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Rob Norris
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06dijkstra would not have liked this
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Working on a new feature and 90% of it is addressing unhandled cases that the compiler finds for me. I can't imagine doing this kind of thing in a language without pattern checking.
I started working through Shawn Hymel’s YouTube tutorial on Embedded Rust last night and I continue to be amazed at how dialed-in the tooling is. Also the doc. And the language itself. And the libraries. Of course I’m just getting started, but so far this seems to be the best modern language I have used.
It’s kind of alarming to me that they’re using Windows and Bluetooth on a spacecraft. There are not a whole lot of rage outlets up there and I’m pretty sure they don’t have a margarita machine.
Given enough arson, all bugs are shallow.
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Trying to help my 12yo redeem a Fortnite gift card and it’s like that Onion video of the Franz Kafka International Airport. I want to become CEO of Epic Games so I can fire everyone involved.
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@arosien@fosstodon.org @kubukoz@mstdn.party @alexelcu@mastodon.social I learned the hard way that caring about programming languages is bad for my soul, so this is more a matter of amusement than anything else.
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@ross@social.rossabaker.com Hunched over, elbows pinned, only able to move wrists and fingers. I call it t-rexing.
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@deech@mastodon.social @bodil@social.treehouse.systems I haven’t had time to get annoyed with anything yet. But I will let the world know.
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@rrmutt@mastodon.social @davbucci@mastodon.sdf.org I will second this. Stereo optical w/zoom is great. Give some thought to the stand/arm and how it will fit in your workspace. I really like being able to swing mine over whenever I need a closer view.
Yesterday there was a Xerox 6085 Daybreak on eBay for $500 and someone else bought it before I could make up my mind (I would have had to drive to Tulsa to get it). It's an office computer, which isn't super interesting to me, but with some reconfiguration it becomes an 1186 Lisp machine, which is *very* interesting to me. Oh well.
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@deech@mastodon.social @bodil@social.treehouse.systems As a functional programmer I’m used to no stack traces and no debugger. But yeah, we shall see.
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@alexelcu@mastodon.social Safe mode is interesting. Was it implemented to prevent you from casting to defeat the capture-checker?
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@shawndgarner@mastodon.social Cool, yeah he explains the whole setup, and the hardware requirements are maybe $20 total if you're starting from scratch. So very low barrier to go from zero to active tinkering.