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wingo, 56 minutes ago to random

tfw you see a memory_order_relaxed atomic load, prefaced by a comment saying "technically we should use memory_order_consume here" ➡️ 🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉 ⬅️

wingo, 1 day ago to random

contemplating giving up on monotonic, once you're on the train it doesn't stop, time-based bedtime for kids (1.5, ~4, ~6; mostly the two older ones). it will certainly work eventually, but eventually might be 5 days or 5 years

wingo, 3 days ago to random

parallelism is an automatic car wash with 12 bays. concurrency is the spinny slappy soapy columns of brushiness, because their cloth is made of microfibers #truefacts

wingo, 9 days ago to random

pizzeria has paula abdul on the radio. this is Good

wingo, 12 days ago to random

from the outside, it would appear that the highest achievement in research is not full professorship or large grants or named chairs, but whether you become a meme or not, whether your name stands for something on its own. cousot & cousot, oleg kiselyov, phil wadler, etc

wingo, 13 days ago to random

while u were partying i studied archive.org
while u were working out i studied how does one display a damn postscript file these days anyway
while u were... hey want to hang out

wingo, 13 days ago to random

as a non-rustacean i am happy for rust’s success but am also pleased for the teacher’s pet to be taken down a notch
https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

wingo, 16 days ago to random

apparently they plan to close the pompidou center for renovations… for a period of 5 years 😳

wingo, 17 days ago to random

fascinating look into the guts of the publishing industry https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

wingo, 17 days ago to random

i had a dream that rishi sunak made a surprise smarmy appearance at a guadec to announce elections on may 12. then someone gave him a purple nurple

wingo, 17 days ago to random

#wikifinds

wingo, 17 days ago to random

hardest thing in garbage collection is spelling grey correctly

wingo, 21 days ago to random

element/matrix is hot garbage, episode 473: the web interface is unable to search the logs in a room that happens to have encryption on

wingo, 22 days ago to random

in one of matt levine's newsletters he describes how all investment bankers specialize in some niche, eventually becoming their employer's "global head of sporkles" or whatever: a fancy title that, while having no benefits associated with it, will impress a customer during a pitch. anyway, as igalia's global head of abyss topology,,, i

wingo, 23 days ago to random

the next 700 OSS thinkpieces are just going to come from politics

• Friend-shoring the open web
• Bring the boys home: Stopping rogue nations from stealing our source
• The merits of a strategic python reserve
• Inflationary pressures in open source: Why we need the Fed to crack down
• It's all priced in: Why writing more code is superfluous
  #thot #leadership #supplychain #wankery

wingo, 23 days ago to random

risible lack of detail. if there were something there there, it would be front and center https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

wingo, 24 days ago to random

[at the bar]
­– Excuse me, I can't help but notice you were using the "make" command-line tool
– ❓
– You know, I had a part in that.
– 😍
– You know the -j option?
– 🤓
­– I did the part where it gives you a verbose error, repeated verbosely for each of your cpu cores
– 🤨
– Also the part where it assumes you have infinite cores
– 🤬
– 😎

wingo, 25 days ago to random

what the hell https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

wingo, 28 days ago to random

it occurs to me that adding features to a garbage collector is an excellent way to jia tan a software project. never enough gc features, all the nice ones are really gnarly to review, bugs are very subtle and cross-cutting / high-power

wingo, 1 month ago to random

asked partner this morning if it was eid al-fitr; she looked at me all strange and said no. turns out she heard "adolf hitler"

wingo, 1 month ago to random

sure, richard jones wrote a textbook on GC. but did he change his name to mark n. sweep ? commit to the bit, rick

wingo, 1 month ago to random

doing a big renovation/ addition project on a 90yo house. many unknowns, of both rumsfeld types. allow me to share some beliefs i have had, sequentially, over the course of 3 weeks:

1. this house is directly plumbed to the sewer mains
2. 1, but with interstitial 2m^3 concrete settling tank. adjacent to foundations (why?). tank was concreted over and never emptied in last 20y at least
3. omg the tank has a leak at the bottom