fasterthanlime

fasterthanlime, 3 months ago to random

"sudo make me a sandwich"

fasterthanlime, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Oh cool, DuckDuckGo now accepts pay-for-placement and doesn't review ads manually and so, now scam websites are in first position.

Cool cool cool.

edit: this is with uBlock Origin enabled, stop @-ing me

fasterthanlime, 3 months ago to random

fasterthanlime, 7 months ago to random

xkcd is getting really specific

fasterthanlime, 1 year ago to random

"slack is just ciscord" send toot

fasterthanlime, 1 year ago to random

Rust: The wrong people are resigning

https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849

fasterthanlime, 3 months ago to random

Why can’t all licenses be like the GPL and have a lesbian variant (LGPL), an ace variant (AGPL) etc.??

fasterthanlime, 11 months ago to random

we're all in agreement Google pivoted from "search engine" to "mafia" a while ago, yes?

search results for "Vimeo OTT" show 3 paid listings from competitors, the first real result is (way) below the fold. I guess Vimeo didn't pay for protection this month.

fasterthanlime, 6 months ago to random

therapist recommended trying CBT, now I still have anxiety /and/ my balls hurt

fasterthanlime, 7 months ago to random

“No Way To Prevent This”, Says Only City Where This Regularly Happens

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

fasterthanlime, 6 months ago to random

if you hit "Ctrl+K" in Powerpoint, to insert a hyperlink, you get this delightful mix of 90s and 2010s design that I assume everyone at Microsoft is afraid to touch

fasterthanlime, 8 months ago to random

Whoa, JetBrains joins the Rust foundation + announces a standalone IDE for Rust

https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2023/09/13/introducing-rustrover-a-standalone-rust-ide-by-jetbrains/

fasterthanlime, 4 months ago to random

POV: the only tool you have is recurring subscriptions but you want to sell a lifetime subscription

fasterthanlime, 7 months ago to random

"I'm not indecisive, I've just been an engineer too long"

fasterthanlime, 5 months ago to random

"In conclusion [...], Python outperforms C/Rust due to an AMD CPU bug" 😌

https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

fasterthanlime, 10 months ago to random

The code that scrolls on screens in Stray is C#. Truly a post-apocalyptic game.

fasterthanlime, 3 months ago to random

wait wait wait holy shit https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema quietly rewrote itself in Rust?

fasterthanlime, 1 month ago to random

lmao, if I'm reading this right, a check in the xz CMakeLists.txt for whether a certain sandboxing mechanism is supported was disabled by... adding a period before the "void" keyword, making it fail.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blobdiff;f=CMakeLists.txt;h=0e4d464faba62a1270b40a0cb24c2c59e4ace409;hp=1f0191673b453ed789d915e35ee874a17818494a;hb=f9cf4c05edd14dedfe63833f8ccbe41b55823b00;hpb=af071ef7702debef4f1d324616a0137a5001c14c

fasterthanlime, 11 months ago to random

what’s the collective noun for a group of rust developers?

an omelet. because you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs

fasterthanlime, 8 months ago to random

YES the Go team is removing one of the biggest footguns (with an edition system, no less!)

This is huge and I'm here for it, congrats to everyone who worked on this: https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview

fasterthanlime, 2 months ago to random

☕️ POV: I'm on my third coffee and you just asked me how the internet works

(new video!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKFXlFNR4E

fasterthanlime, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

🥲 new article:

Begging EuroRust to acknowledge independent workers

Update: Mainmatter listened, EuroRust 2024 now offers Freelancer tickets! More in the updated article.

👉 https://fasterthanli.me/articles/begging-eurorust-to-acknowledge-independent-workers

fasterthanlime, 1 month ago to random

my TV updated and now it has an "AI concierge" feature, where do I apply for euthanasia?

fasterthanlime, 1 year ago to random

new achievement unlocked: use a syscall valgrind hasn't implemented