Turns out that Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

git add -p

(this is #bonuscomic #4 for "How Git Works" https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, covering some topics that I didn't have space for in the zine)

https://wizardzines.com/comics/git-add-p/

Just imagine what the reaction would be if Copilot was named Clippy. I can't imagine a world where it would be seen as negatively as it is now.

Just imagine the clippy key. That would be 🔥

I've now worked in/on 3 "systems languages" (C++, Rust, Swift) that try to "move everything to the libraries" in a fairly thorough way, such that they try to express the language's containers and "smart pointers" in libraries also, not as "part of the language".

But then they also of course want to support all the usual "language-level" optimizations, special cases, idioms and integrations (auto ref/deref, pattern match/destructure, bit-stealing, refcount/CoW, copy/clone/modify/unwind/drop lifecycles, uninit/definite init, move in/out, pinning, type-directed overloading, etc. etc.) and invariably the resulting abstractions exposed to users are utterly mysterious, covered in sharp edges, only work correctly in specific combinations, can't be abstracted-over, and/or bottom out in different but equally-opaque compiler hooks as the original pointer and container types.

I think it would be a useful service to humanity if some PL student or researcher out there did a survey / SoK of this design-space, especially also relating it to the IRs or abstract machines underlying the languages. It's an absolute minefield for anyone doing a new PL and as far as I know everyone is quite dissatisfied with all the results so far.

modern programming is like,

"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."

old-time programming is like,

"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."

A brief history of Google Pay (which was just shut down on June 4th):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474629

git worktree

(this is #bonuscomic #3 for "How Git Works" https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, covering some topics that I didn't talk about in the zine)

Also I don't use worktrees much, so please reply with gotchas/tips about worktrees if you use them more!

https://wizardzines.com/comics/git-worktree/

Most team culture comes out of a combination of what is tolerated and what is rewarded. If you legit want your culture to improve, change what you reward and rethink what you will tolerate.

I want to talk about what's really happening with chain retail stores, because there seems to be a lot of confusion about it in this world. It's easier for me to think in concrete terms, so imagine an Autozone in Los Angeles. First of all, the land it sits on is owned by someone else, who charges rent to the corporation but has no other role in the process. These charges are reflected in the prices of their products, which means that when you shop there you're paying a commercial real estate owner for nothing more than owning the land the store sits on.

#Capitalism #Anarchism #CorporateRetail #Autozone #Looting #InDefenseOfLooting #LosAngeles

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@robdaemon I like how pytest does it: https://docs.pytest.org/en/8.2.x/#a-quick-example

No need to remember which is which.

Who would have ever guessed that this was the solution to unhappy workers?

I last updated my LinkedIn in 2014 and it continues to pay dividends.

Such a cool citizen investigation story with sonar scanning and an ROV! https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/

#Tradle #829 2/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

Today’s Tradle:

An incredible inside look at OceanGate’s failures from new sources. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/inside-the-titan-submersible-disaster/

This is generally how I feel when people talk about performance in general. It’s just not something I’m interested in outside of real-world measurable impact on usage.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/112603298704813288

I still think “confabulation” would be a better term for this than “hallucination”.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/112601424339903510

The nostalgia! https://1j01.github.io/pipes/

So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/