#rust #programming

My gloomy, rainy day just got a lot brighter: this book just arrived: Idiomatic Rust

@cstross

I, in my turn, invite you to consider the nature of geopolitics and commerce. For all these milquetoast embargoes we have placed upon Russia, their economy is firing on all cylinders. Those embargoes are a pitiful sop: as with Iran (and with their connivance may I add), Russia has worked around them al, especially oil - and the West has done nothing.

Yes Elmo is not supposed to sell to Russia - he's not. Those Starlink units were shipped through Dubai and sold along via proxies

@cstross

Elmo's one smart move was tro bring in Gwynne Shotwell to run SpaceX. She, in her turn, built Elmo a little Potemkin Village to manage, a treehouse out in the back where he can stomp around and act like he's in charge.

Stop worrying about those NSA payloads, Elmo's nowhere near them.

@riley @benroyce

I remember hearing something about it in the dim and distant past. Google maketh geniuses of us all eh?

@benroyce @riley

The USSR used to fuel their jets with vodka, the Tupolev Tu-22

This air was hot and had to be cooled before being pumped into the cockpit. This cooling was provided by a large total-loss evaporator running on a mixture of 40% ethanol and 60% distilled water (effectively vodka). This system garnered the aircraft one of its many nicknames, the "supersonic booze carrier".

@skinnylatte

What do you think could have made learning Mandarin more fun / useful ?

@cstross

... in other news, Pazuzu, the demon of communicable diseases, filed an amicus brief, arguing on behalf of virus-borne diseases, lest they, too, be consigned to oblivion by the Dreaded Vaccines.

@Remittancegirl

It bothered me, from the start of the Internet, that these well-meaning jamokes who put together IP did not remember to implement privacy.

It would be trivial. as Sweden has done, to have a personnummer system - but our goverment won't do it.

Don't ever let anyone tell you one political party has less scruples about privacy. We the people need to take privacy into our own hands - and boy howdy the government will not like it when we do.