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   Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 05:32:38 JST Steve Canon

   • John McCall

   Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases
   @rjmccall

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 05:32:35 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • John McCall

     @steve @rjmccall
     Important music education moment for me (relevant, I promise): in a recital in college, I had a terrible memory error (the human kind) in the A♭ major Chopin prelude, and just…utterly clobbered a bar or two. We’re talking “notes off by miles, what key is that even, what just happened” clobbered. Kept going with what shreds of dignity I had left, but felt dejected about it.

     And…

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     Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 05:32:36 JST Steve Canon

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     • John McCall

     @rjmccall It's a good talk, John.

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     John McCall (rjmccall@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 05:32:37 JST John McCall

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     @steve Hey, I know that guy.

     He got pretty flustered after all the tech failures, really unprofessional

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 05:38:32 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • John McCall

     @steve @rjmccall
     …afterward, a friend who’d attended came up to me eagerly warm and effusive about my performance, and especially singled out the one I’d clobbered as her favorite. I said something sheepish about my mistake, and she simply wasn’t having it. She wasn’t going to hear me badmouthing the one she liked!

     Tough lesson, but I think I learned it, about just letting people love whatever it is that they experienced regardless of how it felt to me. Spared me a whole lot of heartache since.