<p>apropos of nothing: i find it delightful that on fedi i usually get correctly referred to as &quot;it&quot;. thanks to everyone who pays attention,,</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i am now thinking of the type of time zones that would be required to have multiple clocks (in a chain , you might say) that cannot be derived from each other.</p>

<p>i told this to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> and she said that this is just .mailmap</p>

<p>a public ledger recording every gender change ever made, call that a clockchain</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tekknolagi" class="u-url mention">@<span>tekknolagi</span></a></span> One thing that really changed my view of Rust and helped me a lot regarding this situation is this discussion about RefCells from the Rust book. <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-05-interior-mutability.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-05</span><span class="invisible">-interior-mutability.html</span></a></p><p>The arrangement of nested environments needed to implement an interpreter is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but it can&#39;t be statically verified by the Rust compiler according to its default set of rules. </p><p>So, instead of fighting the compiler, I try to work with it. Maybe a runtime check is okay.</p>

<p>A reminder that R. Ben Shapiro (UW) and I run CERAMICS: &quot;Computing Education Research Advancing Methods for Curricula and Systems&quot;. It&#39;s for people trying to enter/succeed in CS Ed research and looking for help on how to do so. Next deadline June 1:</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQEci1r9iOBvxA1EqxDQfVvPizlShyDtI7yUWkC99vKBgFE6d0O0-Hr5U7ige3nus8xtkihZBRwQDYj/pub" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/document/d/e/2</span><span class="invisible">PACX-1vQEci1r9iOBvxA1EqxDQfVvPizlShyDtI7yUWkC99vKBgFE6d0O0-Hr5U7ige3nus8xtkihZBRwQDYj/pub</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@pagangod" class="u-url mention">@<span>pagangod</span></a></span> i have better friends than that</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nasado" class="u-url mention">@<span>nasado</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian" class="u-url mention">@<span>lynnesbian</span></a></span> yeah (i was trying to avoid being pedantic)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian" class="u-url mention">@<span>lynnesbian</span></a></span> i disagree</p>