I already miss so much. The thought of all the additional things I'll miss in life is sometimes unbearable.
Every night I dream that Rob Hood is the supreme ruler of Earth; every day I awake disappointed by reality.
dwelling on the odd thought that so much of Western society depends on the only source of kinship or camaraderie be shared trauma
schools, fraternities, military service
painful, wracking experiences that don't educate, don't foster love, but the reward is, once you're out, you'll have a support network of survivors
so many people can't imagine any other glue for a community
But, Mother, how can _I_ destroy Capitalism? The machine is so big, and I am so small. My siblings stand with me but we are just wheat before the combine. We may die with honour, standing tall; but we will die nonetheless.
Dear sweet child, do not stand in front of the machine, it will just grind you up. Run up behind, quick as a mouse, and climb inside. Nibble the wires. Sand the grease. Slow it that your siblings may join, plucking the cogs, rusting the steel. Until it grinds to a halt.
you know it's a party when you break out the unicode box-drawing characters for your documentation
Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More. Good commentary on the paternalistic puritan/methodist doctrine of "improvement" used to justify Enclosure. http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/bertrand-russell-and-buckminster-fuller-on-why-we-should-work-less-and-live-and-learn-more/
@RAOF Anyway don't let me talk you out of experimenting or raising the question elsewhere; it's been years and years since I think this was perturbed (idiomatic rust is all different, and trans is totally restructured)
@RAOF There are several different not-compatible EH regimes on different platforms, some DW2-like and some SEH-like. Plus there are callers that are just totally EH-unaware (most C host programs) so it's a nice idea to model panics for them _somehow_.
But even FFI-aside, the perf and codegen bits are sufficiently subtle that (eg.) Swift made its own LLVM calling convention (with pinned error register) for error-returns.
@RAOF I don't remember exactly but IIRC it had to do with the quantity of code emitted in landing pad cleanups, possibly we were experimenting with the idea that LLVM would coalesce them better inside normal code (keep in mind: "zero cost" EH has nonzero codegen costs, it's just hypothetically "cheaper at runtime")
Or else we were still trying to decide how to deal with encoding panic for FFI (currently .. I think somewhat punted on?)
Maciej Ceglowski is relevant here: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
"If you can get away with it, just don't collect it! Just like you don't worry about getting mugged if you don't have any money, your problems with data disappear if you stop collecting it."
@RAOF Panic (nee "fail") already is. And (amusingly) we also went through iterations on lowering panic to things more-like how ? is currently lowered, before it existed (propagated invisible return codes).
The one golden of rust language dev is "you are trapped in a time loop, everything has been tried, everything will be tried again".
It is pleasing and a little sad, in the way all memory is, to shuffle through a set of transit passes from different cities. Every city holds a spectrum of memories, and each of these little objects compresses that spectrum down to a tangible, pocket sized memento.
@Ulfra_Wolfe is what the internet is for!
(And keeping in touch with friends after a nuclear war)
In Layer 8, the user, a human, dies. As they die, they decompose back into base parts. They become the Physical. They become Layer 1. And, thus, the circle is complete.
This is the OSI Layer Model.
Each time I rewatch Brazil, I dislike the main Sam character more than the last time, and feel less sure about whether he was even intended as a sympathetic character, vs. just loathsome. The film seems to get a bit more sour with age, though the slightly-hidden jokes keep it standing. I think I will avoid it again for several more years.
The Library of Congress Quits Twitter http://bit.ly/2EbeZzD
did i tell you about https://maastodon.net/
Sometimes it strikes me just how *long* we've had rapid communication with people from all over the world, and how transformative that has been.
I do remember a time before there was a modem in my home, but I could still call family thousands of miles away. I had pen-pals in Australia and Ukraine. It felt like a small, warm planet, even then.
tired: a federated social network
tired but slower and spammier: a P2P social network
ｉｎｓｐｉｒｅｄ: a P2P social network that simulates instances in layers
ah yes, the two genders
