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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These past couple of weeks I've been focused on making the Warpcast app feel faster. There is still more room for improvement but I'm happy to say that we've been able to move the needle. We did this by: - parallelizing more requests in the background - tweaking when we issue certain requests - lazy loading data into lists - lazy loading large resources such as videos We can already see improvements in some charts that haven't been easy to move before. I'm particularly happy that my Android feed loads much better as seen in the before and after videos in the replies. Please let me know if you see improvements and especially if you encounter any issues.

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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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These companies employ more people than the state of Pennsylvania.

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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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We're here, just start asking questions. Welcome!

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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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@gabrielayuso.eth deserves the praise for this one—he's an optimization wizard.

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Re-reading what I wrote and what you wrote: basically the same thing, but mine had extra words 🙂

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That's not what I immediately took away, but yes that seems like a potential advantage. In my mind the key point was that the benefits of unikernels, namely: - Reduced resource footprint and improved perf (no normal OS overhead of daemons, no kernel/user-space separation and thus less overhead from context switching or syscalls) - Fast boot and shutdown times (not a full OS) - Direct hardware access ...means that we can more densely pack a single baremetal machine with potentially thousands of database instances, since computation can be performed with a greater degree of liquidity (resources for different instances are only used when they are actually needed).

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I know Unicode domains are icky with punycode but ¬¬ryan.com would also be dope.

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And this is is definitely _not_ you?

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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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PSA: We run experiments on home feeds frequently. It is never targeting the full network but it is likely to impact some every day. We appreciate all of you noticing the subtle updates and letting us know how it feels. Keep the feedback coming! Also always feel free to DM as well.

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If you have any questions about why something was done a certain way, happy to answer. Would be curious what code was interesting to you (no pressure).

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I am very pleased to unveil our latest working, an onchain novel written by @keridwen + crafted by @xuannu. Each chapter is an ERC1155 collectible on @base, and includes a handsome cover by yours truly, musings from our author, and the ability to send to kindle or wherever you like.

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new project from the @cryptocoven team!

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