math turning out to be useful has been a mild disaster for its image, as it's led to people thinking it's *supposed* to be useful, when in fact math does not owe you one iota of usefulness

Please, Cybersecurity Awareness Month Committee, you win. Make it stop. We’ve never been more aware.

jviide.iki.fi@jviide.iki.fi · 3d ago

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and I think it's working!

society if rust had used the terms shared and exclusive from the beginning

oliver@eikopf.com · 5d ago

i really dislike this purity argument, where having some kinds of restricted mutation preserving strong guarantees is the same as “doing almost nothing to restrict normal mutability”