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Perpetual self-transcendence.
Manipulating causality through spiritual evolution.

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In 2025 I run 11 marathons, 1 ultra-marathon (+1 ultra which was cancelled after starting for safety -> joined the 12k run in afternoon instead) in 8 countries.

3 Mountain / trail runs and the rest were mostly flat roads.

With inconsistent training & health: 3h 35m PB.

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What tools do you use to find books that have meaningfully progressed some field of software engineering?

Lots of books look pretty, sound interesting, or may be popular, but turn out to be 5 min YT video surface level trash.

I need books that baffle experts and not midwits.

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Instead of repeatedly remaking the terrible GoW series, make a new Dantes Inferno.

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Do I know any Zig engineers?

Language appears to be in dev rather than v1, and there's almost no packages.
Looked into gRPC, and I distrust what I saw, so I uninstalled Zig.

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Beautiful race, first edition of Mammoth 200.

Hope to run this one day

https://t.co/GWtUTw62sV

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A new bench from @datacurve

It would be nice to have a separation of tasks, e.g., frontend, systems, architecture, algorithms, etc.

GPT 5.5 has been the only somewhat useable model for me even though it's still pretty bad.
Not surprised it wins atm.

https://t.co/Z9z0TJ9igy

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@VictorTaelin My language is the safest bestest language ever but I fucked up and distrust the codebase.

What kind of marketing is this?

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Hearing good things about Database Internals & Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

Any recommendations in general but also specifically in high performance, low latency, and networking for systems?

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Paint a more intoxicating feeling than an individual who's obsessively focused on self-evolution of their internal frameworks finally discovering something that has value to them, pursuing those objectives and observing the metamorphosis of those structures to a superior level.

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@Rubyto The Sci-Fi idea of "Detroit Become Human" where robots walk around as servants is an inefficient fantasy.

Better to improve tech so fewer, but more skilled operators are needed.
Eventually, when the machines are smart enough, you may start to automate everything as an end stage.

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@Rubyto Looks awesome. Love to see it.

Although it's kinda a naive idea.
Better focus on automated, specialised manufacturing.

Unless these are built with exoskeleton strength and agility, it's just a flex and a way to signal the producers want to dispose of people.

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@vxdb I was under the assumption you may self host and thus cannot be banned.

Am I incorrect?

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Does anyone follow / is connected with people who work on nuanced / highly technical problems in areas such as distributed systems, databases, networking / low latency / high performance, ideally in Rust, who enjoy talking about their work?

I'd like to connect.

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@colludingnode I won't be selling my ETH because I left it in uninsured DeFi that got drained, and there's nothing left to sell.

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Quality content about databases from @BenjDicken

Check out the channel.

https://t.co/n3MnaAWto9

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@binji_x Or post the link and people just join

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@banteg Solc is a stablecoin

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@colludingnode It says virtual and mentions discord.

Is this spectator only, or is there a way to participate?

I may hijack the session and just ask questions about everything

https://t.co/dOgtX34yEl

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Information dense, succinct breakdown of components of marathon running.

Suppose the Internet wasn't a slop fest for mindless retards and instead a skill-tree esque knowledge graph of all human knowledge.

Systemic overview of components down to nuances.

https://t.co/uLYesvYQUa

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Pre-reg for another 24h is opening.

Next year, if I don't get trench foot, I'm definitely gonna run over 100 miles.

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@banteg @donnoh_eth @dcfgod @EchoProtocol_ @monad @Curvance Apps need to be simple, boring, and dumb but ShitFi continuously insists that it is special and requires complexity to be of any use/interest.

Exploits will continue until dev maturity/intelligence increases.

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@banteg @donnoh_eth @dcfgod @EchoProtocol_ @monad @Curvance When immutable, permissionless apps?

Admin should only (un)pause, and even that is semi-pointless bcs at best, you stop an ongoing exploit.

Access control is an attack vector.

If any role has any power over an app, then at some point, someone will stitch together an exploit.