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Neophile. #ADHD. #rustlang at @datadoghq.com. #boardgames. Mercator Projection Apologist.

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now we're talking

11.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Jesus was majority culture in his region"

11.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

02.02.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 3008 πŸ” 2320 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 20

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

11.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 11170 πŸ” 1918 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 194

You're going to have to do much better than pointing out environmental harm to debunk capitalist "myths" about human welfare, because they're not myths.
You're on a website arguing with random people because you've been freed of the personal labor that was required to live thousands of years ago.

10.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

gonna need to break out the meme for this one

10.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professorΒ  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend

10.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

OSS software updates are amazing. What do you mean it got better for free?

10.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like async is completely transforming the function and essentially lying about the return value and much of the control flow, whereas borrows are just a verification step

09.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are they? What am I missing that it wouldn’t just be the common denominator, not-shared and not-mutable? Basically exactly the same as mut except that it can only call ~m and immutable stuff.

09.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

03.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 7832 πŸ” 1696 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 17

Foxtrot creator Bill Amend, I was not familiar with your game

09.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 1737 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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Really want to know what the keyword generics / β€œjust make it generic over sync / async” crowd will make of this.

Async is an entirely different execution mode! It isn’t just annoying sugar for sequential procedures!

16.12.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I agree with @lucretiel.me that async functions are *fundamentally* different from sync functions in a way that you should not attempt to abstract over (as Yosh and others' "keyword generics" proposal once pitched).

09.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Would love to instead have seen something like

fn sleep(time: Duration) -> impl Future<()>, async move {
…
}

09.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve entirely come to believe that `async fn` is probably a misfeature for this specific reason, the way it occludes understanding that `Future` is the fundamental async primitive.

09.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And listen your Granny lied for your Granddaddy's ego, but US census data doesn't give a damn about his feelings. Women have always worked because that's the norm.

09.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1104 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 13

It’s frustrating because there’s plenty of keyword generics I do want. I’ve been agitating for β€œgeneric mutability”

fn get<~m>(& ~m self, idx: size) -> &~m Item

for ages.

I just don’t think async is a good place for it.

09.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

framing this as an "error" is doing everyone responsible a huge favour they don't deserve. the entire administration should be up on war crimes charges and the data centres should be permanently shut down

09.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Stationfall is the greatest board game ever made for the simple reason that, in a game about trying to survive a crashing space station, it's both mechanically possible and strategically justifiable to steal a billionaire's dog at gunpoint and then eject him out into space through an airlock

26.03.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This looks awesome and also I love how there’s roughly one kind of game that springs from the mind of a rust developer

03.07.2025 19:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am endlessly fascinated by the things it's bad at. Like apparently it's actually very difficult to get an LLM to play chess *poorly*, because BAD chess moves are so wildly underrepresented in the training corpus.

08.08.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely the most underexplored area for these things imo is in enabling them to create custom 1-off UIs to interact with the user in the course of a planning phase

08.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

08.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 4407 πŸ” 919 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 137
08.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 8454 πŸ” 2687 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 24

The push from writing to video is literally a Facebook invention.

08.03.2026 04:13 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 17819 πŸ” 4802 πŸ’¬ 617 πŸ“Œ 251
Shouting in the Datacenter
Shouting in the Datacenter YouTube video by Bryan Cantrill

See also this legend youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4?...

08.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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07.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 13306 πŸ” 5032 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 246

This thing has a far more plausible case for being _arguably_ sentient than any token predictor

07.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0