9 June 2025

26 links · Monday

Scale or Surrender: When watts determine freedom — TD

Consider this provocative framing: what if we viewed our collective future not through the lens of human populations and national borders, but through available compute capacity? In this view, the race to build massive datacenter infrastructure becomes humanit…

Async Traits Can Be Directly Backed By Manual Future Impls

There’s a fun little tidbit that most people don’t seem to be aware of when writing async functions in traits (AFITs) and that is: they allow you to directly return futures from methods. Sounds confusing? Let me illustrate what I mean with a simple example. As…

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Forget Who Forgets You - kupajo

The people who actually think about you often, like your family, partner, and closest friends, like you because they get to see the rawest form of you.

Search Interest Indicates 8% Q2 Sales Growth for Acushnet

Based on regression analysis of search interest/ sales growth data, Acushnet’s FY25 Q2 (Apr – Jun 2025) sales are forecast to increase 7.9% YoY on a constant-currency basis – following a 1.2% increase in Q1 – driven by 9.7% and 15.1% increases in the US and EM…

Life and Insecurities

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except that life comes with insecurities. Insecurity is a near-universal human condition. Ironically, people who appear most confident often turn out to be driven by the deepest insecurities. They may dominate …

LLMs are cheap

A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.

FSE Meets the FBI! — FSE Blog

I have for you a bizarre tale of scrapers, feds, data poisoning, Torswats, and everyone's favorite fedi instance. It veers technical, because I suspect it will be of interest to other people running servers with UGC (i.e., every fedi instance), and also becau…

Kagi Search Stats

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