Russell Finn

@rsfinn
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Experienced software developer focusing on macOS/Swift development. Currently at Nightfall; ex-Delinea, Sophos, OPNET, MicroProse. MIT '83 (VI-3). He/him. (Once mit-vax!neutron!rsfinn)
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@siracusa I’m sorry for your loss. May its memory be a blessing to you.

Verminsteel isn't in the Summer Sale, because I'm developing it right now, but it's a game where you're a bird with a broadsword who kicks thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun, so if you think that's cool maybe wishlist, RT and tell your friends? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/

#indiegame #gamedev #gamenews

@amyworrall I’m reminded of the Git client Fork (https://fork.dev) when you’re typing in a new branch name; if you hit a previously entered name, a text label appears to say so, and disappears as soon as you make another edit.

I realize this isn’t quite what you have in mind—you want to guide the user towards similar names rather than warn them off—but maybe a variation on this idea would work (e.g. a separate pane that lists close matches and updates in real time).

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

@APBBlue @gbhnews Chili is a stew.

(That was Judge John Hodgman’s very first ruling, if I remember correctly.)

US small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20

US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000

US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public

Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.

I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.

✨arm64e trivia✨

Your C++ program works great without PAC but it crashes very reliably once you enable it? The most common reason is that you are memcpying objects with vtables. Objects with vtables are never trivially copyable, but it happens to work with most ABIs. Since vtable pointers are signed with the object’s location under the arm64e ABI, this is a near-guaranteed crash.

Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.

He prayed and read the Bible every day.

He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.

He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.

He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.

While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.

He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.

Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.

Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.

No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.

We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.

He never asked us to be Christian with him.

He only asked us to be his neighbor.

So...

If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.

It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.

It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.

It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".

Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.

-- Patchie Dee

David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube
This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself