Shane da Silva

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Pretty huge win for Rust if all unsafe functions can be formally verified. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-foundation-collaborates-with-aws-initiative-to-verify-rust-standard-libraries/

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Canadian Professor Erik Demaine recently proved that tiling with three polygons is undecidable—wow! 👏 https://erikdemaine.org/papers/ThreeTiles_CGW2024/paper.pdf

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Name a better duo that performed their own death-defying stunts without safety equipment. I'll wait.

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46% of the new companies entering the New American Fortune 500 in 2024 were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/new-american-fortune-500-2024

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As an immigrant, there's something deeply satisfying about the world's most valuable company being founded by an immigrant and headquartered in America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/05/nvidia-tops-apple/

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I'm behind the times—apparently folks have been running Postgres on unikernels for quite some time†. https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-postgres-early-access https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-postgres-as-a-unikernel †

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You're welcome. https://sf.now/

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If I wasn't working on @warpcast and @farcaster, you know where I would be.

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Switched over from Docker Desktop to OrbStack (https://orbstack.dev) on my mac for the last month, and a way better experience—well worth the small cost. Warpcast's test suite runs almost twice as fast under OrbStack compared to Docker Desktop (running a few containers).

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Was curious how much more radiation I was exposed to while flying, and was surprised by the magnitude of the difference. This prompted looking into the trade off of increased exposure vs time saved. In short, for the occasional flyer: still totally worth it. But if you go to the CDC, you’ll get a lot of facts…and no clear answers. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-stats/air-travel.html

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Always wondered why I felt useless when trying to work on a plane.

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What does the world look like when AI is funnier than a human? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tH55syq0o

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Once DCs are decentralized, you won't need email. One day...

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He’s not exaggerating. This team iterates.

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Josh is criminally under-followed. Good suggestion here to double-check your systems don't have CUPS enabled.

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Bit sad about the closing of La Colonial. This was a lovely spot. https://archive.is/2024.09.20-012835/https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/le-colonial-closed-19778270.php

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"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." — Bertolt Brecht https://javascript.tm

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Very slick: https://postgres.new Now make a system that takes your schema and inspects pg_stat_statements on your production system and makes actionable recommendations of migrations to improve performance.

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Officially prepped for doomsday.

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