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rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

Match against many strings (`match s { "string1" | "string2" | "string100" | "etc" }`) unfortunately compiles to naive linear code, not any smarter than series of `if/else`.

If you need to match text against lots of strings, try https://lib.rs/phf or https://crates.io/crates/fst.

#rustlang

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I finished up my ZTD replay on Monday and I get why it didn't stick with me. It's fun, but the stakes are limited by the fact that you're just iterating through the tree of all possible decisions.

VLR suffered from this a bit as well, but the effect is intensified in ZTD because you're operating with very limited context for each chunk of events until you've seen most of the game.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

In Bochum for Ruhrsec this week. Interested in discussing applied cryptography, our recent work at Nym and of course indie puzzle adventure games.

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searchliaison ("Google Search Liaison") wrote:

Today we’re opening sign-ups to Search Labs for U.S. English users, and we’ll expand availability over time. Tap the Labs icon in the latest version of the Google app or Chrome desktop to join the waitlist or go to http://g.co/Labs. #GoogleIO #Google

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I don't have a spider surplus anymore. I have to raise even more, but now we have a plan for what to do with them all.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/10/run-fly-away-little-fellas-i-have-cruel-plans-in-mind/

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• Spiders escaping! (remote)

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ScottEdelman@wandering.shop ("Scott Edelman") wrote:

There's been a lot of talk today about Henry Kissinger's upcoming 100th birthday, but I've yet to see Anthony Bourdain's quote about that war criminal scroll by, and it can't be shared enough.

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• “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.” (remote)

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Lomaxcat@c.im wrote:

I think Lulu is judging me and I'm coming up short. #catsofmastodon #cats

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• e422edffe0e94df9.png (remote)

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anthracite@dragon.style ("Gracious Anthracite") wrote:

I just dreamt that @cstross was giving a reading from his new book to a packed auditorium. There was a choir. There were actors in cheap costumes, a cat boy spoke up with a few lines, then a bird man expired in an epic bout of jet-propelled flatulence.

Then I woke up.

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animalsfarm@superpets.social ("Animals Farm") wrote:

#CatsOfMastodon

I came across a bunch of cat pics so I hope you all like cat pics!

Amos sleeping happily

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• Grey cat with white belly sleeping on back and side with paws up and big smile on his face (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[ignore his gender stereotyping, for this has been true since Alexander was a Corporal]

“And any man who shoots his gun at squirrels and then gives it to his young son with orders to clean, any woman who cooks the succulent meal and gives the dishes to her non-cooking daughter to be washed—those grownups know the way an officer feels about Fatigue. The son and daughter can understand the way an enlisted man feels about Fatigue.”

— From Here to Eternity, by James Jones
https://a.co/hGIB1di

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@bersling I didn’t want to make it a full “learn Deno” post. My main point is: If you’re using Bash because it’s easy to make a single-file script, Deno can do that too, and is better.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

is he allowed to cast House votes remotely? asking for a friend...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/10/nyregion/george-santos-charges-news

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

... Or, in full:

"The Fermi paradox suggests that we are among the first spacefaring intelligent species to evolve (at least, in this galaxy). So it therefore seems likely that any sexy alien I meet will be an extremely intelligent, venomous, tree-dwelling crab. Or maybe a hypercastrating alien mind control endoparasite (like the real-world Sacculina carcini) that has eaten the spacecrab's gonads and would like to sample my wedding tackle."

And now I want to blog the whole thing.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Dammit, I just did an email interview with an SF magazine in which my answer to the question "If you were to write a love story between a human and an alien, what challenges would they face?" turns into a rant about biochemistry and evolutionary biology, culminating in ...

"The Fermi paradox suggests that we are among the first spacefaring intelligent species to evolve in this galaxy. So it seems likely that any sexy alien I meet will be an extremely intelligent, venomous, tree-dwelling crab."

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

He's simply a bad psychiatrist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/10/am-i-surprised-that-jordan-peterson-was-a-bad-psychiatrist/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjik57hTfTQ

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burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:

“Faced with the pressures of modernization and capitalism, their traditional exchange systems, based on barter and gifting, now seemed obsolete.
And while previously self-sufficient, they suddenly felt relative deprivation compared to the foreigners’ opulent lifestyles. It was against this backdrop that cargo cults emerged” https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-ritual-mind/202305/what-cargo-cult-rituals-show-us-about-human-nature

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Harlan Crow is using strategic generosity to increase his influence. The Republicans favor that kind of self-serving patronage.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/10/i-dont-to-be-at-the-mercy-of-people-like-harlan-crow/

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• Clarence Thomas is laughing at us (remote)

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daveshea@tilde.zone wrote:

The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/

It was about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.

My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web that the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a neat talking point for a few months.

What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.

The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, while the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and I still feel the pride of managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.

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blinry@chaos.social wrote:

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

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• Title of a LaTeX paper: Every Author as First Author (Two almost unreadable author names overlaid on top of each other.) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (Email address with overlaid names before the domain) (remote)
• Abstract We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author — superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever’s name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LATEX, BIBTEX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages. (remote)
• Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write “X et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In author—year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal. In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., “X, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.) (remote)
• Figure 3. Circular arrangements of the authors of Fisimindon (2020). Drawn in Inkscape using Circular Align and Distribute, onto a circle of radius 50 (left) or 200 (right); followed by 90° rotation (left); and rotating 180° to make names upright (bottom). 4. Future Work A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read. It may be possible to write names in a way that has no first name but still makes all names clearly readable. For example, a circle has no beginning or end, so arranging the names in a circular pattern avoids arranging any author “first”. Figure 3 shows some initial experiments in this direction. Related, traditional round- robin documents (Wikipedia 2022) are signed by authors in a circle to prevent identification of a ringleader (such as mutineer sailors). It remains unsolved how to fit such circular arrangements in with the rest of a text document, which feels inherently sequential. Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's amazing how little a conviction for rape is going to affect a rich man's career.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/guilty-but-it-wont-matter/

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• Trump -- rapist (remote)

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team@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:

#HeyGoogle, you committed to delete location data for health care visits including abortion care. But 🐦accountabletech found you’re still retaining this data.

Stop collecting and retaining location data and aiding abortion prosecutors: http://HeyGoogle.info.

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scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

Alright, it's launch day!

Introducing Carbon Control. Measure & Improve Your Site's Footprint with WebPageTest. I'm very proud of this new release. https://webpagetest.org/carbon-control/

You can read all about it on the blog post here: https://blog.webpagetest.org/posts/carbon-control/
#webdev #webdevelopment #climate #carbonfootprint #webperf

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

#crypto #cryptocurrency #VentureCapital #AndreessenHorowitz

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tagesschau@ard.social wrote:

Guten Morgen meine Damen und Herren, wir begrüßen Sie zur tagesschau!

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• faa4a6645d4f4e03.mp4 (remote)

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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

G302.7.1
Sexual relation between man
and demons.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Welcome, Interim President Ettinger!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/in-honor-of-the-new-interim-president-of-the-university-of-minnesota/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagPzmaVc38

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Have you ever noticed how complex and lovely cobwebs are?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/cobweb-art/

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• Cobweb in a 2-dimensional frame (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Totally blindsided by this. Apparently he'd been seriously ill since last year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/david-miranda-dead-brazil-campaigner-congressman

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I would cross to the other side of the street if I saw this creep coming.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/09/every-accusation-a-confession/

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• Bryan Slaton (remote)

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faho@octodon.social ("He-Bean") wrote:

My hottest take on common gifs is that the "That's a penis!" gif is much better reversed, where the dude exclaims "That's a penis!" and then sits down and smiles