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Async Rust is not safe with io_uring

The demo shows that even though the behavior appears similar, TCP connections leak when using the io_uring driver but not with the epoll driver. I've also tested this across various io_uring runtimes, and it turns out to be a common issue across all of them.

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Soup – Alan Kay on Objects

As I listen to “Soup” by Can I’m reminded of the time when Alan Kay took some time to post on Hacker News addressing his thoughts and ideas about object-oriented programming. For raw context read the original thread, but in this post I’ll attempt to annotate some of what was posted. For the purpose of this post…

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A Shader Trick

(I was sending an email today about a simple trick we use in the shader system, and it seemed easy and useful to share that email publicly, so, here you go!)