Posts by shadower@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AuUzqf6vfMAImUHN3I by shadower@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T07:52:54Z
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So I kinda hate bringing up Bill Gates, but this quote is an absolute classic and worth reminding in these times:"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."The fact that both devs and companies now gush over how many more lines of code they can add with the LLMs is really leaving a sour taste.
(DIR) Post #B1NoaKA4Dy98aYu56O by shadower@mastodon.social
2025-08-25T15:56:07Z
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Started reading @pluralistic latest (third) Martin Hench novel (Picks and Shovels) and this series just works really well.I'm still very much in the exposition part, but hanging onto every word since the first paragraph.It's such a delight to read. Not a dull moment. There's a good chance you'll enjoy this even if you don't like Cory's fiction in general.It's basically Snow Crash from when the first computers just came on the market.(and ofc Wil Wheaton as the narrator is :chefkiss:)
(DIR) Post #B1NodIfeDsjmpn5ts8 by shadower@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T16:10:54Z
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@deshipu what's the book?
(DIR) Post #B1NodZ3zH9iJfubZ20 by shadower@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T18:28:21Z
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@deshipu that is amazing!
(DIR) Post #B1NomaDuKenTsYXsbQ by shadower@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T13:45:42Z
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Days since I mixed up variadic generics and const generics: 0
(DIR) Post #B1NqWzJzRyAAzi58gy by shadower@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T12:32:07Z
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FWIW adding these to your Cargo.toml will make most things that would panic at runtime (including unwrap) into a compile error:[lints.clippy]expect_used = "deny"unwrap_used = "deny"ok_expect = "deny"panic = "deny"manual_strip = "deny"await_holding_refcell_ref = "deny"unwrap_in_result = "deny"For extra oomph, disable direct indexing into slices (arrays, vectors etc.):indexing_slicing = "deny"(most, not all)And it's best for long-running code (games, applications, servers etc.).
(DIR) Post #B6tFDozIPmRPRJkLEe by shadower@mastodon.social
2026-06-01T11:28:15Z
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@AmyZenunim fantastic, thank you!How does the GPLv3 (I'm assuming that's the license it refers to) not permit LLM contributions?I haven't heard that one and couldn't find anything. Is this related to LLMs' output not being copyrightable somehow?
(DIR) Post #B6xvS4JnBbNrkQeJkm by shadower@mastodon.social
2026-06-03T19:16:52Z
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@foone a dishwasher (I wanted one for ages but we only had space for one 9 months ago, I'm extremely happy with it).Before that the PS4, before that iPad and before that a Nexus One-era android smartphone.