Jeff Trull
@jaafar.bsky.social
Eight megs and constantly swapping
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Just last night, Google AI overview listed Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick as two of the greatest living film directors
Inevitable and frankly obvious outcome. And on top of that, the AI Overviews themselves are so laughably awful that I'm continually astonished that Google hasn't pulled them yet.
(Also: People say that they hate ads... well... this is the other inevitable and obvious outcome of blocking them)
(Also: People say that they hate ads... well... this is the other inevitable and obvious outcome of blocking them)
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just last night, Google AI overview listed Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick as two of the greatest living film directors
The Larry Summers/Epstein news has me thinking about this book again IYKYK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabas...
Katabasis (novel) - Wikipedia
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November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Larry Summers/Epstein news has me thinking about this book again IYKYK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabas...
Spoiler: a deadlock associated with cancellation. I think we did a good job thinking about this in C++ with Senders and Receivers - any reason it wouldn't work in Rust too?
A bunch of folks at Oxide uncovered a tricky deadlock associated with async Rust (yes, another!), so--of course--@bcantrill.bsky.social and I got the crew together to discuss. If you're writing async Rust, you'll want to know how to avoid and diagnose "Futurelock"
Oxide and Friends 11/3/2025 -- Futurelock
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
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November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Spoiler: a deadlock associated with cancellation. I think we did a good job thinking about this in C++ with Senders and Receivers - any reason it wouldn't work in Rust too?
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
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Despite whatever federal issues are happening, the Bay Area Sierra Club really rebounded from irrelevance after it reversed course and started going hard on local sustainable transportation and infrastructure. Other local clubs that are aging should follow suit.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Despite whatever federal issues are happening, the Bay Area Sierra Club really rebounded from irrelevance after it reversed course and started going hard on local sustainable transportation and infrastructure. Other local clubs that are aging should follow suit.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Emacs to the rescue
A Spooky Unix story for Halloween.
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Emacs to the rescue
Is that the "final 'e'" Google AI? Are you sure?
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Is that the "final 'e'" Google AI? Are you sure?
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Always thought it was sad that Ayn Rand—one of the most successful authors of children's fantasy books of all time—had little enough saved in the bank in her old age that she had to rely on public assistance until her death, but I'm glad it was there for her.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Always thought it was sad that Ayn Rand—one of the most successful authors of children's fantasy books of all time—had little enough saved in the bank in her old age that she had to rely on public assistance until her death, but I'm glad it was there for her.
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
Connect it to Bart you cowards
Rescue the Tilden steam train! Email publiccomment@ebparks.org with the subject line "Public Comment- Tilden Steam Train".
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Tilden's Beloved Steam Train is in Danger of Closing, Owner Warns Bay Area Telegraph
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October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Connect it to Bart you cowards
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On International Day for Climate Action, we remember that we are all in this together. From local advocacy to global policy, every action matters.
We’re fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Join the Sierra Club in turning worry into action.
#ClimateActionDay #SierraClub
We’re fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Join the Sierra Club in turning worry into action.
#ClimateActionDay #SierraClub
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On International Day for Climate Action, we remember that we are all in this together. From local advocacy to global policy, every action matters.
We’re fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Join the Sierra Club in turning worry into action.
#ClimateActionDay #SierraClub
We’re fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Join the Sierra Club in turning worry into action.
#ClimateActionDay #SierraClub
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I'm taken by the idea that many uses of generative AI don't make work faster, they merely move the work to other people and systems, or generate new steps, steps that have perhaps not been figured out yet, or even conceived as necessary.
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I'm taken by the idea that many uses of generative AI don't make work faster, they merely move the work to other people and systems, or generate new steps, steps that have perhaps not been figured out yet, or even conceived as necessary.
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This is one of my fave events of the year and I designed the shirt this year!!! I really enjoyed putting in lots of little references, can you find them all?
ADVENTURERS!
Roguelike Celebration 2025 is this coming weekend, and our Steam sale is live:
store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...
We also have a beautiful new shirt design from @shing.bsky.social and previous years are available as well:
www.redbubble.com/people/Rogue...
So exciting! 🤩
Roguelike Celebration 2025 is this coming weekend, and our Steam sale is live:
store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...
We also have a beautiful new shirt design from @shing.bsky.social and previous years are available as well:
www.redbubble.com/people/Rogue...
So exciting! 🤩
Roguelike Celebration 2025
a community-generated weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics
store.steampowered.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This is one of my fave events of the year and I designed the shirt this year!!! I really enjoyed putting in lots of little references, can you find them all?
Andor S1E7
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Andor S1E7
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Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.
October 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.
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Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
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why do people post such esoteric nonsense on social media when they could be posting extremely relatable content like this
Current status: oh god why am I in the BRCM2837 interrupt controller docs all I wanted was a higher degree of graphical fidelity in Doom
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
why do people post such esoteric nonsense on social media when they could be posting extremely relatable content like this
Can we make this in TikZ
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Can we make this in TikZ
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Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
In which none other than Sean Parent writes a segfault in Rust, and if he can do it, anyone can
📢 ADSP Episode 252 is out! 📢 In this episode, Bryce and I chat with @seanparent.bsky.social about Rust, AI and more! adspthepodcast.com/2025/09/19/E...
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In which none other than Sean Parent writes a segfault in Rust, and if he can do it, anyone can
Passenger rail in Colombia? www.instagram.com/reel/DObSJtL...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Passenger rail in Colombia? www.instagram.com/reel/DObSJtL...
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A Musk space colony, assuming it lasted longer than ten minutes ("wait, you let someone vibecode the airlock?") would make Bioshock look like Animal Crossing
glad he's staying focused on the big issues like preserving the light of human consciousness via space exploration
oh boy, reaching new levels of brain cooked
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A Musk space colony, assuming it lasted longer than ten minutes ("wait, you let someone vibecode the airlock?") would make Bioshock look like Animal Crossing
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It’s even worse than this.
We’re spending $500 million to widen a stretch of Highway 37 *that will be frequently underwater in 25 years* but a $750M *loan* to save the entire Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
We’re spending $500 million to widen a stretch of Highway 37 *that will be frequently underwater in 25 years* but a $750M *loan* to save the entire Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
To put this loan amount in perspective:
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).
But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.
This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵
This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It’s even worse than this.
We’re spending $500 million to widen a stretch of Highway 37 *that will be frequently underwater in 25 years* but a $750M *loan* to save the entire Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
We’re spending $500 million to widen a stretch of Highway 37 *that will be frequently underwater in 25 years* but a $750M *loan* to save the entire Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.
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1/ If you live in SF/Bay Area: realize that if @governor.ca.gov reneges on loan to tide agency over, the service cuts will be DEVASTATING to a functioning city. People of all kinds—and especially low-wage workers and school kids—depend on it. Here's what to do... www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
1/ If you live in SF/Bay Area: realize that if @governor.ca.gov reneges on loan to tide agency over, the service cuts will be DEVASTATING to a functioning city. People of all kinds—and especially low-wage workers and school kids—depend on it. Here's what to do... www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...