Alona
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so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.
We just raised $1 million dollars for our transition to City Hall. The groundwork to make this city a fairer and more affordable place is happening because of you.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.
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objective, vast, and endless: pick 3
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
objective, vast, and endless: pick 3
gnu vast-and-endless-sea compiler
the goal is not to build a xterm-killer, the goal is to teach people to yearn for the vast and boundless sea
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
gnu vast-and-endless-sea compiler
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"You're telling me that once I'm a systems engineer, I'll know when to allocate and free memory?"
"No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."
"No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"You're telling me that once I'm a systems engineer, I'll know when to allocate and free memory?"
"No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."
"No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."
answer via mastodon, which apparently has more type theorists: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
answer via mastodon, which apparently has more type theorists: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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come to rust, it's ok if you panic whenever you think about trying to change who you are while everyone is watching, that's what RefCell is for
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
come to rust, it's ok if you panic whenever you think about trying to change who you are while everyone is watching, that's what RefCell is for
![impl<T> Debug for [T] where T: Debug
In the zohran mamdani sign style](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmbnkonsfestr6vvcpy7ffz3/bafkreig42xerffjplvmcnzc77iiguvskdnqlnlaptvpxccrrdlpe75kqnu@jpeg)
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probably several of these
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
probably several of these
is there any research into languages that treat conditional compilation as part of typechecking, rather than something that happens at latest shortly after parsing?
i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.
i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
is there any research into languages that treat conditional compilation as part of typechecking, rather than something that happens at latest shortly after parsing?
i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.
i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.
observation: Rustdoc as the start of a sentence seems fine. Rustc on the other hand seems viscerally wrong. rustc is the only way to capitalize that. rustdoc is also acceptable here, but not required.
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
observation: Rustdoc as the start of a sentence seems fine. Rustc on the other hand seems viscerally wrong. rustc is the only way to capitalize that. rustdoc is also acceptable here, but not required.
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the cishet monogamous git merges vs transgender polyamorous jj merges
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
the cishet monogamous git merges vs transgender polyamorous jj merges
idk, the beef looks pretty two-sided to me
!["It's true of me that I just don't enjoy interacting with agency PR people that much," Newton says. He calls Zitron's recent turn to commentary "a new gimmick for himself-Al hater number one" and says Zitron has a "one-sided beef" with him. (Zitron says it's a
"critique.") He compares Zitron's prolix style to "some cross between the Always Sunny meme of Charlie with the murder board] and then a prisoner smearing shit on the walls to make a point." Newton went on: "I think Ed has actually flown too close to the sun now, because he's built this pedestal for himself, and he's climbed on top, and he's posing for glossy portraits in the Financial Times magazine and WIRED, wearing aviators like the fucking Temu Kara Swisher."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmbnkonsfestr6vvcpy7ffz3/bafkreifpvplfnmcjdq2v4ryf5dgpyjcgmuaq6u4be3lqwcfbodihswpy4m@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
idk, the beef looks pretty two-sided to me
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learning to care about baseball just in time to get crushed by baseball
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
learning to care about baseball just in time to get crushed by baseball
@jamesmunns.com what ended up happening with postcard (the library) v2.0?
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@jamesmunns.com what ended up happening with postcard (the library) v2.0?
she HLOOKUP on my VLOOKUP till i XLOOKUP
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
she HLOOKUP on my VLOOKUP till i XLOOKUP
fun? fact: when talking about this with a friend, i assumed the convention of using RBC for Red Blue Cloud, and he used RBC for Rain Balloon Cloud, to much confusion.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
fun? fact: when talking about this with a friend, i assumed the convention of using RBC for Red Blue Cloud, and he used RBC for Rain Balloon Cloud, to much confusion.
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“Sam Altman” as a name is kinda kojima-coded
September 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“Sam Altman” as a name is kinda kojima-coded
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You MUST see this
Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units
groups.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You MUST see this
has KRAZAM sold out, or is their latest video actually good actually? the greatest topic in group chat history, banned by admin after 975258 messages of heated debate
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
has KRAZAM sold out, or is their latest video actually good actually? the greatest topic in group chat history, banned by admin after 975258 messages of heated debate
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Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet?
x.com/CppCon/statu...
x.com/CppCon/statu...
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet?
x.com/CppCon/statu...
x.com/CppCon/statu...
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It is entirely possible that Rust’s greatest legacy won’t be anything to do with safety but that it did for sum types what JavaScript did for closures.
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It is entirely possible that Rust’s greatest legacy won’t be anything to do with safety but that it did for sum types what JavaScript did for closures.
old-skool supply chain attacker: kids these days can’t even steal /etc/shaddow, all they know is hotpatch window.fetch, get installed by dependabot and mine
September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
old-skool supply chain attacker: kids these days can’t even steal /etc/shaddow, all they know is hotpatch window.fetch, get installed by dependabot and mine
can’t wait for the mastodon thread that reveals that like every other “new” idea in computing, 10GB of node_modules written by strangers thieves and spies was somehow also invented by IBM in the 70s
September 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
can’t wait for the mastodon thread that reveals that like every other “new” idea in computing, 10GB of node_modules written by strangers thieves and spies was somehow also invented by IBM in the 70s
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