Alona
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she/her
https://social.treehouse.systems/@aDot
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airplane ian - abolish ICE
about 16 hours ago
BREAKING: Artemis II toilet update (transcript is in reverse chronological order)
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Andrew Nesbitt
1 day ago
What does Open Source mean?
nesbitt.io/2026/04/04/w...
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What does Open Source mean?
A stack of incompatible expectations.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/04/what-does-open-source-mean.html
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pepsi’s really innovating with the new flavours: the strawberry, cream soda, gingerbread, and tropical are all bangers
2 days ago
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entropy
2 days ago
There's a staaaaarmaaaan waiting in the sky He'd like to send an email but both of his outlooks are fried
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imperio
2 days ago
docs.rs
builds are about to change. If you have crates published on
crates.io
/
docs.rs
, I recommend you read this blog post in case you might be impacted by this change:
blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/04/d...
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Docs.rs
https://docs.rs
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posting through it? is "it" an http proxy?
3 days ago
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Shoutout to
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
. Hopefully you never run into needing to know the ordering gaurentees of TLS descrutors, but if you do, you're going to be really glad they got written down!
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thread::scope: document how join interacts with TLS destructors by RalfJung · Pull Request #149482 · rust-lang/rust
Fixes #116237 by documenting the current behavior regarding thread-local destructors as intended. (I'm not stoked about this, but documenting it is better than leaving it unclear.) This also ad...
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149482
3 days ago
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niki grayson
4 days ago
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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Anil Madhavapeddy
4 days ago
This is such an ingenious Apr 1st PR from Stephen Dolan I feel like it's the exact opposite of AI slop
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
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C++ support by stedolan · Pull Request #14701 · ocaml/ocaml
This patch adds a new C++ backend to ocamlc, improving on the unincremented C currently in use by the runtime and FFI. As an example, here's a simple program that computes the prime numbers up ...
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
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src/rustdoc-json-types/lib.rs will continue to expand until it can describe every aspect of a rust API:
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
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rustdoc-json: Expose Item stability by aDotInTheVoid · Pull Request #154603 · rust-lang/rust
This is motivated by cargo-semver-checks wanting to work on the standard library, but that requires being able to filter out breaking changes to unstable items, so it can only flag breaking changes...
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/154603
6 days ago
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@goodslides.bsky.social
is a gem of an account, i think
7 days ago
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Jesse
10 days ago
does anyone have access to the full text of this? Panksepp et al. (1978). The biology of social attachments: opiates alleviate separation distress. Biological Psychiatry, 13(5), 607–618.
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I love javascript package management:
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
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Yarn install isn't actually frozen · Issue #154446 · rust-lang/rust
Summary In #148763, we switched to using yarn1 to install JS deps for the rustdoc-gui suite. This was motivated by wanting to ensure packages would be locked. Unfortunatly that's not the case. Comm...
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/154446
10 days ago
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Haven’t seen this shared here yet so I will:
www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-inc...
A blog post about potential future version of rusts coherence system/orphan rule.
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An Incoherent Rust
Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision ...
https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/
13 days ago
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i gotta stop using the For You feed, it’s all ICE in TSA and discourse about fertiliser supply chain.
14 days ago
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bought another domain, send help
17 days ago
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this would work on me
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21 days ago
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Free as-in Gluten Free
21 days ago
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there’s a thesis to be written here about AI and the need for art to appear that there was effort and intention put into it (and what’s left behind once those are removed)
github.com/anthropics/s...
21 days ago
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Things that are gone now
22 days ago
#Trade
involved the transfer of goods and serviced from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists referred to a system or network that allowed trade as a market.
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Hi Dan!
25 days ago
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i wish cppreference had links to the wg21 papers where things were added (and especially removed/deprecated)
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26 days ago
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emftime
27 days ago
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need a bumper sticker that says “the only gas prices i care about is the GNU Assembler”
29 days ago
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this’d make an interesting study in the limitations of testing/fuzzing to find bugs, and the need for through understanding of systems. (and no shade to the SQLite folks, who do great work)
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30 days ago
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where do you buy used corporate thinkpads or macbooks on the cheep?
about 1 month ago
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none of the AI copyright stuff can be resolved until Tom Scott comes out of retirement to make a another 45min documentary. that’s our only hope.
about 1 month ago
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kinda weirds me out that LLM's never get writers block.
about 1 month ago
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need to move to the country, eat a lot of peaches. that would fix me.
about 1 month ago
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come see my talk! people are already calling it “one of the talks that will be delivered at RustWeek 2026 in Utrecht this May 18-23”
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about 1 month ago
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tef
about 1 month ago
georg cantor is an outlier and cannot be counted
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tracking down a bug, and find, right where the bug occurs: ``` // FIXME: Do these need handling? // The person writing this comment doesn't know. ```
about 1 month ago
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im enjoying the idea that mass foreign surveillance wouldn’t be a violation of fundamental rights (from
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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about 1 month ago
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ponder
about 1 month ago
ai seller. i am going into battle, and i want your strongest ai my ai is too aligned for you traveler. you can't handle my ai. you'd better go to a seller that sells misaligned ai youre a rascal, ai seller. a rascal with no respect for national security, no respect for anything except your p(doom)
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is mongoDB still webscale?
about 1 month ago
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cocaine motorcycle helicopter time
about 1 month ago
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srrrse
about 1 month ago
I wonder how different the world would be if they had given ipv4 addresses 8 bytes from the start in 1982. Possibly one of the most economically significant trivial design decisions of all time.
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Florence Ashley
about 1 month ago
Huge pet peeve: No, “Harvard University” didn’t publish a study, and nor is it proper to say that it is “according to Nature.” Universities don’t publish studies, professors do. And unless it’s an editorial, journals don’t say things either—authors do.
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kinda fucked up that scala, kotlin and clojure all have entirely unrelated javascript backends lol.
about 1 month ago
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need to put my makeup on, fix my hair up pretty. that would fix me (tonight in atlantic city).
about 2 months ago
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Things that are gone now
about 2 months ago
A
#skirt
was the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covered a person from the waist downwards.
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david barsky
about 2 months ago
go’s commitment to making good, self-serve analysis tooling is truly inspiring and i wish rust would do more of this.
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says a lot about society that they trained an AI on all of GitHub and this is how it behaves
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about 2 months ago
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Terts Diepraam
about 2 months ago
Rare opportunity to hire a fantastic compiler engineer and all-around great software developer!
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CC’d! At the Linux Kernel Mailing List!
about 2 months ago
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waffle/0
about 2 months ago
hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!
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eva (^_^)/
about 2 months ago
me: “good morning now i will check out my tech feed” google open source: “do not do this”
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oliver
about 2 months ago
someone please hire me. i'm going to go work on calendars now
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@jyn.dev
elm-guy talk alert!!! (hope it’s economics of programming languages 3)
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about 2 months ago
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Sickos Committee
about 2 months ago
PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES
www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
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