Deebster

Just in case everyone doesn't already know, urine can provoke jellyfish stingers to release even more venom. Use vinegar or rubbing alcohol instead, or, falling that, seawater.

(edit: I see I missed the part about being fun, but I don't know of better alternatives)

I learnt with the one on the main site, "the Rust book" which is good for explaining concepts and is (or certainly was) considered the standard textbook.

Rust by Example is good for a quick start in how to do various things, but imho is most valuable for experienced programmers and as a cheatsheet-style reference.

Once you start writing your own code, it's useful to look at Blessed.rs to show what are the fairly standard options for basic libraries for logging, http, etc that you might have expected to be in the standard library. It's useful to be pointed at something that's good enough instead of spending hours investigating the various competing crates.

Unfortunately, someone gave me a fish instead, so I can only eat for a day.

Tom Scott's on Nebula now? That's good, I've noticed a few people I followed have either disappeared from there or stopped posting.

I just got back from watching this - when I found my other half hadn't heard any spoilers it was an obvious choice what to watch. I'd read the book four years ago, so I remembered the story but not all the details.

We both had a great time and would heartily recommend it. Ryan Gosling filled out the character to a fuller extent then I remember from the book (I think Weir has gone on record admitting that character depth is his weak spot) and I can't fault the supporting cast. The score is excellent - lots of choral elements that suits the majesty of space. The visuals made me glad I was seeing it on the big screen.

They really speed-ran the early part of the book, but it would be a very long film if they added everything and I think it's a good adaptation of the book, and fairly faithful. They did include the setup (in a Chekhov's gun sense) to some things that weren't then mentioned; I wonder if that's as a nod to the book readers or if the rest is on the cutting room floor.

I hear they're going to do Artemis next, which I didn't read due to the abysmal reviews. I think it'll be worth watching as I expect they'll fix the flaws (which iirc was partly that it was just Watney again but in a unconvincing female role) but I won't read the book first.

A transparent divide and conquer ploy

“The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see LLMs differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, LLMs take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” [the author] says. “And in coding, LLMs take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

wtf is he talking about? You get to do spec writing, code reviews, QA and debugging - this is far from the joyful part of coding.

Funny that Flatpack is one of the most popular distros.

Well you're in the right place if you want to ask questions

So that was your first time watching? And you started with a cinematic viewing of the extended editions? Amazing.

Have you tried logging in again? I think Voyager doesn't always know/tell you when your login's expired.

My email uses greylisting which is where the first email received from a server gets a "busy" response - the idea being that spammers just fire and forget whereas real mailers will retry.

Unfortunately, some senders take so long to resend that it's timed out. The second time will work though. Unless they have multiple servers. Some have so many servers that you have to do this a multitude of times until you lose the will to login or forget what you were going to do anyway.