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it does not reflect well on the rust project if it still contains people who think technical disagreements are a good reason to object to someone presenting their grant-funded experimental research

I think the latest victim of Twitter's cost-cutting drive might be tweet auto-translation. that Google API key can't have been cheap. or maybe it was cheap and they aren't paying the invoices, as usual, lmao

Ever wonder what the rest of Ernest Hemingway's story looked like?

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/ is incredibly cool and creative, and fun infuriating

this must be what it's like to try to use a smartphone if you have Alzheimer's

I think porting a native app to Android should be considered cruel and unusual punishment

PSA: .jfif files are literally just JPEG files: JFIF is one of the two common standards for storing JPEG images, the other being EXIF. if you rename the file to .jpg or .jpeg, every app that understands JPEG will open it. Windows just picked a weird file extension for some reason

like a child who has somehow not learned that fire is hot, I keep posting about programming topics with a wide audience on twitter

if the Rust project blows up tomorrow and the language fossilises like C has, I'll still be very happy with it and use it for most of my code. C was the unmaintained language for the last half-century, Rust can be the unmaintained language for the next.

a special online safety warning from twitter user hikari_no_yume

"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" is a fun story to listen to. i can't vouch for the accuracy but it was interesting at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E