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Something I was just introduced to. A twitter account that brings to light examples of past "fears of new things" to put modern ones in context.

twitter.com/PessimistsArc

Did you know that, in 1903, they were talking about reading print books in bed the same way people are talking about having your mobile phone near the bed now? Granted, I'd still want an OLED screen, night mode, and no social media apps, but it does put things in perspective.

Funny enough, the more I think about it and discuss with someone on Imgur, the more I think the probable answer is "sloppy CG mockup", because, while the typing is animated, I don't remember it being easy to find hacks that flat-out HID the menu bar for non-Mozilla Suite programs back then.

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Here's an interesting thing to ponder.

Why the heck is a prop "office computer" from the end of a 2020-season episode of Mayday/Air Crash Investigation/Air Emergency/Air Disasters running a version of Windows 9x with modded MacOS 8 titlebars and scrollbars?

...as for Rocket requiring nightly, it's important to understand the philosophy behind it.

From the beginning, Rocket's been designed around "Make the most comfortable API we can and then wait for Rust to come to us", and they only recently started finding ways to dial it back a bit. The number of different API-unstable language features it relied on from nightly was a **massive** outlier.

As someone else poking at an Actix-based hobby project, I get the impression that a lot of your troubles might have just been due to unfamiliarity with the architecture.

The solution to your problems with the Mailchimp crate was probably just to add whatever version of tokio your Actix is sitting on top of (cargo-tree helps here. 0.2 if you're on actix-web 3.3.2) to your Cargo.toml with the `blocking` feature enabled and then use `tokio::task::spawn_blocking` to invoke the sync API.

@ssokolow 'Doug McIlroy also remembers that, amusingly, "the first technical paper that came off the C/A/T drew a query from the journal editor, who'd never seen a phototypeset manuscript before: had it been published elsewhere?" '

A friend of mine in college (English major) learned LaTeX and turned in a paper she wrote using it ... and had to defend herself against charges of having turned in a published work by producing the sources and making requested changes in real-time.

I just ran across this nifty little detective story recounting an attempt to find where the constant in Quake 3's InvSqrt() function came from:

beyond3d.com/content/articles/

Something I wrote about this effort to replace words like "master [branch]" and "blacklist" in programming projects and tooling, based on the relationship to the euphemism treadmill:

Euphemisms aren't about fixing problems. They're about disconnecting us from the emotional discomfort that should be driving us to fix the problem.

> "I'll betcha, if we'd still been calling it shell shock, some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the help they needed at the time."
> -- George Carlin

I just started putting together an Itch.io collection for libre game development tools (and reusable code that could be run at build or runtime).

itch.io/c/1254813/libre-game-d

It's got some interesting stuff, like GB Studio, a game maker which generates actual Gameboy ROMs.

Tip: If you get something like roofing tar on your hands, pour a little bit of cooking oil on them and scrub. Then wash your hands with soap.

The oil will act as a solvent for the tar (and do it impressively well) and then the soap will remove both of them.

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