Notices by Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte so many conversations where it was confusing if someone was cautioning that some food is hot (temperature) or hot (capsaicin)

@skinnylatte thank you, this looks like the kind of good tv I need right now

@inthehands I have often joked that I would learn COBOL after the boomers are gone for some lucrative and interesting job, however I wasn't expecting that to be somehow in the aftermath of something like this

@skinnylatte I like that your grandfather said that

But it's still frustrating and sad that for one reason or another, so many of us have to do that

@skinnylatte I remember seeing people doing this on their own rips of DVDs, etc, as a hobby thing a few years ago, and frankly not understanding. It does not bother me to just have lower resolution media scaled up, my brain does as well with that as it always did

@skinnylatte thank you, that post is wonderful

@skinnylatte I can't eat gluten anymore, but when I could I was surprised by how much less sour actual french baguettes are

@inthehands Even that would be hazardous.

Maybe bricking upon software update might be minimally deadly. But probably even that would have unintended safety consequences. Software system safety is a bigger deal than it was ever before

@skinnylatte that's wonderful, congrats on 8 years!

@skinnylatte every time I see something like that I get even more annoying about using metric

@skinnylatte feeling pretty grateful our 11 year old cat only has two chronic illnesses

Amazingly of the two cats this is the one who isn't afraid of almost anyone

@skinnylatte Oh, wow

And I imagined everyone just hated it when the dewpoint gets above about 17C / 63F :)

@skinnylatte it also usually seems like an admission that a man knows there's a problem with violence in his own community and is unwilling to do anything to oppose the status quo

@skinnylatte Many years ago, probably after the beginning of the "War on Terror" and subsequent excesses of government power and Islamophobia and general shittiness towards PoC, I felt sad about the future of the US

And I saw an interview with an immigrant from somewhere like Iraq or Afghanistan, and he was asked, "Do you think it was still worth coming here, [with all these restrictions on freedom]?"

And basically he said that what made this worthwhile wasn't the freedom, but the opportunity

@skinnylatte I have used some topical capsaicin ointment last time I hurt my back. It was so wonderful!

(I was very careful to apply it with gloves and wash hands afterwards just in case because the concentration was definitely higher than foods)

@skinnylatte I still feel like I'm bad at giving gifts, I tend to just ask my wife if she wants something and she does the same for me, but I'm trying to become one of those people who buys something small and interesting for people when I see it

It's taking me a new kind of awareness to be thoughtful in the way I want to be, but it feels good for me, so long as I don't try to be perfectionist about it

@hrefna I like all the reasonably durable abstractions we can manage, but with a bias towards ones we can prove some things about

Although on some level things like this I consider a challenge 🙃

Like maybe I should learn all about Infiniband, just because

Doing Cryptopals in Rust with a commitment to use nothing except the standard library is definitely making me a better Rust programmer

I just finished doing base64 decoding (with padding and whitespace handling a la PEM, MIME, etc) and it may not be the prettiest code, but I'm pretty confident in its correctness. I want to never use a less strongly typed language ever again (I'll probably be forced to on Monday)

and yes that means that very soon I will have to implement AES-128-ECB

I love that I can populate a const array using a const fn:
https://github.com/jamagin/cryptopals/blob/b7e79c0eb8faa9ae2bf1f0f5af2a462fa35459aa/src/bytes.rs#L21
and have the values in the array be Ok(value) for valid inputs and Err(Base64ParseError) for the rest

I think with some more experience I could write something even clearer for the rest of the implementation, but this feels like a good start:
https://github.com/jamagin/cryptopals/blob/b7e79c0eb8faa9ae2bf1f0f5af2a462fa35459aa/src/bytes.rs#L57

Still trying to feel out what's the most sensible thing for arguments and return values in an API, &[u8] vs Vec<u8>