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  The mail at my place seems to arrive either before 11 or after 4 and I don't understand why.

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  TIL about #[expect(...)] in Rust (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/diagnostics.html#r-attributes.diagnostics.lint) #rust #rustlang

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  Pop Tarts needs to introduce a certification program for toasters that heat them just perfectly.

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  A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.

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  As an American, I feel like I only hear about British politicians that people detest. Do you want to tell me about any that you admire?

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  TIL that one can use for<'a> syntax in a return position trait bound, like this: fn foo() -> impl for<'a> binrw::BinWrite<Args<'a> = ()> { ... } #rust #rustlang

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  "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." --Douglas Adams, as quoted by @pluralistic

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  Nice title guys, real professional

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  Being willing to put an extraordinary amount of time into a project is a superpower. It means you can do things no one else can.

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  Surely these should include a QR code.

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  At the KVMR Celtic Fair this weekend, a fencing group just a few yards from us was giving out roses to the winners of each duel. They seemed to be sending out runners with them to people nearby. When one of them ran by, I said, "Oh, how sweet, is that for me?" They replied, "No, but the next one will be," and sure enough, 10 minutes later, they brought one to me. They gave me the second one afterward and I don't know why. Maybe because I wore the rose...

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  Yesterday I passed by a restaurant called Oscar's Very Mexican Food.

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  Yesterday I was playing a board game with friends in which one tries to identify colors (one out of hundreds of colors) with one- or two-word hints. You aren't allowed to just say color names, you have to hint at them. My one-word hint for a shade of purple didn't work out well, so for the two-word hint I said, "Wonka Beauregarde" and 2 out of 3 players got it immediately. The other one just looked at me like I was crazy.

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  CS papers used to be printed for publication and collected proceedings were given to conference-goers and mailed to subscribers. This is hardly the case anymore. The 2-column PDF-based format for papers assumes this usage, and it's relatively hard to read on a screen. It's overdue for replacement.

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  Trump is acting like a king and attacking the pope, so his next step is obviously to form the Church of America.

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  I learned something cool from John McWhorter's NYT article today. He says: > The “s” in “island” was added because the Latin word was “insula” I didn't realize that the words "island" and "peninsula" were related, but now it seems evident that the "pen" prefix must be the same one in "penultimate". It's almost an island!

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  Google's new "partner ad settings" do not work.

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  @jyn My dad likes to say something that might be related: The better you are, the luckier you get.

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  What if all these "orbiting data center" proposals are really elaborate tax and fraud havens? Who collects taxes on revenues that are collected 1000 miles above international waters? Who prosecutes Ponzi schemes that are perpetrated there?

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  My electric teakettle has 0.5L marked on it as minimum and 1.7L as maximum. That makes sense. It also has 1.2L marked on it. What is special about 1.2L?

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  Wow, 100 votes in less than a hour. I don't think I've posted anything before that got that many votes total. I guess peanut butter is a hot-button issue here.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@WhatLayoff/116404777797046292 Rent seeking for air?

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  In #Rust, `struct S<T>` yields a compiler error, but `fn f<T>() {}` does not even yield a warning. Why not? #rustlang

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  I saw an ad for a TV show called SKYKING and the phrase that leapt to mind was "No, you naughty boy, I've never skyked."

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  I'm no papist but, between J. D. Vance and the Pope, I know who I'd pick when it comes to theology.

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  Linux is removing 486 support in the next version. My first Linux machine was a 486DX-33. That was so long ago (1995ish?).

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  It's called "single" sign on, why do I have to do it so many times