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It is very funny (to me) when news articles about Meta are published where they talk about performance evaluations without mentioning the entire fucking company revolves around them
We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. @sunshowers.io, joined me and @bcantrill.bsky.social to talk about the hardest type of unsafe Rust.
This is such a perfect example of what I mean by saying we live in a post-information world. A complete dissociation of the idea that information acts as evidence of reality instead of making its own reality that substitutes for the real.
Okay, enough complaining. Soteria is actually quite awesome, and I've been able to prove some interesting invariants on iddqd with it. It is a tool in the toolbox -- it won't replace the extensive model-based tests -- but it can prove things across all possible kinds of adversarial inputs
So model checking gives you a lot more breadth -- show that invariants hold across any kind of adversarial result! -- but much less depth than randomized tests. That is fine. They're both very valuable
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(Soteria also couldn't handle hashbrown, so I had to substitute a naive hash table impl for it)
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Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
vortex egg, cyberoccult investigator
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The main reason Soteria won't replace model-based test is that model checking, while exhaustive, is extremely slow. Effectively, every point of nondeterminism is a branch that must be explored symbolically. With testing, I can generate sequences of hundreds of operations -- Soteria struggles with 3
