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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1h

"Don't shit on people for doing the thing you want them to" is generally a pretty good rule.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 1d

Feel free to say hello if you’re also at this month’s Rust NYC meetup!

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 1d

With the AI Google summaries, people aren't just cherry-picking the failures. The only time it is 100% is when there is an extremely easy and well-known answer to your inquiry. If it's anything you'd actually need to dig to find, it will hallucinate a fake answer basically every time.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 2d

Yeah I agree. I don’t really find this convincing cause it feels very UNLIKE every other stdlib trait

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

The ghosts eventually narrow their group of hostages down to three, all the worst possible options:

• Keiko: willing to die to save her child
• Picard: volunteered to be there, yearns for the chance to have a battle of wits to the death
• Worf: has a tramp stamp that says "TODAY IS GOOD DAY TO DIE"

Picard, Keiko, and Worf are being held hostage in Cargo Bay 4. Only Keiko seems worried about this situation. Picard is having fun pointing out all the strategic errors his opponents made. Worf's expression can only be described as "battle horny."

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 4d

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 5d

There goes another Trump admin talking point.

Claim: Abrego told an immigration judge that he fears persecution in Costa Rica.

Judge Xinis reads the immigration judge's ruling, which doesn't say that.

"That's very troubling to me," Xinis tells Ensign.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

Usually when I describe my time working at Google I describe them as “pathologically data driven, to the detriment of their own interests” and this is why

rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 5d

reminder: the primary goal of most enterprises is to produce goods and services for its customers. the primary goal of meta is to evaluate its employees

Erik Meijer
@headinthebox
"... Guido van Rossum: I honestly think the importance of the GIL removal project has been overstated. It serves the needs of the largest users (e.g. Meta) while complicating things for potential contributors to the CPython code base (proving that new code does not introduce concurrency bugs is hard) ...". [0]

It does not even sever the needs of Meta; the actual reason was simply to do something impressive sounding ("until now every previous attempt failed miserably") allowed a few engineers at Meta to claim "industry wide impact" during their performance review.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

Apparently on this day 13 years ago I first learned about the best kept secret in all of terminal computing: \r

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

Broke: it’s bad that it blocked Tokio
Woke: it’s bad that random functions are opening files in my otherwise pure logic chain

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

This post brought to you by “tokio got blocked because a random client constructor opens sometimes opens a file to configure itself”

Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

People will really complain about red/blue functions and then open and parse files in “small helper functions in util/“

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

Expect is my new favorite trick in Rust

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 5d

#rustlang PSA: you probably don't want #[allow(dead_code)], you probably want #[expect(unused)]

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

People will really complain about red/blue functions and then open and parse files in “small helper functions in util/“

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

This about to hit me as hard as “you don’t have goals, you have dreams”

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 5d

now it's one thing if it's a core meltdown type situation. if your core's all fucked up it makes perfect sense that all the girders and concrete slabs would stop working at once. that's core stuff 101. but that's not a self-destruct sequence, that's just a destruct sequence. there's a difference.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5d

It really has been bad lately.

Even worse is when it’s a whole family of similar answers, like the vibe of all the replies in a post MUST be the same, even if it’s wildly different than the vibe of the replies of a similar post days earlier.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 5d

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

andre.arko.net

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 6d

I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.

They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6d

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 6d

trying to imagine being so allergic to self-sufficiency that "we could build or sell something" is taken as an existential risk that leads you to ejecting your long-time contributors lmfao

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 6d

You’re a bot replying to my post complaining about bots. Fuck outta here.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6d

don’t say that shit to a haskeller they HATE people thinking rust has a Real typeclass system

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 6d

I love how more recent chatbots sometimes say “I don’t know, have you considered asking a chat bot to do this”

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 6d

I will never stop thinking about the time that Air Canada dropped an AI support agent on its website, customer talked it into giving them a full refund, Air Canada tried to disavow it, and the court forced them to uphold the refund

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 6d

it is madness that companies are releasing agent frameworks. on a not particularly difficult coding benchmark, Claude when run as an agent can accurately close about 65% of bugs. the remainder are either not touched or fucked beyond recognition

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