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TheDesolate0on Messenger Implosion Shows Journalism Lead by Visionless, Fail-Upward Brunchlords

LOL @ "Brunchlords"

TheDesolate0on Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

You don't see your desktop as in it's always covered or as in your WM hides the root window?

TheDesolate0on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene

Woo-hoo!

TheDesolate0on Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly

No.

TheDesolate0on Bare-metal Rust in Android

I implore you to try Rust.

Kotlin is just Java with extra steps.

TheDesolate0on A close look at the 8086 processor's bus hold circuitry

Thanks, Ken!

TheDesolate0on Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein

Alcohol is the worst drug and my alcoholic Pts are the sickest people.

We can't treat the pain because the liver is fucked.

Most suffer from EtOH dementia.

Nearly all have pulmonary hypertension to go along with their regular hypertension.

With that goes along CHF and pulmonary emboli and other CVA incidents.

Many suffer agony from pancreatitis, which again we can't treat because of damage to the live.

Alcohol ages every body system rapidly and most of my EtOH Pts have the physiological response of somone 20 years older.

It literally poisons every organ system.

TheDesolate0on Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

My font already has ligature support for coding.

What does this font offer in support for unicode glyphs?

TheDesolate0on Emulating win32

There's a pretty easy, cheap, and straight forward fix for this.

Stop using apple products. They are luke-warm in design and terrible in execution.

Get a PC: Supports Linux, windows, all your games (ALL) and has a mouse with more than one button.

TheDesolate0on From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

"Man, python sure looks a lot like rust, these days!" -- My Brain, reading this article...

TheDesolate0on Let's improve PeerTube – Help us define PeerTube's future roadmap

LOL.

No.

TheDesolate0on Solar flares could cause delays on the railways

No shit.

TheDesolate0on Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like you to leave

Bullshit like this is why I cancelled my NYT sub.

TheDesolate0on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

The only thing I really hate about firefox is the build. Building FF from scratch is a fucking nightmare. It's the only shitty package that REQUIRES python 2 for building.

TheDesolate0on Write Playdate Games in Zig

No it's hand cranked plastic garbage.

TheDesolate0on Write Playdate Games in Zig

No, lol.

That's what the world needs... More plastic garbage

TheDesolate0on 40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias

40k seems a tad on the low side, by several orders of magnitude.

Seems like a hastily done spring projects

TheDesolate0on Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming

Rust isn't hard, it's just more verbose than devs are used to because it forces you to think about lifetimes and types.

TheDesolate0on Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

Delete tiwtter, move along.

FTFY

TheDesolate0on I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX

In Unix space we use text, almost exclusively. This byte stream thing is a windows/java bs thing.

TheDesolate0on Operator constraints in Go

Imagine looking at a Garbage Collected language that isn't even a complete language (You just got generics, FFS) and thinking, "Yeah, this is a great idea!"

TheDesolate0on PBS SpaceTime

Numberphile fills the void.

TheDesolate0on Raspberry Pi update removes the default user

Yeah. That's an installer.

An installer is a script/program which helps the user install the software, in this case the OS is the software.

TheDesolate0on Swearing as a Response to Pain: Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel Swear Words (2020)

Medic here.

It's very important to swear at your pain.

It helps tremendously with pain management.

TheDesolate0on Jörg Schilling has died

A true software hero was lost today.

My deepest condolences to the family and friends.