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• Post #3993167

  As an American, I feel like I only hear about British politicians that people detest. Do you want to tell me about any that you admire?

• Post #2396602

  TIL that one can use for<'a> syntax in a return position trait bound, like this: fn foo() -> impl for<'a> binrw::BinWrite<Args<'a> = ()> { ... } #rust #rustlang

• Post #2078593

  "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." --Douglas Adams, as quoted by @pluralistic

• Post #2055070

  Nice title guys, real professional

• Post #2055069

  Being willing to put an extraordinary amount of time into a project is a superpower. It means you can do things no one else can.

• Post #2055068

  Surely these should include a QR code.

• Post #2055067

  At the KVMR Celtic Fair this weekend, a fencing group just a few yards from us was giving out roses to the winners of each duel. They seemed to be sending out runners with them to people nearby. When one of them ran by, I said, "Oh, how sweet, is that for me?" They replied, "No, but the next one will be," and sure enough, 10 minutes later, they brought one to me. They gave me the second one afterward and I don't know why. Maybe because I wore the rose...

• Post #2055062

  Yesterday I passed by a restaurant called Oscar's Very Mexican Food.

• Post #1785816

  Yesterday I was playing a board game with friends in which one tries to identify colors (one out of hundreds of colors) with one- or two-word hints. You aren't allowed to just say color names, you have to hint at them. My one-word hint for a shade of purple didn't work out well, so for the two-word hint I said, "Wonka Beauregarde" and 2 out of 3 players got it immediately. The other one just looked at me like I was crazy.

• Post #1671673

  CS papers used to be printed for publication and collected proceedings were given to conference-goers and mailed to subscribers. This is hardly the case anymore. The 2-column PDF-based format for papers assumes this usage, and it's relatively hard to read on a screen. It's overdue for replacement.

• Post #1671672

  Trump is acting like a king and attacking the pope, so his next step is obviously to form the Church of America.

• Post #1671658

  I learned something cool from John McWhorter's NYT article today. He says: > The “s” in “island” was added because the Latin word was “insula” I didn't realize that the words "island" and "peninsula" were related, but now it seems evident that the "pen" prefix must be the same one in "penultimate". It's almost an island!

• Post #1671653

  Google's new "partner ad settings" do not work.

• Post #1366781

  What if all these "orbiting data center" proposals are really elaborate tax and fraud havens? Who collects taxes on revenues that are collected 1000 miles above international waters? Who prosecutes Ponzi schemes that are perpetrated there?

• Post #1366780

  My electric teakettle has 0.5L marked on it as minimum and 1.7L as maximum. That makes sense. It also has 1.2L marked on it. What is special about 1.2L?

• Post #1183627

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@WhatLayoff/116404777797046292 Rent seeking for air?

• Post #1183626

  In #Rust, `struct S<T>` yields a compiler error, but `fn f<T>() {}` does not even yield a warning. Why not? #rustlang

• Post #1183625

  I saw an ad for a TV show called SKYKING and the phrase that leapt to mind was "No, you naughty boy, I've never skyked."

• Post #1183621

  I'm no papist but, between J. D. Vance and the Pope, I know who I'd pick when it comes to theology.

• Post #996441

  Linux is removing 486 support in the next version. My first Linux machine was a 486DX-33. That was so long ago (1995ish?).

• Post #849377

  It's called "single" sign on, why do I have to do it so many times

• Post #294536

  I shall train a dolphin in the law. He will be my Habeas Porpoise.

• Post #283420

  A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.