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

There should be a word for when justice has not been done but at least the murdering has stopped

Not to be all dialectical but as a system design principle it’s good to remember that everything is usually divided into two mirrored, interlocking components and “everything is a” models are often flawed because they fuck this up somehow.

does quantum computing even have any application other than ruining everyone’s life? I mean talk about building the torment nexus

It occurs to me that a really easy solution to Oxide’s actual futurelock bug (which used a mpsc sender rather than a mutex) would be to have the channel wake up every waiting sender instead of only the first. Not sure how much worse it would be in a non buggy case.

Something im always wondering about people who bounce off Rust.. do they really need a GC or is lifetime syntax and ?Sized types just not very good UI

Java is an incredible language in that it got literally every single thing wrong.

yo is there any way to get the New York Post print edition in Berlin? this front page is dope

How do linear session type frameworks deal with communicating over an unreliable channel (eg the network)? Do they assume that’s handled at a lower level or does every protocol step have to have an explicit disconnect edge to call in that case?

no offense to anyone who does this but if a blog post is written as a dialog between two characters i immediately press the back button

Externally driven futures may cause a lot of bugs, but they also help win a lot of benchmark games, so it’s impossible to say if they’re bad or not

This 97 year old compiler still unrolls its loops the old-fashioned way

books

Wrote my take on this bug here: lobste.rs/s/fzro7f/fut...

wish i had learned how to make clothes instead of forming nuanced opinions about all the different ways to implement concurrency in a programming language

only scoop im interested about lily allen and david harbour breaking up is who gets the zuber wallpaper and the tiger print couch

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care

Prompting “Caravaggio’s Berghain” 21 months apart. The second is improved in some obvious respects, but isn’t it also lacking something from the first?

the only thing standing between me and spending a long weekend on writing my own home automation system is instead spending a long weekend writing a PDS and figuring out how to host my bluesky acct on the Mac mini in my office cabinet

Meta Ray Bans are like 100 times less chic than Google Glass

imagining a person who says both “hella” and “innit”

“Dear reader” but said with the affect and intonation of “Dear Leader”

the amount of posts on here that are just depression, anxiety, or OCD symptoms masquerading as politics is too damn high

framing things is fun

you "can just do things" but this elides that you actually _must_ just do things

Turing machine is not real and cannot hurt you

it can be really difficult to work with people who think theyre always the smartest guy in the room, especially for me, the actual smartest guy in the room

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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

the worst thing one can do is have a schtick

people will be like "im not a spin lattice in a network, flowing toward lowest energy as the external field and temperature allows!" and then affectively polarize based on some stuff someone at the domain wall of their social graph says to them

Considering that there may be a connection between the really immature affect of programmer blogging and the really irresponsible way the tech industry wields power

“This will be my final post” Ron Howard voiceover: It wasn’t

Forgot Sleeping Hermaphroditus was so small, lucky girl can’t be more than 5’5

they should invent a camera that can capture the view out the window when you wake up on the night train

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

I hate wading in but I think it was really bizarre to take the discourse in the “are computers sentient” direction first when the important thing going on is performing aggrievement, resentment and hatred for one another. See people taking it there now and glad some of you have your heads on right.

I baked banana bread which gives me institutional power over people who didn’t bake banana bread and I will signal with jokes how I hold them in contempt. This is because I am ontologically evil. In this essay I will

Like I'm sorry but if what you find interesting about this discussion is whether or not people in theory acknowledge Commander Data could be real one day - are you having a stroke? Do you need an ambulance? Do you smell burnt toast?

I think everyone should chill out. It’s an app

This text is great. One of the things I’ve found most difficult to grapple with is the enormous amount of “wank” produced by people I love and mostly agree with.

My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

I mean the hypocrisy between these two images is genuinely just hilarious

I don’t think programming languages should have Easter eggs or jokes in them.

It was me, Radia Perlman is goated

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

That’s why CS are the most easily captured by this kind of scifi nonsense that spreads so easily on LW and SSC. They have no formal scientific OR mathematical training (at most they took automata theory) to encourage skepticism and they are easily flattered by visions of the world that center CS