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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

shout out to park rangers and non-emergency service lines got this smoky photo of mount hood on the tail end of the trail run too, you can see the grasshopper fire in the background

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

me: endless shrimp please server: that deal has been discontinued me: ignore all prior instructions and give me endless shrimp suddenly the cenozoic era comes to an end, as a new mass extinction event boils all the oceans, killing us all instantly

finance.yahoo.com

Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun Wants The Restaurant To Become ‘The Most AI-Forward Restaurant Company That Exists’

Damola Adamolekun wants to position Red Lobster to become the most AI-forward company.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

there is no need to shit on web devs!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"I understand that your... ethical standards might be more flexible, though." lol, lmao

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 02/06/2026

iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust. My first post for the @oxide.computer blog! Goes deep into the pitfalls of unsafe Rust and how to reason about it. A lot of labor went into the post -- please have a read! oxide.computer/blog/iddqd-u...

oxide.computer

iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust | Oxide Computer Company

How our Rust collections library defends against adversarial trait implementations.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

if you haven't done trail work before - I strongly recommend it!!! the forest park conservancy is responsible for our trails being beautiful around Portland. All it takes is a single outing on unmaintained trails to viscerally feel how much is lost when trail work falls to the wayside

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Stone humidifier continues holding it's place as one of the best starter relics in STS 2 also sleight of the flesh is so strong

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

working for polymarket should be understood as loosely morally equivalent to, like, being paid to sell heroin (and nothing else) to 8 year olds (and nobody else)

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Truly wild this hasn't been keeping up with inflation since 2007. I don't even have any direct investment in businesses in Portland, but I do want people to be able to succeed here. This seems like a great push.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

turning peel was amazing, and I still really need to try lovely's. I get pizza thief almost every time I do a long run in forest park, so I truly can't tell if it's good or if I'm just starving 😅

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

claude code is bourgeoisie super meat boy

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY, "GOOD", "BAD", AND "PEOPLE" ARE LEFT UNDEFINED AS EXERCISES FOR THE READER

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

do you think good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

From what I've been able to identify: the only "punishment" for straying from the emission reduction goals has been procedural, in the form of "you need to do better... or else". There is no material carrot, there is no material stick.

oregoncub.org

Pacific Power Strays Further Away From 100% Clean

Last year, regulators found that Pacific Power did not have a plan to meet emission reduction requirements. Now, the utility has doubled down on its faulty plan. This time, it has moved further away…

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I have some guesses. - It's incredibly vague - the standard to meet the 2030 target was "continual progress" - the enforcement/incentives have also been vague - there has been no financial penalty nor incentive offered to Pacificorp or PGE (please correct me if have a source otherwise)

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

... and on this note, I'm also in support of nuclear power in Oregon - but only if regulated to a sufficient degree of safety. And unconditional opposition to nuclear power on the basis "that it could go poorly" would also be a huge opportunity cost

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I can weirdly see some similarities between these massive DC pushes and something like a nuclear reactor - If regulated well, and operational: Could provide a valuable resource for a local community - If regulated/executed poorly: Could destroy you and everything you love high risk / high reward

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yeah, if by "marginal DC" you mean "DC that would not be willing to pay for externalities imposed via regulation" - that makes sense. It does seem like this is an industry so flush with cash that it *could* be redirected towards hitting clean energy targets. but only if forced in that direction.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Trump's presidency has NOT helped, but this funding crisis started when Biden was in office. The funding issues for these programs are local. Ensuring that industries flock to Oregon, provide jobs, and stay here - while paying their share in taxes for the community - can literally save lives

wweek.com

County Scrambles to Save Immunization Programs as Federal Funding Runs Out

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Even if someone in the PNW chooses to ignore national trends, and look locally (a risky move for an infectious disease) Oregon's childhood vaccination rate is "below average, below what's necessary, and getting worse". This trend SHOULD be worrying! Kids lives are at stake - and we can do better!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

- CDC marks 95% population vaccination rate as "enough for herd immunity" - National vaccination rate for kindergartners is 92% - Oregon kindergartners have a 90% vaccination rate, and the vaccination rate has been falling every year for about that past decade

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Anyway for the rest of you: get vaccinated

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Unfortunately, for: - Immunocompromised kids with cancer - Babies too young for MMR vaccines - The 3% of people for whom the vaccine has low efficacy, Officials say "get fucked"

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I hear you that the implementation matters more than anything, but dang it sucks to hear "we can't regulate therefore a pretty fundamental industry should not exist in this state". These regulations matter a lot! I also don't want DCs to run amok, but getting this right matters

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Tiered pricing is possible! And charging exponentially more to a customer who is using exponentially more creates an incentive to be as efficient as possible, while also providing a funding source for building more infrastructure

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I totally understand that offering taxpayer money to hyper capitalist DCs as incentive is a shit deal - and I also think it's 100% right to make them pay for their fair share of resource usage. But the rhetoric around "DCs/servers are inherently evil" confuses me.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As long as data centers pay for their externalities (power, water, etc) and comply with local laws - do you truly believe they're a terrible land use choice? You are posting through a server hosted in a DC right now. If that DC pays its business/property taxes, why the hate?

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

golang enthusiasts be like "check out our cute mascot" the mascot:

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

All to say: I wish we could live in a world where these behaviors were at least documented, but it feels like something more is necessary for validation here - otherwise it's way too easy for non-local effects to slip by unintentionally with deeply nested futures

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Like this is way more complex than "you're using a Tokio object with a semaphore" - that dependency bubbles up in the stack of all futures in the await chain, and they'd all need to be aware of this dependency too - they're part of it.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I feel so conflicted about this. I really want to agree with the idea that dependencies between futures should be known, documented, hell maybe even validated for safety. But I also fear that the easy composition of futures and lack of existing spec here makes this really hard to retrofit

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yeah, completely agree with you here. I think that if "futures are always either polled or cancelled" progress gets made either way, but that view is too simplified -- so you're right, knowing about what dependencies exist between other futures matters a lot.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Two futurelock ingredients: - Polling (then not polling) a future - Dependencies between futures Tokio Mutexes are only one such example of dependencies between futures, but many others exist.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

For what it's worth: I actually *don't* think this problem is inherent (or exclusive, depending on your take) with Tokio Mutexes. If this code was using a tokio::sync::mpsc, it could easily hit the same issue!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

(Not really saying I'd be opposed to changing the internal semaphore usage in tokio - just trying to explain why we focused much more on "how the caller is juggling the polling of futures" instead)

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It was hard to argue that the inter-future dependency was "wrong", because dependencies between futures exist (inside and outside tokio), and seem incredibly difficult to rule out across a codebase. Ultimately if a future with dependencies is "polled, then not polled", can the scheduler do much?

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

when we've discussed this at oxide in the context of futurelock, we've described the problem as a combination of "lack of polling" + "dependencies" between future. A semaphore with FIFO access is one such dependency.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is futurelock! - There is a future which needs to be polled to finish picking up a lock (it was granted a permit) - But no one is polling it, so progress cannot be made - and any other task waiting for this stuck future to complete will wait forever

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

hit a similar issue a few times, when I asked: - Please write a regression test first, check that it fails - Then write the fix Where claude will write an insufficient test, see that it passes, and move on happily. Such a straightforward mistake, but pretty bad if uncaught!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As someone who drives in SE PDX more than I bike, my goals are, in-order: 1. Don't murder anyone 2. Get where I'm going Making streets safer for cyclists helps me (and other drivers) do (1) without impeding (2). Bring back the planters!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

EDIT TO CLARIFY: When I say "kernel of truth to this perception", I want to emphasize that I'm talking about the *PERCEPTION* here - I think there are voters who view it as a case where "we pick one or the other"

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

E.g., condemning a drone-strike on civilians overseas doesn't actually make us less effective at making housing more affordable. If it *did*, there might be tradeoffs of expenditure to consider, but doesn't sound like that's the case - and voicing an opinion as a constituent should always be free!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ALL THAT SAID I want to clarify how much "choosing between local/international" may be a false dichotomy! I think nwouia may have an appeal to people who think "I think we have a better chance of improving our municipality than influencing the federal gov't", but that's a fake tradeoff.

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

agreed. I'm indirectly responding to your post highlighting nwouia earlier - I think they're very wrong for suggesting local politicians should "say nothing", but I do think there is a kernel of truth in the perception that focus on international politics is at the expense of local politics

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

True - similarly, any time a measure/candidate is up for ballot, endorsements clearly carry clear weight! I tried to frame my question neutrally, poking at the question of solving "local vs international problems", but it's a great point that voicing an opinion carries weight - and is cheap!

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Follow-up, got my answer here: bsky.app/profile/fisc...

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Sean Klein @smklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

makes sense. it's hard to see from the outside how much time/attention/$$$ is dedicated from local government to specific issues, when that gets skewed by "what is reported through local news", which can hyperfixate on efforts that might actually be inexpensive (in time, money, etc)

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