This afternoon I'm reading the dissertation of my former intern, whose academic advisor is also my former intern. I'm so proud of both of them!

I LOVE WHEN MY FAVORITE PROFESSORS GET TENURE.

I helped judge a science fair today. The locations of projects were assigned a row and a column, like 13-22. At first I thought my projects didn't have a usable location assignment, and then I realized that the assignments had passed through Excel so that Jun-44 was actually 06-44. Ugh Excel.

Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count... PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY! I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix. Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.

I am utterly sickened by what this United States has become under this elected regime.

Whoever is behind the California Digital Age Assurance Act deserves to end up with their head on a pike. It's stupid and malicious and uncalled for.

In awful C string function naming news, one of the mailing lists I'm on is proposing one called stpspn().

Everything bagel seasoning is a good substitute for Montreal steak seasoning, right?

The example for OsString::from_encoded_bytes_unchecked in the #rust standard library docs implies that there is a fair bit that one can safely and usefully do with OsStr(ing)s and Path(Buf)s that std doesn't directly support, but I've failed to find a good crate for it. Any suggestions? #rustlang

Need advice on leather shoe repair. A small part of my shoe has peeled away from the sole. I'd like to reattach it but I don't understand how. The stitches that appear to run along the some are fake, decorative only. Is the leather supposed to be glued in or how otherwise would I reattach it?

One of the nice things about Rust is that you don't have to decide what kinds of errors warrant throwing an exception.

Why is usize::div_ceil only available on 64-bit targets? doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitiv... #rust #rustlang

I came really close to losing hours of my #rust work in #emacs today due to some kind of #lsp bug. You seen, very occasionally, I'll type something in a Rust file and the LSP will decide that it needs to replace the entire file with some random content.

A couple of times at work I've had a problem I didn't know how to solve, so I asked AI. It didn't solve it either, although it claimed it had.

I'm reading that the FCC "wouldn't let" Colbert air something, but I'm sure that's not true: that would be illegal prior restraint if I correctly understand how the First Amendment works.

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.“ Robert A. Heinlein

Throw away the outside and cook (must be cooked) the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

talking about legal research like he's in an HP Lovecraft story

Thanks, I hate it.

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

I conducted an international study on this matter, and the results are in: most people like peanut butter. framapiaf.org/@blp/1160593...

Trump said ICE was going after the "worst of the worst". You thought he was talking about undocumented immigrants? Nope. He was explaining ICE's recruitment goals.

A lot of cities have been banning ICE from city property. A lot of cities own airports. Cities should ban ICE from all use of their airports.

It sure would be nice if librdkafka had usable documentation.

I have two books that I got signed by the author in person. The first is Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. I waited in line and when I got to the front I was startled by the idea of asking for a personal message. He didn't know me, how could it really be that personal? So I just got the signature.

Yes, he wrote two SF books. The other one is called "Wine of the Dreamers". In the late 80's and early 90's I had every book John D. ever wrote (in paperback, mind you) and I had read them more than once. 'The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything' is one heck of a good book.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

I assumed that something was mixed up I got the shipping notification for the @techdirt.com commemorative coin, because it said it was coming from Redwood City, which is where I live. And then it arrived and I found out that Techdirt is *based* in Redwood City. I was so surprised!

Bad Bunny has now joined Taylor Swift as an artist that doesn't make music I am interested in listening to, but has my full support anyway.

In the late 1990s, almost 30 years ago now, I had a RAID-0 of 3 4-GB drives on my personal desktop machine. Now a comparable setup would have 1000x more storage and be physically at least 10x smaller.

Look, I know it's part of the Russian state security apparatus, but I still have trouble not reading it as Front Side Bus, ok?

I shall train a dolphin in the law. He will be my Habeas Porpoise.

Many of the #rust floating-point math functions have a note: "The precision of this function is non-deterministic. This means it varies by platform, Rust version, and can even differ within the same execution from one invocation to the next." When would results vary between invocations? #rustlang

I submitted a Strong Accept review and someone else submitted a Weak Reject. This is sure to be an interesting PC discussion.

I just came here to say that I'm 10 years out from my PhD and I'm "tenured" and the imposter syndrome is still strong. Maybe not for everything but for a number of aspects of my job.

actix-tls directly depends on two different versions of http?! github.com/actix/actix-... #rust #rustlang #actix

Just saw a report from one of our big customers and I'm so impressed...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

The time travelers knew, which is why they didn't show up at Hawking's party.

Why does openssl have credit cards in it

Just received a recorded phone call that started out, "At the request of name police department, name school is now on secure campus." Like, literally that, just saying "name", without actually naming anything. It's a good thing Caller ID showed the high school. Competence gap somewhere.

I hate ordering from Amazon but when I do it's amazing how often their orders arrive late. It's almost 10 pm and their tracking system still shows my order as "out for delivery" for today

JFC, fuck landlords

The most heartwarming article I've read about current events: www.techdirt.com/2026/01/28/m...

GNU gettext 1.0 was released!

There are legal penalties for lying to officials. There ought to be similar penalties for officials lying to the public.

Finally got some difficult PRa through CI... by fixing bugs in existing tests that somehow my changes tickled.

We now have nearly 160 cosponsors signed on to impeach Kristi Noem. Keep pushing!

I live on a street named Whipple (in California) so seeing the news from Minnesota causes weird thoughts sometimes.