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grumpy@grumpys.online ("Michael Wolf") wrote:
I _almost_ stepped on this friend today #frogs
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Shout out to Lyft for making me
1.) sign in;
2.) provide a 2FA code;
3.) confirm my account name; and
4.) verify my email addressjust to show me this screen:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):
mo8it@fosstodon.org ("Mo :ferris: :tux:") wrote:
#RustLang lint idea and performance tip 🚀
Warn about a repeated call of `Path::join` ⚠️
This allocates a new `PathBuf` each time. Then `Path::join` is called on the new `PathBuf` because of the `Deref` implementation.
Instead, you should use extend like in the screenshot (preferably with a capacity hint).
You can also use `.collect::()` on an iterator instead:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/struct.PathBuf.html#impl-FromIterator%3CP%3E-for-PathBuf
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![```rust let mut sysroot_src = PathBuf::with_capacity(256); sysroot_src.extend([toolchain, "lib", "rustlib", "src", "rust", "library"]); ```](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/154/132/442/725/267/original/ee02396e9779ae2e.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Republican candidate is visibly sick!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
nathans@infosec.exchange ("nathans :ms_weed: :donor:") wrote:
Enshittification at work folks
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- A screenshot of a tweet from @wendigoon8 It reads: Our HP printer hasn't been working for a month and every manner of troubleshooting, resets, changing ink cartridges didn't seem to work. After calling HP, they said the debit card on file had expired so they manually disabled our printer. In unrelated news, I'm now radicalized. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
A large contingent of webdevs seem to think that fast means “best-case fast.”
“Our web sites are fast on expensive hardware and from reliable fiber networks.”
Worst-case fast is a much more meaningful, impressive, and inclusive claim to make! Fast on low-end hardware. Fast on slow networks.
Fast on the World Wide Web—not just from a WeWork in Silicon Valley.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This is one of those decision why, a couple of years back I changed my opinion from "Musk is net good for #Tesla" to "Musk is a liability".
He was a trailblazer at the start, and the push through the M3 ramp-up hell was one of his biggest contributions (albeit terribly flawed). But recently, it's just dumb decisions one after another. Prioritizing humanoid robots, vanity trucks and FSD over what people actually need from Tesla: efficient cars with good software.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Oh damn. @owa is bringing receipts to the EU's "that's not compliance, actually" party:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/eu-opens-dma-investigations/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
After reading this, I feel even more strongly about staying away from Meta et al. as much as possible:
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dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:
Lots of folks on the fedi, especially instance admins, are working through how to approach Threads.
The single best discussion I know of is https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads by @kissane.
I strongly advise giving it a read as you decide.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
A thesis.
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- Screenshot of a tweet by me: "I'm okay with frameworks folks. I've even written a few in my day. But the current ecosystem of popular frameworks is awful. They feel esoteric, unapproachable for new people, they don't introduce people to web fundamentals. And most of them make your app slower by default." (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
I'm #ActuallyAutistic and I know food preparation is difficult for many folks in the community.
But learning to feed yourself is a skill that has cascading effects (I get severely depressed if I don't feed myself food I like). Not to mention, not everyone has the $$ for takeout
I've been sending this 'sad bastards cookbook' to everyone https://archive.org/details/sad-bastards-last
It focuses on 'boil water and eat' and 'ingredients that don't go bad'
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Oh.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111232/european-commission-digital-markets-act-investigation
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is deep, and I feel the delta between the power of capital vs. markets in my bones; it warps everything in tech these days:
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/25/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capital/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:
"many feudal lords were not lazy, either: competing for power and dominance is hard work – yet, it is still different from the competition based on profit and market dynamics which constitutes the backbone of capitalism." #MiriamRonzoni https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/25/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capital/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I fear the quality of the text went downhill from the titillating title page onwards. They're selling moralizing in the guise of prurience.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/wow-now-i-really-want-to-read-this-book/
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- The Crafty Whore: or, The mistery and iniquity of BAWDY HOUSES Laid open, the dialogue between two SUBTLE BAWDS, wherein, as in a mirrour, our CITY-CURTESANS may face their sould-destroying Are, and Crafty devices, whereby they Insnare and beguile Youth, pourtraled to the life, By the PENSELL of one of their late, (but now penitent) CAPTIVES, for the benefit of all, but especially the younger sort. Whereunto is added DEHORTATIONS from LUST Drawn from the SAD and LAMENTABLE Consequences it produceth. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paul@status.kinlan.me ("Paul Kinlan") wrote:
WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) enters origin trial
Exciting times for WebAssembly! The JSPI API now allows synchronous WebAssembly code to access asynchronous JavaScript APIs like promises. This opens up more possibilities for performance-critical code to leverage asynchronous capabilities on the web. As this enters origin trial, I'm keen to see what developers build with this new integration. Could enable some very responsive applications!
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webassembly-jspi-origin-trial?hl=en
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
From a @zachleat thread, the market for lemons seems largely unreformed.
It's gonna take more than INP to fix what hubris and selfishness broke.
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/vercel.com?formFactor=phone&latestMode=false
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My brain is so coked up on snow and work, that I've lost all capacity for anything but reflexive action.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/you-know-what/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
In the conversation @ahl and I had with @simon in January, he mentioned work on adversarial attacks on LLMs that proved surprisingly universal. On today's Oxide and Friends, we will be joined by Nicholas Carlini, one of the authors of "Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models" to talk not only about this specific work, but about adversarial machine learning in general -- and how it guides thinking on LLMs. Join us, 5p Pacific!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The worst dads are the right-wing dads.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/bad-dads/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
@osda is in a few hours and will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/live/Wd7_zF0B9Ks?si=F6Ev-2cijlxJAEh9
I'll be talking about Surfer, but there are much more interesting people giving talks too, like Claire, *the* yosys author
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
Great video on (you guessed it) prototyping but frames the problem as a search algorithm. Lots of good takeaways about the business impacts of product exploration.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I finally tried out The Crystal Project. It kinda reminds me of a pre-FF7 playstation RPG, but one that's heavily inspired by Final Fantasy V's class system. The PSX part comes in navigating a large 3D world with a fixed-perspective camera, and the FFV part comes in how you can customize your builds by mixing skills from different classes.
Hard to beat if you want exploration or combat, pretty dry if you mainly care about story
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macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:
Another banger by @pluralistic.
“an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.”
We knew this back in 2011-12 when I worked at IBM. AI is a support tool, not a replacement for human beings.
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
You can wake up and decide not to be a cringe-fuck edgelord.
Or you can wake up and shit on the reputation of an entire programming language.
Choices are funny like that.
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
I have a feeling it starts with Silicon and ends with Valley. Or maybe it starts with Venture and ends with Capital? Or perhaps simply starts with capital and ends with ism.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rantingsteve@pounced-on.me ("Steve [is AFK]") wrote:
I'm gonna build a gamified bootloader. When you start up your machine, if you wish to load the operating system of your choice, you're going to have to play a short fighting game to prove yourself.
It's a duel-boot system.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
kim@social.gfsc.studio ("Dr Kim Foale") wrote:
the irony of effective altruism is that probably by far the most cost effective thing to change the world is hiring hit men to go after billionaires
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
Chances are high you know Samuel Barber's beautiful classical piece Adagio for Strings. It has been used in several films, including Platoon.
But not as many people know that there's also a choral variation, called Agnus Dei. Personally, I think that's even more beautiful. Listening to it always gives me goosebumps. Turn up the volume, close your eyes and enjoy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRL447oDId4
#music #ClassicalMusic #SamuelBarber #classical #beautiful #chorus #choir #moody