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we altered the flow of time, so that the world might once again feel small (bg: Roses, Butterfly and Puppies, by Nagasawa Rosetsu)
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i think about this paper all the time now. there's an argument to be made in terms of Burdan's Ass about the inherent inability to guarantee stuff like perfect crash safety, etc
probably one of the hardest openings of all time lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/buridan...
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
i think about this paper all the time now. there's an argument to be made in terms of Burdan's Ass about the inherent inability to guarantee stuff like perfect crash safety, etc
the whole discussion about ads being AI or not is kinda funny to me. it's like arguing about eating Sawdust vs eating Organic Sawdust
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
the whole discussion about ads being AI or not is kinda funny to me. it's like arguing about eating Sawdust vs eating Organic Sawdust
Americans are fundamentally taught that The Car is a kind of force multiplier for their very being. for a king, it is a kingdom away from home, it is an assault vehicle. it's autonomy. and that is precisely why it must be ripped from the hands of the masses. now get in the Waymo, Shinji
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Americans are fundamentally taught that The Car is a kind of force multiplier for their very being. for a king, it is a kingdom away from home, it is an assault vehicle. it's autonomy. and that is precisely why it must be ripped from the hands of the masses. now get in the Waymo, Shinji
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nah bud if you think that pull quote conveyed any meaning whatsoever, you clearly don't really know how electricity works
bullshit is still bullshit even if it agrees with you
bullshit is still bullshit even if it agrees with you
![post from [redacted]: "there's a fantastic longread on lIm-assisted coding that's been doing the rounds in the developer community over the last week and this pull quote from it is just jaw dropping [link to https://generativeai.pub/the-eternal-return-of-abstraction-why-programming-was-never-about-code-18412033b517]
[screenshot quote from link above: "Your laptop runs at about 15 watts ("about", I have said, stop your internal validator). Compiling code, running tests, even watching YouTube videos about how you should have learned Rust instead - 15 watts.
A single ChatGPT query? 300-600 watts, depending on the model and the complexity.
That's not a typo. That's not even a hallucination. That's a 40x increase in power consumption for the convenience of using natural language. It's like commuting to work in a monster truck because walking is too deterministic."]"
follow-up post from the same person: "if you're gonna well-actually about how electricity works you're getting blocked. i know how electricity works ffs. you had a choice not to be annoying and you chose wrong."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hscujk5a5v6bdmt4nlq2o5cu/bafkreiczybgpcbj2fjqmeh73wrvt6gnl7svatruwxdlvzcwokz3x2d7xe4@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
nah bud if you think that pull quote conveyed any meaning whatsoever, you clearly don't really know how electricity works
bullshit is still bullshit even if it agrees with you
bullshit is still bullshit even if it agrees with you
i saw a post here today that claimed a single chatgpt query cost "300 watts". i'm sorry to say that if you don't know how computers work you should just stick to "genai is bad" and figure out another angle
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
i saw a post here today that claimed a single chatgpt query cost "300 watts". i'm sorry to say that if you don't know how computers work you should just stick to "genai is bad" and figure out another angle
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I have subjected Santa to my geas. He shall please me or perish in torment.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I have subjected Santa to my geas. He shall please me or perish in torment.
the talent density at austin systems is actually insane. that’s why you 🫵 should come by and give a talk and hang out sometime
Great turnout at Austin Systems! We did lightning talks and had some great demos, including a programmable laser projector and a TUI for burning mixtape CDs at a party (made in @ratatui.rs). Join us Jan 21 for the next one! austinsystems.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
the talent density at austin systems is actually insane. that’s why you 🫵 should come by and give a talk and hang out sometime
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im out and about eating dinner and the packers/bears game ended and one of the guys in the group next to me started talking about playing runescape and smoking crack
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
im out and about eating dinner and the packers/bears game ended and one of the guys in the group next to me started talking about playing runescape and smoking crack
tbh the answer here is we should get rid of fork and save ourselves a lot of trouble regarding things like memory commitment ariadne.space/2025/12/16/v...
vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting for servers
The Linux kernel has a feature where you can tune the behavior of memory allocations: the vm.overcommit_memory sysctl. When overcommit is enabled (sadly, this is the default), the kernel will typicall...
ariadne.space
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
tbh the answer here is we should get rid of fork and save ourselves a lot of trouble regarding things like memory commitment ariadne.space/2025/12/16/v...
this might inconvenience some people and i'm sorry in advance but based on my experiences today i've decided to destroy every car on earth
December 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
this might inconvenience some people and i'm sorry in advance but based on my experiences today i've decided to destroy every car on earth
Mickey Mouse Rolls Blunt Realistic CD Intro Rap Song Good lighting ultrareal
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mickey Mouse Rolls Blunt Realistic CD Intro Rap Song Good lighting ultrareal
the most unrealistic part of Ghost Rider (2007) is when Eva Mendes tries to make out with Nic Cage after 4.5 seconds of hanging out and he’s like. naaahhhhh
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
the most unrealistic part of Ghost Rider (2007) is when Eva Mendes tries to make out with Nic Cage after 4.5 seconds of hanging out and he’s like. naaahhhhh
my most insane crank local political conspiracy is that the city of austin intentionally allocates city maintenance workers in the most ineffective and insanely inefficient way possible in order to psychologically have leverage for why we should expand highways and shit
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
my most insane crank local political conspiracy is that the city of austin intentionally allocates city maintenance workers in the most ineffective and insanely inefficient way possible in order to psychologically have leverage for why we should expand highways and shit
im out and about eating dinner and the packers/bears game ended and one of the guys in the group next to me started talking about playing runescape and smoking crack
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
im out and about eating dinner and the packers/bears game ended and one of the guys in the group next to me started talking about playing runescape and smoking crack
im playing destiny 2 again. not sure if this is good or bad
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
im playing destiny 2 again. not sure if this is good or bad
i just time traveled from the year 2036 and all media is made by a single corporation. everything is absolutely fine and there are no problems with it at all
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
i just time traveled from the year 2036 and all media is made by a single corporation. everything is absolutely fine and there are no problems with it at all
lol Trump pardoning Cuellar. just goes down a big list of Extremely Guilty People one by one and decides if he wants to purchase them, more or less.
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
lol Trump pardoning Cuellar. just goes down a big list of Extremely Guilty People one by one and decides if he wants to purchase them, more or less.
electric wind god fist never looked so good 👀
just bought a new 32” alienware monitor because i’m a digusting gamer 👍 (and also my current monitor is now starting to bleed after 5 years)
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
electric wind god fist never looked so good 👀
just bought a new 32” alienware monitor because i’m a digusting gamer 👍 (and also my current monitor is now starting to bleed after 5 years)
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
just bought a new 32” alienware monitor because i’m a digusting gamer 👍 (and also my current monitor is now starting to bleed after 5 years)
finally, someone who actually knows what they're talking about debunking all the ML-KEM bullshit posting as of late. good read. keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/m...
ML-KEM Mythbusting
What is this? There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST’s standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories …
keymaterial.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
finally, someone who actually knows what they're talking about debunking all the ML-KEM bullshit posting as of late. good read. keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/m...
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austinsystems.org meets tonight! We've got a lot of audio hardware + software talk, and one on Cloudflare (unrelated to the Big Incident yesterday but I'm sure there'll be a lot of shop talk about it haha)
Austin Systems Programming
A meetup for curious low-level engineers in Austin, TX. We meet in-person monthly.
austinsystems.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
austinsystems.org meets tonight! We've got a lot of audio hardware + software talk, and one on Cloudflare (unrelated to the Big Incident yesterday but I'm sure there'll be a lot of shop talk about it haha)
Gemini auto-transcription caught the start of our meeting where we planned a proletariat revolution at work. computers are NOT your friends
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Gemini auto-transcription caught the start of our meeting where we planned a proletariat revolution at work. computers are NOT your friends