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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

@jonhoo.eu have mercy!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

In Rust? I can't say I've ever seen it used. I suppose you could mimic it by writing a trait, but it's generally more idiomatic to use an enum instead and define your function as a function matching on the enum type. YMMMV with your specific use case

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

An ironic meme attributing the headline 'No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith, and Richard Stallman did not draw him' to Big Brother from the film adaptation of 1984, while Keith looks on in horror

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

How tf does a calculator leak 32GB? HOW?

Is it UI? I can't imagine it's the actual numbers being stored. You'd have to performing billions of operations for that to add up.

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Bohdan Pavuk is open for hire @bpavuk.neocities.org · 1d

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I propose even more extreme solutions:

1. eradicate JavaScript: replace slop that is sites repackaged as "native" apps with actual native code. Rust is the new C++, Kotlin and Swift will take care of the mobile. reduce JS application to the toy-level like it should be.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

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Zed @zed.dev · 1d

GPUI (v0.2.0), the GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework that powers Zed, is on crates dot io. 👀

crates.io/crates/gpui

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d

Finally wrote up my slides/notes for my presentation at the last #RustNYC meetup. Thanks to @busysp.bsky.social, @colelawrence.com, @statisticsftw.bsky.social, Ross, and the whole team over there for making it possible!
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Rust-Python Interop for Scientific Codebases — nrposner

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

More like the core for a game, using Rust+Bevy. Turns out Bevy's schedule system is a good match: lots of rules+systems, but explicitly ordered and defined for ease of human comprehension.

I'm still firmly in the 'implement basic rules' stage, but figured out how to get flexible reactions working!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Also, seeing you're into Pathfinder: 1st edition or 2nd as well? I got into it recently, after the 2e remaster and I've actually been trying to build an engine for 3d gridless PF2e (very slowly and with mixed success)

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

I'd read it for sure!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Praise be!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

How planned are we talking?

Do these shenanigans still work?

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Learning JavaScript with WAT

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Hear hear! This is my feeling every time I go back to Python. I never worked with typescript before, but maybe rescript is worth a shot...

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Attending a scientific codebase devmeeting

Expectation: We need to optimize the Lagrangian on the super-massive black holes, stat!

Reality: I regret to inform you all that the foot injury curse has spread

Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

@seangoedecke.bsky.social nails it
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Seeing like a software company

The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 3d

Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats

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ArchLinux @archlinux.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 3d

python-maturin 1.9.6-1 x86_64 Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings - Python bindings

#Extra-Testing #x86_64

Origin | Interest | Match

Arch Linux - python-maturin 1.9.6-1 (x86_64)

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 3d

New blog post! kylebarron.dev/blog/fast-py...

This dives into performance pitfalls of Python bindings, why projects like Lonboard are so fast, and why I care about Apache Arrow so much. The post is high level and you don't need to know C/C++/Rust to understand it!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

Good post! I'd previously backed off from trying to use the Arrow FFI for one of my projects, but maybe it's a good time to take another look at it.

Also, I've written a tutorial on Py-Rust interop here (and will hopefully write up the script from my latest talk soon) nrposner.com/blog/rust-py...

Rust, Python, and You: Rust-Python Interop for Python devs — nrposner

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 10d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 3d

A screenshot of an orc from the Lord of the Rings movies captioned with the phrase 'the age of windows is over, the time of the linux desktop has come'

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 5d

@rustaceans.bsky.social first pass on the string compressor. Lots of room for optimization on this one, but it works! play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

Rust Playground

A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language

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goingforbrooke 🦀 @goingforbrooke.bsky.social · 5d

wooo, my talk on Rusty counter human trafficking forensics software is up on YouTube! 🦀

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goingforbrooke: "Rust Against the Odds: Fighting Human Trafficking [...]" | RustConf 2025

YouTube video by Rust Foundation

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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