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Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
saved 2026-09-21

Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Here are my thoughts on the free online textbook Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney, author of the Linux kernel’s RCU synchronization mechanism. I read a lot of this textbook, got my fill, and probably won’t read more of it in the near future so wanted to write this review while it is all still fresh. Set & Setting Here I’ll talk about the mindset/life phase and physical setting I was in when I started reading this textbook. This might …

If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…

FilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/

Los Angeles Film and TV Production Sinks 12% Despite New Tax Credits, FilmLA Study Shows
While high-employment TV dramas are holding on, reality TV's continued exodus fueled the decline

So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
https://xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/2079078300660769193#m

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

I ask Laura Grego now, what is it that we should all know?
Well, she says, the average person’s experience of space is about to change.
If, so far, that has been “looking at the stars and being full of wonder, full of connection with the universe”,
perhaps noticing the occasional streaking object that was not a shooting star,
now “there are plans for tens of thousands more satellites, which would really change your relationship with what you see in the sky”.
Sp…

‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies
Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?

NFL Week 2 Defining Stats: Records Fall, Stars Make History https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-2-defining-stats-record-setting-scoring-historic-performances

Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/an…

I installed today @… and found a file named "ai_settings.json" and just... FUCK!
More AI bullshit infecting open source.
#FuckAI #NoAI

Kneippbecken an der Altmühl in Pappenheim 2026
#silentsunday

Spider having a light snack #Uckermark