Subsentient

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by Subsentient 5y ago
I'm proud of some of the new features in my perpetual pet project, including channel-based multithreading in Lua scriptlets, so I figured I'd make all of you look at it. It's actually useful to me, I use it to control all my
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by Subsentient 6y ago
For the mostpart, Rust error handling is okay. What really rustles my jimmies, however, is the often mandatory indentation because of a lack of an inverse "if let". I prefer to bail out of a block if a condition is NOT met, rathe
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Am I the only one not really bothered by the turbofish? I just think 'declarations, no colons. expressions, colons.' and that rule generally works fine for me.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
What exactly is Thunar missing for you? I genuinely like it.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Honestly, they should just toss the file picker and write a new one. It wouldn't be too hard to do. I've written custom file pickers in Qt before, and I've used GTK+'s API a lot for other things, it's not very dif
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by Subsentient 6y ago
libc is much smaller than other libraries, and as another has pointed out, compiling it statically will get you only the symbols you actually use, so it doesn't even equal the total size of libc. Which makes more sense? Bloating your e
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Well shit. I was considering investing in bitcoin eventually, but this tells me that crypto is too legally unstable to put any money into. I don't have issues with centralized exchanges, but if they're going this far, they could e
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by Subsentient 6y ago
It could be done if you heavily patched everything you linked in, or developed an entirely new compiler, or both, but as-is, no.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
>>There is a reasonable middle ground: base system functionality that is utilized by most software (stdlib, cryptography, networking, gui, etc) should be dynamic and everything else should be static I disagree, I tend to want the oppo
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Honestly, I'm team dynamic linking. I prefer to have things clearly separated in functionality and easily upgradeable. Statically linking all the OS utilities to their dependency libraries, over and over again? Dear god that sounds awf
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Yes, I know that it's NOT possible. Anything that uses the same libraries, e.g. GTK+, will end up calling gtk_init() multiple times. Callback functions with the same names will collide at link-time. Despite the madness of the code that
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Noobs. In 2014 I built a full blown XFCE desktop distro from tarballs and used it for 3 years.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
It makes me sad, but this is true, and it's not just in "north" vs "south", it's largely rural vs urban. As a city person in the US, if I hear a Texan or Southern accent, I instantly assume the following about
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Clang usually has worse performance than GCC.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Well if you want to know how to unpush, here's how. You can also use this to just uncommit locally if you made a mistake, too. >git reset --soft HEAD^ That preserves your work, but it uncommits it. You can now make changes, re-add f
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by Subsentient 6y ago
I fucking love Crystal. It's a fantastic language that is just now starting to reach maturity. I'd strongly recommend you play with it, if you're a ruby guy.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
On the contrary. I'm a ball of melted down, gibbering insanity. And, the people who parrot "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" have clearly never met a quadriplegic. :^)
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Well I guess that makes me about average. I'm generally liked where I end up working, but tend to just do stuff on my own. I'm polite, but don't go out of my way to interact with others typically. I do check the boxes on the
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Honestly I'd suggest they just use Qt then. Our company is writing a portable replacement to our Electron client right now. The electron option was absolute garbage, very limited, and caused us untold pain. We got tired of telling cust
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Ever play with Crystal? It's a very promising new language that's very much a copy of Ruby, down to the syntax.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Two reasons. One, I had to stay near to my elderly mother to help her every few days. Two, if it were merely increased rent, that would be tolerable, but the cost of the act of moving, along with deposits and fees, would be impossible.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Swallow the Sun, Be'lakor, Draconian, Dark Tranquillity, Insomnium, Evocation. I'm big into melodic death metal. This single, 30 minute song was my soundtrack for the commute right before the pandemic. https://www.youtu
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by Subsentient 6y ago
I try to pull what little joy out of life that I can. I think the only things that matter are what matters to us living things. The best way to live your life is a type of compassionate hedonism I'd think. Some things with too high a c
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by Subsentient 6y ago
I'm sorry, man. I know what that's like. I've been down the whole rapid weight loss suicidal thing before myself. I used to wake up and cry, because I had to live for the rest of the day. What kind of programming do you do?
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by Subsentient 6y ago
I was miserable before it was cool. Before the pandemic, I had a development job in the neighboring city. I'd take a 2 hour commute each way, and when I got home, I'd immediately collapse, sleep, wake up, and head right back to wo
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by Subsentient 6y ago
There's an easier way. Just insert a giant cucumber halfway into your chocolate starfish, and show dominance by crab walking around the office with no pants. Actually, it works for guys, too.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
I do see that the LLVM IR thing isn't being used anymore. I hope asm! ends up in stable Rust soon, seems like a pretty big oversight. Then again, MSVC dropped inline ASM altogether, which seems really dumb. One of these days I'm g
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by Subsentient 6y ago
It definitely isn't. C99 and even some C11 features used all over the place. Designated initializers are heavily used. We'll see when those actually end up stable for C++20. Even then, I never use the latest standards of C++, I st
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by Subsentient 6y ago
Just occurred to me, since Rust has LLVM IR asm directives, can't you write a portable goto in an inline function that jumps directly to pointers? Publish that crate to crates.io? Problem solved.
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by Subsentient 6y ago
This was my first thought as well. :^)

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