Twey

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by Twey 7mo ago
Oh, right, sure. In Rust the async code and async executor are decoupled. So it's your _executor_ that decides how/whether tasks are mapped to threads and all that jazz. Meanwhile the async _code_ itself is just a new(ish), lower-
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by Twey 7mo ago
I think the dream is executor-independence. You shouldn't really need to care what executor you or your library consumer is using, and the Rust auto traits are designed so that you can in theory be generic over it. There are a few spee
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by Twey 7mo ago
> FWIW I prefer `futures::lock::Mutex` on std, or `async_lock::Mutex` under no_std. Async mutexes in Rust have so many footguns that I've started to consider them a code smell. See for example the one the Oxide project ran into [1].
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by Twey 7mo ago
I think my point is that if you're going to make people learn a 9-digit identifier for their house you might as well make that identifier unique and then that's the only information they need to fill in. Having non-unique 9-digit
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by Twey 7mo ago
ZIP+4? I think that's literally enough digits to give every house in the US (about 150,000,000 apparently) its own identifier.
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by Twey 7mo ago
More generally use a contrast checker on any pair of colours that are likely to be in juxtaposition and need to be legible. Helpful of the website to demonstrate the problem in situ in its tag links and code comments! (Maybe just in dark mo
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by Twey 7mo ago
Given the existence of Szilard's engine showing that information can be converted to energy, can we not conclude that any system storing information has potential energy and therefore mass?
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by Twey 7mo ago
Previous: https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai-made-writing-code...
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The Philosophical Etymology of Hobbit (1994)(web.archive.org)
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Specification; communication; computation – no, programming isn't dead(twey.io)
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by Twey 7mo ago
Constantly amused by the split in comments of any moderately innovative language post between ‘I don't care about all this explanation, just show me the syntax!’ and ‘I don't understand any of this syntax, what a useless language!
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by Twey 8mo ago
(BS here meaning bachelor's — I misread this at first!)
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by Twey 8mo ago
This site claims the `initial-letter` property is newly supported, but actually it is still unsupported in most recent Firefox and Safari.
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by Twey 8mo ago
Why not just switch to a different keyboard?
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by Twey 9mo ago
Right, I definitely think collecting user telemetry as source data for features is helpful, though users can be understandably wary about it. I just haven't seen any beneficial examples of _automatically_ acting on that data per user.
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by Twey 9mo ago
Oh you're right! I always thought evidentiality was a dedicated Turkish mood — but it's actually a particular use of a tense. TIL :)
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by Twey 9mo ago
> CGEL says this On further investigation I guess that Old English did indeed have a dedicated subjective conjugation, unique at least in the plural! > good luck identifying why a verb appears in the subjunctive if you can't see
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by Twey 9mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse matters — by pulling in the etymology of the morphology I was trying to be generous to the argument. Namely, I thought there might be a chance that the bare infinitive in e.g. the conditional mood is der
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by Twey 9mo ago
It has constructs for a few different moods/modes[1], but no conjugation: the morphology used to form moods is borrowed from other verb forms (in your example, the bare infinitive) that were never (as far as I know!) dedicated mood con
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by Twey 9mo ago
I love when the ‘language’ part of programming languages doesn't get left behind :) Very neat!
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by Twey 9mo ago
In linguistics, tense is a verb conjugation to indicate temporal information, while mood is a conjugation to indicate various kinds of metainformation about the speaker's relationship to the information in the sentence. It's not a
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by Twey 9mo ago
Those of a certain vintage might remember Lingua::Romana::Perligata: https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
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by Twey 9mo ago
Twitter has a lot to answer for!
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by Twey 9mo ago
I think that's exactly an example of climbing the abstraction ladder. An agent that's incapable of reframing the current context, given a bad task, will try its best to complete it. An agent capable of generalizing to an overarchi
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by Twey 9mo ago
It's a lovely idea, but so far all software personalization I can think of (in the sense of software adapting to the individual, rather than the individual adapting their software à la malleable software) has been weaponized against th
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by Twey 9mo ago
When you can build down as well as up ( https://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2015/08/24/chapter-4-turtling-... ) — or, equivalently, do away with the up/down orientation entirely, you can have your cake and
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by Twey 9mo ago
This is the best explanation of (my take on) this I've seen so far. On top of the article's excellent breakdown of what is happening, I think it's important to note a couple of driving factors about why (I posit) it is happen
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by Twey 9mo ago
I enjoy the (unironic?) juxtaposition of ‘use plain text files because they are universally understood and will still be accessible in the future’ with ‘stop writing things on paper like it's the 1900s and put everything on computers’.
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by Twey 9mo ago
I'd be interested to hear how they reconcile ‘100% code coverage’ with ‘QA needs to run fast’ on a large codebase. I'd also really love to see a study around how much of the effort it takes, on average, to write (by carefully shep
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by Twey 9mo ago
‘Obviously’ AI and programming are antonyms. AI is defined as the ability for computers to do whatever it is that humans can do that (most) computers can't currently do. Conversely, ‘programming’ is whatever activity is required to ful

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