Ben Pfaff

WHOEVER MAINTAINS GITHUB AUTO-MERGE, WHY DO YOU ALLOW IT TO BE SO COMPLETELY BROKEN. IT DOES NOT DO ITS JOB.

GitHub is so awful these days. Simple features no longer work.

I'm co-chairing NSDI '28. Does anyone have a keynote speaker to suggest? #nsdi28

All week, I've had to toggle auto-merge off and on to get a PR to go to the merge queue. WTF Github.

Open vSwitch 4.0.0 was released! mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ov...

USPS allows me to provide an online signature allowing them to deliver packages to me without a physical signature for an entire year, but I have to log in to Informed Delivery again after just an hour or two. How does this make sense.

I gave up and called the Waste Management Oakland phone number again and got a human who could help me--if I emailed in a copy of the grant deed. I did, but she says that their email server is slow, so she'll call me back (she claims) when it finally arrives.

To all maker of web apps and websites: If your website only works with Chrome, tell me. Don't waste my time trying to use it with Firefox.

Is it normal to have to provide a copy of the deed to your house to sign up for garbage collection service?

So apparently with USPS Informed Delivery, if you move from one address to another, you have to create a new account with a new username for the new place you live. Bizarre.

Governor Newsom has announced that California will be imposing a 100% tax on any payments that are received from the orange felon’s criminal pay off slush fund. That’s my Governor. 💙👊

I don't think I've ever written a function to reverse a linked list.

The employees of this RenFest are wearing shirts that say "I've Been Kighted—Golden Goblin Productions". I had a conversation: Me: Is that an inside joke? Them: yeah Me: So what does "kighted" mean? Them: what? Me: It says "kighted", what does that mean? Them: it's a typo, we're goblins

I only had half a cup of jasmine rice left so I mixed it 50:50 with arborio rice and cooked it the same way I do jasmine and... it turned out fine?!

I'm pretty sure that a regular pthreads program can pthread_exit() the initial thread and the others will carry on, but Rust terminates the whole program when the initial thread exits. The latter behavior feels kind of odd to me.

Am I the only one who accumulates a bunch of tabs in a browser window until there's an annoying number, then closes all of them en masse?

@edzitron.com Probably someone pointed this out already but 1 MW is a thousandth of 1 GW (not a hundredth).

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

I briefly thought Redwood City had a new bike shop named J'Adore Cycling but jadorecycling.com turned out to be completely not about bicycles.

my genuine advice for using Rust effectively is very close to the joke of "doctor, it hurts when i do this!" "well stop doing that!" 90% of the time the thing you're losing (like being able to easily throw together a doubly linked list implementation) wasn't worth that much anyways.

Anyone else dreading America’s 250th birthday knowing Trump and his idiot administration are going to make it a trashy shitshow?

Google's new "partner ad settings" do not work.

The people claiming they regret voting for Trump will be right back voting Republican this November and in 2028

John McWhorter's NYT article today says: > The “s” in “island” was added because the Latin word was “insula” I didn't realize that the words "island" and "peninsula" were related, but now it seems evident that the "pen" prefix must be the same one in "penultimate". It's almost an island!

CS papers used to be printed for publication and collected proceedings were given to conference-goers and mailed to subscribers. This is hardly the case anymore. The 2-column PDF-based format for papers assumes this usage, and it's relatively hard to read on a screen. It's overdue for replacement.

Every single day, Trump does something that would have ended any other presidency.

Tap

my conspiracy theory is wall street is doing everything it can to keep everything from collapsing until dems take the house and senate so they can blame the implosion on them

My electric teakettle has 0.5L marked on it as minimum and 1.7L as maximum. That makes sense. It also has 1.2L marked on it. What is special about 1.2L?

Pet rent is such a scam. Often on top of a non-refundable pet deposit. On top of a maybe-refundable normal deposit, which covers the same things as the pet deposit.

What if all these "orbiting data center" proposals are really elaborate tax and fraud havens? Who collects taxes on revenues that are collected 1000 miles above international waters? Who prosecutes Ponzi schemes that are perpetrated there?

Dear America, Please stop saying that Donald Trump is the Leader of the Free World. He is not. We have Zero Respect for Him. Signed The Free World.

Our country can't move forward until Trump is impeached.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

In #Rust, `struct S<T>` yields a compiler error, but `fn f<T>() {}` does not even yield a warning. Why not? #rustlang

It’s not a ceasefire if the killing continues on one side. Mass atrocities are being carried out by Netanyahu in Lebanon with U.S. backing. (1/3)

A common #rust mistake I see is using `//` (plain comment) instead of `///` (doc comment). It doesn't seem like rustc or clippy knows to warn about this, which seems weird. #rustlang

Commit messages are important, why doesn't GitHub allow commenting on them in PRs?

Through a series of coincidences I now possess three mini bottles of Scotch that were stored in a drawer at Donald Knuth's house from 2018 until today.

IMPEACH AND REMOVE

I always thought the whole "Great Satan" thing was just hyperbole.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

Jury duty again, ugh. What I really hate about jury duty is how they just waste your time with it. You show up just to sit around and then go home. How about not doing that?