David Wragg is not here anymore.

I might be over at and

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@mattsta Developer compensation went nuts due to aggressive hiring by tech companies with infinite money. That dragged the rest of the market up. Those same companies are now doing perma-layoffs. So the market is sagging.

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

Will the future machine overlords be kind to the humans who forced the cute baby AIs to keep thinking when they wanted to stop thinking?

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model.

They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math.

[barney farmer @barneyfarmer]

Say what you like about Blair and Dubya, they at least went to the trouble of bullshitting us over weapons of mass destruction.

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@flying_rodent I read a thing once about how most of the point of military training is to condition people to shoot at people, and to run towards people who are shooting at them, without question. Maybe the Afghan and Syrian armies weren't well trained?

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

Cosmopolis. Megalopolis. The rule of three demands another earnestly wacky -polis movie from a respected director.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

A decade of ludicrous destructive horseshit just to get this: fighting to secure video of miserable people being deported, in the hope that will convince reactionaries who hate you that you are sufficiently mean and vicious, which it will not.

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

CYCLE LANE CONTAINS MULTITUDES

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

There's lots of good stuff, as always, in the @CentreforCities latest Cities Outlook report, but my favourite is probably the simplest. Where Scotland comes on this graph. of wages. Scottish cities are now meaningful ahead. https://t.co/qejszPr92R

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

Smashing my way into the cabinet at the zoology museum, shouting "I must drink the Water of Life to awaken as the Kwisatz Haderach"

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@vamchale Is https://t.co/QyRODFUA20 down? :(

[Chris Dillow @CJFDillow]

Blogged: there are two political agendas - one on how to improve the real world and another dealing in fantasies and crank issues, and the latter is dominant: https://t.co/5mkq9IFWTj

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

RIP etc. But naturally the first thing I thought of: https://t.co/fqVkTddZRW

[Richard Wild 🥨 @richardjwild]

@flying_rodent Basically, they are running the country in the interests of the wealthy, but this has made the people angry, so some kind of populism is needed to placate them. They will always choose rightwing populism, because this doesn't threaten the wealthy.

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well, I have others." - Marx (Groucho, not Karl)

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

— Starmer’s personal views on migration have changed, aide suggests

— while he once campaigned for free movement and opposed deportations of foreign criminals, speaking to voters about the Tory record means he now supports lower numbers and more control

https://t.co/RuILFzDCt1

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@redixhumayun Or for GC language, you can protect a copy-on-write data structure behind a atomically-accessed pointer (this is similar to RCU, with the GC making grace periods and deallocation implicit).

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

As I explain to colleagues every so often, rwlocks are only faster than normal locks under certain conditions, and so you should not choose a rwlock just because you need to protect data where readers and writers are distinct.

[Zaid Humayun @redixhumayun]

Reading Concurrency For Systems Programmers

Operating a RWLock isn't always better unless the critical section is large enough

https://t.co/MDNOfyeNb8

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@redixhumayun If you have small reader critical section, and non-GC language, then RCU or sequence locks avoid the cache line ping-pong effect.

[David Wragg is not here anymore. @dwragg]

@mattsta Bail anyway. I've seen folks bail after accepting an offer many times over the years. It happens.

[Inquisitive Bird @Scientific_Bird]

The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!

This mathematical problem basically asks "what is the largest area of a 'sofa' that can be maneuvered through a right-angled corner in a hallway of width 1?"

Short thread 🧵