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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

getting unstuck is A Good Thang

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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

Playing Wordle though the Firefox URL bar via *OpenSearch* is one hell of a trick. https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementing-wordle-in-the-firefox-address-bar/

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Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social ("Ⓐ Beautiful AnarKitty Ⓐ") wrote:

Parts of a fighter jet

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Technical note. Played with coloring in Darktable to give the picture yellow/blue hues. Also added grain and vignetting to imitate an old film camera. Not that I know a lot about old film cameras…

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

time for another walk, despite the crummy air quality today

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ribs sat in fridge in dry rub for 24 hours, now moved into InstantPot on a rack over broth & malt vinegar & fish sauce… when done, will move ribs back into fridge until dinner, then finish off over charcoal fire. yum!

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Cash register. This one I spotted in a quaint little hotel called Metro in Petaluma, CA. The entire hotel is decorated in French motives, and it seems like most of the things originate from France and collected piece by piece by the owner. The hotel is also blissfully devoid of any corporate bullshit, and you can get tea in the kitchen even very deep into the night.

#darktable

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

European Union official accounts (continued)

➡️ @EC_DIGIT@social.network.europa.eu (main) & @ec_digit@tube.network.europa.eu (videos) - Handles IT & digital services within the European Commission

➡️ @eib - European Union fund providing loans & guarantees to projects involved with development, climate change, infrastructure and small & medium businesses

➡️ @IHI - EU public-private partnership funding health research, part of Horizon Europe

➡️ @ELA - EU agency which helps co-ordinate enforcement of labour laws

3/5

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Here's the deal.

Running for office is easy when you take corporate money. The average donation is a cool $5000 & you don't have to care what voters think—because you don't need them to fund your campaign

Running for office is hard when you're 100% people funded—like we are. The average donation is ~$25 & we care what voters think—because we serve people, not corporations

But that's how we build a nation truly committed to justice.

So come on—help us win the hard way: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasim-founding-donor

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matthieu_xyz@calckey.social ("Matthieu") wrote:

I didn’t see anyone report on this, but a 13 slides deck about #meta #threadApp ’s future plans has leaked.

And guess what you can find at the slide 11.... Mastodon compatibility confirmed again.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-instagram-threads-document-shows-upcoming-features-2023-7 (Pay walled)

(this post contains 13 webp pictures, open the post on calckey.social if you can’t view all pictures on your instance)#project92 #p92 #barcelona #instagram #blockmeta #threads

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Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:

I cannot see Trump either cooperating or entering a plea bargain.

I don't have a crystal ball, and I am not an expert in psychology, but it seems to me Trump will fight to the better end. He will cast himself as a victim of political persecution.

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

"We never foresaw a day when challenge coins couldn't get NDAA markup over the hump," one source said. "We're now minting a new challenge coin to mark the occasion."

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The US soldier who crossed into the #DPRK had been in a detention facility for about a month and a half for disciplinary measures. He was taken to the airport to return to the US but never got on the plane and instead left the airport, a US official tells my VOA News colleague, Carla Babb.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

break time for Bonzo

#LearningRust

::poof::

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

TRUTH

"Data races cause undefined behavior and can be difficult to diagnose and fix when you’re trying to track them down at runtime"

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yay!

"Mutable references have one big restriction: if you have a mutable reference to a value, you can have no other references to that value."

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sigh... I really wish explicit returns were required, this "The final expression in the function will be used as return value" stuff makes code less clean to read and grok at first glance. #LearningRust

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aliettedb@wandering.shop ("Aliette de Bodard") wrote:

A FIRE BORN OF EXILE, US ed. out Oct 12th!

Sapphic Nirvana in Fire in space

A scholar, betrayed and left for dead, returns in disguise for revenge. She plans to bring the entire opulent, decadent society of the habitats crashing down.
Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan.

Preorder: https://books2read.com/u/b5WeP7 (US)
https://geni.us/AFireBorn (UK)
Cover: @ravven

#aFireBornOfExile #sciencefiction #romance #disasterSapphics #romanticsciencefiction #xuya #xuyaUniverse

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sweet, if I do not get confusilated about which type is which:

"Rust has a special annotation called the Copy trait that we can place on types that are stored on the stack, as integers are... If a type implements the Copy trait, variables that use it do not move, but rather are trivially copied, making them still valid after assignment to another variable."

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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)

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jsonstein@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 ;^}

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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

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jsonstein@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

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jsonstein@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."

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, here we go... this is where I got bogged down last time: "What Is Ownership?"

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sequence, selection, leading- and trailing-test iterators... these are the basic control structures. \n\#ReligousStatement

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

no DO WHILE? no native Rust trailing test iterator? ugh, sorry to see that.\n \#LearningRust

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jsonstein@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.

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rmrenner ("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

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

huh, that is a nice idiom... "let number = if condition { 5 } else { 6 };"