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uhhhhh. gnu.org no longer hosts the HTML pages about or containing the GPL??? neither https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html nor https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html work. what the hell

@mcc I just realised that with the Cargo packaging conundrum, there's actually three ways to do it:

• one package with both bin and lib targets, with the lib target being both dynamic and static
• three packages: one that has a bin target, one that has a static lib target, one that has a dynamic lib target
• two packages: one with both bin and lib targets (static library only), one with just a dynamic lib target

I'm probably going to do the last of these for my project because it's neater for my purposes

today's mood is: Brazil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzLty_nXSh8)

remember when the us pranked stalin by asking him to invade japan so they'd finally surrender, then dropping the bomb the same day to steal credit for ending the war? legendary. also an atrocity, the bombing was unnecessary

draculaburger.mp4

apparently there is a real graph that looks like 📈 and 📉 superimposed and it is “Railway passenger volume: USA and USSR” from the wikipedia article “Rail transport in the Soviet Union”

why do neurotic autistic girls love Rust? well, it lets them relax. it's the only good language that doesn't support reflection or introspection,

you know that really inelegant solution to the packing squares problem? does it depress you? something that's always bothered me in computer graphics is that converting between 8-bit fixed-point (integer: [0, 255]) and binary floating-point ([0, 1]) is unavoidably approximate 😭

doing research and development work for a corporation, in some industries at least, means dedicating a huge part of your brain to secrets that, once you leave, you are expected to take to the grave with you. it's pretty taxing if you find those secrets interesting at all

omg, how did i not know about <var>, the HTML element for “variables” in the mathematical sense. so if you're ever want to express “(n - 1)”, you can write (<var>n</var> - 1)