Alyssa the Kate

@alyssa.codes

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Formerly Rust firmware security at the big G 🦀 | opinions are her own | makes code smol *and* sound | probably a parody account | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ http://alyssa.codes

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Begin quote The major distinction between fantasy and science fiction is, simply, that science fiction uses one, or a very, very few new postulates, and develops the rigidly consistent logical consequences of these limited postulates. Fantasy makes its rules as it goes along . . . The basic nature of fantasy is “The only rule is, make up a new rule any time you need one!” The basic rule of science fiction is “Set up a basic proposition—then develop its consistent, logical consequences.” End quote I disagree with this soundly—but in Mr. Campbell’s defense, fantasy has come a long way since the sixties (when he wrote that in Analog.) Fantasy doesn’t have to be about stories where the authors simply make up whatever they need. Still, I think that it is a criticism we fantasy writers need to be aware of and wary regarding. If we simply let ourselves develop new rules every time our characters are in danger, we will end up creating fiction that is not only unfulfilling and unexciting, but just plain bad.
‘Shouldn’t happen’ A middle-aged woman who was staring at the building from the street said she was shocked by the incident. “This kind of thing wouldn’t happen in Beijing. This is Beijing… It’s pretty common abroad, but in China, it shouldn’t happen,” she told AFP. “I was very shocked.”
Truncated GitHub comment Begin quote Well, where's the proper place to tell a maintainer that you disagree with the direction they're taking? That's feedback that they need to receive, even if they disregard it. I'll add my voice. Rsync is a fundamental tool. If downstream consumers are discussing pinning or a fork then that's a problem regardless of the cause. End quote https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/discussions Opening an issue consisting only of some twitter clone screenshot with some "literally who" who found a bug called "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software" ain't it. That's not a way to tell a maintainer that you disagree with the direction they're taking. This issue is entirely useless. A "fucked up vibe coded" bug report would have been better.
Comment by Justin P. Drew 14m Andrea LaFlamme why are you just a write-in candidate? Why aren't you officially on the ballot? Comment by Andrea LaFlamme 3m I actually registered with the FEC back in June before any of the other candidates who are currently in the race. I was all set to announce my campaign when I had a sudden health issue that needed to be addressed. I spent months focusing on getting better and was finally able to announce my campaign at the end of February, at which time I only had three weeks to collect the 2000 signatures needed to get on the ballot. In three weeks I was able to get 1600 signatures, which is truly an incredible feat, but, of course, not enough. It was clear throughout that process that, had I been able to start one Jan. 1 with the other candidates, I wouldn't have had an issue. It was also clear from talking to voters that they were excited about my campaign and felt that I represented them in a way that the other candidates couldn't. In today's world, a health issue can sideline any of us at any time and medical care isn't always easy to come by. I made the decision to carry on in the race despite my delayed entry because I truly feel like I am the best person to take on Susan Collins and want all Mainers to have a chance to have their voices heard at the ballot box. Comment by Andrea LaFlamme 1m I would also like to point out that saying "just a write-in candidate" implies that I am somehow less of a candidate than those who got the signatures to have their names on the ballot. That couldn't be further from the truth. A vote for me counts just the same as a vote for any of them and I deserve the same consideration.
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Back in these days, we didn’t have Box<T>, Vec<T>, or String. We had ~T, ~[T], and ~str. The second two are not equivalent to Box<[T]> and Box<str>, even though they may look like it, they are both growable containers like Vec<T> and String. ~ conceptually meant “owned”, though IMO that caused more confusion than it was worth. You created a box using the ~ operator, e.g. let x = ~1;. It could be dereferenced with the * operator, and autoderef worked much like it does today. As a “primitive” type; like all primitive types, ~T was special. The compiler knew things about it. The compiler knew how to dereference it without an explicit Deref impl. In fact, the Deref traits came into existence much after ~T did. ~T never got an explicit Deref impl, though it probably should have. Eventually, there was a move to remove sigils from the language. The box constructor ~foo was superseded by placement box syntax, which still exists in Rust nightly2. Then, the ~T type became Box<T>. (~[T] and ~str would also be removed, though ~str took a very confusing detour with StrBuf first).
That's kind of the point. The human eye is never going to see what the Artemis image shows. Sure, you can jack up the ISO and throw on a f1/8 lens and hold the shutter open for a few seconds and make the night sky bright as hell. But it's not representative of what we see. It's what a sensor sees.
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In the style of the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art, the logo has its text replaced with "Anju the Innkeeper from Majora's Mask is on the Epstein List"
The cramped cabin of Artemis II. Two astronauts on opposite sides embrace the mission commander between them, whose face is hidden from view. Tears are wiped from their faces after they separate.
Potential issues to keep in mind Gmail addresses are also used to sign in to other Google services like YouTube, Google Docs as well as third-party websites and apps. But the company warns that some non-Google apps and services might not recognize you with the new Gmail address, so it provided some troubleshooting tips on a help page. Google also says Chromebook users might encounter problems, though many issues will go away after a few hours. It advises users to check a troubleshooting page but warned that if the problems persist, “you may need to change back to your previous Google Account email,” although the new address can still be used to send and receive messages.
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Screenshot of tweet by @DecisionDeskHQ: Decision Desk HQ is retracting its projection in the NJ-11 Democratic primary. We have deleted the race projection tweet. At the time of our initial projection, all absentee and early vote had been recorded in all three counties, and we had 66/240 precincts in Essex County (expected to be Analilia Mejia strongest) that had reported election day vote & two election day vote drops in Morris County (expected to be Thomas Malinowski's strongest). Malinowski had a 4,900 raw vote lead, and the margin he was losing the election day vote in Essex combined with the margin he was winning the election day vote in Morris, provided him a sizable cushion. Even if Mejia's projected margins were doubled, Malinowski was still projected to win by more than 1,000 votes. As the night progressed, margins in Morris County quickly tilted toward Mejia; Mejia began winning drops by 20%-30%, representing a swing of 65 points compared to the absentee vote. This trend reversal prompted us to re-examine our race projection and ultimately retract it. Our apologies for the inaccurate projection on this race, and we hope our swift retraction and transparency are seen as a sign of our intent to be quick and accurate in all things elections now and going forward. Nested screenshot: Decision Desk HQ projects Tom Malinowski to win the Democratic Special Election Primary in New Jersey's 11th congressional district
Also: I love the real Canadians, but boy if a Canada flag in bio isn’t a clear bot/troll warning here. IF YOU ARE NOT A BOT/TROLL, THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. I AM AWARE THAT CANADA IS A REAL PLACE WITH REAL PEOPLE. I LOVE HEATED RIVALRY. 🇨🇦 🏒🍁
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Comparisons to singletons like None should always be done with is or is not, never the equality operators. Also, beware of writing if x when you really mean if x is not None – e.g. when testing whether a variable or argument that defaults to None was set to some other value. The other value might have a type (such as a container) that could be false in a boolean context!
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Highlighted text "describe Israel as a colonial state" Full text The survey’s first major finding is that the overwhelming majority of the Current GOP reject racism, antisemitism, and conspiratorial thinking in politics. But a meaningful minority—17%—meets our definition of Anti-Jewish Republicans. A respondent falls into this category if they (1) self-identify as both racist and antisemitic and express Holocaust denial or describe Israel as a colonial state, or (2) do not self-identify that way but nevertheless hold both of those extreme positions. Anti-Jewish Republicans are typically younger, disproportionately male, more likely to be college-educated, and significantly more likely to be New Entrant Republicans. They are also more racially diverse. Consistent church attendance is one of the strongest predictors of rejecting these attitudes; infrequent church attendance is, all else equal, one of the strongest predictors of falling into this segment.
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A&W root beer can, with "Since 1919" circled and the SS logo drawn next to it. 1919 is a Nazi code term for SS, short for Schutzstaffel. S is the 19th letter of the alphabet. A parody of Nazi tinnitus—the phenomenon where, due to overexposure, one sees dog whistles in the most mundane of sources. Like, damn this guy is an idiot and should never be Senator but can we please cry a little less wolf?
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From the Rust Reference: String literal A string literal is a string stored directly in the final binary, and so will be valid for the 'static duration. Its type is 'static duration borrowed string slice, &'static str.
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From Wikipedia: Jim Starkey coined the term "blob"[when?] working at Digital Equipment Corporation to refer to opaque data entities. The terminology was adopted for Rdb/VMS. "Blob" is often humorously explained to be an abbreviation for "binary large object". According to Starkey, this backronym arose when Terry McKiever, working in marketing at Apollo Computer felt that the term needed to be an abbreviation. McKiever began using the expansion "Basic Large Object". This was later eclipsed by the retroactive explanation of blobs as "Binary Large Objects". According to Starkey, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." Rejecting the acronym, he explained his motivation behind the coinage, saying, "A blob is the thing that ate Cincinnatti [sic], Cleveland, or whatever," referring to the 1958 science fiction film The Blob.
D13 Deprecated character: A coded character whose use is strongly discouraged. Deprecated characters are retained in the standard indefinitely, but should not be used. They are retained in the standard so that previously conforming data stay conformant in future versions of the standard. Deprecated characters typically consist of characters with significant architectural problems, or ones which cause implementation problems. Some examples of characters deprecated on these grounds include U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG (see Section 23.9, Tag Characters) and the alternate format characters (see Section 23.3, Deprecated Format Characters). Deprecated characters are explicitly indicated in the Unicode code charts. They are also given an explicit property value of Deprecated = True in the Unicode Character Database. Deprecated characters should not be confused with obsolete characters, which are historical. Obsolete characters do not occur in modern text, but they are not deprecated; their use is not discouraged.
D14 Noncharacter: A code point that is permanently reserved and that will never be assigned to an abstract character. Noncharacters consist of the values U+nFFFE and U+nFFFF (where n is from 0 to 1016) and the values U+FDD0..U+FDEF. Noncharacters are not intended for interchange, but may be used by an implementation for internal purposes.
Because the UTF-8 encoding form already deals in ordered byte sequences, the UTF-8 encoding scheme is trivial. The byte ordering is already obvious and completely defined by the UTF-8 code unit sequence itself. The UTF-8 encoding scheme is defined merely for completeness of the Unicode character encoding model. While there is obviously no need for a byte order signature when using UTF-8, there are occasions when processes convert UTF-16 or UTF-32 data containing a byte order mark into UTF-8. When represented in UTF-8, the byte order mark turns into the byte sequence <EF BB BF>. Its usage at the beginning of a UTF-8 data stream is not required by the Unicode Standard, but its presence does not affect conformance to the UTF-8 encoding scheme. Identification of the <EF BB BF> byte sequence at the beginning of a data stream can, however, be taken as a near-certain indication that the data stream is using the UTF-8 encoding scheme.
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If a non-local jump (e.g. longjmp) is used within E but before the execution of D: — if execution leaves E, D’s statements will not be executed; — otherwise, if control returns to a point in E and causes D to be reached more than once, there is no effect.