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New comment by salsa_catsup in "Stabilizing Rust's Never Type"

salsa_catsup — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:03:07 +0000

Is this so central, that it justifies the use of a single ascii char? Instead of, say, `Never`?

New comment by salsa_catsup in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

salsa_catsup — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:35:24 +0000

Energy density of liquid fuel, with efficiency of electric motor => fuel cells. ? I guess they've given up on those for some reason.

New comment by salsa_catsup in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

salsa_catsup — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:59:57 +0000

I should have done this with my 2020 Intel Macbook Pro. Now it's basically unusable and spins rainbow wheels constantly, because the OS is apparently garbage for an Intel system.

New comment by salsa_catsup in "Racket v9.3"

salsa_catsup — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:04:46 +0000

Is Racket the Lisp where I wanted to write keywords like `foo:` or `:foo`, but they went with something like `'#:foo`, which ruined keyword syntax for me?

New comment by salsa_catsup in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

salsa_catsup — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:33:33 +0000

Twitter has videos of people getting crushed (probably dead) by falling facade as they try to exit the building. I guess it's still considered smart to try to exit your building in a quake? Maybe it depends on the building.

New comment by salsa_catsup in "Claude Opus 5"

salsa_catsup — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:31:14 +0000

Nerds should stop giving away their work by open sourcing it, or letting AI see it. All you're doing is helping them create your replacement. Stupid nerds.