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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 5mo ago

"our new language is totally gonna support tail calls, it'll be amazing"

[10 years pass]

"so, implementing tail calls turns out to be really hard"

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 14mo ago

New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job

https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/looking-for-a-new-job.html

Not so happy, this one :(

Nicholas Nethercote

I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job

UPDATE 2025-09-03: I have found a new job and will be starting next week. I will post more details soon. Many thanks to everyone who helped publicize this post and to everyone who contacted me about possible work. Rust is being used in many interesting places!

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Feels like we are heading towards a world where there are codebases that are >90% human code, and codebases that are >90% LLM-generated code, and not much in between.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 7mo ago

jemalloc is being rebooted! Fingers crossed this works out well:

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renewed-commitment-to-jemalloc/

engineering.fb.com

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 6mo ago

"human-generated content"?

Just call it "work" if you need a generic term. Or be more specific if you can: "story", "illustration", "song", "video", etc.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

somehow I learned this while trying to create a USB drive to install Windows

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@impermanen_@zirk.us The history of air pollution science is just "the health impact is even worse than we thought" over and over again.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 9mo ago

I finally 100%'d Silksong, phew

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@paco Mozilla security bugs are always locked down until some length of time has passed, so it's not surprising that you can't see them. I know Christian Holler, he's a 100% legit expert on security matters. Him writing this post is a stronger signal to me than anything else that there is something real here, even if Anthropic's marketing is overblown as always.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@yaah 😡

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@cadey@pony.social A good blog post from Scott summarizing what happened: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

The Shamblog

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@wffl oh no

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote@mas.to

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@exa@mastodon.online One obvious thing is to design the front-end for parallelism from the ground up. More generally, you might find https://bal-e.org/speed/krabby/ interesting.

bal-e.org