Mostly Grey former ginger with a preference for Rust. Leads wg-rustup, sorry about the mess. He/Him or They/Their Now @kinnison@fosstodon.org too
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
Sign our petition to stop the government's dangerous and undemocratic voter ID plans action.electoral-reform.org.β¦
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
Automatically generating a JSON parser from types is such a killer feature I donβt even think that much about until I have to interact with a third-party HTTP API and suddenly have to write reams and reams of code to very carefully ensure the data is the right shape.
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
i have gotten flack for this in the past but with all the talk about the very real bias against women due to maternity leave, i think it'd be nice if we tried to normalize "leaves" in general, medical diagnosis, new puppy, family crisis, etc
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
Config files are just global mutable variables put in a convenient place.
That doesn't make them less problematic than any other set of global mutable variables.
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
βItβs ok to feel Not Very Okay At All. Itβs quite normal. And on those days when you feel Not Very Okay At All. Don't ever feel like you have to hide the fact you're feeling Not Very Okay At All. Just come and tell me. Because I will always be there.β #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Oof. Very wet course made it hard to run. Also slightly different route to usual. Unofficial time of 26:43
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
BE A COMRADE
GET YOUR FLU SHOT
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1. First language: BASIC
2. Had difficulties: Haskell
3. Most used: (these days) Rust
4. Totally hate: Python
5. Most loved: (these days) Rust
6. For beginners: Lua
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
Vaccinate your kids.
Vaccinate yourself.
Itβs already flu shot season.
People are immunocompromised.
Do your part to save lives.
So, I made a little animation trying to explain how herd immunity works.
When enough of the population has been vaccinated, a disease is no longer able to spread effectively, protecting even the unvaccinated. The percentage needed varies with the disease.
#VaccinesSaveLives
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Oops, I wonder if the encoding scheme has version bits in there so they can fix this
PSA: @whatthreewords is worthless. When save.unkle.judge and saves.ankle.judge are separated by 7000km, maybe itβs not a better way of communicating locations in an emergency. They had *one job*.
Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
We just created a new "Inside Rust" blog, where #rustlang teams and working groups can post updates and status reports. Great place to go if you want to follow the "nitty gritty" of Rust development. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-ruβ¦
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
New book: Haskell from the Very Beginning amazon.com/dp/095767113X/
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For those interested, it's 750m long, and I reached 69.7km/h at peak on that line. Then there were 6 or 7 more (I lost count)
It was an awesome day out, thank you @nwalfield and pβ‘p for inviting me to OmiΕ‘
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It me! Goin' onna zipline!
#before40
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Daniel Silverstone ππππΒ² π³οΈβππ¬π§ retweeted
You walk into a room full of experts possessing all the credentials of a particular highly-specialised task. Asking for their sought-after input you are repeatedly rebuffed with firm pushback asking what *you* want instead. "Errrr, the same but shorter?", you reply to the barber.
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