Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@AmenZwa I think there was a wrong turn about 1991. But I dunno, what would the new kids do without their electron apps?

@timClicks Whoda thunk?

@hmans I have to agree with the take, except that for certain domains there's C++, C, and maybe Zig. Even with 20+ years of C++ experience, I currently would prefer Rust for any sort of green-field project where C++ would be the historically best choice.

I realize this is faint praise, but oh well, how it looks is based on the taste of the early rust language developers in 2010-2015. There's no accounting for taste. Other things about the language and tooling make it preferable.

@noodlejs Oof, I wouldn't have been able to solder those either. I always restricted my designs to packages that had exposed pins. Those packages you have there really cry out for solder paste. Something that might work short of hacking a toaster oven to solder an entire board, is using a temperature controlled hot air gun with solder paste. But this isn't something I've tried, so I'm not saying it will work!

@noodlejs Curious about this. When I did do SMD soldering (a few years ago), it really only worked when I wore Donegan binocular magnifying lenses (5x). I also joke I also needed a shot of whisky, but that's not really true... There's also the solder paste route with controlled board heating, but I never tried that.

@carnage4life Anyone who has dealt with some of those admins? I feel like this is a trick question.

Oh nice #ivory now has hashtag completion. Wish all #mastodon clients had this.

@jmacc I find that happens when I don’t have a good mental sketch of the problem. It’s my cue to stop hacking and plan some more. Going bottom up also helps as you’ve seen. #programming

🎵 Take me down to migraine city where the stress is seen and patterns are pretty...

#health

@freemo I’m sure that political calculus is part of the strategy. Unless Bidens team is incompetent. Personal opinion, of that crew Haley seems like the worst case for the democrats.

@reginagrogan A good number. Follow #rust and #rustlang, you will see their posts. As you are looking for a new server, if you want one with a good population of rust devs, hachyderm.io seems fairly popular.

@shafik Yeah, 0 is cursed in c++ because it is also the null pointer literal aka NULL. Since string has a const char* overload, this is ambiguous because the compiler can interpret 0 as std::string(NULL).

@bughuntercat well hopefully it yields to simplifying abstractions like many complex topics that we are too simple to understand in every detail.

@AmenZwa I would not describe anyone as “whip it smart” if they can’t see through self-absorbed liars like Santos and Trump. Instead I’d say they must be some special breed of moron.

@AmenZwa "Not surprisingly, those who play with such systems inevitably develop Python, JavaScript, webdev, and other bad habits." Lol, so true

@cpbotha@emacs.ch I use math-preview for previewing latex equations in asciidoc, it could be adopted for org mode, it's flexible. It does require an external js program, but setting that up is documented and straightforward (I know nothing about js, so it must be).