Took a vacation to prepare for an exam, but now I'm just procrastinating the exam preparation, and can't even distract myself by doing work instead. I may have not thought this through
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mastodon 4.7.3An annoying Rust person, reluctant Nix user, linguistics/etymology fan, "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" enjoyer, and apparently trans
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toot by @mira@kumis.industries: "if you don't like the foss alternative to a proprietary software you can always marry a trans girl and pay for all her costs of living so she can make you the perfect foss alternative written in rust
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Screenshot of https://youtu.be/RhveE4j6aJA?t=40s: Zach presents a picture of a T-Rex with rainbow-colored skin and rainbow-colored feather jabot. The subtitles on the bottom say "alright here we have the fake gay T-Rex – T stands for Transgender"
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she/her is what I usually tell people. Though sometimes I feel I'm genderly ambiguous at best, so they/them could be a better fit. Then again, at those moments I wish I wouldn't exist at all, so I'd honestly use null/void, but oh no this fld has a sze lmt
"go to #rustweek !", they said. "it'll be fun, you'll make a bunch of friends!", they said. well now I want to make out with them!! and they're in a different country!! what now!!
#rustweek is a magical place where you can offhandedly correct a person repeating a common misconception, continue talking to them for a bit, and then suddenly realize you've been talking to @noboilerplate@namtao.com all this time:)
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@oli skill issue, omw to write generic/trait object/async-aware debugger (I will _not_ be able to debug it)
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@matildalove@wetdry.world I read "smart glasses", and actually thought of the image attached. Therefore I was very puzzled when you suggested to "grab them and smash them on the ground", because how'd the poor nerds deserve that...
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@yvanspijk I've always loved your infographics on Twitter – glad to stumble upon you again:) Great work as always!
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@Tak @ferrous@social.ferrous-systems.com you know, in times like these... That specific phrase was a big motivating factor for me to apply (for another position), and, well, I wasn't disappointed:)
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@wilfredh or ocaml maybe.. I guess the more popular ones tend to just displace the original search results, like Rust or Java. C++ has the SEO-friendly variant "cpp".
The one that saddens me the most is Lean, because what I'm looking for is this beautiful math thing, and what I end up seeing is some project management silliness (funnily enough, searching it on my phone right now brought up the drug instead)
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@wilfredh "programmers don't call their language something that's impossible to search for" challenge: impossible
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long, rambling, computertouching despair, and all i wanted to do was learn category theory, why does this keep happening to me
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@thezoq2 Vodafone, right? Yeah its website does tend to be old-school, and not in a good way... Also, as an anecdote, from the two apartments I've used it in, it has been pretty terrible in both (compared from Telekom, which I also used twice, and never really had a problem with) – but I imagine this is at least somewhat region-specific
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@thezoq2 oh, I thought that was Vodafone red. Never used O2, interested to see how it works for you 👀 (hopefully well)
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@hisham_hm this one was pretty fun:)
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WX8XEQ-cave-surveying/
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@nnethercote@mas.to not to twist the knife, but you might want to update https://nnethercote.github.io/about-me.html