Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

fwiw here are the variables in use https://github.com/sts10/compound-passphrase-list-safety-checker/blob/overhaul/src/lib.rs#L32-L33

need help naming a variable. I'm basically splitting a string into exactly two parts (not necessarily equal lengths). I need variable names for the first part and second part. Should I just use first_part and second_part? Is there a better option than "part"?

I tried my hand at re-writing a Rust tool I wrote in 2018, with an eye toward improving speed and code readability. Hilariously, it's seems to be much slower! (Haven't bothered with benchmarks or tests yet)

https://github.com/sts10/compound-passphrase-list-safety-checker/tree/overhaul

FYI 'The Abyss' is on Amazon Prime and it holds up.

What are you favorite movies involving boats/submarines/oceans?

Are We Yeet Yet?

> This is a tracking page to see if/when yeet becomes a reserved keyword in Rust.

https://areweyeetyet.rs/

h/t https://lobste.rs/s/3i5r6d/are_we_yeet_yet

"Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS by 70%"

This blog post advocates for "[configuring] split-debuginfo to skip the dsymutil process" to speed up compile time.

https://jakedeichert.com/blog/reducing-rust-incremental-compilation-times-on-macos-by-70-percent/

Curious what is lost if you do that?

h/t https://lobste.rs/s/csftqj/reducing_rust_incremental_compilation

. @bugaevc helped me explore more efficient ways of writing a #rust function that splits a string on a given character. There was a pretty clear winner... unless you've got an idea for an approach we didn't think of.

https://github.com/sts10/splitter

"Rust is for Professionals"

> Of all the programming languages I've used, Rust seems to empathize with its users the most.

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/13/rust-is-for-professionals/

h/t @lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/5fj3hb/rust_is_for_professionals

anyone bored and want to clean up my messy Rust function?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2018&gist=e58f9c01fd595f2566011f84ff0cfd18

it's from this project: https://github.com/sts10/tidy/blob/master/src/lib.rs#L104-L110

The Markup: "How We Discovered Google’s Hate Blocklist for Ad Placements on YouTube"

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/08/how-we-discovered-googles-hate-blocklist-for-ad-placements-on-youtube

I'm trying to find the word list that croc (https://github.com/schollz/croc) uses to generate passphrases, but I can't find it in the repo? Any hints?

was just reminded of one of my favorite little projects from the fall where I used Google Ngram data to make a word list 💪

blog post: https://sts10.github.io/2020/09/30/making-a-word-list.html

github repo: https://github.com/sts10/common_word_list_maker

A ~16k word list: https://github.com/sts10/common_word_list_maker/blob/master/example_word_list.txt

WhatsApp may be down for some users https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/19/22340405/instagram-whatsapp-facebook-messenger-down-outage

Signal says their "registrations are through the roof; welcome everyone! Solidarity to the folks working on the WhatsApp outage."

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1372973685821243392

These dynamics are (still) interesting to me!

surprised to find that one of the things I miss most from Rust that's apparently not in Python is ability to assign a new variable directly with a proper (multiline-if-necessary) if/else statement. It nicely ensures that the variable will have a value after it's done, right?

In Rust:
let bar = if foo { "something" } else { "something else" };

nice to see the Rust lang folks launch an effort to improve how the language handles/supports async (something I continue to struggle with, and made it easier for me to move away from Rust)

> Our goal is to engage the entire community in a collective act of the imagination: how can we make the end-to-end experience of using Async I/O not only a pragmatic choice, but a joyful one?

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/03/18/async-vision-doc.html
#Rust

In Python, I've got a list of entries where each one, simplified, look like this

entry = {'foo': [{'bar': 'String that I want'}]}

Is there a way to get that String I want without a bunch of if statements that check against `is not None`? In Ruby I'd use the dig method.

"Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust"

https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/#performance-results-and-learnings

h/t https://lobste.rs/s/3byl7t/performance_comparison_counting_words