Jacob
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@wcrichton y is saying "I'm the new boss here. Anybody wants to talk to x? They gotta go through _me_."
In the first example, z correctly asks y's permission to talk to x.
In the second, z fails to ask permission. It tries to go around y, and gets shot by the compiler for insolence.
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Try explaining to a Rust newbie why one of these compiles and the other doesn't :'|
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Let's Encrypt won the Levchin Prize! This is a very exciting recognition of 10 years of hard work.
eff.org/press/releases…
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For years, Bulletproof TLS and PKI has been _the_ book to read for, well, TLS and PKI. Now the second edition is out! Go grab a copy. You won't regret it.
feistyduck.com/books/bulletpr…
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I was curious - how much of my Wordle game is luck? Were my guesses good at each step? So I made a post-game analyzer: wordlyze.crud.net.
Here's a screenshot analyzing a completely hypothetical game of Wordle (not a spoiler):
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Rust trait coherence: You can't create a headcanon that struct Foo and trait Bar from another crate are in a relationship, because you don't own that IP. You're only allowed to ship Foo/Bar if one or the other (or both!) is your OC.
aaron gable@phasmantistes
Rust has these things called the Orphan Rules which people find confusing but I have solved this problem for everyone: The only fanfics allowed in rust are self-inserts.
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I'm excited to join the rustdoc team! I've been working on speed and usability improvements to the JS and HTML. The team has been so awesome and supportive. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/20…
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Jacob retweetledi
i heard there was a secret cord/you plug it in/and you meet the lord
Chris Kohler@kobunheat
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
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