There's a lot to say on the whole Bun zig->rust thing, but all I've got is a profound feeling of how different of a world I live in. It's cool that you can spend $165k and get 3 person-years of effort, but I'm so frugal that when that number had 3 zeroes and nothing worked I'd have bailed

Early comments about POST from readers who aren't even my dad "My favorite chapter is Chapter 3, where you bring the receipts that nuke the "10x developer" and "l33tcode" myths from orbit, leaving them both a smoking crater in the ground. 👏" - Eli Israel 😈 😈 😈 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.drcathicks.com#book

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Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My dad: I'm buying your book Me on the phone: I will just bring you a copy My dad: YOU NEED A GUARANTEED SALE. I'M BUYING YOUR BOOK AND SO IS YOUR UNCLE My uncle from the other room: you will sell two books don't turn this down My dad: no one even buys books anymore don't turn this down 🥲🥲🥲

Sean Klein telling us about how FutureLock could ruin your weekend followed by Sarek Skotåm live demoing how Shuttle can catch it in tests. Did he put the live demo for his talk together during the break? 🤔

I went to #tokioconf and all I got was a limited edition sticker. And a t shirt. And a ferris. And a bunch of other cool stickers. And some cool talks. And a great workshop. And an excuse to visit Portland. And human connection.

What if there was a man in the middle attack but the man in the middle was like, really chill. What if he was basically a chill guy who didn't mind if you sent a secret or whatever

What the hell is happening with quantum? What the hell are these models NVIDIA is deploying?

... I know there's more pressing things going on, but did the rust discord just disappear under mysterious circumstances for anyone else?

Workshopping my new financial product; buy now, pay for 6 years

Reading this again fully rested -- it's a good one! There's always a preposterous abundance of research around, but this is one fun ride

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llm... As a research lark at Percepta, Christos embedded a computer into an LLM, showed that it could solve the hardest Sudokus, and then as a side bonus built an exponentially faster attention

www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llm... As a research lark at Percepta, Christos embedded a computer into an LLM, showed that it could solve the hardest Sudokus, and then as a side bonus built an exponentially faster attention

Rather than use programmable lights or alarm clocks to set my sleep cycle, I have trained my very food motivated cat that going to bed at 10 means treat and waking up at 7 means treat.

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Is there a word in German for "The feeling of mixed anger and despair when you discover that the simple question you had is not easily answered by documentation"?

~6 hours in or so, and silksong has me in a pin, locking my gaze to their lips, growling "Get motivated" I fear I will never pass the mothman or ant gauntlets. I've not even seen phase 3 of the big scary fly.

It appears that asking the monkey paw for a day off today may have been a mistake.

Ran into a GRUB bootloader problem where it takes forever for a system to hit the menu due to the boot disks being last in the order and grub appearing to enumerate them to find its config. Never before have I so quickly reached the end of the internet. I am forsaken. Send help.

Just got the news today. Somehow, Shen Yun has returned.

Air BnBs are often the corporate backroom liminal spaces of housing

Waiting for the final run of GDQ where they beat Super Mario 3 with their eye movements while proving the Riemann hypothesis with one hand and performing all the parts of Motzart's last symphony with their remaining motor faculties.

This is your annual new-years reminder that Chronotypes are a very real thing and you probably shouldn't try to turn yourself into a morning person, but figure out how to craft your schedule to accommodate your particular strengths. Benjamin Franklin sold us lies. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronot...

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.