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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as long as I remember what is a fixed-size primitive and what is not...
"types such as integers that have a known size at compile time are stored entirely on the stack, so copies of the actual values are quick to make. That means there’s no reason we would want to prevent x from being valid after we create the variable y. In other words, there’s no difference between deep and shallow copying" (with fixed-size stack data)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hmmmm, if I am careful then this could really speed some things up: "Rust will never automatically create \“deep\” copies of your data. Therefore, any automatic copying can be assumed to be inexpensive in terms of runtime performance." ... and if I do not remind myself I am moving rather than copying then I will most certainly get myself into trouble ;^}
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:
BREAKING: US adds 2 European mercenary spyware firms to export control list.
#Cytrox & #Intellexa = *notorious* proliferators of #Predator spyware,
Linked to abuses around globe, #spywaregate in #greece hacking of Americans...
The Entity List has become one of the most effective tools for the US to express displeasure & land body blows on #spyware companies.
Rule: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-15343.pdf
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Once you understand ownership, you won’t need to think about the stack and the heap very often"... color me skeptical
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am amazed at how many people skip over the significance of this particular difference: "All data stored on the stack must have a known, fixed size. Data with an unknown size at compile time or a size that might change must be stored on the heap instead."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, here we go... this is where I got bogged down last time: "What Is Ownership?"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sequence, selection, leading- and trailing-test iterators... these are the basic control structures. \n\#ReligousStatement
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
no DO WHILE? no native Rust trailing test iterator? ugh, sorry to see that.\n \#LearningRust
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ewwww, "loop...break;" is eeeeevil... a half century of coding my own mistakes and of fixing Other Peoples Code has taught me that break is evil. Hard No.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oh my god I was looking at one of the Program Pochette mags from the last boost, and it had some listings in BASIC as I expected, but there's also pages and pages of literal kilobytes of raw hex values to type in. This page alone is about 2k worth
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
huh, that is a nice idiom... "let number = if condition { 5 } else { 6 };"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cool, that was easy: "rustup update stable" is about as simple a process as can be
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cool, a new version is out: "The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.71.0."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
gamingalexandria@digipres.club ("Gaming Alexandria") wrote:
We have preserved the entire magazine run of Program Pochette, a magazine dedicated to various early submitted Japanese computer type ins mainly for games. Check it out and spread the word. Thanks to the Video Game History Foundation and Ozidual for funding. Enjoy!
https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/07/program-pochette-every-issue-now-scanned/
#preservation #digipres #magazine #japan #gamehistory #games
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Comparing campus greenery.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/18/our-green-campus/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
time to restart my #LearningRust campaign
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Weather: 🌫 Mist, +67°F, 87%, ↗4mph, 1014hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 11:11:09-0400 | Dawn: 05:12:33 | Sunrise: 05:47:10
Zenith: 13:16:40 | Sunset: 20:45:45 | Dusk: 21:20:15
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.]
"In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later."
The story includes a full interview w/ Bloom.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/leakedsource-owner-quit-ashley-madison-a-month-before-2015-hack/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
Spelling error misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to company running Mali’s TLD.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fediversereport ("Fediverse Report") wrote:
Last week in the #fediverse episode 27
The highlights:
The Dutch government officially launches their #Mastodon server
Mastodon hits 2m active users, but a dev also reports that there is currently no work being done on big features
A meta engineer joins the #activitypub working group in the W3CRead more at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-27/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:
God, #Trump is such a scumbag.
"Antiquities belonging to Israel have been kept for the past several months at former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, and senior Israeli figures have unsuccessfully tried to have them returned to Israel."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Noupside@saturation.social ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
I have a new paper out in Annals of Internal Medicine today. My coauthors and I argue for creating capacity for a networked response to health rumors & misinformation and describe a case study involving some work we did during the pandemic enabling frontline doctors to understand what rumors were beginning to go viral so that they could create content to respond.
Counter speech is critical, and yet social media requires networked distribution.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
And here's a handy guide on how to use the updated Nursing Home Inspect:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-use-updated-nursing-home-inspect
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony Stark") wrote:
The 18 other AGs who signed on represent AL, AK, AR, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX and UT so if you live in one of those states or MS and think fascism is bad, plan your political activities accordingly.
AG: Make Out-of-State Abortion Info Available to Investigators-
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/34705/mississippi-attorney-general-wants-info-on-out-of-state-abortions-gender-affirming-care
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:
WWI memorial in Inverness on a gorgeous summer day #scotland #inverness #ww1 #WarMemorial
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
one of my wife’s garden plots has actual pea-pods, but mine is still just flowers because I was a lazy sot & planted later
;^}
