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janriemer, to rust

Some people: "Rust's syntax is so confusing to me." 🥴

The project: "Let's match that confusion with even more confusing syntax!" :awesome:

🤦

/sarcasm

andy_f,
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@laund @hopland @janriemer It means liking Rust means you’re into S&M, I think 🤔

andy_f,
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@laund @hopland @janriemer Also, Rust isn’t that difficult. The challenge, and even the supposed slow development speed, are way overblown.

kellogh, (edited ) to rust
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ngl postfix match statements are probably the sexiest feature i’ve seen in a while https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/language-features/postfix-match.html

andy_f,
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@kellogh What’s the meaningful difference between
get_foo().match { . . . }
and
match get_foo() { . . . }
?

grammargirl, to random
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Gotta love a form that says "provide as much detail as possible" and then rejects the submission saying "limit 250 characters."

andy_f,
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@grammargirl ahh, an invitation to communicate via emojis!

gabrielesvelto, to rust
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I think someone should add the wildly_unsafe_seriously_what_were_you_thinking keyword in just for the stuff I'm writing

andy_f,
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@gabrielesvelto the Memory Police will be paying you a visit soon

LadyDragonfly, to random

Forget pineapple name a truly unacceptable pizza topping

andy_f,
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@LadyDragonfly @lisamelton My timeline serendipitously provided the perfect answer.

b0rk, to random
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there's something weird about git branches that "a branch is just a reference to a commit" does not capture and I've been struggling with it for weeks

like in this diagram I think most people would say that there are 3 branches (corresponding to the 3 commits at the top of the diagram), though technically in git you could have 0, 3, or 100 branches here, and it's not labelled so you have no way to know how many branches there are

(please don't try to explain branches to me ty)

andy_f,
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@b0rk Does a repository with just a single initial commit have a branch?

andy_f,
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@b0rk Hmm. Do you feel like git using the term ‘branch’ for that sort of thing is a mistake? Like, should that maybe be called a ‘trunk’ or something?

I’ve been following your toots about this and it’s got me questioning quite a lot about what I thought I knew about git 🤔

In a more general sense, do you think the way git does things is ideal? Or even just good? What would a ‘better’ system look like?

MissingThePt, to random
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AI will never replace me in my job of using deep learning techniques and massively large data sets to understand, summarize, generate and predict new content.

andy_f,
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@MissingThePt Before I laugh, please click on all the squares that contain a BRIDGE:

🏙️🌉🌇🌃
🌆🏞️🌌🌉
🌄🎑🏙️🌅
🌉🌌🌃🏙️

MissingThePt, to random
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Movie Pitch: “Armageddon” remake except that instead of stopping an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, the mission is to steer an asteroid on a near-miss trajectory into Earth.

andy_f,
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@MissingThePt Armageddish

MissingThePt, to random
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I don't mean to brag, but there was a time when I was the youngest person on Earth.

andy_f,
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@MissingThePt The longer someone remains the youngest person on Earth, the more worried we should all be.

fasterthanlime, to random
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Dictation on macOS is pretty good imho, but text-to-speech is uhhhh...

I'm in the corner and you see my screen, cropped into the demo area of the google cloud text to speech page.

andy_f,
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@fasterthanlime maybe relevant? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-ars-technica-review/18/#h1

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Why in French is it "waouh" and not something like "ouaouh? Don't the French hate W?

andy_f,
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@ZachWeinersmith Waux betide anyone one who gets it wrong.

that_shaman, to guildwars2
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Funny how some of the dailies work. For example the one where you have to dodge 3 times only counts if you're in combat.. so doing the dodge tutorial the proper way won't work but if you headbutt into the spikes first it does count 🤔

image/png

andy_f,
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@that_shaman It also doesn’t count no matter what if you’re playing a Mirage 😑

that_shaman, to random
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Dragons brought down:

  • Snaff: 0
  • Zojja: 2
  • Gorrik: 4
  • Taimi: 5
  • Logan: 6

Proving once again Logan Thackeray is the most brilliant Asura of all time

andy_f,
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@that_shaman Logan is James Bond, the asura are the intelligence analysts at MI6.

AterNox, to guildwars2
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So Im thinking about taking a new run at Gw2. Ive played Guardian from 1-80. I think as a challege I should play the least played or hardest class, which looks to be the Elementalist, Engineer or Reverent. Does other Gw2 Folk think im on track?

andy_f,
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@sdskuld @AterNox Elementalist isn’t so bad if you stick with staff, it gives you plenty of range to run away if you get into trouble, and the damage is pretty good for levelling.

Engineer with flamethrower is easymode levelling 😁

Revenant, I don’t really have much of an opinion on. It’s… fine? 🤷

andy_f, to rust
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Wow, thanks to @burntsushi5 and his memchr crate, my nonsense generator https://github.com/caerphoto/haywright is waaayyy faster :D

Here's a fun sample (guess the source ;):

"Elizabeth now began to comprehend, from the society of Hertfordshire so very ill of Wickham’s character? Was not this an agreeable as he was gone directly to her mind, she was a most delightful in the country. But it was a great comfort to know in what manner he immediately despatched, and its furniture, or detected the house."

andy_f,
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What used to take about 800ms now takes a mere 5ms or so! 😮

fasterthanlime, to random
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a litmus test for pedants is whether they use the term “litmus test” outside of pH testing

andy_f,
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@fasterthanlime is pedantry basic or nah?

fasterthanlime, to random
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Well at least it's upfront about it.

andy_f,
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@fasterthanlime yeah it’s great. Such a relief after fighting with Inkscape for so long.

ArtBear, to politics

Sound advice.

andy_f,
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@ArtBear @lisamelton I am quite partial to ‘beacon of Lucifer’.

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