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Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.

Pardon my language, but this is just sexy. youtu.be/pI9LN5wje5E?...

"squash merge remains counterrevolutionary" is so funny

I'm *very* excited to report that we got initial funding and have hired our first Rust maintainers! RustNL's Rust Maintainers Team starts out with two full time maintainers, one intern, and five part-time maintainers, now stably employed to continue their work on Rust! 🎉 rustnl.org/maintainers/

The sound this thing makes is so cool. What a clever idea. youtu.be/E1BLGpE5zH0?...

CPUs are getting worse.

 We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.

 Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

How it started: "Europe is trying to censor us, only we have absolute free speech" How it's going:

People will be basically the same as today

Someone asked me if I thought a man or a woman invented making fire. I said neither. I think it was an annoyed child who had to look after her stupid brother while everyone went hunting and so she started angrily throwing bits of flint around the cave :)

"they needed to hire multiple studios to do what the AI promised to do but was completely unable to perform, and are keeping it hidden from the public" is the real story here like what are we doing at this point

Is soup gay?

Blimey. Dorothea Barron, what a gem. She helped train veterans for the D-Day landings and has a few wisdoms to share that you need to listen to. www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews/vid...