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Bram Geron

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Rust, product. He/they. Nushell&jujutsu fanboi. Live in 🐻 Berlin Used to do research on programming languages. Standing with 🇵🇸 is standing with human rights. @bgeron on other networks.

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 3d

Looks like it’ll be a beautiful documentary. A story that needs to be told

www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

Documentary: No, I'm Not the Mother

Sana travels from Germany to Canada to donate her eggs to a gay couple - an act of solidarity illegal in her home country.

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 3d

I think I’ll take it over politics

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 4d

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for doing the right thing and standing up for their people, even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 4d

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

“Are you in favor of the constitution, or not?” Seems very simple the way he puts it.

PRÜF @pruef-de.bsky.social · 7d

In Deutschland wird Ordnung großgeschrieben, daher prüfen wir grundsätzlich alles, auch Parteien. Wenn eine Partei als rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall oder gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft wird, sollte sie geprüft werden. Das ist der nächste logische Schritt.
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Diese Strategie ist der Gamechanger: PRÜF!

YouTube video by Nico Semsrott

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

🐍 ssssss

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

Protip: if you ordered by Vorkasse, your payment was only processed once status becomes In Preparation. Otherwise be sure to chase them. (My prepayment went unnoticed, causing a ~3 week delay.)

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

Congrats! I heard good things about it. Hope you get it quickly.

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 4d

Very good stuff, at first glance, thanks for sharing!

It reads to me like a non-native speaker (with or without LLM assistance).

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 6d

You improved the code

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 10d

The real question is: will any customers leave them for being poorly available 😕🤷🏼

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 10d

On top of that, the one 3-operand ADD lets you access 32 registers with 6 instruction bytes. With MOV+ADD that would be 4+4 = 8 bytes I think.

The APX announcement mentions more registers can help use less power — 10% fewer loads and >20% fewer stores.

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 10d

Yes, but those 2 instructions would still be more load on the frontend.

CPUs already regularly run > 2 instructions per cycle, and I imagine decoding doesn’t parallelize very well at all.

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 11d

That’s a good point, thanks 💚 not my strongest take.

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 11d

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

I wonder if it has something to do with the video game of the same name

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

In mathematics, yes, the set of functions without arguments into a set is equivalent to that set

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

(Maybe you meant a constant function which just returns a precomputed value, in which case the last question is moot)

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

If you call the function twice, do the output values share structure/pointers or not? This can be distinguished through OOM but is it something you want to care about

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

What’s pure: is malloc observable? Stack allocation? Both can crash a process. Is time observable? Changes in CPU cache or branch predictor? Output binary size / symbols?

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

As everyone found out: this really depends on the system you measure in and what you count

In Rust, the function could be much smaller or much larger than the value

In Rust it could be a function you can call only once, or many times, thread-safe or not. The output value could be clonable or not

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 14d

people who think their LLM chats are basically a conversation make me feel like "oh, wow, you're fooled by the puppet bird"

the truth is there is an arm inside that bird and it belongs to a much stranger creature just out of your view

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Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

Thanks for the name. So I guess °N is an affine unit, and ° is its torsor.

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

By which I mean, a Haskell implementation *could* implement IO as such a tree. Seems that for efficiency’s sake, they do it a bit differently

Bram Geron @bram.xyz · 13d

The “nice” way to do this is a Tree enum where every node is either Char -> Tree or IoError.

And essentially, IO () _is_ this tree type. Except it contains more variants of course, and also for some reason they won’t let you inspect on it

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