PSA to Rust programmers: padding bytes don't trigger niche optimization. Add a `bool` at the end off your struct to get it for free.

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It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow).

First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

I read that many people thought Furiosa appeared CGI heavy due to extensive compositing of disparate shots in the final image, so I watched a few minutes to get a closer look. Sure enough, right at the start of the film we have a woman with no shadow.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

Math people! Go read my second blog post, "Between a block and a hard place". It's about a weird but cool TikTok video I saw early this year that was about computing the digits of π by... bouncing blocks against a wall? Click the link read it and see the video.
mattmcal.blogspot.com/2024/09/betw...