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My graduation cap runs Rust
- Aperocky 4mo ago> I thought about it but decided it looks pretty tacky. It looks like what kids would think of as a gaming PC and what boomers would think of as a seizure. Missed chance to be a school legend and initiation of a career launching arc.
- Waterluvian 4mo agoI think if designed in a way where it’s subtle when off/low and at appropriate times can be activated on-demand, that would be great. But to be in a crowd of people all dressed the same, all graduating as well, having a gaming PC on your head might be too much main character energy.
- invalidSyntax 4mo agoI don't recall that there is a situation that you can turn on gaming RGB on your head. Someone suddenly starting to shine is as bad as keep shining. It's just either stealing everyone's concentration near you or give a jump scare to how ever was unlucky to look at your direction when you turned it on.
- Waterluvian 4mo agoSay you’re at the reception after and you want to take a few photos with friends and family. Or the traditional post-commencement board mortaring where you light up and throw it into the air. Actually that gives me an idea: a grad cap that is also a drone. So when you throw it up with everyone in celebration yours just keeps going. Goodbye hat. I uploaded my student debt into you. Don’t come back.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4mo agoIf you go to a bigger school, they have multiple graduation ceremonies. Split the rental amongst anyone who does not share a time slot with you. That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.
- dhosek 4mo agoI skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myself in need of such, a scenario I cannot imagine ever coming to pass.
- fwipsy 4mo agoHalloween costume?
- irishcoffee 4mo agoYeah, I skipped mine too. I was not (and am not) at all proud of my box-checking degrees. I had a blast in undergrad, not at all because of the classes.
- llbbdd 4mo agoSame here, walking across the stage in a dress is for the school, not for you. Got my paper, bye
- dhosek 4mo agoIt’s also for the families, but mine wasn’t available for the BA and I told them not to bother for the first master’s. The second, I only went to because it was a low-residence program and the ceremony took place during the final residency and being one of less than 20 people in the cohort, my absence would have been conspicuous.
- llbbdd 4mo agoLol yeah, still pissed at my family for having me walk for high school grad, didn't walk for college because I got a real job instead of wasting my time graduating. What a stupid tradition; mandatory accredited higher education deserves the death waiting for it. Paid for a dumb "class ring", too.
- florilegiumson 4mo agoLiving in the PE side of software, with its EBITDA and other metrics, poorly researched product initiatives, senseless firefighting, and toxic bro cultures, it's nice to be reminded some of the reasons I got into this. Thank you.
- katzgrau 4mo ago> It probably would’ve been easier if I didn’t use Rust and just used the Arduino libraries, or if I used a different board. But I was really married to this blog post title idea Worth it, nicely done
- jdw64 4mo agoIf Rust could create the girlfriend I still do not have, I think I would have learned Rust by now.
- LandenLove 4mo agoI am pretty sure I purchased my cap and gown instead of renting. But my college was a bit smaller.
- airstrike 4mo agoWouldn't the purchase option be priced at a multiple to the rental?
- xboxnolifes 4mo agoOP paid $94 to rent their gown. I'm pretty sure I paid less than that (if not a comparable price) to buy mine. Thank god it wasn't multiple more, I only wore it for 5 minutes for a picture, since I graduated during Covid.
- bigstrat2003 4mo agoYeah, there was no option to rent at my school. I purchased those things, not that I'll ever use them again.
- dotancohen 4mo agoCan't you sell it used to the next graduating class?
- wolpoli 4mo agoAt my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.
- shermantanktop 4mo agoIt’s not just for graduations! You can wear it at any gown-appropriate event! Marriages, graduations and funerals carry forward some traditions that haven’t made sense for generations. They are the irregular verbs of modern life. Interestingly, marriages and funerals often have a religious element, and religion itself is conservative—but graduation doesn’t have that excuse.
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- Ferret7446 4mo ago1. No it doesn't, it runs machine code. 2. Yet again we have the need to announce Rust to the world, when the usage of it is inconsequential in this context
- outside1234 4mo agoI bet you are fun at parties
- fluffybucktsnek 4mo agoDo you go on every project that announces itself to be written in C/C++/Zig/Fil-C/Java/etc. and make those same complaints? That must be tiring.
- nDRDY 4mo agoNo need!
- fluffybucktsnek 4mo agoWhich begs the question: what was the need for OP's comment? How did it bring anything deep or insightful to this thread?
- nDRDY 4mo agoNo-one (sensible) claims that a CPU "runs" C.
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- kmoser 4mo ago> So you do need to shell out to rent them. And they don’t give you the option to buy the cap and gown outright. You can't buy them from a 3rd party? Maybe a cheap Spirit Halloween costume? Maybe even make your own from cardboard and a black napkin or two?
- thekevan 4mo agoThen you probably won't match the rest of the class.
- wotsdat 4mo ago[dead]
- pipeline_peak 4mo agoIf there’s anything I really want written in Rust, it’s a Chrome extension to filter out all the HN posts about Rust.
- unrealhoang 4mo agoOr to automatically write command bitching about it.
- dotancohen 4mo agoThat would likely entail an LLM today. Which is the single topic that is more highly represented on the HN homepage than Rust.
- shermantanktop 4mo agoYou forgot the lowkey accusation that a comment is llm-generated. With that we have the trifecta.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4mo agoThat seems unnecessary. JavaScript is memory safe.
- brcmthrowaway 4mo agoOh to be young and have oodles of free time again
- classified 4mo agoCool project. And it goes to show how this education system is scammed out to the max, even cap and gown.
- rustybolt 4mo ago> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.
- nsvd2 4mo agoFWIW I'm in the US and I bought mine. Renting does seem to make more sense here as the gown has no utility outside of this one event.
- philipallstar 4mo agoYes, you have to pay a decent wage to the people helping you fit, cleaning, and storing the goods. Manufacture is done in a low cost country with cheap labour, so buying clothing seems cheap.
- kachnuv_ocasek 4mo agoDo you truly believe most of that goes towards wages?
- piker 4mo agoYes. Competitive forces would push the cost toward the most expensive input which is likely people. That would be somewhat muted if the supplier was sole source but even then outright purchases would put downward pressure on the rental price.
- suddenlybananas 4mo agoWhat competitive forces? It's not like people have a choice in choosing whether they want a particular cap or gown and the people who contract the rental agreement (i.e. the university admin) are not the ones bearing the cost.
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- anilakar 4mo agoThose ATtiny85 boards that plug directly into a USB port are great if you need 1 to 5 GPIOs and/or a HID interface. At 2 dollars apiece or so it's worth having a few around.
- avhception 4mo ago> Are you actually going to wear this to your graduation? > Heck no. What? That would have been so much fun!
- rirze 4mo agoA lot of graduation ceremonies have restrictions on how you can decorate your cap. I would be surprised if this was allowed.
- nDRDY 4mo agoTechnically it runs AVR-RISC :-) Fun project though!
- throwuxiytayq 4mo agoYou are having so much fun in the video clips. I love this!
- swiftcoder 4mo ago> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine Ah, the final way that US universities transfer wealth from students to corporations... just before they start sending out begging letters for alumni donations to the poor, destitute university* *: my university shuttered the CS graduate program the year I graduated, on the basis that "there are more jobs in communications", so I never donated a red cent
- nkrisc 4mo agoSide note: > What if, say, you say you’re fine without a cap and gown? Well, then you can’t walk in the ceremony. So you do need to shell out to rent them. No, you don’t need to shell out. You get you diploma regardless of whether you participate in the ceremony or not. I chose not to participate because I knew it would be long and boring, and I still got my diploma all the same.
- smlavine 4mo agoI just graduated this weekend and my school gave us our cap and gown for free. Seems fair with how much we're paying...
- imgabe 4mo ago> Warning: the following video contains rapid strobing of light. I’ve written this out so people who are reading this with a screen reader know not to watch the video! Uh...if you need a screen reader are the strobing lights really going to be a problem?
- fwipsy 4mo agoSome people have very blurry vision, so they might be using a screen reader but still watching videos. Some people might translate the page to another language, which wouldn't apply to the warning embedded in the video. Probably there are other edge cases.