With Victoria 3 having just come out, my favorite type of Reddit post is people complaining about balance issues that's just real life, just saw "It's too hard to get Rubber and Oil without colonization"

The Twitter situation is basically last year's Freenode implosion, except without the convenience of a newly stood-up replacement and with more Dunning-Kruger afflicted VCs

"It's not the fault of the language that there are buffer overflows leading to RCEs" says only language where this regularly happens

Everybody is excited for GATs, while I'm just excited about let-else.

I thought that let-else could replace for example the usage of `Option::unwrap_or`. Unfortunately no. Let-else can only be a statement and not an expression, and the `else` block must apparently always produce `()` or diverge. Way less useful than I had initially thought 😕

Time for a reminder that there's about 50 years of research showing a clear correlation between a background in engineering and support for authoritarianism.

Write a proof of concept: one week Write a specification by committee: 7 months Implement the specification: two weeks Somebody please help me figure out how to make the deadline

I would say that I'm normally not a toxic person, but Protocol Labs is the exception

If it takes more than 3 clicks to find the source code or the data format, you probably shouldn't be using that tech

In case the wrong microservice is being shut down today, it was a pleasu

"Whatever you do there's always going to be haters, the best thing to do is to ignore them" - people who have caused pain to others

I know it's off-topic with the ongoing Twitter downfall, but I've posted a brain dump of "Everything I know about networking" tomaka.medium.com/everything-i-k…

Logging off from Twitter. If you have any sympathy for Elmo or Trump, please go outside, take a breathe of fresh air, and reflect a bit about why you're doing this to yourself, then go buy some books (no Internet articles) about modern History. Actually do it, don't just pretend.