#rustlang now has an accepted RFC for I/O Safety, to handle the lifetimes of file descriptors (on UNIX) and OS handles and sockets (on Windows): github.com/rust-lang/rfcs… This will make it possible to write safe functions that operate on these underlying OS objects.

Nibling, 10yo: what are you doing? Me: programming N: programming is when you make an animal move on screen and rotate M: ... N, taking brief, sharply assessing look: that's not programming, that's just meaningless gibberish M: ... M: [🤔 bribe to avoid boss hearing about this?]

The "Existential Risk" grift: "So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of elites." currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-da…

#Medical #AI has the worst superpower... Racism We've put out a preprint reporting concerning findings. AI can do something humans can't: recognise the self-reported race of patients on x-rays. This gives AI a path to produce health disparities. 1/8 lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-…

Awesome way to celebrate all the working going into Rust Language 2021. Spending all the time to write up this message shows how people in this community care. Thanks, Mara, for everything you’ve done for the edition! github.com/rust-lang/rust…

My favourite bad blockchain idea continues to be real estate on the blockchain, because presumably that means that if I guess someone's password I get to keep their house

wow, we finally have a number. 75% of the ad impressions in the United States are served by Google Ad Manager according to Google's internal docs. I'm sure the fact they also own the dominant browser, search engine, buying platforms is irrelevant. /25

This is a dream team for sure.

The #webassembly & WASI compiler engineer position is open on our team at Fastly! 😃🎉 If building out a wasm platform sounds fun to you, we'd be stoked to have you along! 🙌 Bonus: gone from this site and I could use another third for ranked Rocket League (We're diamond rank)! 👀😂⚽️🚗🚀

Great talk about WebAssembly by Aaron Turner!! 👏😃 Makes me want to get back to playing around with it! #CascadiaJS

Absolutely. Mastodon will never support and/or create NFTs.

Our commitment: Zulip organized team chat will not integrate a crypto asset wallet, issue crypto assets, promote NFTs, or otherwise attempt to profit from the crypto asset gold rush. Here's why: blog.zulip.com/2021/11/12/why… #opensource

Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? Recent data show death rate of 10-59yr olds who have watched the 1984 Ghostbuster Movie is 2x higher than those who have watched the 2021 Ghostbuster movie I don't know how to explain this other than movie-caused mortality

Stateless runtime execution is a desirable feature for all the reasons a global variable isn't. Long lived processes are bug farms waiting for exploits. Uptime was a workaround. Stateless enables higher availability, throughput, and parallelism.

I wrote an article about the WebAssembly component model, and how to use it today to achieve cross-language composition in WebAssembly with tools from the Bytecode Alliance. radu-matei.com/blog/intro-was…