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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 22/06/2026

i think that's exactly right, and it truly is too conservative; it falls over as soon as pretty much any generic appears in sight

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/06/2026

you can also use this to prove that a block of code won't panic (only works when panics unwind): play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

play.rust-lang.org

Rust Playground

A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/06/2026

in this case, it's just a little weirder, because we set up a situation where the `const { panic!() }` is evaluated by the compiler only if the compiler ever generates the monomorphized `Drop` glue for the type, and we never actually write that code ourselves

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/06/2026

i don't think so; there's no way to evaluate the `const` block without instantiating the generics, so it cannot possibly evaluate until the use-site. the docs for `const` expressions specifically show an example which has a generic-dependent panic like this: doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/refe...

doc.rust-lang.org

Block expressions - The Rust Reference

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/06/2026

the bad news is that working with a linear type in Rust is like juggling knives: you get stabbed if you `panic!()`

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 04/08/2025

do you have absolute pitch?

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 04/08/2025

i *just* discovered that my fiancée likely has this! can you describe your experience more so we can compare?

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 08/11/2023

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 07/09/2023

emotional regulation by enforcement

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Friday @friday.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

A story of love & trust in 4 pictures

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 03/08/2023

do you know about the "what's overhead" siri skill?

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

but wherever we live, whatever our scene, we have a choice! we can choose not to defect!

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

hypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

Well There's Your Problem should do an april fool's episode entitled "weehawken-alameda burrito tunnel collapse"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

ffmpeg stands for Fast & Furious: Moving Picture Experts Group

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

the next level is realizing that when you do this, the film also has a vivid mental experience of where you were when you watched it

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

realizing that if i've seen a movie once or twice, i can listen to the audio track alone and have an extremely vivid mental experience of the film

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

"When staff for a task force of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee asked the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to update its 2008 calculation of criminal offenses in the USC in 2013, the CRS responded that they lack the manpower and resources to accomplish the task."

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

"ignorantia juris non excusat"

a photograph of the Annotated United States Code, showing that it fills several bookshelves with its volumes

a screenshot from a book selling website showing that the cost of purchasing these 466 volumes is $2,495.00

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 31/07/2023

better yet: ffmpeg -i "Top Gun (1986).mp4" -vn -acodec copy "Top Gun (1986).aac"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 31/07/2023

"Opening Theme from TOP GUN" (including the jet sounds and the transition into "Danger Zone") is the perfect alarm clock ringtone, change my view

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 29/07/2023

ponder me like one of your french orbs

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

guy rolling up to the DMV in a car with four flat tires, the paint somehow keyed completely off, with every window & mirror broken: hello. I would like to return a license plate

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 28/07/2023

i could be wrong, this is based on a short conversation with a worldcoin dev where we mostly talked about the Orb's anti-tamper stuff

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 28/07/2023

as far as i understand it, no, the hardware is special-cased to irises

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 27/07/2023

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

self-care as altruism: you cannot give what you do not have. if you want to provide stability, you must be stable. if you want to provide clarity, you must see clearly.

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 24/07/2023

why's it called social darwinism and not darwinian socialism then

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

there can be a certain innocence or obliviousness to being an agent of chaos, which serves an important smokescreen function for those in the social ecosystem for whom it is guilty and entirely deliberate. that people sometimes cause problems by accident also makes it easier to cause them on purpose

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 23/07/2023

consider this: some obligate carnivores *have* read darwin, and they act accordingly

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 23/07/2023

marshmallow test fail: if lions read a little charles darwin they would be snacking instead on the Fastest, Strongest antelopes to breed easier prey

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/07/2023

from your current ideological perspective, the concept at hand is occluded in the semantic shadow of a different, similar idea

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 18/07/2023

the real consent of the governed was the friends we made along the way

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 18/07/2023

this kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use polycule is illegal to build in most cities

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

don't worry, i'm sure there are other ways

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

none of those, crucially, are "doing things that directly affect the material conditions of the world"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

ah, see, that's fine as i understand it — we can advocate for views, we can hold space for conversation, we can collectively develop intricate methodologies of critique...

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

nevermind if your solution is entirely opt-in, like, say, an invite-only alpha version of an app built on a decentralized, federated protocol, to pick a random example

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

i think it goes like: recognizing that you have figured out a solution to a problem implies you believe you're better than the other people who haven't figured out how to solve that problem, so attempting to solve problems without gaining unanimous consensus is authoritarian

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

*slaps roof of bucket* this baby can fit so many crabs

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

apropos of nothing, i recently had a conversation with someone who claimed as an established obvious fact that if one thinks one can personally meaningfully contribute to making the world a better place, one is practicing "adventurism, which is a kind of fascism"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

only if you are "obligating" the creation of the rule, which is not clear — it may be supererogatory to create such a rule upon encountering your suggestion for it, in which case it can be created without banning you

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

"It involves holding a specific kind of open, non-judging attention to an internal knowing which is experienced but is not yet in words."

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

gary gensler's Focusing technique for internally oriented psychosecurities regulation

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 13/07/2023

"It is not your duty to configure the options, but neither are you at liberty to neglect them." — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 03/07/2023

you can just let it lie orthogonally to your concept of self

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