Pop Tarts needs to introduce a certification program for toasters that heat them just perfectly.
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Ben Pfaff
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GNU PSPP maintainer. RenFaire enthusiast. D&D player. Against fascism and tyranny. He/him.
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TIL about #[expect(...)] in Rust (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/diagnostics.html#r-attributes.diagnostics.lint)
The mail at my place seems to arrive either before 11 or after 4 and I don't understand why.
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@Unixbigot@aus.social @Benhm3@mastodon.social Don't the airlines prohibit anything with batteries? I've always assumed this was partly or mostly to prevent tracking to avoid responsibility.
"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@mamot.fr
Linux is removing 486 support in the next version. My first Linux machine was a 486DX-33. That was so long ago (1995ish?).
It's called "single" sign on, why do I have to do it so many times
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?
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.
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io We lost him far too early. Just imagine all we could have enjoyed if he were still with us.
I met Douglas Adams once at a book signing in East Lansing, Michigan, at a now-defunct bookstore. The highlight was when he read from Mostly Harmless, the book that he had just released. He was a good reader and I remember the event fondly.
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@overholt@glammr.us It wasn't even necessary to reply-all, of course, and some forms of etiquette called for not doing that, since you could just reply to the list and the list would distribute to all the members...
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 on my doublet so prominently.
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@HCBunny@beige.party @futurebird@sauropods.win Isaac Asimov wrote a short essay on the speed of seven league boots. If I recall correctly, he concluded that a person walking in them would break escape velocity and end up in orbit.
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@JMarkOckerbloom I have a perhaps related anecdote. Several years ago, I was trying to organize a billiards party, but trying to search for materials for it failed because the search engine decided that billiards and pool are synonyms so I must want to search for pool parties. And adding "-pool" didn't help since a lot of sites that talk about billiards also talk about pool.
Google's new "partner ad settings" do not work.
I'm no papist but, between J. D. Vance and the Pope, I know who I'd pick when it comes to theology.
Surely these should include a QR code.
Nice title guys, real professional
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.
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?
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.
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@alda@topspicy.social My guess is that they're not writing the agents file by hand though.
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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town If they have nothing to prove then it means they're out of yeast.
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One of the people I sent this to thought I was making some kind of dick joke based on "pen" and "island" (I wasn't)
Trump is acting like a king and attacking the pope, so his next step is obviously to form the Church of America.
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@neauoire@merveilles.town This reminds me of clothing items I've seen for sale on AliExpress that list waist and bust measurements in feet.
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@timhutton@mathstodon.xyz This was difficult for me because apparently all my mugs are big and all my rubber bands are short, but I found one combination that worked!
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In #Rust, `struct S` yields a compiler error, but `fn f() {}` does not even yield a warning. Why not?
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@hackillu I use a password manager, I don't even know 99% of my passwords. It's still a hassle clicking through password screens.
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RE: @WhatLayoff@mastodon.social
Rent seeking for air?
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social At least he doesn't advocate for the merits of raisins as snacks
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@Edent@mastodon.social I spent a week in London this month. The travel cards mostly work great there but there are some routes where you can get on with a travel card but you have to buy a separate ticket anyway and you don't find out until you can't get out at the destination.
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@olsonseank That's good to know. I guess I need to run clippy more often.
What kind of use does this kind of unused generic parameter have?
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@thomashaeberlen Our machine's motherboard had 16 SIMM slots and by the end we had it fully populated with 16 1-MB SIMMs!
Yesterday I passed by a restaurant called Oscar's Very Mexican Food.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space What software for calculation do you think promotes correctness?
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@olsonseank I can understand why `struct S` is an error. My question is more about why `fn f()` doesn't cause a warning, since most uses of it will. Even the following:
fn f() {}
fn g() { f(); }
produces a compiler warning saying that `T` can't be inferred, but no warning about the useless `T` parameter. It's occasionally taken me a minute to realize that the correct solution is to remove `T`, not to provide a type for it.
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?
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."
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@jaykuo@universeodon.com I thought that prior restraint was absolutely disfavored in speech cases?