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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

In other news, 'tying your own shoelaces' is a highly desired skill among track, basketball, and football athletes!

Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

I have been made aware that a financial firm, which I will not name, is working on its 'data science' capabilities.

This consists of a slideshow with the following header

*Data Science Capabilities*
- VSCode
- Jupyter Notebooks

I'm losing my mind over here

#datascience #databsky

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 2d

Just use a hashset! smh

Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 2d

@david.kolo.ski figured you might enjoy this one

An ironic meme attributing the headline 'No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith, and Richard Stallman did not draw him' to Big Brother from the film adaptation of 1984, while Keith looks on in horror

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

here I was using GitHub as a blogging platform…

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Loved this! I’ve bounced off a couple times but this is making it click.

Jjui is also great, but I’m accustomed to using lazygit from inside nvim, which it doesn’t support. Whipping up a quick plugin to circumvent this.

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Stavros @stavros.io · 5d

I wrote (yet another) Jujutsu tutorial:

www.stavros.io/posts/switch...

I haven't published it yet, I'm looking for feedback first.

Please let me know if it helps at all, or if you're still having trouble with JJ's mental model. I'm worried I've written yet another unhelpful thing.

Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial - Stavros' Stuff

www.stavros.io

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 6d

@jonhoo.eu have mercy!
youtube.com/clip/UgkxBju...

YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 6d

In Rust? I can't say I've ever seen it used. I suppose you could mimic it by writing a trait, but it's generally more idiomatic to use an enum instead and define your function as a function matching on the enum type. YMMMV with your specific use case

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 6d

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 6d

How tf does a calculator leak 32GB? HOW?

Is it UI? I can't imagine it's the actual numbers being stored. You'd have to performing billions of operations for that to add up.

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Bohdan Pavuk is open for hire @bpavuk.neocities.org · 6d

readhacker.news/s/6DfYd

I propose even more extreme solutions:

1. eradicate JavaScript: replace slop that is sites repackaged as "native" apps with actual native code. Rust is the new C++, Kotlin and Swift will take care of the mobile. reduce JS application to the toy-level like it should be.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

readhacker.news

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Zed @zed.dev · 6d

GPUI (v0.2.0), the GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework that powers Zed, is on crates dot io. 👀

crates.io/crates/gpui

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 6d

Finally wrote up my slides/notes for my presentation at the last #RustNYC meetup. Thanks to @busysp.bsky.social, @colelawrence.com, @statisticsftw.bsky.social, Ross, and the whole team over there for making it possible!
nrposner.com/blog/rust-py...
#rustlang

Rust-Python Interop for Scientific Codebases — nrposner

nrposner.com

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

More like the core for a game, using Rust+Bevy. Turns out Bevy's schedule system is a good match: lots of rules+systems, but explicitly ordered and defined for ease of human comprehension.

I'm still firmly in the 'implement basic rules' stage, but figured out how to get flexible reactions working!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

Also, seeing you're into Pathfinder: 1st edition or 2nd as well? I got into it recently, after the 2e remaster and I've actually been trying to build an engine for 3d gridless PF2e (very slowly and with mixed success)

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

I'd read it for sure!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

Praise be!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

How planned are we talking?

Do these shenanigans still work?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykD...

Learning JavaScript with WAT

YouTube video by Dylan Beattie

www.youtube.com

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

Hear hear! This is my feeling every time I go back to Python. I never worked with typescript before, but maybe rescript is worth a shot...

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

Attending a scientific codebase devmeeting

Expectation: We need to optimize the Lagrangian on the super-massive black holes, stat!

Reality: I regret to inform you all that the foot injury curse has spread

Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 8d

@seangoedecke.bsky.social nails it
www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...

Seeing like a software company

The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…

www.seangoedecke.com

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 8d

Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats

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ArchLinux @archlinux.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 8d

python-maturin 1.9.6-1 x86_64 Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings - Python bindings

#Extra-Testing #x86_64

Origin | Interest | Match

Arch Linux - python-maturin 1.9.6-1 (x86_64)

archlinux.org

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 8d

New blog post! kylebarron.dev/blog/fast-py...

This dives into performance pitfalls of Python bindings, why projects like Lonboard are so fast, and why I care about Apache Arrow so much. The post is high level and you don't need to know C/C++/Rust to understand it!

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