Tim McNamara

On the planet to build a better planet. Software person, kind of into Rust and creative coding. Author of Rust in Action (

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@traskjd Where is DevDiv?

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@adam_chal *couldn't be justified

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@adam_chal Same, actually. There are so many tasks that I've deferred because the time be justified.

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@jameskjx This is a better way to express what I wanted to say.

One advantage of a rewrite is that much of the difficult discovery with has already occurred.

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If rewrites were not better at least one dimension (speed, security, memory consumption or pick all 3), then people wouldn't be doing them.

[Yassine Bouanane @ybouane]

People love to claim Rust rewrites are just vanity projects.

Then you put FlashRaw next to LibRaw.

FlashRaw finishes the entire batch in 0.79s.
LibRaw is still grinding at 5.5s.

12.6x faster. It is not even close.

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@charliermarsh Infinite tokens is such a flex

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@maddireidy @RocketLab @MoreMorganB @muriellebaker @THEJimmy_Hex @cameronnehrer That's exciting. Enjoy the ride.

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@EmmaVitz It certainly makes one wonder what the point of citizenship is. We're also weird at how quickly we disqualify people from voting eligibility.

[Pete 🙆 @AwkwardMap]

bwee-ooooh! 🚨 Lori Lorusso and David Wood will come by the @SDVeclipse's Rust Special Interest Group tomorrow to talk about the Rust Commercial Network

will be tomorrow (2026-10-27) at 11am EDT / 4pm CST

work in an industry and are or want to use @rustlang?

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@beet_keeper 😅

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I think working for an American company changed me

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@metro_mim For bonus points, you could add a badge that says "Come hither".

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@dot_products I am slightly nervous as I've spoken to multiple physicists and ex-physicists who have complained about needing to listen to clueless laypeople with good intentions.

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Do I know anyone who could provide suggestions for being granted arXiv endorsement for my cellular automata work?

Messaging established authors seems like the established path, but the imposter syndrome is real.

My draft manuscripts are still very poor, but I think that the results seem interesting.

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@dot_products That's a good call. If agents weren't so sycophantic, I would trust their judgement more on assessing "good enough".

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@nunowar This promotes PHP to the level of vibe coded slop. This design makes it impossible for visitors to distinguish it from anything else. A stronger approach would be to be confidently distinct and respectful of the website's history.

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@johnnyrodgersis Thanks for building early Slack. You made customers like me very happy, despite the guilt of cheating on IRC.

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@alexandr_wang It's actually kind of interesting that this is likely to be a lag from the people who were most likely to try Twitter early

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@SamRose @fmzakari Yay, graphs!