this is imo one of the most elegant results in distributed computing and this is a great presentation of it!

NULL BITMAP: I Misunderstood Rejection Sampling All This Time buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

I wrote a short summary of the proof of the FLP theorem (an impossibility result about consensus). shachaf.net/w/flp

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

they have the people who invented milf manor locked up in a room somewhere forcing them to invent new stupid dating apps

this is the new evergreen post i guess bsky.app/profile/mobu...

Hey there Delilah I ate those plums left in the icebox If you wanted them breakfast You should have purchased a few padlocks For the treat That you were hoping now to eat So cold and sweet

10:45 lunch leaning over the sink. nothin wrong with that brother

seen on a tv at bar trivia does anyone know what this is

okay this seems like a good moment for this: do you guys think video games are art

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

i don't trust people my age who start calling it a pfp. that's not your term. we call it an avatar, god damn it

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

How many dimensions is this? lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/dimensi...

Castle Quest (NES, 1990)

fixing all AI forever by adding the system prompt “but no galaxy brain stuff ok”

a pen plotter would fix me

My dream for Samin Nosrat's next book: Bitter Dank Umami Sweet. I have saved this stupid idea for literally years.

one thing i believe 100% is that if dhh was not mr. rails he would be one of those weirdly reactionary "garbage collection is ruining society" guys like jon blow

im extremely suspicious of very visual, interactive explainers of mathematical topics that don't demand you go off and think hard to develop your own mental models of the topics at hand

PILOTWINGS 64 PARADIGM/NINTENDO R&D3 1996 N64

friend can’t get notifications to work in our async root game

What you're referring to as Bluesky is in fact, ATProto/Bluesky, or as I've recently taken to calling it, ATProto + Bluesky. Bluesky is not a social media platform unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning ATProto system made useful by the relay, appview, PDS—

There’s surprisingly been no good citation for follower reads and the trade-offs therein. Super excited that this finally got published. law-theorem.com had “Coming soon!” for a few years 😭

Do any database systems "columnarize" the German string encoding so rather than storing a 16-byte view for each element which includes length+prefix+pointer you'd store all lengths together, prefixes together etc...? Seems like prefix operations would be more SIMD friendly.

one of the pages i refer to every couple months that i think basically nobody knows about is this comparison of pebble and rocksdb by Peter Mattis, which contains coherent explanations of a lot of interesting LSM design dimensions github.com/cockroachdb/...

Interviewer, People Magazine but for Food: Tell us about the Asiago Bacon Ranch. Wendy Thomas: It is so delicious that most of the earth's surface will be dedicated to making it. Interviewer: Incredible. Wendy: Humanity will build a space station to harness sandwich rays from the sun to make more.

NULL BITMAP: Using Huffman Coding for Sampling Discrete Distributions: buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Here's a power grid simulator (mostly vibecoded), showing two generators being dispatched to satisfy load changing over time. The cheaper generator (blue region) is dispatched first; the more expensive one (pink region) only when needed.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.

are you a creator or not? answer with your word or else your blood, dog

CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

vacation photos

they wouldn’t let me near the orca this time

Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Naoyuki Kato, 1987

Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Hiro Isono

Also this is one of the funniest screens I have ever seen in a video game

completing quests is the best way to earn gold.

illustration, excerpt, family computer magazine (1986) archive.org/details/fami...

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people