leak it to GitHub: github.com/rxliuli/apps...

Stumbled upon this great tutorial for C/C++ devs who want to port highly parallel code to Rust. Shows OpenMP -> Rayon migration, tricks for instruction level parallelism, SIMD, compares assembly and performance of gcc/clang/rustc generated code, and overall explains the concepts very well.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

TFW you barely find the improvement your changes have made after staring at Grafana for 2 days... and then it turns out the release didn't actually go out yet. Thank you for coming to my TED talk about confirmation biases.

Easily became my favourite profiler over this time. There is a lot of good stuff in there beyond traditional flamegraphs, but one of the first things that got me hooked in is "microarchitecture usage" stats - easy way to find functions that would benefit most from SIMD and the like.

It feels like there's a ton more autonomous taxis around than there used to be. You could say there's... waymo of them.

Such a typical Garmin mood 😂 Cycling duration: 52:50 Aerobic effect: 5.0 (out of 5) ... Training status: Unproductive

Of all the misguided uses of AI, several manufacturers now putting hallucinations inside phone cameras and calling it "zoom" pisses me off in particular. Why would you have a "camera" app that invents stuff that isn't there? It doesn't even look good. Just show me the naturally blurred picture.

Anthropic has ruined the phrase "You are absolutely correct" forever.

I tried to AI code some in-browser video decoding stuff. It made a mess. So I learned the APIs somewhat properly, and did a much better job, but it was still messy. Then I found mediabunny.dev and it just worked. Yay!

Always a good feeling. > cargo clean Removed 139198 files, 57.7GiB total

Very interesting discussion at github.com/WebAssembly/.... I found JIT compilation from within Wasm fascinating from the early Cheerp Flash demos to the copy.sh/v86 emulator. I didn't realise there are so many more usecases in the wild now - good to see it getting more attention.

Chrome DevRel parting dinner, barely 3.5 years later than planned. @surma.dev @jakearchibald.com

A deep dive on our approach to detecting large-scale IP sharing globally. https://cfl.re/4oM315W

Frictionless brain activity

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

No.

I want to thank articles "NodeJS, Typescript, and the infuriating ESM errors", "Dissecting the hell that is Jest setup with ESM and Typescript", "Testing Troubles with Jest & ESM and how to fix it" and others for supporting my mental health today.

Caught the comet last night.

Huh just saw that "due to laws in my region" Instagram now offers an option to pay to use it without ads. Is this new?

Oh no I forgot to enable the incognito mode before looking up its history.

It's a shame so much GPU code out there is exclusively CUDA. I need my code to commonly run on both regular PCs and mini PCs with CPUs like N100 or older alike. On those mini PCs the integrated GPU is still vastly faster than pure CPU SIMD, but there's no chance they'd fit a massive NVIDIA GPU.

TFW you found a fascinating paper that can help with your side-project, but can't understand one specific detail in it... so you email the author in the unlikely chance they'll reply, and they get back to you with a detailed answer and pieces of code 🤩

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Current status.

Some people say it's always DNS but I say it's always a race condition. In the AWS outage it was a race condition in the DNS.

A new “job interview scam”, reverse of the ‘IT worker scam’, here people pose as an exec at a [real] company but the take-home task runs malware (here in a React/Node codebase) www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/n... > JADESNOW uses EtherHiding to fetch, decrypt, and execute malicious payloads

Adapted for modern times. (you wouldn't believe how many tweaks it took me to convince LLM to just add two numbers and return the result)

So glad Google is prioritising images above the fold. So useful.

Yeah that's not the future I dreamed the tech advancements would enable.

answer: it's rust! by a lot. on my machine, haskell took ~8.8μs, ocaml took ~10μs and rust needed a whole *108μs*. the interesting question is *why* rust is so slow though and it has a really nice, simple answer: with rust's iterators, this code is quadratic.

so is America going back to the monarchy because we are predominantly English-speaking

Sometimes "referenced by" section of a foundational paper is pure gold. Tomato quality assessment, star maps, battery defects, ... - you'd think all of these topics can't possibly have anything in common, and yet.

Impostor syndrome really be like: "hey, don't you feel bad that some of this professional astronomer's *raw* images look better than the ones you've spent hours postprocessing?" Why, yes, now I do.

One of the swimmers had used ChatGPT to consult the tide times: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was." uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Lol looks like this astrophotography catalog has some unexpected superstar images.

I keep being amazed at just how fast Czkawka is (a duplicate finder written in Rust). Comparing over 30,000 images by actual image similarity hashes in like... 20 seconds?! github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Huh I guess some apps just crash when you present them with over 32768 images in one go. Perfectly reasonable usecase, c'mon.

Who were those people who said "just host everything wherever you host the status page"? Looks like Vodafone listened, the status page is as dead as the rest of the service. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh nice, someone shared their raw astrophotography pics on Google Drive for others to play with. This is going to be a treasure trove for my side-project's testsuite, let me just quickly add them to my Github re...

Why does Github still have no "Clone with VSCode" here? They're in the same company.