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Professional Qubit Pusher.

Rust, Python, C, and various Lisps. I like *nix.

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Opinions are my own and not the opinions of my employer
I knew I should've finished writing that...
September 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
pthreads hastwo distinct methods for cleanly cancelling threads (it's a bad API though). Otherwise you're either at the mercy of your language runtime or have to modify the CPU-bound code to occasionally check for a flag/condition. athenaeum.wiki/Notes/Softwa...
Software Task Cancellation Is Complicated - Athenaeum
This is based largely on a twitter thread, though I've expanded it substantially. Enjoy 🙂 Background My day job involves developing distributed, soft realtime command and control systems for use in …
athenaeum.wiki
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Think one of these is worth it? I have a preorder from back when these were announced, but I'm honestly super underwhelmed by the performance. Unless I could use it as a backup light gaming PC I'm not sure if I'll actually get one
August 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Curated for someone else, I think it's just a buggy feed. I report all the posts as unwanted sexual content lol
May 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Same. Though there are still days I occasionally forget to fill it...
May 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yeah, mass physical distribution is more or less a lost art.
May 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's only better if you explicitly want to give the medium away or cold storage. The reusability of flash is generally a good thing regardless.
May 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It's kind of wild that numpy and tensor don't model things in this way, though it's way easier for a data scientist to shit out a slow but workable script than to actually build something fast. Script engines in the hotloop is asking for pain.
May 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM