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Judge Gayles (SDFL) denies the #Birdrock motion for fees, finding that Birdrock isn't a prevailing party, that this isn't an exceptional case, and that "Plaintiff has not engaged in unreasonable or vexatious conduct."
But he rule that Birdrock is entitled to recover the money posted as a bond due to "Plaintiff's lack of diligence in identifying Birdrock as a par…

#RustLang is the perfect language for the "move fast, break things" era. No, I'm not implying it encourages you to break stuff. All I'm saying is that all these modern languages are specifically designed for that mindset. They optimize for corporate greed — nicely dressed as "valuing developer's time".
Developers aren't supposed to slow down and think things over. They should finish feature after feature, project after project, profit after profit. When things break, that's bad for profit. However, putting an effort to prevent things from breaking is not cost-effective.
People love to point out memory safety problems with C. However, there are two other important problems affecting C libraries — ABI and API stability. An uncontrolled ABI breakage means that existing programs suddenly breaks. An uncontrolled API breakage means that programs don't build anymore. Combine both and you're in a tight fit.
There are reasonably good solutions to both these problems. However, they require conscious effort, they require thinking — and that is costly. There are also cheap workarounds. If you link libraries statically, you don't need to worry about their ABI changes. If you vendor dependencies, you don't even need to worry about API changes. That's much cheaper for the company — though in reality, it just moves the burden down the line, to distribution developers and users, who end up fighting old, broken or even vulnerable vendored dependencies.
The problem with Rust and #Cargo is that it embraces these hacks into glorified 20M executables. Everything is linked statically, everything is vendored. You can move fast without actually breaking things — at least for the significant majority of users. To the minority, you always have the usual excuse — "we're sorry, we're just volunteers, we can't spend more energy on this, and you should get newer hardware anyway". Not that doing things better wouldn't benefit all users.
#Gentoo

Nirvana - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
DGC Records, 1991
US Promo Version on yellow vinyl
I don’t remember if I got this before or after “Nevermind”. I know I got it because I love colored vinyl though.
It’s the radio edit version of their smash hit, along the non-LP track "Even In His Youth", and the original version of "Aneurysm" (slower pace vs the “Incesticide” version)

Delightful - using WebAssembly to speed up Swift macro compilation.
https://forums.swift.org/t/poc-improving-macro-build-times-with-webassembly/70967

PoC: Improving macro build times with WebAssembly
The Lede I decided to take a crack at the whole "Building Macros with WebAssembly" idea and managed to put together something that improves build times by up to 10x even without any compiler integration! There's currently some caveats on the usability front since this is a standalone package instead of integrating into swiftc/SwiftPM, but I think integrating something like this into the compiler would make macros much more usable. Performance The repo offers two WebAssembly runners, one wit…

This is a very good point. Not every conference has live captioning or a sign language interpreter. Since Live Captions runs locally, you can have this on screen during your in-world live conference talks to improve the accessibility of your talks even if the conference is lacking in this area.
And if you’re running a conference, it’s a no-brainer (and free) to have this projected on a screen for all talks.

Hey friends! We just came back from a great hike near #garmischpartenkirchen. We wanted to do this mountain recently but the snow in the upper part was too risky for us.
Today we went there again. Beautiful ascent, nice views. Some spray rain and a slippery, dirty descent. But at the end we even had some sun!
Now we feel tired and a bit sore 😉

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

Protect your info online folks and don't expect much from AirBnB if you get a fraudulent charge from them on your card!
I recently saw an AirBnB purchase on my credit card. I did not make it. $CAD466 for a reservation in London. I have never even had my CC connected to AirBNB and my account is secure. It was obviously made by someone who got my CC info.
I saw it a couple days after the transaction but it was still pending on my statement. So I called my bank (VanCity) and th…

This take on solar power is correct. And the same reasoning applies to batteries, which if anything are dropping in price even faster than PVs (it’s a less mature industry). https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/radical-energy-abundance/

Radical Energy Abundance
Originally published at Roots of Progress, based on this thread. Everyone knows the industrial revolution occurred centuries ago and involved steam engines. That was just the warm up. We are now a …

Nirvana - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
DGC Records, 1991
US Promo Version on yellow vinyl
I don’t remember if I got this before or after “Nevermind”. I know I got it because I love colored vinyl though.
It’s the radio edit version of their smash hit, along the non-LP track "Even In His Youth", and the original version of "Aneurysm" (slower pace vs the “Incesticide” version)