Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
Neophile. #ADHD. #rustlang at @datadoghq.com. #boardgames. Mercator Projection Apologist.
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Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
· Nov 2
I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be leading a session at this year's inaugural Rust NYC Unconf! Come by if you'd like to talk or hear about using Rust to underpin common, cross-language implementations of business functionality.
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I think it’s important to frame what’s happening as fully outside the realm of normal governance because framing it as a policy or even legal dispute grants it undue legitimacy. These are crimes that merit - require, really - a stronger response than a transition of power
January 3, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I think it’s important to frame what’s happening as fully outside the realm of normal governance because framing it as a policy or even legal dispute grants it undue legitimacy. These are crimes that merit - require, really - a stronger response than a transition of power
I think where I’m gonna bounce off of 18XX games is the idea of a share price as a global variable controlled by the rules of the system and not as an emergent one determined by player interaction.
January 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I think where I’m gonna bounce off of 18XX games is the idea of a share price as a global variable controlled by the rules of the system and not as an emergent one determined by player interaction.
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NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
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My dad often forgets the word chaotic and uses "chaosity" instead and tbh I think its a better word, because truly, the chaosity of it all
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 PM
My dad often forgets the word chaotic and uses "chaosity" instead and tbh I think its a better word, because truly, the chaosity of it all
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We’re waiting for the mayor at the McGuinness press conference. Meanwhile, DOT commissioner Mike Flynn has been handed, and put on, a make McGuinness safe — support which we never saw from the Adams administration.
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
We’re waiting for the mayor at the McGuinness press conference. Meanwhile, DOT commissioner Mike Flynn has been handed, and put on, a make McGuinness safe — support which we never saw from the Adams administration.
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Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
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/2 You can measure the spine of a Democrat by whether the ritual denunciation of Maduro comes in the first paragraph or the second or third.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
/2 You can measure the spine of a Democrat by whether the ritual denunciation of Maduro comes in the first paragraph or the second or third.
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When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 3, 2026 at 1:14 AM
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
Swear to god the inability to have “structured processes” (where any parent death automatically kills all children recursively) is the biggest pain in the ass on these posix machines and I feel like no one cares but me
so when you use a popular node.js ecommerce framework, it's normal to have to set up a watchdog so that various node.js processes kill themselves if their parent dies instead of ballooning up to 400% CPU right? that's just node now?
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Swear to god the inability to have “structured processes” (where any parent death automatically kills all children recursively) is the biggest pain in the ass on these posix machines and I feel like no one cares but me
Fuck I was so ready to believe this was real
BREAKING: In exchange for his support, Mayor Mamdani has appointed Curtis Sliwa Rat Czar and Underking of New York, whose writ shall run anywhere the sunlight does not touch
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Fuck I was so ready to believe this was real
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Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen.
This is the way.
This is the way.
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen.
This is the way.
This is the way.
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every time i read about the insane perverts attempting to gain access to daycare centers by force I think about this review for a dojo that I read ages ago. no, you are not entitled to places just because you want to go there. grow up
January 2, 2026 at 6:42 PM
every time i read about the insane perverts attempting to gain access to daycare centers by force I think about this review for a dojo that I read ages ago. no, you are not entitled to places just because you want to go there. grow up
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Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
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It’s worth taking the time to figure out if an API choice you want to avoid is complex because of things that aren’t relevant for you, or because the complexity is required for correctness.
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It’s worth taking the time to figure out if an API choice you want to avoid is complex because of things that aren’t relevant for you, or because the complexity is required for correctness.
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the "hays code but for individual games" is bad, evil even. They have no business dictating any of this and should face severe consequences for doing so.
January 2, 2026 at 1:30 AM
the "hays code but for individual games" is bad, evil even. They have no business dictating any of this and should face severe consequences for doing so.
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Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
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If I were this guy I would absolutely get sworn in on Karl Marx's personal copy of the Quran just to make losers have strokes
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
January 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
If I were this guy I would absolutely get sworn in on Karl Marx's personal copy of the Quran just to make losers have strokes
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.
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10. JOHN COMPANY (2nd ed). Look I know "be the East India Company, with all the bastardry that implies" is not going to be for everybody, and that's fine. But for me, oooooooh yes. The design here is SO deep and SO smart and SO unflinching. A colonialism simulator in the most complimentary sense.
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
10. JOHN COMPANY (2nd ed). Look I know "be the East India Company, with all the bastardry that implies" is not going to be for everybody, and that's fine. But for me, oooooooh yes. The design here is SO deep and SO smart and SO unflinching. A colonialism simulator in the most complimentary sense.
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One must imagine Sisyphus locking in
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
One must imagine Sisyphus locking in
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Jesus Christ, who is writing these editorials in The Washington Post? You can find better and more true facts on Wikipedia.
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Just one of many, many inaccuracies! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Jesus Christ, who is writing these editorials in The Washington Post? You can find better and more true facts on Wikipedia.
bsky.app/profile/ndha...
bsky.app/profile/ndha...
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This used to be the main trope of mysteries going back to Holmes.
The police are incompetent, so the detective - who is NOT police and may not even work with them - who has to clean up the mess they made of the investigation.
We lost a lot in the genre as that faded.
The police are incompetent, so the detective - who is NOT police and may not even work with them - who has to clean up the mess they made of the investigation.
We lost a lot in the genre as that faded.
Monk is great, every episode is like "hey Monk, I don't think we need you on this one, Mr. Smith was a baker and he baked himself into a pie" "but captain, he's still wearing shoes. If I was gonna bake myself into a pie, I'd take off my shoes first" "god damnit randy, he's wearing shoes!"
Monk may be copangada, BUT the fact that it takes time to piss on CSI for being stupid bullshit is pretty great
December 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This used to be the main trope of mysteries going back to Holmes.
The police are incompetent, so the detective - who is NOT police and may not even work with them - who has to clean up the mess they made of the investigation.
We lost a lot in the genre as that faded.
The police are incompetent, so the detective - who is NOT police and may not even work with them - who has to clean up the mess they made of the investigation.
We lost a lot in the genre as that faded.
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the hardest part of the first sentence is that it is generally not possible to detect which person is able to do that until after it has happened, and even then, all you have learned is that they _were_ able to, not _will be again_
imo software engineering will revolve around the super devs who are able to knock out entire sprints of work in a day or two when they need to.
critically though:
1) I do not think there are enough of these devs
2) no idea how you train more of these if you don't gain skills from pre-llm coding
critically though:
1) I do not think there are enough of these devs
2) no idea how you train more of these if you don't gain skills from pre-llm coding
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
the hardest part of the first sentence is that it is generally not possible to detect which person is able to do that until after it has happened, and even then, all you have learned is that they _were_ able to, not _will be again_