Nicholas Nethercote
nnethercote@mas.to
<p>he/him (or they/them)</p>
Posts
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Post #1284651
&quot;our new language is totally gonna support tail calls, it&#39;ll be amazing&quot; [10 years pass] &quot;so, implementing tail calls turns out to be really hard&quot;
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Post #1016594
I finally 100%&#39;d Silksong, phew
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Post #1016593
jemalloc is being rebooted! Fingers crossed this works out well: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renewed-commitment-to-jemalloc/
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Post #1016592
Feels like we are heading towards a world where there are codebases that are &gt;90% human code, and codebases that are &gt;90% LLM-generated code, and not much in between.
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Post #1016591
&quot;human-generated content&quot;? Just call it &quot;work&quot; if you need a generic term. Or be more specific if you can: &quot;story&quot;, &quot;illustration&quot;, &quot;song&quot;, &quot;video&quot;, etc.
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Post #1016590
TIL on macOS and BSDs you can type ctrl-t in a terminal to send a SIGINFO signal and get information about certain long-running processes. It even works with `sleep`. But you can&#39;t do it on Linux :(
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Post #847928
New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/looking-for-a-new-job.html Not so happy, this one :(