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But to get at whatever the hell I mean by that, we need to talk about why async Rust exists in the first place. Let’s talk about: Modern Concurrency: They’re Green, They’re Mean, & They Ate My Machine Suppose we … Read more

Here’s a rant from my evil twin Tyromight, which I publish without endorsement as it appears to be an unhinged polemic with no constructive solutions. Say that when people apply for their first driver’s license, 1% get Executive Platinum licenses. … Read more

“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger, American billionaire investor. Okay, you probably shouldn’t store passwords in plaintext, but I’ve met a few who do. They don’t store … Read more

I. Alice is considering buying a house. Alice lives in Littleton, Colorado. While she hasn’t decided whether she will buy or rent, she knows she wants a house, not an apartment or condo. In a stroke of great fortune, she … Read more

It’s well-established consensus that software is slower and more bloated than it was 20, 40 years ago. One explanation is that software engineers don’t care about their work. Another is that it’s the interplay of a lot of different factors … Read more

I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the problem. I mention this not … Read more

The Spaghetti Code Conjecture says that Busy Beaver programs ought to be, in some sense, as complicated as possible. Scott Aaronson puts it this way: Busy Beavers shouldn’t be “cleanly factorizable” into main routines and subroutines—but rather, the way to … Read more

The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about what comes next. Moderna and BioNTech, of course, have been thinking this way for quite some time. But Sanofi now … Read more