Author, here! Happy to answer any questions.
Readit Newsjswrenn commented on Safety Goggles for Alchemists jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/safet... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> Although the title of legal personhood is a unique way of approaching conservation, it can draw questions about how the Magpie will manage the intricacies of the legal system — especially since it can now theoretically sue and be sued.
> In the case of damage, due to flooding for instance, Cárdenas explains that the Magpie would likely not be found liable. "The river doesn't commit intentional damage, therefore it cannot be sued," she said, pointing out that those who build in known flood zones are also aware of the risks.
Intent is not a condition for successfully suing someone but realistically this entire thing is mostly a joke anyway so might as well make up the entire thing as they go.
If you enjoy thinking about the legal implications of this, you'll almost certainly enjoy the first entry in "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up": https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very-dif...
An excerpt:
> The Clamzorians are animists. They believe every rock and tree and river has its own spirit. And those spirits are legal people. This on its own is not unusual – even New Zealand gives rivers legal personhood. But in Clamzoria, if a flood destroys your home, you sue the river.
jswrenn commented on Stupid alloc – What if memory allocation was annoying github.com/shadyfennec/st... · Posted by u/jmmv
I love it. I’d also like to see a bellalloc which plays the system warning sound on every allocation.[1]
It already exists! https://github.com/cuviper/alloc_geiger
jswrenn commented on I ditched my car – and improved my fitness, sleep and bank balance theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/sgt
Would have been nice if this headline started with "As a person living in a big city, I ditched my car (...)". Now it just feels ignorant towards people living in other areas - as everybody is pointing out in the comments.
The article devotes a paragraph to saying as much. This line of criticism reminds be a bit of the debacle around the I-enjoy-coffee-with-my-husband-in-the-garden tweet: https://www.insider.com/woman-shocked-accusations-privilege-...
jswrenn commented on Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022 krebsonsecurity.com/2023/... · Posted by u/mikece
I've always figured I should have two numbers—one I let people know, and one for 2fa.
But that's ~$20/mo and a moderate annoyance, so for now mostly just fingers crossed that eventually everywhere that matters will allow me to switch fully to authentication apps and hardware keys.
I don't think that having two numbers will help much. I'd guess that most sim-swapped cell numbers are leaked in data breaches or acquired through data brokering. Enrolling a number in 2fa is letting people know your number, because you're tying that number to the account.
A separate number for each account might help. Maybe.
jswrenn commented on We’re using our streets wrong [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hK7ag... · Posted by u/mooreds
jswrenn commented on Pretty Rust backtraces in raw terminal mode werat.dev/blog/pretty-rus... · Posted by u/werat
Does anyone know of a good solution to pretty print or make more sense of stacktraces in async code?
It's an area of active development! I'm hopeful the situation will improve significantly this year.
For tracing suspended Futures, I've worked on a few approaches:
1. If you don't mind annotating your async functions, you can use the async-backtrace crate, which provides pretty-printing out-of-the-box: https://crates.io/crates/async-backtrace
2. If you are already using the `tracing` ecosystem, you can use the tracing-causality crate (it doesn't yet include pretty-printing, but it's not too hard to add that on): https://crates.io/crates/tracing-causality
3. If you are only supporting Linux (and maybe MacOS) and you aren't stripping away debuginfo from your binaries, you can build atop the deflect crate (https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/deflect/). If your `Future` purely consists of `async` blocks, Tyler Mandry's reflection based approach works well: https://github.com/tmandry/rust-dbg-ext/tree/async-backtrace...
For analyzing stack traces of active futures, I'm not aware of any good ways to reliably filter out irrelevant frames (e.g., frames from the runtime).
jswrenn commented on Io_uring and Networking in 2023 [pdf] kernel.dk/io_uring%20and%... · Posted by u/ingve
dupe (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34798281
jswrenn commented on Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars treehugger.com/fear-of-ca... · Posted by u/jseliger
I spend a lot of time fantasizing about what building a city "from scratch" would look like.
It's a painful problem to actually make it happen because cities are all about network effects (you live there because people you know are there, etc). I just think it would be very appealing to me to live in a city that is optimized for biking + walking instead of having to own a car.
If I were ever to get rich, this would be an area I'd throw funding at to figure out. Is anybody aware of any research in this area?
I fantasize about that, too. You might be interested in the work of Culdesac (https://culdesac.com/); they're building an expressly car-free neighborhood, from scratch.
I'm optimistic that I can make strides closer to home. I have only ever lived in places that predated the advent of automobiles. At one time, they were very accessible via walking, biking, rail, and trolley. So, last fall, when I moved back to Providence, I made it my mission to get involved in local transit activism. It's been a great source of social and civic satisfaction, and I intend to repeat the exercise when I move again next Fall.
It feels like positive change is (slowly) happening.