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Tiptoeing to check What' was left under the tree Christmas morning#haiku#christmas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115778661450590281Merry Christmas everyone!

Some time ago I started the audiobook of "the once and future king" by T.H. White.A couple notes:- wow this is the source for Disney's sword in the stone movie!- including odd anachronisms and the wizardly battle!- holy shit, this thing is long#books #arthurianliterature

The new #ruby website is quite pretty, tho I miss the big claim of "what ruby is" from the old one.I don't get why it requires JavaScript to load (and I see a loader) since it's static but I guess we lost that battle years ago.Also, the reply integration seems odd: either you are showing content and you want people to stay on the page or you want them to try the reply. Ending up on a different page because you want to see what the output of the examples is.. is oddhttps://www.ruby-lang.org

TIL the english word "odium" exists.It's a fantastic word.The fact that it's a cognate of the Italian "odio" notwithstanding.

Ma come ha fatto la fiorentina a perdere con il Losanna porca miseria. Vanoli mandasse in campo la primavera a sto punto.#calcio #football #EUCL

I think today's #wordle may be the hardest *well known* word we ever had.I gave up brute forcing and checked dictfile: one possibility left after 4 attempt.And dictfile doesn't even have "yourt".I surrendered and just looked it up.

some years ago I decided to try out asdf as a generic "package" manager.It's been years and I still can't remember how to use it. I guess 2026 is the year I should try switching to mise.

I got the The Oracle archetype!https://mastodon.social/@riffraff/wrapstodon/2025/c24dcbd8d3c976ce#Wrapstodon2025

The impact XKCD has had on internet culture cannot be overstated.Today I saw at least 2 references to "today's 10000" which is not even the most popular comic, and not a week goes by without the "one guy in nebraska" appearing, or "someone is wrong on the internet".I'm happy about this.

In James Gunn we trust. I mean, this is Guardians of the Galaxy v4, right?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo#supergirl

btw, it's super cool that the wayback machine is able to play old flash files.

pretty nice, the@activitypub.blog plugin for #wordpress now supports quotes.If you have a WP blog/site, you should enable the plugin immediately, it works like a charm and it's a way to broaden your audience and get conversations started.https://activitypub.blog/2025/12/04/7-7-0-extra-quotable/

mh, so the answer seems to be that type aliases are just replaced "as text" and they don't participate at all in type checking.Seems odd, but ok.

#AdventOfCode #Day8 with #rust I spent an inordinate amount of time on part1 because * imo the problem definition is wrong* it does matter if you put permutations or combinations in the list, even if you filter them out :( Part 2 is basically the same and I already did it in ruby so I'm not doing it again, at least not today.I wanted to do this with union-find but I have yet to get to the chapter about generics and it seems cheating to do it without it :) https://gist.github.com/riffraff/267f1e326e447815ab0ac28f217bc01f

apparently #archive.org is down :(

@teotwaki I used a hash in my ruby version for part 2, but I didn't think of the DFS/DP idea, nice

ah, I need to pass a lifetime to make this work with references, or use .copied/.cloned apparently..https://gist.github.com/riffraff/bd2aeb29ee7cb55dcbda225c1565a85a

#cloudflare 500ing for us. This is a fantastic start of the friday for someone somewhere, my solidarity to them. #cloudflaredown

@ormai yeah I think it's interacting with this https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-02-deref.html#implicit-deref-coercions-with-functions-and-methodswhich is indeed very ergonomic, but confuses the hell out me, cause e.g. >= works but arithmetic does not :)