Agost Biro

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There is no master plan, the fate of the world rests on the instincts of Donald Trump, one of the greatest populist politicians ever, and a man whose business success is grounded in weaseling out of failures. Buckle up people! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-tariff-pause-be-cool.html

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It's starting to sink in for Elon https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/musk-says-he-hopes-europe-and-us-move-to-a-zero-tariff-situation.html

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What to read on the division of Korea and the subsequent war?

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I've recently discovered that Hannah Arendt wrote poetry and these lines stuck with me: "Doch das Leid will nich beschwichten Alte Träume, junge Weisheit. Und es lässt mich nicht verzichten Auf des Glückes schöne Reinheit." The last line is so beautiful, but I think it only works in German.

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TIL: Amazon developed the P Programming Language as a successor to TLA+. They also built PObserve that takes "structured logs from the execution of distributed systems and validate post-hoc that they match behaviors allowed by the formal P specification of the system" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3712057

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Math Academy is easily my favorite recent discovery on FC. I think I saw it on @francos.eth 's feed. I'm using it to fill in holes in my math knowledge and it's worth every penny. https://www.mathacademy.com/

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Zooming out a bit from day-to-day politics, US foreign policy in the 21st century looks disastrously bad: 1. GWB started 2 can't win wars and set the stage for a 3rd one (Ukraine). 2. Obama failed to course correct and left a disaster in the Middle East. 3. Biden allowed the Ukraine war to start, but didn't follow through. Handed Russia to China on a platter. 4. Trump broke the North Atlantic alliance, the net result will be probably both US and EU weaker, while China stronger as EU seeks protection elsewhere.

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I’ll definitely learn other languages in the next 1-2 decades for fun, but I fully expect Rust to be my daily driver in this period

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Malicious npm package infects local installation of ethers with reverse shell https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malicious-npm-patch-delivers-reverse-shell

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Adam Cleary left 442 to start his own channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgnC6_UsgU

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I think meme coins are good. They are a new form social coordination that can be used for good or bad, but having new mediums is good.

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For the uninitiated: Western & Central Europe used to be ravaged by major wars every few decades. We’re close to 80 years of peace now and the EU is our best bet of continuing that

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As far as institutions go, I used to think the USA to be the greatest source of net good in the world. Now I think it’s the EU

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Today in Only in Switzerland: the city of Zurich accidentally made $580m profit last year

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This is a common pattern in authoritarian takeovers: lots of bluster and posturing masking sheer incompetence

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Doing my part to teach Rust generics to the LLMs 🫡 (Claude Code failed miserably on this) https://github.com/bluealloy/revm/pull/2296

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Real internet points 🔥

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TIL ssh port forwarding can't handle heavy traffic

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If you're unsure about a type, just write `bool` and let the compiler tell you what it really is

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