once again I fucking hate dtolnay for blocking reflection in rust so that his macro work doesn't become obsolete

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] I just think if your language requires a meta language that in theory is a glorified sed yet less documented (seriously, the documentation for writing macros sucks and provides no useful examples yet seems to be a required component of the language to avoid thousands of lines of boilerplate)...

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] thanks! The weather change triggered a two day migraine, so I'm on day two of sumatriptan... which kicks my ass

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

alright, I guess using some combination of quote and to string will let me get that. great. Finally.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

thanks for nothing as per fucking usual, google. I wish I could make those McKinsey shitheads who ruined search try and problem solve with their fucking search engine

you know they don't goddamn use it or rely on it or else they never would have ruined it. fucking hate these capitalist fuckwads.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

... alright, seriously Audrey: go take some vitamin B since extreme crankiness is a side effect of your epilepsy medication and this is always the sign that you're low (and I'm not just talking woo; anecdotally it works, but there's also research that shows vitamin B supplements with this epilepsy medication helps).

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

"oh, google search sucks nowadays? that's the problem of my personal assistants and researchers who are on call 24/7 to answer my every question and respond to my every whim."

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

nutritional yeast + tamari and sesame oil on black rice it is!

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

it's kind of like a parmesan risotto and I am so here for it

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud literally how i will fucking fight him

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud working on it

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] right? me too, maybe. If...

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@hipsterelectron
@aud
Can I get a link to some context for this beef?

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] oh, well, I know I've ranted about it somewhere (I really need to keep a link to that handy), but the quick tl;dr is that ThePhD received a grant to investigate/implement reflection in Rust and was later asked to give a keynote speech at RustConf about it. dtolnay, who should not have been involved at all, worked behind the scenes to get them taken off as a keynote speaker.

Except no one would fess up who did it for ages. When it eventually came out it had been dtolnay, he told a bunch of lies about both his interactions, intentions, actions, and the actual technical nature of the work itself. ThePhD wrote a rebuttal but basically everyone involved on the core team and foundation of Rust protected dtolnay's stupid racist ass and let him make sure this work never came to fruition.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud @jonny i asked the rustconf twitter account twice this year if he was still involved, no response

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] it caused a big "drama", to put it mildly. It can be hard to find reliable information about it because A. the team/foundation/etc covered up dtolnay's involvement and it was until someone leaked it months later that it was known dtolnay had been involved, B. everyone on the team/foundation was like "no no, we know for sure it wasn't racism that led to this action being taken and we totes regret the action", C. dtolnay's 'reasons' were put up on a gist that he's since taken down and are basically a bunch of horseshit. He 'felt' that it shouldn't have been a keynote and straight up lied about non-existent interactions with ThePhD (if I remember correctly), amongst other things...

... and because of racism being involved, a lot of people just naturally side against ThePhD, spreading fud about them. It's fucked up. I'm trying to find something that summarizes it that isn't fucking y combinator's fansite talking shit about ThePhD for being upset by it.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] here's a good little quote from whitequark (who was, in fact, the person who finally said dtolnay was involved)

https://lobste.rs/s/sgoshm/serde_is_no_longer_shipping_precompiled#c_5cye7q

dtolnay does a lot of shit to keep himself relevant. I forgot about the weird pre-compiled blob shit he was trying to push.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud @jonny well my problem with steve klabnik is that he'll go on the oxide podcast and not trash dtolnay for being a racist, nor use his cachet to remove him from the community, but to imply the precompiled blob he added because cargo is a trash build tool and has no way to make build scripts less sneaky or add provenance for built artifacts was the reason not to trust tolnay. steve's build tool that steve made that shouldn't even be a build tool at the same time as it is a package manager because it sucks at it is being used to avoid confronting tolnay for being a manipulative racist shitbag

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] Found the archive.org link for his 'apology'

https://web.archive.org/web/20240407202025/https://gist.github.com/dtolnay/7f5da4bf057b7c6d0d00c6bed3060b96

Keep in mind, a lot of what he says here is not true. It's him covering his ass.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] jesus, what a mess.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud @jonny just all of the problems with rust tied up in a neat little bow. klabnik loves to start witch hunts against people using unsafe until they leave rust forever like the actix-web guy but won't push out the racist he only knows how to make assertions about how people are making unsafe code