Jeff Trull
jaafar.bsky.social
Jeff Trull
@jaafar.bsky.social
Eight megs and constantly swapping
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To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.

Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—

Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I find it eternally frustrating: Trump’s behavior is just the product of some very transparent, very disordered inner psychology. But for some reason that psychology is mostly taboo in the realm of political commentary; we have to pretend he has “beliefs” and “policy goals.” I assure you he does not
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Same 😂
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It has such a nice fast train to KL Sentral though
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I find the LLVM version works better but haven't tried LLMs
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just hoping people who knew more than me would comment on the different approaches. I have only used the C++ one.
November 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
GH issue and other info here rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609
609 - Futurelock / RFD / Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I am suggesting only that S&R, an approach to asynchronous programming that recently arrived in C++, may also be useful in Rust. The problems described in the podcast can and do happen in C++ code.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I believe this is different from the C++ Senders and Receivers, which is a set of concepts addressing a broader range of concerns, including cancellation
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Despite whatever federal issues are happening, the Bay Area Sierra Club really rebounded from irrelevance after it reversed course and started going hard on local sustainable transportation and infrastructure. Other local clubs that are aging should follow suit.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM