it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands

my unironic position on AI:

Merry Christmas to all the Haters and Losers, of which there are many, who Rape the Planet, spend Trillions on Toxic equipment, BLOW UP Society, and train your Monsters on data Produced in part by my Own Hands, without Attribution or Compensation. Thank you for your Attention to this Matter.

In 2025 you were hungry but too tired to cook! You ate… 3600-4000 olives! directly out of the jar with your fingers You were in the top 1% of not regretting eating 3600-4000 olives

ah but your AI cannot find the crimson hexagon in the library of babel, check mate atheists

If you start thinking of lifetime variables as “place variables” instead (à la polonius) using generative “lifetimes” for safe unchecked indexing no longer seems like a weird hack but instead a logical use of the feature. I think the lifetime metaphor was wrong

“designed by an entity” is fire

The European Union’s 2035 ban on gasoline-powered cars is dead. Its killer: Germany. 🔗 politi.co/48KLiXu

they should invent a version of large language models that deletes code instead of making more of it

damn you know the problem with LLMs is really just that we already have way too much fucking code

'it would be prohibited to "use VPN connections to access media content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark"' That kind of unhinged law would make it illegal to pay for content proxied via another country. Not even punishing piracy, but punishing you paying to access culture.

When are we gonna admit that REST was basically a failure

a really smarmy pet peeve of mine is when someone writes “flow control” but means “control flow”

capitalism is whenever something inconveniences me personally

someone should make a cross platform optimizing compiler backend that isn’t dog slow and ridiculously underspecified

Are there any good sources on the history of “pure functional” PL development in the 70s and 80s? How we got from Strachey through Hindley-Milner / ML to I guess Miranda then to Haskell?

one of the most annoying affects in politics posting is “if everyone just did my thing everything would be perfect, i know this because i am a brain genius who is never wrong”

waa waa waa im a widdle baby

to be honest, this year has also made me much more in favor of hangings

life before 64 byte signatures must have sucked ass

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 2.10000000000000008882 problems.

damn why didn’t i think of making a js runtime that segfaults

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

alright, ai ben garrison is pretty darn good

Pluribus is so far (watched first 2 episodes) a compelling demonstration of how the cost of communication inhibits the efficient operation of a distributed system

learning enough latex to typeset a tattoo i want to get

Digital sovereign citizens displaying their PGP keys instead of a license plate

got hired to make the language

every website should have a button to flag comments as stupid but only i should be allowed to press it

It’s really disheartening that whenever I talk to someone I’ve met in Berlin about how I’d like to get a heat pump they leftistly tell me how we don’t need to take accountability for our emissions because it’s all corporations’ faults. Instagram communism is functionally right wing.

It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position A lil thread 🧵

Really been enjoying Lawrence Paulson’s blog, especially this post from September lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2025/09/20/W...

We should have called borrowing “structured references” and said back pointers are like GOTO and considered harmful and everyone would be saying how bad it is other languages don’t have structured references

In more than decade of writing Rust, I have never once in my life needed back pointers for anything.

There is no such thing as a schema free encoding format

on type safety

functions can have a little side effect, as a treat

sometimes tho i do feel like programmers just need to get gud like wtf are we doing here

i gotta say it’s a lot easier to fix type errors when you change code than it is to update a bunch of repetitious llm generated tests.. food for thought when considering what is the best way to achieve confidence in a system’s behavior

this is indeed salacious but one can’t help but contemplate that he makes such a reference to her other partners being 34 and 32 years older than her when ryan lizza himself is a mere 19 years older than olivia nucci

someone should invent futures contracts for ram

important life update is that i got the coolest sideboard for 50€

so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.

dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here

Britain continuing their long history of leadership in ruining the world

Did you know you can disallow YouTube to use your view history to make recommendations and then the main page will be blank and you can just subscribe to channels and use the subscriptions page to see a feed of videos they’ve posted in chronological order

Recursion is a mental illness. You want to do WHAT to my call stack?? How do people think it's natural to put a thing inside itself? Literally makes me sick just thinking about it

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

the worst thing rust has done is take the enthusiasm that could have gone into goofy new languages with no users and redirected it towards goofy new libraries with bad apis