Nicholas Nethercote (@nnethercote@mas.to)

Nicholas NethercoteNew blog post: <a href="https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/04/08/a-home-free-from-fossil-fuels.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/04/08/a-home-free-from-fossil-fuels.html</a>

Nicholas NethercoteOh, Firefox has vertical tabs now. I'll stick with my beloved Tree Style Tab for now, because the "tree" part is still very useful. But good to see.

Nicholas NethercoteNew blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025<a href="https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/03/19/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-march-2025.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/03/19/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-march-2025.html</a>

Nicholas NethercoteNew blog post: Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc <a href="https://nnethercote.github.io/2024/12/19/streamlined-dataflow-analysis-code-in-rustc.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://nnethercote.github.io/2024/12/19/streamlined-dataflow-analysis-code-in-rustc.html</a>

Nicholas NethercoteI typed the word "December" into a hackmd document and got an animation of snow falling down the edit windowit was 40°C here yesterday, goddammit

Nicholas NethercoteThis toot brought to you by "wtf is a .goml file?"

Nicholas NethercoteYOU: this should be an innocuous code changeA TEST IN SOME PART OF THE TEST SUITE YOU DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED: I am going to fail with output so cryptic you will want to cry

Nicholas NethercoteTwinkle twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are. One for the master, one for the dame, W, X, Y and Z.

Nicholas NethercoteSimonPJ once said about Haskell that purity is important, not laziness, but the latter requires the former.As a follow-up, I suspect "aliasing XOR mutability" is more important than purity.

Nicholas NethercoteToday's mass posting brought to you by "I'm deleting all my tweets because Twitter now sucks and some of the good ones can live on somewhere else".

Nicholas NethercoteThe Gettysburg Address, as translated from the original French,

Nicholas NethercoteCounting from 60 to 100 in French: • 60-69: sixty, sixty and one, sixty-two, ... sixty-nine • 70-79: sixty-ten, sixty and eleven, sixty-twelve, ..., sixty-sixteen, sixty-ten-seven, ..., sixty-ten-nine • 80-89: four-twenties, four-twenty-one, four-twenty-two, ..., four-twenty-nine • 90-99: four-twenty-ten, four-twenty-eleven, ..., four-twenty-sixteen, four-twenty-ten-seven, ..., four-twenty-ten-nine • 100: hundred

Nicholas NethercoteThe runway at the Gold Coast Airport is half in New South Wales and half in Queensland.New South Wales does daylight saving. Queensland doesn't.

Nicholas NethercoteMy Einstein number is 6.

Nicholas NethercoteMy Erdős number is 4.

Nicholas Nethercoteif (RUNNING_ON_VALGRIND) { // obviously memory-safe code } else { // subtly memory-unsafe code }

Nicholas NethercoteI once had reason to tell my father about the two sizes of megabyte, 1,000,000 vs 1,048,576. I said "it's a bit like normal miles and nautical miles." He took it better than expected.

Nicholas Nethercotehenceforth the "medical" category will be known as "biological tech support"

Nicholas Nethercoteen-US: 123,456,789.123fr-FR: 123 456 789,123de-DE: 123.456.789,123ar-EG: ١٢٣٬٤٥٦٬٧٨٩٫١٢٣en-IN: 12,34,56,789.123

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