AernaLingus [any] @ AernaLingus @hexbear.net

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THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU NEXT YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS. AAAAAAAAAAAGH

Don't forget the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism

From 2008 to 2011, Li made CRACK99 a reliable black-market marketplace, one that netted an estimated $100 million in sales. His inventory, investigators later said, was valued at over $1 billion.

Since it's not clear from this write-up, those eye-popping figures (the ones concocted by the Department of Justice) are derived from the prices that the licenses were being sold for by the original companies, so it's not $100 million in sales but $100 million in "value" (the idea of calculating a $1 billion valuation for the digital "inventory" is even more ridiculous). If you look on the actual crack99 website, you'll see that most of the cracked software was being sold for anywhere from twenty bucks to maybe a few hundred dollars—this guy was not making millions from this. The government's sentencing memorandum has the details; this includes the absurd figure of $3,812,241.57 for a single software license of some CAD software called "Catia VR520", which Li sold to at least one other customer for the princely sum of $100.

Shoutout to my dumbass relatives for sending their DNA to this company—thanks for nothing!

Thank you for sharing--that was a really neat demonstration, and I enjoyed seeing all the troubleshooting as well. Will definitely be subscribing and checking out more of their videos!

My girlfriend has not been seen for several weeks after going back to Canada

I feel like there's not much to fight about. I can understand the latter perspective, but from a practical point of view it just makes sense to consistently assign it to AM/PM rather than creating an unnecessary edge case (lord knows there are enough of those with date/time systems). Also this is all made moot by the superior system: the 24-hour clock (now THERE'S something I bet you could have a good argument about!).

I can't remember the specifics (both because it was dumb and because it's so embarrassing I think my brain is trying to protect me), but from what I recall I got into a heated argument on the internet with someone because I felt that fans weren't cheering hard enough for a band I liked at a concert.

...yeah, I know. I'm grateful, though, because it was so colossally stupid and pointless that I had a come-to-Jesus moment and swore off internet arguments entirely. I can only imagine the countless hours of my life it's saved me in the intervening years.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40583721/print-to-console-log-with-color

out-of-order

https://twitter.com/Hidet0shi1/status/1863353364706111601

MyAnonamouse

Boston Chicken & KFC Rotisserie Style Chicken.txt

lmao

I found this line very funny:

State funding for Chinese companies enables them to offer salaries beyond what Western companies can pay.

Source?

ASML made €8 billion in net income in 2023. TSMC, $30 billion (not Western, but mentioned in the same breath). I'm sure they could scrounge a few coins from under the couch cushions to match salaries if they wanted to.

Since the archive link didn't help in getting the full article:

I'll preface this by saying I'm working my way through the Rust book, too--just a bit further along--so don't take my word as gospel.

This exact scenario is what the ? operator was designed for: returning early with the Err if one is received^{[There's also some type coercion, but that's beyond the scope of your question], otherwise unpacking the `Ok`. As you've discovered, it's a common pattern, so using the `?` operator greatly cuts down on the boilerplate code. If you wanted to do the equivalent of you have here (panicking instead of returning the `Err` for it to potentially be handled in calling code, albeit without your custom panic messages}[edit: you can use expect to get the custom messages as covered in another comment--not sure how I forgot that]) you could achieve this with unwrap() instead of ?:

  rust

    
let html_content_text = reqwest::blocking::get(&permalink).unwrap().text().unwrap();

  

Both of these will be covered in chapter 9.

If you want to avoid those constructs until later, the only thing I'd say is that some of the intermediate variables seem unnecessary since you can match on the function call directly:

  rust

    
fn get_document(permalink: String) -> Html {
        let html_content = match reqwest::blocking::get(&permalink) {
            Ok(response) => response,
            Err(error) => panic!("There was an error making the request: {:?}", error),
        };

        let html_content_text = match html_content.text() {
            Ok(text) => text,
            Err(error) =>
                panic!(
                    "There was an error getting the html text from the content of response: :{:?}",
                    error
                ),
        };

        let document = Html::parse_document(&html_content_text);

        document
    }

  

You could also eliminate the final let statement and just stick the parse_document call at the end, but that's a matter of preference--I know having an intermediate variable before a return can sometimes make debugging easier.

As for whether you should build something now or wait till you learn more--go with your gut! The most important thing is that you stay actively engaged with the material, and many people find diving into projects as soon as possible helps them learn and stay motivated. You could also use rustlings and/or Rust by Example as you go through the book, which is what I've been doing (specifically rustlings). It's not as stimulating as writing a project from scratch, but it does let you write some relevant code. And if you're not already, I highly recommend using the Brown version of the Rust Book which includes interactive quizzes sprinkled throughout. I've found them particularly helpful for understanding the quirks of the borrow checker, which is a topic it continues to revist throughout the book.

Beat me to it.

Israel does not control the US the US controls Israel.

Something Joe Biden will proudly admit!

Pretty neat research, actually!

Link to article

Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk's grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.

That's a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.

Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel "lecture" from the lead author (also the primary pooper))