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I will not stop shitposting on main though

I am odd, yes. I also care deeply about supply chain security and focused on it when I led the crates.io team as well as during my time at the Rust Foundation. You can rest assured…

Crap, I'm supposed to be an engineer?

No

If David had come forward when everyone else did about how this situation played out, and actually spoken to JeanHeyd or apologized ever , that's exactly what would have happened.

I'm the organizer who gave the invite. It was indeed explicitly framed as "you can talk about whatever you want". In my opinion it was pretty obvious this is what JeanHeyd would ta…

I used to maintain a library which actually tried to implement proper English pluralization rules. I can confirm you don't want to do that.

Why would they filter emoji specifically? They're such a major part of modern communication

I would just like to tack on that malicious code is against the crates.io terms of service, and something like exfiltrating secrets in a build script is something that very clearly…

> Or now that I think about it, is it instead the case that a whole program including all dependencies will be compiled by the same compiler (of which newer editions will have the …

> I think that it's very straightforward, personally, with very very simple rules (especially in 2018). I agree with you. It's a shame we don't have a simple visual metaphor to des…

I have always wondered this!

let plural = match cases.len() { 1.. => "s", 0 => "", }; ;P

For purchases like the one in the article, you can absolutely purchase with stock in lieu of cash. This happens all the time, and doesn't have nearly the impact on the share price …

Yeah, unfortunately there's not really much of an alternative here besides dropping libgit2 and subshelling out to git (which we honestly should consider, it just hasn't been a pri…

Often times database changes are a complex multi-stage process. Since we're still a small team, we're able to have them merged as a single PR and the author deploys each commit as …

Anything that doesn't require W+X would need an entire page allocated per closure, wouldn't it?

`void ( )(void , everything_else)` is in my personal experience a much more common API than that of `qsort` (probably for exactly the point you're pedantically trying to make), so …

It doesn't relate to it at all. The issues around linking to problematic object files mentioned in that article will apply to Rust as well, but that's unrelated to the subject of t…

Literally the second sentence of the article

I've never contributed to go in the past, why would I be transitioning to working on go full time?

In case it wasn't clear from the article, I'm moving from contributing to Rails to Rust, not as a user. Most of my contributions to Rails were around Active Record (the ORM), and I…