Just in case everyone doesn't already know, urine can provoke jellyfish stingers to release even more venom. Use vinegar or rubbing alcohol instead, or, falling that, seawater.

(edit: I see I missed the part about being fun, but I don't know of better alternatives)

I learnt with the one on the main site, "the Rust book" which is good for explaining concepts and is (or certainly was) considered the standard textbook.

Rust by Example is good for a quick start in how to do various things, but imho is most valuable for experienced programmers and as a cheatsheet-style reference.

Once you start writing your own code, it's useful to look at Blessed.rs to show what are the fairly standard options for basic libraries for logging, http, etc that you might have expected to be in the standard library. It's useful to be pointed at something that's good enough instead of spending hours investigating the various competing crates.

Unfortunately, someone gave me a fish instead, so I can only eat for a day.

Tom Scott's on Nebula now? That's good, I've noticed a few people I followed have either disappeared from there or stopped posting.

I just got back from watching this - when I found my other half hadn't heard any spoilers it was an obvious choice what to watch. I'd read the book four years ago, so I remembered the story but not all the details.

We both had a great time and would heartily recommend it. Ryan Gosling filled out the character to a fuller extent then I remember from the book (I think Weir has gone on record admitting that character depth is his weak spot) and I can't fault the supporting cast. The score is excellent - lots of choral elements that suits the majesty of space. The visuals made me glad I was seeing it on the big screen.

They really speed-ran the early part of the book, but it would be a very long film if they added everything and I think it's a good adaptation of the book, and fairly faithful. They did include the setup (in a Chekhov's gun sense) to some things that weren't then mentioned; I wonder if that's as a nod to the book readers or if the rest is on the cutting room floor.

I hear they're going to do Artemis next, which I didn't read due to the abysmal reviews. I think it'll be worth watching as I expect they'll fix the flaws (which iirc was partly that it was just Watney again but in a unconvincing female role) but I won't read the book first.

A transparent divide and conquer ploy

“The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see LLMs differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, LLMs take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” [the author] says. “And in coding, LLMs take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

wtf is he talking about? You get to do spec writing, code reviews, QA and debugging - this is far from the joyful part of coding.

I enjoy the contradiction of middleend

“Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State,” Trump continued.

If he hasn't done anything wrong, why does he need a pardon?

Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.

Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.

This reminds me of Charles Babbage's response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I've been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.

It's an increase in reported monthly users, as now activity like voting is also considered, not just posts/comments.