Ben Pfaff

Everyone else refers to the rainbow kind as the "gay goldfish" too, right?

I bet there are some conference organizers having a real fun Monday morning with eventbrite being down.

Posting just so you know I’m not a bot running in us-east-1.

I find that there's less of that than in C++, and I know the Rust version isn't going to segfault on me.

I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

Usually shitposting doesn't show actual shit.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

We're gonna beat these losers

just go to the protests

take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

I've seen your solutions, and I think I'll stick with the problems thank you

No Kings June 14 · No Kings on Mobilize Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with No Kings.

Don't forget, tomorrow is a huge protest day! There is certainly a protest near you, so find one!

www.mobilize.us/nokings/

#nokings

So if I apply for a loan, are the feds allowed to trawl through all the related paperwork looking for anything they like, even years later, even if I've stayed up to date on the payments? This does not seem like a good way for the law to work. Financial privacy should be the default.

OpenAI pivoting to a $500 billion gooning platform might be the most obvious bubble alarm bell the world has ever seen.

They should add a lint to clippy that warns on lines that contain too long string literals for rustfmt to handle. I should not need to hunt for string literals to break down with `\` manually just to get rustfmt working again 😒

I am going to a #nokings protest on Saturday. You should too.

It's super cool that now when I want to break a single thread into multiple, I'm pretty confident that it'll work if I can convince the compiler to make it compile. #rust #rustlang

Donald Trump says that Barack Obama could have gotten the October 7th hostages released during his presidency, raising new concerns about Joe Biden's memory and cognition.

If AI is so smart then why can't streaming services reliabiy start from the beginning of the next episode after I stop right at the end of the previous one?

#booksky

Have you considered gimbling it in the wabe

"A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law." If only this were true.

"The systems programmer has written drivers for buggy devices whose firmware was implemented by a drunken child or a sober goldfish" or an AI agent

Seriously weird, I keep getting the San Jose Mercury News delivered to my door. I don't subscribe to that paper (and I never have). It always has my apartment number scribbled on it, so it's not entirely a mistake. I wonder if there's an apartment with that number in an adjacent building.

The greatest productivity app of all time is a blank piece of paper and the deep existential dread of knowing you’re running out of time.

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

It looks like the US has two major parties, one of which whole-heartedly embraces and is pushing forward with fascism, and the other exists to capture all the opposition and hold them to one side until the fascism bit is done, and then complain about it but not actually fix it. Is that how it works?

Add `ToSmallString`, analogous to standard `ToString`. by blp · Pull Request #30 · murarth/smallstr

I submitted a PR to the smallstr project to add a ToSmallString trait, analogous to the standard ToString. I've found this useful in multiple projects of my own, so it feels like time to offer it to upstream. github.com/murarth/smal... #rust #rustlang