Nicholas Nethercote

@impermanen_@zirk.us The history of air pollution science is just "the health impact is even worse than we thought" over and over again.

@wesdym@mastodon.social @space_cadet@aus.social I'm genuinely uncertain if he considers the one on the right "unnatural"

@paco Mozilla security bugs are always locked down until some length of time has passed, so it's not surprising that you can't see them. I know Christian Holler, he's a 100% legit expert on security matters. Him writing this post is a stronger signal to me than anything else that there is something real here, even if Anthropic's marketing is overblown as always.

@paco This is a post from a more technical angle: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

"our new language is totally gonna support tail calls, it'll be amazing"

[10 years pass]

"so, implementing tail calls turns out to be really hard"

@yaah 😡

somehow I learned this while trying to create a USB drive to install Windows

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't do it on Linux :(

"human-generated content"?

Just call it "work" if you need a generic term. Or be more specific if you can: "story", "illustration", "song", "video", etc.

Feels like we are heading towards a world where there are codebases that are >90% human code, and codebases that are >90% LLM-generated code, and not much in between.

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/

@cadey@pony.social A good blog post from Scott summarizing what happened: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

@wffl oh no

I finally 100%'d Silksong, phew

@pmmeurcatpics@ieji.de I already have, and I'm still with Futurewei for a little longer

@exa@mastodon.online One obvious thing is to design the front-end for parallelism from the ground up. More generally, you might find https://bal-e.org/speed/krabby/ interesting.

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 :(

@flod@mozilla.social @gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org I am slightly appalled to learn that 14 year old Firefox bugs are now in the 500,000s

@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org Link to the bug?