@btp At this point I'm on a "only look at news on Fridays (except when something major happens and I need to catch up)" rule, and at the current rate of bullshit, "something major" has to be really bad. I can't handle staring into the abyss every day anymore. Reading all the bad news all the […]

@taffywabbit.bsky.social I can't watch, but happy birthday nonetheless!

@nonfedimemes Fun story, but I can't find any references of this interaction other than a couple comments on Reddit, also referencing it as a story they heard about. I appreciate and agree with the point (diversity in experience and viewpoints is valuable, reach outside the discipline for better […]

@lizthegrey.com I've pretty regularly had it take `edition = '2024'` Rust code and change it to 2021, saying that 2024 is in unreleased beta state, even though Claude can check the system date and probably should be able to surmise that edition 2024 probably would have released before the end of […]

[Advent of Code 2025 day 12 solution]

Note, this was after several hours of trying to solve it in a more clever way that still didn't work, so finding out the actual answer was to not even really try was quite frustrating.

I've just learned about (disjoint sets)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure], but I don't see a really good implementation for Rust that's easy to find. The `disjoint` crate seems decent enough, but I'm not sure if it's a hell of a lot more efficient than my really naive […]

[Advent of Code 2025 day 7 solution]

Went in and did it with dynamic programming. Takes about twice the time my original solution did, but I expected it to be slower, given that the previous one was just maintaining counters and running through linearly. My previous solution could probably be a […]