The Weekly Weird - 2021-04-16
- [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support. "...on the whole I don't hate it."
- Though Rust is clearly inferior to C++ in pointer safety, it can't even guarantee non-fungible pointers and there's no equivalent to the C++ analysis tool.
- From the behold-a-lifeform department: rocks.
- There's a HELICOPTER on MARS that needs a FIRMWARE UPDATE
- First they came for the weeds and I said nothing for I am not a weed and also fuck weeds (h/t John).
- Want to learn to use R? No? Oh. Well here's a book anyway.
- If you've done any spelunking in shell scripts, you've seen
[ "x$var" = "xval" ]?. Why? (HN comments are good, too. - I can't imagine how much a microscope installed on your skull must itch.
- It's literally impossible to keep up with even relatively obscure fields like quantum computing. I missed a whole dramatic story arc.
- "Surprising no one, the scammers aren't even operating a fair casino."
- Leave none alive, Taylor.
- Fine, I'll just do it myself
- Paging Dr. von Neumann. No, not you, I meant Dr. von Neumann #2875622. Mr. Euler #9165889 would like a word