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by namuol 1y ago
I’m saying it’s not optimal for learning the language, not that it’s not worth doing. I’ve worked on 3 different emulators for fun over the last few years, my first in rust. It was a bad experience for learning rust because I was following
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by namuol 1y ago
I’ve found emulators to be a pretty poor first project for rust specifically for the reasons you alluded to: That you need to know to write it without heap allocation (or other hoop jumping so long as you avoid juggling lifetimes) when so m
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by namuol 1y ago
> Everyone should learn Rust. I know this feels like a positive vibe post and I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but speaking for myself when someone tells me “everyone should” do anything, alarm bells sound off in my mind, especially wh
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by namuol 1y ago
Sure, C++ has a more complex spec, nobody can argue against that. Complex is the wrong word. Baffling is a better word. Or counterintuitive, or cumbersome. If “easy enough for someone with experience in C++, OCaml, Haskell, and F#” were the
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by namuol 1y ago
There _are_ more than two programming languages, though. I feel like most of the debates about Rust devolve into the same false choice between safety and ease. Before Rust I was hearing the same argument from Haskell or Scala developers try
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by namuol 1y ago
Lost me at Web Components. There are many things the web does great, but Web Components is not one of them. Can we move on?
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by namuol 1y ago
Good riddance.
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by namuol 1y ago
It’s mind-mapping software that has a “zoom” component, and uses Mandelbrot fractal visuals as a background to provide some kind of landmarks I guess? Neat, but I’m a bit turned off by the grandiose readme. Reading it felt like I was trying
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by namuol 2y ago
Still in the earliest R&D phase, but working on a multiplayer voxel game. I don’t intend to share it widely, just something for me and family/friends to play. I mostly wanted an excuse to play with shaders and WebRTC, but I also li
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by namuol 2y ago
I have yet to find a cli args solution I enjoy using more than docopt.org
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by namuol 2y ago
Perhaps another reason to unionize is to claim more of the political power being wielded by our industry. Unions can play a role in shifting where lobbying money goes, how industry advises politicians, etc. At least I think that’s how thing
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by namuol 2y ago
Once you’re paid some minimum threshold you stop caring about money and start caring about your legacy.
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by namuol 2y ago
At this point I wonder if it’s time we add a kind of markup control scheme to Unicode so we can finally have a standard for rich text that is backwards compatible.
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by namuol 2y ago
This reminds me of fluxless ultrasonic “active” soldering which allows for bonding metals to ceramics and otherwise difficult metals: https://youtu.be/WuYdsStS1MQ
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by namuol 2y ago
The short shelf life of things like bananas gave us wonderful foods like banana bread. It’s really not as big of a problem if we are just more responsible with the food we buy. But I say this mostly as a “yes, and…”
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by namuol 2y ago
The story here is that a criminal that stole billions is staging a prison escape through an openly corrupt political administration and their subservient media apparatus.
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by namuol 2y ago
Yes good point, this is unfortunately just the first part of the proposal being implemented. Mixins are the next part.
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by namuol 2y ago
It absolutely has breaking changes! But most developers will never notice. I work on a complex browser based web development platform and we’ve had certain specs change under our feet leading to incidents that required us to disable feature
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by namuol 2y ago
These are not mutually exclusive proposals. Houdini provides a way to extend e.g. CSS with arbitrary JS. This is merely a new abstraction for code-reuse in CSS. It’s inspired by the same concept from Sass, but doesn’t need to be compiled an
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by namuol 2y ago
Okay you had your FUD, now for the just desserts: This is actually a feature that is likely to reduce the amount of JS that needs to run on the web. It allows for common component-oriented styling patterns to be employed without bloating CS
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by namuol 2y ago
This idea has traction with other browser vendors too, FWIW. They just don’t have godlike budgets, unfortunately.
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by namuol 2y ago
It’s hard to explain because most web development solves these problems with CSS in JS with JS runtimes. One use case I have is what I call “responsive variants”; basically a way to apply a variant’s styles on a component instance (speaking
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by namuol 2y ago
Hey look, the good guys won! It was well-deserved. Three generations within my family all loved it start to finish, including the snobs like me - that’s no small feat. (Nothing against the other nominees though of course, just seeing the li
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by namuol 2y ago
This is it. This is all I’ve wanted in CSS for the last decade. In fact, I just wanted basic mixins without function-like behavior, but this gets me there. The comments here indicate that the article doesn’t do much to explain what this doe
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by namuol 2y ago
> My counter recommendation is to grab a pair of needle nose pliers, take apart your shower head, find the blue plastic flow limiter, and yank it out. I actually was going to do this when I bought my new shower head! I assumed that’s wha
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by namuol 2y ago
> a low flow/high pressure shower head is a just a bunch of little needle jets that neither feel good nor adequately cover you in a deluge of water This is the mark of a mediocre shower head. There’s something about Speakman shower
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by namuol 2y ago
People bemoaning low flow don’t have experience with a good shower head. (Note: the author acknowledges this!) Highly recommend the Speakman brand of low-flow, high pressure shower heads. I learned of the brand while staying in a hotel that
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by namuol 2y ago
I never thought I’d be on Verizon’s side
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by namuol 2y ago
Intuit
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by namuol 2y ago
Vance made it very clear to the rest of the GOP that Zelensky is an “enemy” now. He misleadingly accused Zelensky of “campaigning with the opposition” because he met with Harris before the election. (He met with Trump too) That statement wa

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