"our new language is totally gonna support tail calls, it'll be amazing"
[10 years pass]
"so, implementing tail calls turns out to be really hard"
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Nicholas Nethercote
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New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/looking-for-a-new-job.html
Not so happy, this one :(
Feels like we are heading towards a world where there are codebases that are >90% human code, and codebases that are >90% LLM-generated code, and not much in between.
jemalloc is being rebooted! Fingers crossed this works out well:
"human-generated content"?
Just call it "work" if you need a generic term. Or be more specific if you can: "story", "illustration", "song", "video", etc.
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somehow I learned this while trying to create a USB drive to install Windows
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@impermanen_@zirk.us The history of air pollution science is just "the health impact is even worse than we thought" over and over again.
I finally 100%'d Silksong, phew
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@cadey@pony.social
A good blog post from Scott summarizing what happened:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
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@paco Mozilla security bugs are always locked down until some length of time has passed, so it's not surprising that you can't see them.
I know Christian Holler, he's a 100% legit expert on security matters. Him writing this post is a stronger signal to me than anything else that there is something real here, even if Anthropic's marketing is overblown as always.
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@exa@mastodon.online One obvious thing is to design the front-end for parallelism from the ground up.
More generally, you might find https://bal-e.org/speed/krabby/ interesting.
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@paco
This is a post from a more technical angle:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/
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@wesdym@mastodon.social @space_cadet@aus.social I'm genuinely uncertain if he considers the one on the right "unnatural"
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@flod@mozilla.social @gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org I am slightly appalled to learn that 14 year old Firefox bugs are now in the 500,000s