i fucking love lebanne!!!! i need to rage with her!!!!!
i can't tell whether lebanne is life goals or wife goals https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115783343875494438
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sometimes having such incredibly high standards for my research work that the things i care more deeply about than possibly anything else are almost completely incomprehensible to literally anyone else feels like being stuck in a magical sort of indentured servitude to a very powerful fae/demigod like jacinthe
junyer understood me implicitly immediately. i refuse to wallow though. he convinced me i'm not insane. greedily, i wish i could have learned more from him. he could have been the haring to my basquiat. maybe he was
haring wrote the most beautiful eulogy. they quote it at the end of basquiat's biography on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat#Biography
In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created the painting A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat.[126] In the obituary Haring wrote for Vogue, he stated: "He truly created a lifetime of works in ten years. Greedily, we wonder what else he might have created, what masterpieces we have been cheated out of by his death, but the fact is that he has created enough work to intrigue generations to come. Only now will people begin to understand the magnitude of his contribution."[127][128]
![description from a section of the wiki page for this painting, linked in the immediate reply:
A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat was painted on a triangular canvas, like a warning sign, edged with a red outline.[6] In the center is a towering pile of black and white crowns on the ground glistening triumphantly. The three-pointed crown was Basquiat's signature artistic motif.[4] It appears so often in his artwork that it has become a recognizable symbol in popular culture.[7] On the bottom right corner is a copyright symbol, which was one of Basquiat's signature symbols. Haring used the triangle style motif in his limited edition screenprint run Silence = Death released in 1989 which aimed to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the time.[8]](https://asset.circumstances.run/media_attachments/files/115/788/779/516/502/069/original/ce3a894275447cf0.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pile_of_Crowns_for_Jean-Michel_Basquiat of course, there is another haring work that comes to mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Painting the eulogy haring made for himself
in one sense, AIDS resembles a genocide. recall the grotesque evil of the smallpox blankets in the native american genocide. i actually can't think about that for too long it is too evil
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reagan wielded the CDC similarly—but reagan was a stage actor:
Reagan starred in Kings Row (1942) as a leg amputee;[39] this performance was considered his best by many critics.
an irish-american doing a minstrel show of disability
building systems to empower and enable expert usage of computers is i believe the most important task any programmer can do
A/B testing is an example of how fascist systems of computer control iterate upon user feedback. the entirety of uv's performance relies upon my indefatigable desire to empower twitter data scientists outside our US data centers, and subsequently my absurd hope that i could bring that to everyone else
if you work to understand and represent the intricacies of domain expertise—visual art, beatboxing, tax law, government regulators—you will very quickly leap ahead of the cheap attempts to enclose these fields and limit their ability to exercise that expertise
a computer system that responds to your whims is definitionally one who listens to and incorporates your criticisms
the idea of "hacking" a corporate system is so blasé to me now. oh, microsoft windows has poor security practices? is that a surprise? who does security serve? there is an entire infosec industry (it's not even a cottage industry) around the security of microsoft windows
have you succeeded by circumventing the security boundaries defined by microsoft windows itself? or have you been played? was your epiphany concocted in a lab to distract you from the security boundaries not explicitly defined for you?
secrecy is the 3' end to the 5' end of privacy https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/112509446853244426
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directionality_(molecular_biology)#3%E2%80%B2-end consider the double helix and the process of translation through messenger RNA. consider how to build up structures that replicate because they evolve in response to—this epithet still has meaning to me—they evolve in response to the user!
the user! you can make a system that fits beyond a glove. you can make people so fucking powerful in an instant!
i beseech you. try to see it. try to see the latent power you can evoke. everyone. everywhere
oh OP was about lebanne lmao. i think she's both life and wife goals because she feels and loves so fiercely
everyone complimented my outfits every day last weekend. artists said i looked hot. a 60-year-old white woman said i looked incredible on the amtrak home
i'm trying to radiate the nuclear fusion burning all the time
i'm just rewriting the rust stdlib now. it's crazy how no one can stop you from doing this
only the parts that haven't changed since the libuv rewrite 11 years ago
i keep forgetting how i'm essentially the coffeescript maintainer now too. it turns out there are other ways to build the language of the web besides implementing a w3c-compatible web browser
wasm is a cool idea but the jvm already exists? and more concerningly and intringuingly, wasn't the pitch just "run your code on the web"? defining a standard memory model for sharing chunks of bytes across languages is completely, undeniably, strikingly orthogonal to the whole compilation backend and language runtime wasm requires
this kind of memory sharing FFI (ABI and FFI are basically the same thing) is exactly what i investigated between rust and scala, in response to an incredibly powerful nerd snipe @igb gave me as a parting gift when i left twitter https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/upc
https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/upc/commits/master/local/memory/LibMemory.scala created upon the deeply auspicious date of 4/20/2020, the analogy from what i was doing here to what wasm was doing was invisible to me until a few moments ago
and in fact like
[dramatic pause]
why would we want a single FFI for all purposes? and how could such a thing ever exist in reality?
i understand that combinatorial n x m FFI interfaces are frustrating and bug-prone. why is that? because they don't conform to protocols! what wasm has shown is that shared protocols for cross-language FFIs can work!
i think i'm now completely disinterested in compiling to wasm now because that shit is completely orthogonal to the interfaces i want
the wasm runtime itself (the thing the browser executes) is to my understanding marketed with an immense degree of appeals to safe execution of foreign code. that's cool as a research field but in my professional opinion it's
(1) not really production ready until it allows irreducible CFGs
(2) completely 100% orthogonal to the basic goal of getting a web browser to run my rust code
i'm amazed i figured this out just by complaining about how nobody values my compiler experience. this fundamental conceit of wasm now seems incredibly obvious
i'm not saying the collective effort spent on crafting APIs for things like shared memory was at all wasted to be clear. in my eyes that constitutes wasm's novel and unique contribution to the field
but it's kind of freaking me out to think about:
why can't i run my rust code to parse text in a user's web browser?
well, because it would need to be packaged for their platform
ok, but then what? packaging code is a solvable problem
it needs to connect to the browser somehow!
ok, so the browser and my code negotiate a communication channel
isn't that just electron?
perhaps....
[dramatic pause]
hipsterelectron???
servo is a natural candidate for prototyping this sort of thing—but imho the web browser is particularly good for GUIs via the DOM/canvas/webgl. i don't think a web browser is inherently good for packaging code—i just think it's the best (imho) and by far the most portable format for powerful interactive GUIs
takeaways:
(1) wasm is a highly opinionated runtime bolted on to a set of deeply underappreciated FFIs for safe (unironic!) and performant cross-language interactions in specific domains (e.g. parsing, coroutines, computer graphics)
(2) the browser is an unmatched (imho) platform for portable GUIs. wasm and javascript are kind of just riding its coattails