singingboyo

6 ms·

1.
by singingboyo 1y ago
There's some space for improvement, but really... not a lot? Result is a pretty basic type, sure, but needing to choose a dependency to get a nicer abstraction is not generally considered a problem for Rust. The stdlib is not really ba
2.
by singingboyo 1y ago
Physical thank you cards are pretty dead. I don't even keep track of mailing addresses for a number of my friends (and a couple siblings, come to think of it) - how would I send them a physical card? Even older relatives - we sent a ph
3.
by singingboyo 1y ago
There are legitimate criticisms that AI is harming creative endeavours. AI output is sort of by definition not particularly innovative. By flooding spaces with repetitive AI work, it may be drowning out the basis for truly innovative creati
4.
by singingboyo 1y ago
There's a difference between contempt (i.e. "users are stupid") and realism, though. And realism can range from "users don't want to troubleshoot" to "some users are near-violently anti-tech and won't
5.
by singingboyo 3y ago
Also, as a Vancouverite... 5-6 stories, cheaper to live there, AND more comfortable? Dunno about that. I've got doubts about cheaper, and 5-6 story buildings in Vancouver always seem less comfortable than a skyscraper (for whatever rea
6.
by singingboyo 3y ago
> You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building. That's kind of the entire point of Vancouver NIMBYism, at least a
7.
by singingboyo 3y ago
More importantly, knowing and caring are two different things. I know that Velcro/Kleenex/Google are specific brands, but I don't really care - the common usage is so far gone that there's rarely a reason to use hook &am
8.
by singingboyo 3y ago
Eh. Military aircraft would also have a transponder, they just wouldn't necessarily have active broadcasts. Civilian aircraft do broadcast actively (ADS-B). But they also respond to secondary radar for Mode A/C, which are basicall
9.
by singingboyo 3y ago
This still doesn't explain why the language of the compiler matters. I could write a C compiler in Pony-lang targeting a 30-year-old MCU were I so inclined. The available compilers targeting your microcontroller certainly matter, thoug
10.
by singingboyo 3y ago
The point is that you limit where you're doing that. Like just as an example - I can write an allocator and toggle register bits etc. All of that requires unsafe code, raw pointers, etc. But I can then build on top of that in safe Rust
11.
by singingboyo 3y ago
Sometimes the reviews are about the game, but they're being left because that's the thing to do according to the internet that day. So a legitimate grievance but blown of proportion due to factors outside the game. I don't th
12.
by singingboyo 3y ago
Apparently it's just moving that to runtime, which is kind of terrifying and misses the point. "If the owned value is dropped but references to it still exist, a panic is produced and the program is aborted; protecting you against
13.
by singingboyo 3y ago
You can see the sun? All I see is grey smoke slowly settling down on us. It's going to suck for a couple days, I think.
14.
by singingboyo 3y ago
I mean, I'd love to just for the space savings alone. Multiple monitors take up quite a bit of space. If I could repurpose the space for other things without losing functionality that'd be great. I don't think this is there y
15.
by singingboyo 3y ago
It's not an artificial distinction at all, but it is subtle. 2, 4, even 256 sockets exchanging data can be worked with concurrently on a single thread and gain performance vs blocking and waiting for the first socket to finish. There&#
16.
by singingboyo 3y ago
Semi-relevant, I've recently realised that fear of wildlife is actually cultural - large parts of the world are taught to fear/avoid smaller wildlife like snakes or insects, for poison/disease reasons. It works great in those
17.
by singingboyo 3y ago
You don't even have to go north, really. Just driving a few nights on a quiet, dark road outside the big cities late at night will convince you that deer 1) basically teleport 2) are stupid 3) can be absolutely terrifying when they sho
18.
by singingboyo 4y ago
I can't recall for certain, but I think the Hue lights are brighter than IKEA's Tradfri lights. Certainly the newer 1100 lumen (max) ones should be. There's also the issue that the Tradfri lights have absolutely abysmal color
19.
by singingboyo 4y ago
I think 2D tilemaps is a great example of how quickly Godot can fall over terribly, though. And that's (as has been mentioned elsewhere) mostly an issue of polish. Godot can do the basic version of a lot of things, but if you need more
20.
by singingboyo 4y ago
I usually charge my watch while sleeping and grab it in the morning along with my phone, but I'd assume a second watch would work? It's an expensive route with the watch, but it's a solution in many other spaces. My wireless
21.
by singingboyo 4y ago
I'm not sure wind and weather are solved. Planes, ships, and to a lesser extent cars/trains are still lost to weather quite frequently. Yes, we can track it better, but people still have to go about their lives in inclement weathe
22.
by singingboyo 4y ago
You're technically correct (the best kind!) but in practice one can largely ignore server state in some applications. I've got a side project where the data is stored server side. In practice, that server side data might as well b
23.
by singingboyo 4y ago
Looks like standard machines and not really servers, but there's nothing wrong there. Fairly clean wiring, no random cables, etc etc. HDD testing is a little sketchy, but they need to be quick-swapped, so it makes sense. Ever been in a
24.
by singingboyo 4y ago
For some ratio of cost to weight, with consideration as to where on the ship it is... if you have time to calculate such things. In this case they probably do, if they really care to. At the scale of these ships, though, if you have to jett
25.
by singingboyo 4y ago
In my case, at least, GH actions is the only place with all the secrets necessary to deploy my (small) webapp. Sure, I can generate alternative tokens and pull some things out of 1password, but it'd be time consuming. (Also, changing t
26.
by singingboyo 5y ago
That's just like, literally your opinion, man. I get it, sort of. In that case I just tell myself "it's hyperbole for lazy people" and move on. "Could care less", though, that one I cannot reconcile.
27.
by singingboyo 5y ago
I almost feel like that specific usage should come with the 'archaic' tag, but it's reasonably common in slightly older novels, I think? Things like "He still cleaves to the imagined ideals of his forefathers". It d
28.
by singingboyo 5y ago
I generally agree, though I don't think the "saintliness" even matters. The queen as seen by the public is probably a persona, sure, but so long as the persona stays put, she's a symbol of stability, and that is the whol
29.
by singingboyo 5y ago
> some brand called Insignia Isn't that just Best Buy's store brand?
30.
by singingboyo 5y ago
Arguably, the problem is conflating programming as a job with CS degrees. CS degrees cover very little of what day-to-day programming looks like. They're a useful theoretical underpinning, but as the saying goes, "In theory, theor

More ›