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FerrousSystems @ferroussystems.bsky.social · 7h

🎧 Listen now: If you're working with safety-critical systems, then have a listen to this podcast conversation with co-MD Florian Gilcher about how Rust compares to C/C++ and why it's ideal for safety-critical development.

Available everywhere you get your podcasts: se-radio.net/2025/10/se-r...

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 18h

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

www.technologyreview.com

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 7d

Neat!

This is legal #julialang to write a (useless) closure :)

julia> function (x)
x + 1
end
#2 (generic function with 1 method)

#lookmanoname

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 7d

not yet!

miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 7d

For every cool #julialang tip or script someone shares with me I will share one in return

Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 7d

For every cool Autohotkey tip or script someone shares with me I will share one in return

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, maybe!

Hindsight is 20/20.

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 8d

#julialang 1.12 released now with `--trim` binaries and many other goodies!

julialang.org/blog/2025/10...

Try it out with

`juliaup update`

julialang.org

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 8d

king shit

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tom @contextfree.bsky.social · 10d

New video, new project. I'm so distractable. youtu.be/x3tOCLvSQT8

Prototype like PICO-8 but then scale up - Starting a new project again!

YouTube video by Context Free

youtu.be

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SXS Collaboration @sxs-collaboration.bsky.social · 10d

🎉 Happy paper publication day! 🎉 Our third catalog of binary black hole simulations, now published in Classical and Quantum Gravity. And it's open access!

Scheel et al. 2025 Class. Quantum Grav. 42 195017
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Also on the @arxiv.bsky.social at arxiv.org/abs/2505.13378

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Eliezer López @eliezerlopez.bsky.social · 12d

👩🏻‍💻 IMPULSA TUS HABILIDADES TÉCNICAS 💪🏻

🔗 https://eliezerlopez.dev/

Este portal categoriza las diferentes formaciones que tengo publicadas en internet en audio, video y texto sobre C, C++ y Rust.

A todas aquellas personas que alguna vez han confiado en mi contenido... ¡Gracias! 🤩🙏🏻

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Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · 10d

Hi #bevy :) It's time for your weekly #bevymergetrain, where I go over the community-approved PRs for the #opensource #rust game engine that I help maintain.

Follow along as we review the 9 PRs in our backlog: it's a fun mix of process, programming and praise :)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11d

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Moth (Em) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @8bitem.bsky.social · 10d

Come back to the love of reading and writing with @sophiajt.com We talk about everything from emotional resonance in writing to erotic embodiment all through a trans lens, including some very spicy fun.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

And on other platforms: rss.com/podcasts/gal...

Cover of Machines of Consent by Sophia Turner with a picture of Sophia, a woman in glasses with curly hair. Pixel buildings in pink. The text: Coming back to a love of reading and writing through a trans lens.

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 12d

...I understood this entire sentence so I need to start logging off more.

Mewtype Ghost @mewtype.online · 12d

please kill me if i ever become the main character and crash out so hard lowtax's ex asks if im being haunted by his newtype ghost

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

Awesome!

It was especially useful to have a visual guide of the layering of invariants with different wrappers: this one talks to the allocator, this one asserts it's NonNull, etc.

Great post!

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

62/n Huge rec, but haven't gotten around to it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic:_T...

Epic: The Musical - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

61/n github.com/madsim-rs/ma...

I haven't gotten into deterministic simulation testing and it seems to be a big win when writing anything database-y/concurrent, so I think I should learn this tool at some point

GitHub - madsim-rs/madsim: Magical Deterministic Simulator for distributed systems in Rust.

Magical Deterministic Simulator for distributed systems in Rust. - madsim-rs/madsim

github.com

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

down to 366 tabs, lfgoooo

miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

60/n www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io...

Writing it down as part of the cadre of "neat small-medium projects" for more meaty Rust intermediate stuff

the spatula

www.thespatula.io

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

60/n www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io...

Writing it down as part of the cadre of "neat small-medium projects" for more meaty Rust intermediate stuff

the spatula

www.thespatula.io

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

59/n emschwartz.me/pinning-down...

Another useful blog from Evan Schwartz:

Too bad glommio looks stale.

Maybe a good follow up would be

Pinning Down "Future Is Not Send" Errors

If you use async Rust and Tokio, you are likely to run into some variant of the "future is not Send" compiler error. While transitioning some sequential asyn...

emschwartz.me

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

58/n emschwartz.me/async-rust-c...

Hmmm... It seems that a lot of workloads that I care about could align better with thread-per-core, which would make them more ergonomic and faster, as they can leverage io_uring, like glommio.

Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with (without `Send + Sync + 'static`)

Async Rust is powerful. And it can be a pain to work with (and learn). Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with, though, if we can do it without `Send + Sync + 'static`.

emschwartz.me

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

57/n nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/it...

I read and forgot about this doc page, good to have it in your back pocket.

Iterators - The Rust Performance Book

nnethercote.github.io

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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 15d

56/n corrode.dev/blog/enums/#...

I liked the discussion of cons of the typestate pattern at the end.

Most other places that mention the pattern don't include that point IME.

Using Enums to Represent State | corrode Rust Consulting

Many Rust beginners with a background in systems programming tend to use bool (or even u8 – an 8-bit unsigned integer type) to represent “state”. For example, how about a bool to indicate whet…

corrode.dev

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