Q: How far are we from fusion power?
A: 1 AU.

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-released-a-fireplace-video-for-the-holidays-and-its-hilarious

I made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com

I got new ADHD medication and I realized I wasn't 100% sure I took it so I sat and counted. I did.

Fuck I hope this fixes me also I am sure I did not lie to get it now.

20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really https://zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux-makes-it-to-the-kernel-really/ by @sjvn

Real-time #Linux is finally here, but long before it got here the project had made fundamental improvements to mainstream Linux.

thread in which I talk about why the "wrap your games console in a towel" or "reflow the bga" thing works to fix some consoles, and it's nothing to do with solder balls.

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/113084336056277361

New blog post! Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling.

The post is an introduction to signals and how to manage them effectively with async Rust. It's a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023, heavily edited for presentation as a blog post.

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

https://sunshowers.io/posts/beyond-ctrl-c-signals/

hot cache lines in your locality

I wrote up some of my findings exploring the link and load-time performance of the Bevy dylib and Rust dylibs in general.

I go deep into protected symbols and incompatibilities between how GCC and LLVM compile code on Linux.

https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/08/27/rust-dylib-rabbit-holes.html

I'll also be giving a talk about this at the Rust Sydney meetup in about 12 hours from now. See link for details about accessing the livestream.

#rustlang #wildlinker

to explain something for anyone who hasn't read the RP2350 datasheet:

It doesn't do any code-morphing or translation or anything. The CPU is designed with 4 cores, but two slots for connecting to the rest of the CPU fabric.

So at boot it selects which two cores to power on. So it can be 2xARM or 2xRISCV or (technically!) 1xARM and 1xRISCV. There's no fancy stuff where there's a single CPU arch that can run multiple things: it's just multiple heterogynous cores.

Still waiting for any company to implement this: obvious and unmistakable mute audio/disable video buttons

@foone @lenno Computers are powerful enough, we need to evolve to aperiodic spreadsheets!

Meanwhile in the C world: struggling to copy a string https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/not-a-fan-of-strlcpy

@Gankra @streganil

> a desire to optimize the concrete case

And it wasn't even created as an optimization but for pedagogical purposes.

> The vector<bool> specialization was intentionally put into the standard to provide an example of how to write a proxied container.

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill09.htm

@rotopenguin @etchedpixels yes, I've always hated the bash feature of 'helpfully' trying to interpret .. more like the naïve expectation, but only managing to do it for bash builtins, so that 'cd ../foo' and 'ls ../foo' are talking about different directories.

I do 'set -P' in my .bashrc, so that I get a consistent experience of .. going to the physical parent dir linked from my cwd's inode. I'd rather that than have to keep remembering which is which.

@0xabad1dea «This is similar to what happens when enabling --ffast-math, which stands for Final Fantasy AST Math, meaning that the abstract syntax tree of your program will be manipulated using fantasies about Math that do not apply to IEEE-754, and your Final result can be arbitrarily different.» will never not make me laugh

http://tom7.org/grad/murphy2023grad.pdf

“Of course I like to read nontechnical books, although I read very slowly. Here are some that I heartily recommend.”—Don Knuth

😳

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html