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maplant··on Southern Olive Oil
I learned this recently while doing an olive oil tasting in Greece: the bite in the back of your throat is caused by polyphenols - antioxidants. The bite is indicative that the olive oil is providing something healthy
maplant··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
honestly that seems like a great way to spend public funds
maplant··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
One of the main designers of this has a lot of flutter projects and no JSX projects on their github so I have no idea what you're on about. They also have a YouTube channel dedicated to their C++ voxel game engine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDye5hFy14hdQGohhqpY6LQ
maplant··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
This is pretty easy to understand if you have a cursory understanding of Rust and HTML.

I won't get into the HTML part (I think it's obvious), but the

  $(|_e| count.increment())
part is a rust closure. |_e| is the argument to the closure, which has a leading underscore because it's unused. I imagine it's some context about the event (thus the e). The rest is the body of the closure. It increments the count.

pretty simply

maplant··on PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
People don’t talk about quite much, when they talk about MGSV they talk about how insanely good of a stealth action game it is.
maplant··on Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
It can't do these things because it's not wanted. Say you have the following:

  enum Value {
      Float(f64),
      Ptr(*const T),
  }
Do you want the compiler to disallow certain bit patterns in the Float variant simply so that it can implement NanBoxing?
maplant··on GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
What I'm saying is that Hurd is just a kernel in the same way that Linux is also just a kernel
maplant··on GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, just Linux.
maplant··on Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Don't get your hopes up, it'll be used in deadlock's volleyball game mode
maplant··on HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
I wish they would re-release the HP50-g, I had one somewhere but it got lost and I _loved_ that thing!
maplant··on My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck
Not to distract from what is undeniably a pretty cool thing, it's hard to even call these "games" as there's absolutely no decision making going on. I absolutely loathe games like these because you're not actually doing anything.
maplant··on Flipper One Tech Specs
I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually
maplant··on Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
These glasses look absolutely stunning
maplant··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
I can't speak for the parent but I have a 5090 and it works perfectly fine
maplant··on Cartoon Network Flash Games
There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”
maplant··on Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases
I'm not really sure what position you're taking but taking a rake can certainly change the legality of an activity; in California, playing poker in private is considered a social game and is legal, _except_ if party is taking a rake.
maplant··on Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules
The cops from the John Woo HK action flicks I've seen would love this
maplant··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying.

To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context, actively disallowing tests in a codebase is a _bad decision_. Look how it worked out for them.

> it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally

Fine with me

maplant··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
> He edited his reply to me multiple times...

I got the sense from your reply that some extra clarity would be beneficial.

> This is unnecessary. OP came out with "AUTHOR IS INSANE" even on the most generous of interpretations.

I did not actually call the author insane, I called their decision to explicitly disallow testing insane. It's an insane decision. I am not _literally_ calling the author insane.

maplant··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
> Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation?

I did not.

maplant··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
Did I say that my way was the right way? No: what I said was actively disallowing tests in every situation was the wrong way.

There is no ability here for the cost benefit analysis to change over time. There is only no tests

maplant··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
Having a culture of not ever writing tests and actively disallowing them is so insane I can't even imagine why there's anything else in this post
maplant··on How to talk to anyone and why you should
A dictatorship? Are you being forced at gunpoint to talk to people?

Perhaps more unsurprisingly, at the mere suggestion that socializing is good for you (it demonstrably is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/), you went and wrote a comment that I can only imagine someone who is deeply unhappy would write.

maplant··on How to talk to anyone and why you should
Talk about Poe's law.

I know what ECDSA is and if you brought it up in a random conversation unprompted I'd try to find your spaceship so I could escape the conversation on it.

maplant··on I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
That is linked literally in the first sentence of the article
maplant··on I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
They don't. They will probably get added in R7RS large. They're available in scheme-rs regardless: https://scheme.rs/Standard%20Libraries/prompts/
maplant··on I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
I think people underestimate how pragmatic meta programming can be because there are some obvious downsides. Arguably one of things that made Rust so popular was its inclusion of procedural macros.

But beyond that the thing I don't understand about the modern hate towards macros is that they are simply very fun.

maplant··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
what a coincidence, I'm switching fully over to linux tomorrow
maplant··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
This is a 9% drop in _sales_, not the stock
maplant··on I rebooted my social life
I very much doubt that the authors would disagree with the statement that socializing is a fundamental human need considering they wrote it themselves
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