Tim McNamara

On the planet to build a better planet. Software person, kind of into Rust and creative coding. Author of Rust in Action (

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An occasional reminder that depression is a lethal disease.

I'm not "okay", but I think that I'm no longer "not okay".

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@henrycooke If only we had local capability to develop hypersonic missiles and to deploy them hastily. That would probably alter the economics of invading us.

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One interesting quirk about the New Zealand government's decision to treat prediction markets as gambling, is that this would imply that winnings are tax free 🤔

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@jmflatow 😅 shh! 🤫

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To people learning Rust from Java/C#, Rust's traits are not interfaces. They're their own thing.

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@nearX86 mood

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@CoderCarl Is that an insult? I sometimes wonder what the C++ would have been able to achieve if it had the decency to recognise that queer people exist or the warmth to celebrate them.

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@andi0b IOvercooked or something

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Using impl Trait in the return position is one of Rust's most useful features for library authors.

It allows you to change the concrete type without breaking semver.

e.g. `fn printable() -> impl std::fmt::Display` would enable you to return anything that you want that implements Display.

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@braelyn_ai Everything is devolving into Tiktok. Even LinkedIn is Tiktok these days.

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@orhundev @jetbrains @rustrover That's very exciting news @orhundev

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coding livestream tomorrow? unfortunately, the best time for me is at a time that suits nobody else https://t.co/dNaEtTdYuq

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A gentle reminder that hits to your status page should be on your dashboard. If everything on your dashboard is green, but you receive a spike in visitors to your status page, then your dashboard is wrong.

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Cargo fighting the big fight of keeping the ASCII standard alive with CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS.

(I'm team ASCII by the way. CSV is not a real file format. ASCII Record Separator and ASCII Unit Separator for the win)

^W

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runtime? more like walk time

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there is absolutely no reason to build your CLI or TUI in typescript. please stop

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Space Age optimism had something going on.

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Berlin International Congress Centrum

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Mythos is a big deal because of its second-order effects.

If it only cost $10b to train a cyber weapon that can easily penetrate all heavily-used operating systems, I expect that the information security industry will encounter many private variants within 24 months.

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Hello, Internet. Sorry that I haven't been here for a while. It turns out that burnout can get as bad as they say. How are you doing?

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@j4w8n @lydiahallie I will take a peek :)

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Do you have any examples of instructional tech videos that you really like?

I'm looking it at increasing the quality of mine and would love to know examples of formats that work well.