needs more trees

yes that's what euphemisms are for

the YouTube one, are you kidding me? I could find a free course on how to do nearly anything, I could just scroll through a playlist and instantly learn months worth of material.

children deserve self determination just as much as anyone else. kids can't even get their own medical issues addressed if their parents think they don't need / deserve it, it's nuts.

I get this, in a slightly different way. when I really really like someone it starts to feel like they are literally living in my head and I police even my thoughts lest they see them. I know it's irrational but it's more of an impulse.

safety and efficiency will be improved by investment in nuclear. storage needs are dramatically reduced because we now have reactors that can run off of the waste of other reactors, "recycling" it and massively improving efficiency while reducing waste. yes, there are concerns with nuclear, but opposing nuclear is a losing battle. we need nuclear, and yes, the tech needs to develop further, but we won't get that without investing in it today.

toilet paper mafia.

Rust. I've been using it for a while, and I've been using more software written in it lately. Stuff you make with it is just better in most ways. In other languages, you have to go above and beyond to make your code fully correct, safe, user friendly, and every trait I value in software. Rust makes those things easy, and so people are more willing to do them, and so things that get made in it are better. Oftentimes it's just a matter of pulling in a crate and adding a few lines of code.

capture, retention, rehabilitation if possible. get over your revenge fantasy.

steam deck is helping a lot on that front.

if you hold a view that is intolerant, I will not tolerate you. simple as. we don't have to agree but you can have basic fucking decency (don't be racist)

I mean, what we call "communist countries" were really founded with communism as an ideal and authoritarianism as the means to supposedly achieve that ideal. turns out the people they put in power to liberate them didn't want to give up that power willingly. shocker.

we should use only the best language for everything.

I feel like this is the crux of it. do they think we WANT to be glued to our screens? social hubs are dead or dying, wrung out for profit. people have less time than ever, having to work and spread themselves thin just to stay afloat. mental healthcare is inaccessible to huge swathes of the population and our parents who can afford it refuse it. outside is a car dependent hellscape with increasingly unpleasant weather and increasingly agitated people. as a neurodivergent person it feels impossible to navigate. the phones don't exactly help, but they're certainly not the root of the issue. everybody on social media at this point is well aware of the drawbacks.

I use it less, which is better for my mental health. I still find there are similarly depressing posts and attitudes here. People are nicer, but the breadth of topics is far more limited. I won't go back to reddit, but lemmy definitely doesn't hold a candle to the number of communities they have. I've been using Tumblr as well and quite enjoying that.

the news isn't that there's one job listing, the news is that Microsoft office 365 is being rewritten in rust.

fahrenheit?

for real. I'm very lucky to have landed a job in it, but it's a dry market for anyone looking if they don't want to be doing crypto. Rust has made a big name for itself but still isn't that popular where it matters.

hard agree. I'm sick of all the "it doesn't matter what languages you learn" talk because it's just not true. yes, there are broad foundational skills that apply to nearly every language, but beyond that, you're specializing, and the way the language you choose is designed will stick with you. I've seen the concept that you get accents in programming languages just as much as spoken ones, and I think it's totally true - when you learn a new language, you're bringing your habits and assumptions from the last one. so to be honest I don't care about the language design opinions of people who only know dynamically typed languages

I disagree with this position in this context. I do think that there are cases where labels are unimportant, but they have a primary purpose. For people who feel broken, labels can help them put a word to something they didn't understand otherwise. I didn't realize I was asexual because I hadn't heard the word, or didn't understand it properly, until late high school. For me, my journey of discovery of many queer identities has largely been led by learning about new labels. Underpinning these labels is the perspective of the community that coined a term for it, to put a name to their shared experience.

I think it is incredibly important to remember that labels are descriptive, not prescriptive - they should always be seen as approximations of a person's understanding of themselves, not strict categories, and I think that's the essence of what you're trying to say, but I disagree that we need to focus less on it overall.

8% of the population is a lot of people, and the self-report rate is much higher among younger generations. For queer people this is a show of strength. After all, we are a minority group whose rights and social status are being threatened. I find immense comfort in knowing just how many of us there are now, because unfortunately we do need sheer strength in numbers to achieve justice.

So I think it's very important for queer people to be loud about their labels, I think it is a social good and seeing the sheer size of the community helps me sleep at night. The more people that know how common it is, the more likely it is to be fully tolerated and the easier it gets for people to recognize it within themselves.

The only people sowing division with their use of labels are majority groups touting supremacist ideologies (or bigoted gatekeepers within the queer community); everybody knows what "white pride", "straight pride", and "cis pride" really mean. It is frustrating to see this argument get made in the context of queer labels which are loud by necessity, as if they have the same motives or serve the same purpose.

herbicide sucks. it's always going to be an arms race. like everything else, violently forcing a monoculture does not build resilient systems, it only sets us up for more violence. we must learn to take our hands mostly off the ecosystems, and tread lightly, harvesting only what we need.

great, actually

the best take. as with everything, there is no one size fits all solution

I don't think being an engineer makes you qualified in economics, politics, or sociology.

Fuck off.

the app is the piece of junk for taking so long to load on an incomprehensibly fast processor

this is what my current boss acts like and I love it. best job I've ever worked. I sleep in until 11 almost every day, my boss doesn't care as long as I'm keeping pace with the things that are needed for the next release. I'll say "I slept in this morning because I was really tired" and he'll say "alright, go get some more rest if you're still tired, update me on your task when you can". this is how work should be.

man will never survive the rust programming language

why don't we store code unformatted and have everybody's IDE display it with their preferred format applied? it would make everything easier and stop people bickering over pointless things.

a nuanced take on the internet, I don't believe it

..but it's not? and I thought the term intersex was preferred

we live under capitalism.

Allman changes the way I code. I avoid using imperative constructs so much more because they waste so much more space on my screen.

https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA

lua is a really cute and surprisingly capable language! it's how I got my start, and it's one of the easiest languages I've ever played with. it would've been a good pick for web, I think. probably just needed to be fleshed out more.

Thank you for this. So sick of pretending our problems are unsolvable when we have both the resources and the knowledge to solve them. "It's just too big/complex to tackle!" is capitalist propaganda.

scratch

women are so cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute

shorter code is not always better, especially when it comes to types. building in lots of guard rails by being verbose with the type system is a good thing. "shorter = better" is the python approach that starts off fun and easy but the codebase scales extremely poorly.

yeah if only I was joking. wouldn't that be funny