At some point after we have reduced pollution significantly, we’re gonna have to clean up all the trash we already put out there. Microorganisms can regrow, but plastic can’t, so we just need to find the maximum collection speed that the environment can sustain.

Credit card companies should be nonprofits under democratic control.

The only thing I really miss about visual studio is the automatic profiler. Everything else just felt archaic, bloated, slow, and unintuitive. Adding one line in cmake often does the same thing as clicking through five submenus which never once got updated since 2012.

More like 10 minutes in my case. I am not joking. Android is a terrible operating system and the entire smartphone industry should be ashamed of itself for letting it get this bad.

First command I run on any new Windows install

Same thing applies to coffee maker / espresso machine tanks. I found a nasty surprise in mine recently…

I once discovered that my moka pot had an industrial grease stuck to it in an area that is almost impossible to clean. I used it so many times before finding that out…

SpaceX has loads of capable engineers. If NASA gets a massive budget increase, they need to draw from that pool of talent.

The WordPress bots really are a bad problem. To stop them from finding my stuff, I always put my homelab sites on an obscure subdomain, and only list a wildcard entry on DNS, but that only really works for sites which should never be indexed by a crawler.

Elsevier’s parent company had a 38.4% adjusted operating margin in it’s scientific, technical and medical arm in 2024

I miss the days of barely functioning SLI

Please don’t lump me in with the iPad kids.

Fair point.

The worst thing you can do in non-unsafe Rust is perform an out-of-bounds indexing operation, or anything else that panics. The error you get tells you the panic’s exact location in the source code, down to the line and column. Meanwhile, C and C++ either don’t produce an error at all when accessing uninitialized memory (which is arguably the worst behavior), or it segfaults with zero extra info.

The only way to make Rust segfault is by performing unsafe operations, and those must always be clearly marked.

Except that many other languages have proven that C++ is simply terrible at providing meaningful errors.

I always try to avoid these, unless the application I’m installing has it’s own package management functionality, like Rustup or Nix. Everything else should be handled by the system package manager.

I could actually see myself contributing to Rust kernel code. C code has always been impossible for me to understand, but the Rust part seems to have a more understandable structure

I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn’t be a huge loss.

KiCad. It’s an electronics design tool on par with commercial options in the industry, which cost a ton of money. Ever since the UI facelift it got a few years ago, it has become my go-to option. They are even working on integrating circuit simulation and finite element analysis, which is just crazy.

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