I'm also on the blue thing. @kaimast.bsky.social

#Apple folks: Does it make sense to buy a MacBook in 2024 with only 16GB of RAM?

We get to take electrified Caltrain service because our leaders worked across the aisle to get federal funding while Trump was POTUS. Transit projects on the West Coast also create jobs in red and swing states. That's the inroad. It isn’t over for transit 🚂⚡️

Climate change seems to have completely disappeared as a primary issue in US politics, according to this NBC poll.

C++ should really include a "fn" keyword (or similar). Trailing return types with `auto`, e.g., `auto main() -> int`, look confusing.

What's a good paper/resource to introduce people to SGX or TEEs in general these days? Back in my day, we read Intel's developer guide, but that was no fun.

"Cat 6" is trending, and I thought people were excited about networking...

Sounds like someone messed with the catenary wires or power lines. 😳

Do I know someone here who works at @gradescope ? I ran into a bug in the autograder and support is MIA.

Like, I thought they would at least do some kind of hard fork. This is less work than what was put into creating Dodgecoin.

I cannot believe the Trump "cryptocurrency" is just a fungible token on #Solana. But, hey, it will also be used as a "governance token, specifically for voting purposes". I am not sure what they plan to govern or vote on, and I do not think they are either.

I died a little inside when I learned this: > When developers remove their projects from the PyPI repository, the associated package names immediately become available for registration by any other user. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ @jfrog researchers found that >22K packages could be hijacked in

The closet thing I can find is TiKVs Raft implementation (and one can argue that Raft is an instantiation of Paxos)

Am I bad at searching or is there no good and well-tested #Rust implementation of Paxos yet?

I switched back to Windows so I can use a better presentation software, and I got this.

New Blog Post: "Automation of Systems Experiments with Wickie"

Submit your work in progress in systems to SysDW colocated with SOSP 24! You can also submit a research statement and get feedback if you are going on the job market soon.

I'm on an electric @Caltrain train. This is not a drill!

Sometimes I perceive reading/writing emails as very inconvenient, but then someone sends me a voice message and I remember how much worse online communication can be.

Or in other words: I want to only write to pages in memory and atomically flush all dirty pages to disk.