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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • It depends how you’re using it. I use it for boilerplate code, for stubbing out classes and functions where I can tell it clearly what I want, for finding inconsistencies I might have missed, to advise me on possible tools and approaches for small things, and as a supplement to the documentation when I can’t find what I’m looking for. I don’t use it for architecting new things, writing complex and specialized code, or as a replacement for documentation. I feel like I have it fairly well contained to what it does well, so I don’t waste my time on what it does badly, and it isn’t really eating away at my coding brain because I still do the tricky bits myself.







  • He said the code that came out was slow, but Rust always ranks within the top handful of languages for speed, so I’m taking that comment with a big pinch of salt. Among popular systems languages only C and C++ really beat Rust for speed. So you get better memory safety for the price of a pretty small decrease in speed and a steeper learning curve for the compiler’s picky rules (though the compiler gives you lots of clear help). Rust programmers know this.




  • THESE PILLS WERE the pride and joy of Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the Founding Fathers and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush was also the man President Thomas Jefferson considered the finest physician in the republic.

    In that opinion, Jefferson was probably alone, or at least in a small minority. Dr. Rush’s style of “heroic medicine” had caused his star to fall quite a bit by this time — especially after the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, when his patients died at a noticeably higher rate than untreated sufferers.

    Fun fact: one of that guy’s descendants was Stockton Rush, the late Ocean Gate asshole.