evil.red

Yeah,

I emailed one of the artists who worked on #hazbinhotel who is not on bsky - just to tell them that an Easter Egg they put on screen for a few seconds caused my family to squeal with joy.

No intellect - pure JOY!

@samuraiames.bsky.social I don't know who storyboarded or animated "Brighter"...

But in the scene where it shows Vox in front of a board with suggestions for the network...

Vox canonically invented Doctor Who!

Words can't express how happy that little detail made me.

Please thank them for us.

The goal of rust was to remove footguns, so I guess I'm surprised that this was allowed in the language in the first place.

The goal of statically typed languages is to move problems from runtime to compile-time. Any crashes are bugs in the compiler, not your code.

Maybe deprecate unwrap()?

If "everyone knows .unwrap() is a footgun", then why is it in #rust at all?

Make the user use .unwrap_or, or match, or some other error flow mechanism so they're forced to make a decision.

If they want to "panic!()", make them type it out. Let them ponder their life choices in those 9 chrs.

Age 15 I met an ex-WWII Navy Morse Operator doing a public demo. He was talking to me *and* speaking to someone else in morse at the exact same time.

"I could never do that", I said.
"I'll teach you", he said.

…and he did.

You're 1000% right.

The seemingly Impossible takes practice and will.

Apple and blackberry crumble recipe Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's classic apple and blackberry crumble is the perfect autumnal pudding.

Have you ever had "crumble" Nome?

I'm not going to say that (sweet) pies don't exist in the UK... but crumble is a lot more common.

For example:

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...

Delish!

I have no concept whatsoever of how people can *think* without hearing their own voice.

Visualizing while thinking, and thinking in abstracts means absolutely nothing to me.

I can't visualize anything, except when I start to drift off to sleep.

BUT - I can recall sounds/music I've heard with ridiculous accuracy.

You could play me the same song twice with one note difference and I'd hear it.

ALL my thoughts are an internal monologue in my own voice (that I hear).

I'm the opposite. I struggle with reading fiction books because all of the visual descriptions which i can't do anything with.

I can read fiction in "play"-form since it's just dialog.

I frequently jest that "banning all human-readable formats that are used for inter-process communication would solve global warming".

I wish someone would do the math, because what started in jest I swear looks more and more likely true.

Relative: "I'm gonna get me some sugar".
My 6yr old daughter: "Noooo..."
Relative: "I'm gonna get me some sugar!".

Me: "Did she fuckin' stutter?"

(I distinctly remember as a young boy being passed around the aunties and uncles for kisses and I *still* cringe... 40+ years later).

I guess to hit all those musical beats and to sync the lips you have to have the song / dialogue to animate it.

I'm constantly in awe about how all this works, and the amount of work and genuine skill needed to pull it off.

Wowsa

"A rising tide raises all boats".

It really does.

I find Jefferson's quote hard to square, since he owned over 600 slaves.

I would love to hear a historian's take on whether he actually believed that given he owned over 600 slaves in his life.

Did he see enslaved Africans as non-human?... or humans but unequal? Or...

It's that Trump doesn't really have specific policy "ideals" as a populist.

Remember when he said he'd sign a gun-ban if it hit his desk?

If he thinks higher taxes would improve his popularity, he'd do it in a nanosecond.

Sandwiches are genuinely delicious ❤️

Dev: "we can show you our quick prototype / proof of concept - as long as you promise this will never get pushed to prod..."
Bus: "looks great, push to prod"

The language i write in mandates all those cases be handled, so it's an adjustment to my thinking.

I guess that's the kind of thing code review, static analysis, a linter, or a potential command-line flag could look for to catch rose inevitable cases where happy-path prototypes get pushed to prod 😉

So showing them you and your team's posts showing how the sausage is made had been really inspirational for them.

You're director and DP for every series of scenes you're assigned.

No pressure 😀

My (13yr old) is in love with character drawing but hasn't done the leap to storyboarding or animation yet.

But she has her own universe and OCs that she's been building for a while.

I love her passion for it.

So you effectively choose where the "camera" is, framing, charger motions, and edits?

I think one thing that blows my mind is how consistent character drawings are.

As someone in the team, are there subtle "tells"? Or is consistency one of the primary drivers?

How many weeks for that one?

Also - is that just the line-work, or do you colour as well?

(I confess I'm a little confused as to the whole process, so please forgive me if I'm mistaken).

Programmer hubris goes "this will never happen, I dont need to check".

Oh, this helps a tonne. Thanks.

So when there's a panic caused by an unwrap, its the rust equivalent of "remember to check your return value".

So memory integrity is fine, it's that the programmer didn't provide a way forward if one of their calls fail and they get an error instead of a result?

I guess what I'm trying to understand is how does rust know that it's in an unrecoverable state?...

I guess I assumed that as long as you didn't use "unsafe" blocks, rust's safety mechanisms like the borrow checker would prevent that.

I guess I need to find some examples to better understand.

Is it a goal of the rust language to try and eliminate areas of the language that could trigger this?

... or are there aspects where this isn't possible so it's a trade-off?

(I don't know enough about rust's design, but can't you just trap panics and force the developer to write some kind of recovery?)

... or are panics always "we are in an unrecoverable corrupted state"?

Prioritizing safety / integrity over availability is a legitimate trade-off.

But if you make that trade-off, that should be a conscious decision with automated recovery processes.

(Even as simple as restarting the application clean?)

I remember having a discussion with someone about how I thought that a language having a runtime "panic"-like function should be an anti-pattern.

A "memory-safe crash" is still a crash.

Guess I have a high-profile real-world example to quote now.

bsky.app/profile/evil...

Great minds think alike ❤️