NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

So fun how before they figured out the stack the first idea was when you recursively call a function its variables are just in whatever state they were when you left it

hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!

My favorite stupid claim in this stupid slop blog post is that a condition which has happened on average every 5.5 years since ‘93 is representative of societal collapse.

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code" Status dashboard:

Even hotter take - multi parameter type classes (what in Rust you’d conceive of as traits with generics) were a mistake

no you’re right it does seem like an productive use of our time to litigate the political valence of group from 200 years ago we’ve all read about from third hand source

The Congress by Ari Folman feels a lot more relevant to the present moment of “AI” than any sort of I, Robot musing on robotic personhood.

obviously it is demented behavior to tell a chat to kys or whatever but the people doing that are mentally unwell losers - this obsession over their behavior and feigned concern for the bots feelings by the SF set is solipsistic and pathetic. There are real problems in the world

So ridiculous that Rust doesn’t enforce the Paterson conditions

a lotta yall still dont get it sludge judges can use multiple slurp guns on a single judge so if you have 1 sludge judge and 3 slurp guns you can create 3 new judges

insane idea they should design a programming language that is good and also not bad

does opus-4.6 know that the 2024 edition exists and you don’t need to mark things in lib.rs pub(crate)

I bet someone could write an inliner to sit in front of cranelift and you’d get performance much closer to LLVM with none of LLVM’s bullshit

They “vibe coded” a C compiler? So what - so did Dennis Ritchie in 1972

"strong" type systems are such a silly concept. it's actually really simple: there are statically typed languages like python and dynamically typed ones like LLVM's C api

Haha, you fool! AI can’t be real because I've already drawn a soyjak depicting language and cognition as problems with irreducible computational complexity!

not sure i would associate my brand with AI therapy tbh but go off

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

can i say somethin without everyone getting mad

Humans have language and are conscious. Computers have language and are not conscious so it’s not the language that makes the human conscious, It‘s something else entirely

This is why I find the constant left punching on this site so exhausting. Some people will do anything to avoid confronting power. Much easier to whine about some random sect with no power and no influence. Pathetic.

Again, the problem with these arguments is that whether circuits, which are not normally conscious, suddenly become conscious when they are executing an algorithm for token prediction is not a question that can be examined experimentally.

impl Trait was a mistake

There are so many good ideas in Haskell, too bad they’re in Haskell so no one will ever use them for anything

In life there is a delicate walk one must perform between being a gullible sucker and being an obnoxious know it all. Most people do not get it right.

Overall, UK solar growth in 2025 reached the highest level in a decade, but is yet to recover from the crash that followed the then-Conservative "cutting the green crap" in the 2010s www.carbonbrief.org/... 2/3

philosopher: this is long-settled. it's a consequence of godel's theorem: "computers" do not "think". ever. qed philosopher 2: godel doesnt say anything about mesa optimizers. s-risk is the only relevant debate phil 3: i was a skeptic until i met Sonnet and she taught me how to cook pasta. with soul

Starkes Wachstum bei Wärmepumpen und Biomasse-Heizungen, starker Einbruch bei Gas- und Ölheizungen. Das zeigt: Die Wärmewende läuft (fast) wie geplant. (Dass die Gesamtzahl weiterhin etwas niedriger liegt als im Mittel früherer Jahre ist angesichts des Vorzieh-Effekts 2023 nicht überraschend.)

Sort of like there's this self-replicating ideoform that incentivizes men to put aside greater material interests for the purpose of being able exercise control over those marked as sexual property, typified and reproduced even in basic social units like families and communities...

any time anyone more hype about AI than me says anything

Terabytes! Where could anyone acquire terabytes without “stealing”

the feminine impulse to say “thanks that makes sense” after you’re satisfied with Claude’s answer

one thing that's crazy about Claude code is I'm realizing I can basically finally do all the large-scale econ papers I thought about in grad school but which seemed like would require ten lifetimes of coding to actually execute; maybe theory is fun again?

Last year I was very smug about how “code is not the bottleneck” as a negative signal for AI. I still believe that for the entire system which produces software (including the engineer) the bottleneck is the expertise and insight of the engineer, not writing lines of code. BUT…

A study on Recursive Language Models (RLMs) shows they can process inputs up to 100 million tokens, vastly outperforming standard LLMs. RLMs allow models to decompose and recursively query longer prompts, marking progress in handling complex long-context tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601

i suspect there may be a negative correlation between meeting potential partners and being the kind of person who makes a graph like this (unless you live in San Francisco)

“The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies.” Is it though??

✍️ New article: Could biofuels meet demand for global aviation? Biofuels get a lot of attention as a way to decarbonize aviation. A small amount of biofuel is already blended into jet fuel supplies in some countries. For many airlines, biofuels are currently the most practical decarbonization option

people in SF are being unhinged, news at 11

Hot take maybe but Claude would generate faster Rust if Rust had arc-cow stringy types because it’s picked up so much of that “just clone it” bs that we teach new users to avoid thinking about ownership

Things are changing in software dev with agentic tools being viable, but the fundamentals haven't. I wrote a blog post covering my mental model for what agents are good for, and how to use them effectively that transcends any specific tool. Check it out: zed.dev/blog/on-prog...

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

For my upcoming book's final entry, I want to examine the claim that "the gender binary is colonial", which depends a lot on the scholarship of Maria Lugones and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. So let's take a closer look at their work, shall we?

I am loath to the idea that progress is a fool's ambition when my parents marriage was illegal in large parts of the US within their own lifetimes. Every day we live lives that our own parents and grandparents considered impossible

Something that I think makes me relationship to LLM codegen from more enthusiastic users is that my personal reward function for programming is getting to look at the good code and enjoy how good it is, not seeing the feature pop up in the app