Passing in the context as an argument or making it a global variable or returning a monad doesn't do anything to uncolor the function. What's the difference between `async function f()` and `function f(eventloop, callback)`? Only syntax.

Not to mention there's lots of colors unrelated to async, that most languages don't type at all. And if you use the wrong one, your program just doesn't work correctly at runtime. Thread-safe vs thread-unsafe. Blocking vs non-blocking. May throw/panic vs won't throw/panic. May fail/return null vs infallible.

"5.1.2.4.1 says any volatile access - including just reading it - is a side effect. 6.5.1.2 says that unsequenced side effects on the same scalar object (in this case, x) are UB. 6.5.3.3.8 tells us that the evaluations of function arguments are indeterminately sequenced w.r.t. each other."

If function arguments were sequenced with respect to each other, it wouldn't be a problem.

But actually, maybe the original comment is wrong. Presumably "indeterminately sequenced" and "unsequenced" mean different things, although I don't have a copy of the standard at hand to check.

Now I'm thinking about "Smalltalk by Example" and "Slang by Example"

If you're into travel blogs YouTube will serve you an endless barrage of videos with photoshopped thumbnails, exclusively containing fearmongering about whatever country or city they're visiting. This has been going on since pre-AI times.

On social media, you'll see plenty of AI-generated videos of members of $GROUP acting badly. One way to make people hate each other even more.

It's been known for a decade+ that platforms paying by engagement / interaction incentivizes people to post things that cause strong negative emotions. Fear and hate sell in the algorithmic engagement economy.

That's not what they said though. They said "please consider notifying the maintainer/vendor before publishing your findings, even if you intend to publish right away" (emphasis mine)

Don't all USB-C video outputs use DP alt mode too, with an HDMI adapter at the end? And they can do HDR.

"Claude1, find the most popular topic online", "Claude2, write a blog about that", "Hmm hmm good, but can you make the title more punchy?", "Claude1, fact check and report back to Claude2"

If the RNG is bad, you'll get more benefit from adding non-random bits than you would from additional badly RNG'd bits.

The probability of future collisions also rises the more IDs you generate. If you incorporate non-random bits, you can alleviate that:

- timestamps make the collision probability not grow over time as you accumulate more existing UUIDs that could collide

- known-distinct machine IDs make the collision probability not grow as you add more machines

I've felt before that compilers often don't put much effort into optimizing the "trivial" cases.

Overly dramatic title for the content, though. I would have clicked "Async Rust Optimizations the Compiler Still Misses" too you know

"What you're referring to as Darwin, is in fact, Darwin/XNU."

"What you're referring to as XNU, is in fact, BSD/Mach."

I seem to remember it being possible to run macOS-less Darwin several years ago, not sure if that's still possible or if Apple has modified it so much at this point that it's useless without at least some macOS components.

It's defined as the difference between 1.0 and the smallest number larger than 1.0. More usefully, it's the spacing between adjacent representable float numbers in the range 1.0 to 2.0.

Because floats get less precise at every integer power of two, it's impossible for two numbers greater than or equal to 2.0 to be epsilon apart. The spacing between 2.0 and the next larger number is 2*epsilon.

That means `abs(a - b) <= epsilon` is equivalent to `a == b` for any a or b greater than or equal to 2.0. And if you use `<` then the limit will be 1.0 instead.

Epsilon is the wrong tool for the job in 99.9% of cases.

Especially with mass-surveillance, which affects everyone. It's not possible to mass-surveil only people who would commit crimes, you need to surveil all innocent people too.