Valdemar

IBM had Watson compete in jeopardy years ago, but it would be fun to see computer to computer fights in it.

Oh apperently that word is only used in Danish, the English word seems to be Chugging "charity mugging", people that come in your face on the street to ask for donations or similar.

I very much dislike facers, I really don't think it should be a thing

They're putting blue food coloring in everything "Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.

When I saw it first I thought it was related to this short blog article blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putti..., then I saw it was an actual article.

Is this your attempt at an amalgamation of Brighton and bye?

No, China Did Not Just Ban Bitcoin Again News of a new China ban has spread and perhaps led some investors to sell their Bitcoin. Yet there was no official statement from any of the relevant Chinese authorities.

It seems that it came about from a completely unsourced post on Binance's social media/forum about 2 months ago

www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

damn, he's pretty fly for a white guy

A split keyboard which each half being contoured to fit the hand. Each half also have 6 keys for the thumb.

Got a Glove80, so now it's time to forget and relearn how to type

Fun fact, Jon's birthday is coincidentally the same day as Jim Davis', so happy birthday to him as well!

My favorite game must be "This is the Only Level", at some point I could all the levels in my head and could kinda speedrun it, before I really knew what that was.

I had a interview where they just invited me to present something I had been working on, one of the things I presented was a small Clippy lint from which there is a lot to talk about already. That was easily one of the nicest interviews I have done.

Garfield July 27, 1978 https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/07/27

Go follow my new bot that will post the daily Garfield comic strip every single day.

<verb>! <prep> <conj> <noun>!

Seems like it might be rolled back: github.com/rust-lang/ru...

There is a backend for sequential C and one for multicore C, but for the gpu backends the C only does the api and a bit of mutex locking iirc.

Wrote my bachelor about using it, but that was quite a few years ago now.

Futhark is also interesting in that it compiles to C, so it generates optimized low level code from a high level language.

It also got a bunch of tools so you could just load a full configuration from a yaml file which helped quite a lot woth provisioning.

The Vector vSECC has two ethernet ports where one has a static IP and the other a dynamic (also user configurable) so it was quite easy to set up even without a dhcp server.

Any reason you are shelling out to the typst cli instead of using the typst crate?

I wrote up a post with all the strange things I ran into when doing it, e.g. implementing syntax highlighting and footnotes myself: erk.dev/2025/04/19/b...

I used Typst as a replacement for markdown for my blog, it't nearly covers everything I need there except for bibliographies which are not supported yet.

I have taken over projects in Rust that was pretty clearly written by people who was more fluent in C++, and that have been a bit of a pain. On the other hand I have had a coworker who had used C for decades, but now writes very good rust code, maybe because they have been willing to try it out

This talk will present a postmortem of the worst bug you can imagine happen for a bot which only feature is to post comics: The wrong comic being posted.To e... Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) - Valdemar Erk

Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug)
by Valdemar Erk at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...

#rustlang #RustWeek

I think one thing I would still put into this is how raku uses ⚛️ as prefix for atomic operations, I feel like there is some other way to do that, but there are probably many more ways of doing it worse.

You are always welcome up here if you come by

I wonder why some of the characters are inverted? If it has any meaning or if it made them easier to carve?

YouTube video by RustNL Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) - Valdemar Erk

The talk I did at #RustWeek about how a small difference in API's lead to a rather bad bug in my #Garfield bot is now live on YouTube, so you should all go and watch it. #rustlang

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...

What kind of pancakes was it?

Garfield comic with 3 windows. Window 1: Garfield points up towards a thought bobble: "Nothing can stop me from sticking to my diet today!" Window 2: Garfield eats a slice of blueberry pie. Window 3: Garfield points up towards a thought bobble: "Nothing can stop me from sticking to my diet tomorrow!"

The same comic posted by MSN looks correct