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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 15h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 2d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 4d

It looks like the US has two major parties, one of which whole-heartedly embraces and is pushing forward with fascism, and the other exists to capture all the opposition and hold them to one side until the fascism bit is done, and then complain about it but not actually fix it. Is that how it works?

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

I submitted a PR to the smallstr project to add a ToSmallString trait, analogous to the standard ToString. I've found this useful in multiple projects of my own, so it feels like time to offer it to upstream. github.com/murarth/smal... #rust #rustlang

Add `ToSmallString`, analogous to standard `ToString`. by blp · Pull Request #30 · murarth/smallstr

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

The No Kings stuff on the 18th needs to be really big.

If it is too cringe for you, do therapy or deep breathing or something and then grow up

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

The Caledonian Club of San Francisco, after 160 years, is finally allowing women to attend its Burns Supper in 2026. Progress.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

Will ICE get paid during the shutdown? Will they get the ridiculous perks ($50k sign on bonuses and student loan forgiveness)? Asking out of pure ignorance and potentially excitement.

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 10d

Happy birthday to me. I am 47 today.

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 10d

I made mapo tofu. Mapo isn't supposed to have peas, green beans, mushrooms, and pineapple, but I like them.

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 10d

I don't see any value.

Looking at this, at first I thought there could be some value in creating the file through a cli so that it would be clear what to open from a gui editor. Then I noticed that the commands as written put the file in the wrong directory 🤷

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 11d

Sounds odd. Who suggests that?

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 11d

Vandalism chic

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 11d

To vendors selling shoes online, a note that your measurements may be off by "1-2cm" is not at all reassuring. A shoe that is sized wrongly by 2cm is not going to fit me, at all.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 12d

It can be tricky to get mini bagels out of the toaster. I use chopsticks.

Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 13d

The binrw and quick-xml crates are fscking miracles for structured parsing of binary and XML data. In C for the same purposes I've ended up writing bespoke parser-generators. #rust #rustlang

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 14d

After working so long in C, I really enjoy the freedom in #rust to put my definitions in any order I want, regardless of what refers to what. #rustlang

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 15d

I know there's some controversy over the plural of "virus" but I'm confident this one is wrong.

Small screenshot showing the text "0 viruseses/problems found"

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 16d

Serde is such a delight. It's the best and worst of Rust all in one.

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 17d

How's the rapture coming along?

Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 21d

It's annoying how Github hides the biggest, most important part of a PR to review behind an expander because it's a "big change".

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 25d

All my DMs here are from deleted accounts. Huh.

Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 25d

The SPSS portable file format has a super-weird number representation: base-30 floating-point, with digits 0..9 and A..T. pspp.benpfaff.org/manual/porta...

SPSS Portable File Format - GNU PSPP

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · Sep 10

fuck ioctls

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 10

sad about future

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