(xpost from Mastodon) mini-repair monday: my EGA monitor has been slowly fading away over the past few years. at VCF West this year it was too dim to use and i had to borrow one. but let's go fix it now!
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NVIDIA, our newest Platinum Member, launched CUDA Rust today. You can now write GPU kernels in Rust and compile them straight to PTX. Learn more on their blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical Blog
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…
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If you work in tech, you'll want to read the ~40-page short novel, Profession, by Isaac Asimov. If the availability of intelligence was instant, and learning things the "hard way" was considered a waste: what would the things most valued by society be? Hard to believe it's a 1957 novel.
A Slate Truck is $24,950. Because America asked for an affordable new truck. Pricing excludes taxes, title, license, registration, governmental fees, destination charges, documentation fees, and any optional equipment. State and local incentives may also be available.
In a new article, we take a tour of epoll and io_uring through the lens of an HTTP file server, starting off first with a synchronous thread-per-request server as a baseline. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18...
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Okay so something that did start to annoy me about all the AI mandates is like So I am a card-carrying member of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force. You have to learn to not be obnoxious but in general I’m like “write & rewrite it all in Rust and your lives will be better in all these ways” 1/
CUDA build toolchain is a complicated mess. Where's my seamless cargo to GPU binary rustup command???
#rustlang PSA: you probably don't want #[allow(dead_code)], you probably want #[expect(unused)]
There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose output must always be accurate and precise versus one whose output can just be good enough.
Leaked memo from Amazon that warns existing H1B holders to avoid travel back into the USA after the September 21st deadline - their lawyers evaluated the new executive order as not just affecting new applications
Heisenberg on Bohr's occasionally excesssively generous nature. One of the first lessons learnt as a Nature editor about the "fringe" submissions is that this is exactly what will happen if you let it.
Live updates for the power outages in Spain & Portugal: www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
Spain-Portugal power outage latest: Power cut chaos in Spain and Portugal caused by 'rare' atmospheric phenomenon, says operator
Trains, traffic lights, card payments, and phone networks have been hit, as an EU official also rules out a cyber attack as the cause.
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Good read--"Principal Engineer's Roles Framework" or how to optimize time for greatest engineering impact: www.linkedin.com/pulse/princi...
Principal Engineer Roles Framework
I have worked on Amazon S3 for ~12 years and if there is one thing that I have learned, it is that when you run complex systems at scale, you must think deeply about how teams work. It’s not enough to...
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