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New blog post: on that time when I decided that if being able to panic one Rust program is good, then a feature that lets you panic _other_ programs would be better, right?
No, really, it's awesome. Here's Hubris's oddest syscall.
@cliffle @whitequark I love it. And I’m reminded of Charles Babbage:
“I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
I don’t think Babbage had people executed for asking though - good thing tasks don’t have feelings.
@thejpster @whitequark the irony here is that, when it comes to humans, I think patience and nonviolence are important.
At the same time I'm totally that "no smart devices, keeps a weapon by the printer in case it makes a noise" infosec stereotype.
@cliffle @thejpster i occupy an interesting middle ground here, where i don't consider myself human, and operate those and only those smart devices that can become a seamless extension of my will. which isn't many of them but it's a non-zero amount
@cliffle @thejpster patience is a really good way to achieve your goals; i think i wouldn't get far without it with most of my sociotechnical goals
at the same time i don't have any patience for, say, transphobes
@whitequark @thejpster Strictly speaking I'm a cyborg collective, I just restrict myself to including devices for which I wrote the firmware. And mostly built the PCBs. For similar reasons.
And, yes, patience should not become the "paradox of tolerance." My patience for bad-faith behavior is very limited -- much like the Hubris kernel's.
@cliffle @thejpster nice! I always find it fascinating how one's way of existence is reflected deeply in the code one writes
e.g. my Amaranth, Yosys, and general HDL toolchain work is intended to be comforting to those who have burned out repeatedly and completely; to the extent there is technical excellence beyond that, it is because it appeals to me aesthetically
@cliffle @thejpster (really it's less "reflected" and more "extension of the self (selves)"