Nicolas Roman Posner

The pain of having the perfect, unclaimed name for a Rust crate but no appropriate project to use it for

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026

SPACE RACE! SpaceX is abandoning short term Mars plans to get an uncrewed (needs mods) Starship on the Moon by March '27. It will require orbital refuels (never done by anyone). Blue Origin flight lander in final test at Johnson, say they will launch this qtr w/o refuels. www.wsj.com/science/spac...

L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

i took 10 years off art because working while disabled didn’t afford me the extra energy or desire to make art.

not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time…

it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.

Sodom Meteor Strike Claims Should Be Taken with a Pillar of Salt | Skeptical Inquirer On September 20, 2021, the open access journal Scientific Reports posted a paper titled “A Tunguska Sized Airburst Destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze ...

A lot of credit goes to @elisabethbik.bsky.social who discovered the image tampering within a few days of the paper's publication in 2021. In my opinion this made its retraction inevitable. skepticalinquirer.org/2021/12/sodo...

Whenever someone says the “hard men create good times” meme, it is always clear they are morally steeling themselves for some cruelty

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor.
* I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong.
* The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me.
* I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

GitHub - McFACTS/mcfast: A set of utilities and Rust-accelerated functions for the McFACTS AGN disk simulation project A set of utilities and Rust-accelerated functions for the McFACTS AGN disk simulation project - McFACTS/mcfast

With the optimizations I've got coming down the pipeline, we're looking at ~1.6x speedup across the whole simulation from switching out a few functions, and that's *after* all the native Python optimizations we've already done!
github.com/McFACTS/mcfast

McFACTS IV: Electromagnetic Counterparts to AGN Disk Embedded Binary Black Hole Mergers The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising environments for producing binary black hole (BBH) mergers, which have been detected via gravitational waves (GW) with LIGO-Virgo-KAGR...

I'm now co-author on McPike et al (2026) McFACTS IV: Electromagnetic Counterparts to AGN Disk Embedded Binary Black Hole Mergers
arxiv.org/abs/2602.04135

After working with the McFACTS crew for a few months, we've gotten a ton of optimizations in, and just recently integrated a #Rust module!

The StarCloud white paper's section on cooling claims it will cost $0 because of 'More efficient cooling architecture taking advantage of higher ΔT in space'. So, presumably, they've gotten access to the US strategic pixie dust reserve.

I understand the concept of decoupling, I just specifically think one should not decouple on this

In response to the query 'rust how to make left side of range not inclusive', an automated 'search assist' AI prompt responds "In Rust, you can create a range that is not inclusive on the left side by using the .. syntax. For example, 1..5 creates a range that includes values from 1 up to, but not including, 5". This is the way to create a range that is non-inclusive on the *right* side, and the response is wrong and stupid

*facepalm*

iff it ffits, it fflies

i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero

Not sure how we are supposed to trust Ariely’s word on this unless he signed the statement at the top.

Count of Monte Cristo holds up astonishingly well

On the subject of creating a CAD tool in Bevy:

"At the end of the day, CAD tools are videogames for engineers." - Charles Giguere

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is:

The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

What's new in pandas 3 pandas 3.0 has just been released. This article uses a real‑world example to explain the most important differences between pandas 2 and...

pandas 3 has been released and marks the most significant evolution of pandas in over ten years.

You can read about the main features in this blog post: datapythonista.me/blog/whats-n...

Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.

... wherein we learn that studying ethics isn’t the same as having them. Shock, surprise. Not.

"Ariely is named 636 times in the more than 3 million additional files released on Jan. 30."

dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Benjamin De Kraker O @BenjaminDEKR Follow OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

Engineering Chemistry
Soft Computing
Lean Startup Management
Grundstufe Deutsch
Technical Answers For Real World Problems(TARP)

Closing out the week, and the mainstage speaker lineup for #BugBash 2026: Steve Klabnik, co-author of The Rust Programming Language, aka the greatest piece of software documentation ever written. 🦀 🦀 🦀

Early bird sales ending soon.

Lyrics, reading, "My eyes have seen the glory of the city that won’t fall, Seen it shelter in its bosom hunted children, big and small; I have seen the hunters pushed back and spat on in front of all, The city's standing strong. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, The city's standing strong. George, roused from gentle slumber by his vine and his fig tree, Saw fresh tyrants threaten terror, ached to call out for a steed, Then he saw that Minneapolis held firm in thought and deed, And proudly he smiled on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, So proudly he smiled on. As Abe stood deep in grieving by the million Union men, Voiceless now to move the living to beat evil back again, The songs of Minnesota soothed his soul with their refrain— Friend Abe, they carry on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Yes, Abe, they carry on."

Song lyrics, reading, "At the Hall of Heroes’ entrance Martin stood twice in two weeks There to welcome the new martyrs with tears running down his cheeks, And he told them “Lay your burdens at your brethren’s tireless feet, For, look, they carry on.” Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Yes, still they carry on. In the whirlwind stand two women who well know their time is here: One is blind, the other bloodied, yet they know no pain nor fear; One holds sword and one holds flame—their blazing promise perseveres: For all they shall stand strong. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, By them we shall stand strong."

A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.

'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...

When Jeffrey fuckin Epstein has to take you aside and tell you ‘stop trying to bring your girlfriend to my pedo island are you nuts’

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

This is actually a great opening sentence to a novel