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@FrancescoCiull4 @VBragilevsky I am really enjoying Rust. Frankly, for std environments like linux, I only like it for terminal apps. But I am learning no-std Rust as I am learning embedded, and it is PERFECT for this. Chef’s kiss!

My Rust book is on its way to reaching 1000 copies sold (844 a couple of days ago). And it has been the #1 bestseller on Amazon for "parallel computer programming." Link to the review by @VBragilevsky below.

@lauriewired The Postgres mascot, Slonik, is more better. And he represents a worthwhile stack piece!

man, I don’t code in PHP but tbh the mascot is so cute it kinda makes me want to look at this little guy

@skdh @80sGeek No, we need another depression. America was never stronger that after the Great Depression. Our system requires a generational reset, we do not artificially oppose reality to the point of absurdity like Europe.

@80sGeek lots of people here in denial

if you think things are bad in the US, they're about to get worse. recommended reading 👇 x.com/txgermanbre/st…

@carmothy @lcamtuf @taviso Did your wife leave you for a Rustacean? He must have so much time to spend with her, not having to track ownership and lifetimes manually.

@lcamtuf @taviso Rewriting everything in Rust is retarded. I look forward to new hardware that makes it irrelevant.

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny. Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch. 🡇

@lcamtuf Not a big hurdle. I imagine if you got people to rewrite coreutils in C again, there would be MORE issues. The swap is still going forward in 26.10 🙂

@JohnDoritosKane @KarenPayneMVP Openai is projected to still have $14 billion losses this year A successful IPO will give them more temporary runway, but if Musk’s lawsuit is partially successful it could tank the IPO Better not to allow vendor lock-in in the first place! MS does the same thing over and over

@DevMagister @KarenPayneMVP Prices did recently skyrocket. It seems to be normalizing across the industry. To be fair, Microsoft's docs did say special Copilot pricing was for a limited time, and I enjoyed taking advantage of that.

Rather than getting in a tizzy about the cost of GitHub Copilot, consider writing code as you would before AI and use less costly models for most work.

@JohnDoritosKane @KarenPayneMVP Yes, and Claude Code can also run other models, but that is not the question. More importantly, Claude Code can also run custom in-house models (via Ollama, LM Studio, etc). With copilot, you will always be paying microsoft, and prices will soon skyrocket. Enjoy!

@DevMagister @KarenPayneMVP Copilot agent runs frontier models such as Anthropic Claude Opus 4.x like Claude Code does. Other than the cosmetic and permission prompting differences, I haven't noticed any major code quality differences when the same LLM is used no matter through which agent.

@davepl1968 Before they invented hands we had to increment the abacus by blowing on it like the big bad wolf

In the 90s we'd walk every path in the debugger in asm. Partly because we didn't have source level debugging...

@davepl1968 @gator_gum True, but it also isn’t fair the Rhode Island has 2 Senators for 1 million residents.

@gator_gum That's why America has Senators, with equal representation in each state. Would it be fair to make Alaska and its oil beholden to the whims of the entire nation? Like you do with Alberta, I mean?

People vote. Not land masses.

@davepl1968 @HappyMotorhead You take that back! I loved my manual transmission diesel Jetta. The only manual where you don’t need to hit the gas pedal to move forward in 1st gear from a stop! Good luck with short on-ramps though…

@HappyMotorhead Anything with a base 90hp engine should be ashamed.

Nearly 43 years old and still looks better than a new Tesla. Do you agree?

@hoff_world Hoff World is on Twitter now! Teach us more about embedded, there is not enough wholesome content here. My pan/tilt servo tracking algorithm sucks and I don’t know why.

@DerrickEvans4WV And I think I am finally done with you. Unfollowed, go fuck yourself.

This is interesting. Would you support Tucker Carlson if he runs for President?

@skdh @kareem_carr This unironically the worst affliction I have ever heard of. ☹️I am sorry for your loss.

@kareem_carr I can eat neither onions nor garlic nor beans nor mushrooms...

I feel much better since going gluten-free, hopefully soon I'll be fully back to being annoying. But I struggle to get my daily calories together, there's only so much butter I can put on rice before it gets disgusting. Please let me know if you have suggestions... 🙏

@tsoding How can tou rename a file that doesn’t exist? Surely it means create the file if it does not exist

I mean the function does exactly what it says. It's a pretty good name.

Everybody: naming is the hardest problem in programming. Jai standard library:

@schteppe Therefore, languages should not default to undefined behavior, and should instead have defined behavior for most or all usage of the language.

Software shouldn’t crash.

@systemdesignone I strongly disagree. Rust’s compiler literally teaches you the language. No other language can say that. I come from a full stack web dev background, but Rust was easy. The only difficult parts are not specific to Rust: learning how memory is actually handled by hardware.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ONLY Which is the most difficult programming language to learn? I'll go first: Rust

@buildwithparas @_trish_xD I learned pointers by letting Rust’s borrow checker teach me. That is a compiler’s job: tell you what is wrong.

@_trish_xD segfaults are how you actually learn what a pointer is

C barely gives you anything the hardware doesn't already have. What you write is almost exactly what the CPU runs. That's where all the power (and all the danger) comes from.

@agriffini @WalterBright @csjh__ Yeah, Zig gives me the “ick”, but there are a few cool ideas there.

@WalterBright @csjh__ I don't like zig (at all)... but requiring `= ?` explicitly in those rare cases seems to me it would be ok.

Floating Point NaN in #dlang NaNs are a very underappreciated feature of IEEE-754 floating point. In the D programming language, floats get default initialized to NaN, not to 0.0. double y = 0.0; // initialized to 0.0 double x; // initialized to NaN The discussion routinely comes up as "why not default initialize to 0.0?" The reason is a routine mistake in programming is forgetting to initialize a variable. With a floating point 0.0, one may never realize that the floating point calculation results are wrong. But with NaN, the result of a floating point computation will be NaN, which is unlikely to go unnoticed. I don't know of any other programming language with this safety feature. Also, the D `char` type is initialized to 0xFF, not 0, because Unicode says that 0xFF is an invalid character.

@AxiomVerge @GaryMarcus A) is wrong B) is totally valid when the product itself is creativity C) is valid, but alone does not prevent you from offloading the less fun things, like writing unit tests, debugging, asset formatting I would rather it did not exist, but Pandora is not going back in the box

@GaryMarcus I never vibe coded because a) ai can't even reliably write small code fragments and there's no way I'd let it write performance critical code and b) gamers hate that shit

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