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Fact check: Concepts of a plan were added in C++20

submitted 169 days ago • 17 comments

it’s was kinda crazy to find out that Chris Green (of network southeast fame) is still alive, and that it’s very much still in the living memory of people who aren’t remotely old. like damn, we really had this didn’t we

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

i'm only 3 paragraphs in, but can already tell this is gonna be a banger of a blog post > The concept of a hash table was first described by Hans Peter Luhn in 1953 in an internal IBM memo that suggested speeding up search by placing items into “buckets” [...] go.dev/blog/swissta...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

just uninstalled 38GiB of rust toolchains, AMA

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

we have always been at war with NAT

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

it's so trippy when the nightly-rustc rustdoc is out-of-sync with master in a way that's meaningful, and also probably a sign that this should wait till tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

With today's release of the 2024 edition, Rust joins C in the exclusive pantheon of languages with an off-by-one error in their version numbers.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

heartwarming: kid who loved lagging out his computer with TNT mods in Minecraft now writes Fortran to simulate nuclear weapons at los alamos

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

your outie doesn't blindly make backups, but regularly checks that they're complete and can be restored from

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

your outie encourages using signal when possible, but isn't zealous about it

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

your outie makes sure all context is in the commit message, and not just the PR description

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"alpha-equivalent male"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Rust community coming strongly in favor of child labor in trash collection

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Diane's silk dress costs $89 now, Thanks Biden

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

“c-lift” would be a great name for a decompiler developed by the US Navy

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING - Trump admin working with consultancies to develop “clocky lighting” for all public spaces

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

living life one step at a time to spite Zeno, the fucking punk bitch

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

it's insane how much of my experience is forged by working on a post-1.0 kinda-popular not specified language every time someone shows me a cool idea I immediately think of all the possible issues, bureaucracy (!), user needs/reception, back compat, etc etc etc... instead just enjoying the idea

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

yeah I'm a full stack engineer. I can do type checking AND register allocation

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

huge rustc news! we're removing running the compiler! github.com/rust-lang/ru...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

rust also somehow messes this up, and it makes a load of stuff way more annoying

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

> Local-First Conf > looks inside > very far away

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Make like a web service and REST

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

normalize this, normalize that, why don't you normalize `<Vec<i32> as IntoIterator>::Item` ?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: floating point formatting in {fmt} will move to Texas to avoid exponent bias

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

business advice: run your business such that no-one publish a retrospective called “$comany-name’s reign of terror” about how you were such a bully in your golden years that no one wanted to work with you if they could at all avoid it

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments