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soweli Neko

@nekotachi.bsky.social

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she/her(/they/it) rust contributor enjoyer of tcgs native english speaker, conversational toki pona, very basic japanese anarchist #oponaemi

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · Apr 2

honestly these days you could make an argument that adblockers are actually good for human authors.

slop blogs rely on ad revenue from people clicking on them and looking around before they realize something is wrong, while actual quality blogs can monetize via merch and patreon.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 5h

current llms can't even notice you using an uninitialized variable half of the time, so i wouldn't hold my breath

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22h

% of Programmers Identifying as LGBTQ by Language

there are 14 languages listed.

c & go are the lowest at 3%

ts is at 25%

rust is at 55%

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 7h

is there an existing service to run a bsky labeler? i wouldn't mind doing the basic stuff of like handling reports of bot accounts and categorizing them. i don't know if people actually send reports to labelers tho.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 8h

i want to write a DSL for documenting CLI applications that can autogenerate manuals (mdoc, man, and html), as well as autogenerating completion scripts for various shells

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 8h

i just remembered @typst.app exists.

it's like the coolest thing i have zero use for currently x3

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 8h

The weird thing about bsky labelers imo is the ones that exist have very little overlap with the ones that would help me personally.

i wish we had more labelers for various categories of bot accounts, sometimes I'll see the same story 5 times in a feed from different bots.

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 10h

Do not let KOSA slip through your radar people, make damn sure to be vocal about your opposition to such dogshit bills.

Bombard your reps with calls and letters about being against this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 9h

Human Rights Watch not actually in the business of selling human rights offsets

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 9h

*in a generic context

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 12h

I still wish there was a FnStatic trait for function items and captureless closures in #rustlang

something that let you call a function based just on its type.

this would let you leverage monomorphization to wrap functions with other functions, which would be handy for ffi

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

>looking for a new action game
>ask if the action game is meter management or cooldowns
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is meter management and what is cooldowns
>she laughs and says “it’s a good game sir”
>buy the game
>its cooldowns

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

well someone's had a certain story on their mind recently

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 1d

there’s no such thing as a cisgender utopia and never will be. everyone knows you can’t make an omelas without cracking a few eggs

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 1d

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Fie ♡ @fiabolic.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a miku

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

do you mean jrpgs or... something else

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

"hundred" is like objectively too long of a word, to the point of actually causing real world problems

people wouldn't be saying 350 as "three fifty" if it was a shorter word

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

it's also used a ton in rustc itself in order process various ASTs and IRs.

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

hey you could prompt an LLM to give a yes/no answer in a certain format, then look at the token probabilities to actually get a confidence rating instead.

but ofc probably noone is doing that because it requires actual innovation instead of "make it bigger"

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

interval arithmetic library that takes its arguments by reference and uses address equality to address the "dependency issue" common to interval arithmetic.

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

we need a better name for "what the default branch name defaults to for new repositories" than "default default branch name"

that is to say, we need a better default default branch name name

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

i think an allow-by-default lint would be the most natural thing to add on to the existing design, although It does mean having one more thing to name