Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org
Old software developer. C++ developer by day, Rust for fun. Linux guy. Hacking on the intersection of #computervision and #neuroscience in my spare time. Fan of #SpaceX, but Elon, not so much.
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#rust #rustlang #emacs #elisp #cplusplus #i3wm #linux #embedded
#space #asciidoc #whisky #bebop
Joined Nov 2022
@jellycrystals What do you mean? You can still buy them.
@brokenix Pretty old news, isn’t it? Drew doesn’t want to change, that’s fine, it’s not Melpa’s fault.
@azonenberg @cliffle I dunno, that particular person (who made the comment on hn) doesn’t seem to have anything to do with consumer electronics, at least according to the links on his profile. Not even much embedded that I can tell. I think he’s mainly just a troll.
@lukeshu @birv2 No it’s still true, magit on windows 10 for example is painfully slower. Just barely usable IMO if you disable some magit sections. I’m seriously considering moving my development environtment entirely to WSL2 for this reason. If it was my laptop (it’s work controlled) it would not be running windows in the first place.
@deech embedded
How come I only get recruiters from companies I’d absolutely never work for? I’m talking about the one led by the beady eyed robot and…well that’s it, that’s the only one that seems to be interested in my sorry old ass in this economy. And the universe laughs on…
#jobs
@dpiponi that is weird. I remember a couple growing up. We were ready to watch somehow in various safe ways. Maybe it was school or tv news that alerted us. Must have been in late 1960s, 70s. Maybe the lingering space race was the reason I don’t know.
Hexnut
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@zwol M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4.
The original Unix M4 was weird, and there weren't really any good explanations for why it was the way it was. Apparently someone at Bell labs needed a preprocessor and wrote M4, sometimes in the '70, for no other greater purpose than to scratch a personally itch.
GNU M4 only exists because RMS wanted GNU to have what Unix had, and while I wanted to do something different and better, RMS convinced me to do M4 first.
Hexnut
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Seriously, in retrospect, #autotools itself is a massive supply-chain security risk.
It has normalized shipping and running tens of thousands of lines of arbitrary executable code without any safeguards.
Code that is so mind-numbingly awful that nobody will review it, and written in a language that is full of gotchas that are sneaky eval gadgets.
Hexnut
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Tests based on “does this code compile?” always did rub me the wrong way. Such test code is expected to either compile successfully or fail for a specific reason, but these tests almost never check if the failure had the correct error type and location, and it's almost never even possible to check.
This is not good.
#JavaScript, of all languages, shows us the right way to deal with this: it has a “does this symbol exist?” operator. C and #Rust need that, yesterday.
@freemo Any idea why I’m getting multiple poll end notifications? This seems to happen independent of the originating server, so I’m guessing it’s a qoto.org problem. The latest one I responded to I received 6 notifications.
@freemo This post leaves me somewhat bafflegabbed.
@nnethercote Welp, apparently used by Reagan a couple of times in the 80’s, so that may have been the inspiration, or not who knows.
@freemo That stack thing sounds like a pipeline, stack means something else to me. I'd need a picture for the 2nd, can't visualize it from the description.
@freemo 40 yo babies always look a bit sus.
@thomy2000 but but but isn’t tabs to indent and spaces to align a well known style?
@jbzfn There was an old joke about an IBM salesman who would sit on the side of his bed and tell his wife how great it will be when it’s installed. Getting that kind of vibe from this “rebuttal”.
@freemo There's "would be better" but more importantly "able to be elected", as most of them don't seem to be on track to be on the ballot in most states.
Every single one though? Well I have to admit Vermin Supreme has a certain je ne sais quoi, but I'm pretty sure he'd make a terrible president. I don't even know what I would do with a pony.
Old software developer. C++ developer by day, Rust for fun. Linux guy. Hacking on the intersection of #computervision and #neuroscience in my spare time. Fan of #SpaceX, but Elon, not so much.
*** NOTICE ***
I've been getting follows from some fairly dubious accounts, so I'm going to have to approve follows from now on. If you want to be approved, the bar is low, have some followers or a profile that checks out. Be patient, I may not check that often.
#rust #rustlang #emacs #elisp #cplusplus #i3wm #linux #embedded
#space #asciidoc #whisky #bebop
Joined Nov 2022
