@futuresprog yeah, it's pretty nuts! I need to try and get a closer look sometime.

Finally got around to taking a photo of the huge amount of scaffolding where they're trying to stabilise the hill side above Birdwood St in Karori #wellington . You can see several workers in high viz for scale.

@grumpygamer this is one of the reasons I play on consoles more than PC

Sailing and rowing and walking around state parks in the San Juan Islands and every view looks like something a game environment artist would create. It's like Myst and Uncharted but real. I'm loving exploring the Pacific Northwest and can't believe it took me so long to make it here.

(4th photo by https://www.facebook.com/twonderfulworld, I couldn't capture that view on a phone, you need a telephoto lens)

#sailing

@morgan3d I visited Tulum in Mexico because of Uncharted. It was a long way from home but totally worth it.

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C++ to Rust Phrasebook: A new textbook to help C++ devs translate their idioms into Rust

https://cel.cs.brown.edu/crp/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://cel.cs.brown.edu/crp/

#cpp #programming #rustlang

Seen elsewhere ...

DREDGE
#pixelart #ドット絵

The next release of Mastodon will have features to better support communities in different jurisdictions around the world - multi-lingual rules translations, terms of service, and optional minimum age requirements for sign-up. You can learn more in our latest blog post. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/legal-features-updates/

Finished Andor season 2. After a bit of a slow start it was pretty solid. Now I need to rewatch Rogue One.

Here is a pdf with all the posters, if you want to print them yourself: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJAPBk2f-2ieyDYCgEQXOVzr_4_LXAeT/view

Donald Draper level of marketing genius

For those not attending in person: You can watch the #RustWeek conference live from anywhere! Check out our free livestream!

We start tomorrow at 9:30 CEST!

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Tank vs Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4ZjhOukwU

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

A full-blown humanitarian emergency in Gaza is no longer looming. It is here, and it is catastrophic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/gaza-israel-aid-starvation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE8.mMa3.I5NiWMHNeOAO&smid=url-share (gift link)

Riot Games is one of many companies that use a kernel-level anti-cheat system to fight cheaters. But it's not just about the kernel.

This is how Riot's tries to keep cheaters out of the game.

(Re-upping this for the folks that logged off during weekend.)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/03/how-riot-games-is-fighting-the-war-against-video-game-hackers/