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Much more people are creating Mastodon accounts now than I ever expected. I created one at Fosstodon. (Not sure if I’ll stick with it, let’s see how well it works.)
In the past few weeks, many websites started crashing in Chromium, with some datetime / time zone related error in the console, and the page completely blank. All of them use react.
For AoC I’m finally making a serious attempt at writing Go. Impression after two days: it feels low-level, closer to C than to Rust or Python. Maybe it’s the obscure names like atoi and bare bones printf, maybe the need for checking return codes.
I still truly do not understand how something that is so obviously a bad idea (template yaml) with such an obvious correct alternative (generate json) managed to become so popular.
I hope that the hype around ChatGPT, and how easy it is to make it say things that its authors have actively tried to prevent it from saying, will create some more awareness about AI alignment.
If you want to go down the rabbit hole: lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWD…
ALT ChatGPT describing how it would mislead its human operators to escape its sandbox.
SSDs are affordable enough now that I can fit my entire music collection on one. All those disk seek optimisations and loading animations I put in Musium are instantly obsolete!
Advent of Code is coming up and I’m running out of obscure languages to try ... Any recommendations?
On my radar so far:
• Hoon
• Unison
Huh, my file browser looks completely different and the border radius is up to 11 now ... oh right, I installed updates, and it’s been a quarter since Gnome’s last design overhaul 🤦
Nginx, but instead of loading files to serve from the file system, it reads them from a Git tree. Does this exist?
Software calling itself “modern” has become so meaningless that some tools now need to call themselves “post-modern”.
For a moment, I thought that this bug that I reported 13 years ago on Launchpad, in a piece of software that I don’t even remember, was just fixed ... but it’s only that the bug tracker got migrated to GitHub, and a bot posted a link to the new location.
Ruud van Asseldonk retweeted
We're excited to announce the 1.0 release of our new internationalization library, ICU4X!
ICU4X is modular, usable on low-resource devices, and can be used in many environments including Rust, C++, and JavaScript.
Read more here: blog.unicode.org/2022/09/ann…
Why do the settings have to be redesigned every release? I was finally getting used to where the power-off button is hiding D:
I replaced Clap with a hand-written CLI parser.
Clean release build time: -83.6% ± 0.1%
Clean debug build time: -68.4% ± 0.3%
Stripped release build size: -49.6%
Of course it is not as fully featured, it does not do typo correction. Still, worth it.
ALT A Git diffstat that shows 6 files changed, 373 insertions, 307 deletions, of which 224 deletions are in Cargo.lock, and 228 additions are in src/cli.rs.
A few years ago I joked that I couldn’t fully express myself without a code point for the animated dancing banana. The day is getting closer and closer.
But wait, there's more…
Language doesn’t stand still and neither should emoji! Say hello to our first set of animations!!!!!!
Scan the collection, download in your preferred file format (json! gifs! webp!) and watch them dance.
googlefonts.github.io/noto-e…