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@greylaw89 This is one of my favorite math problems that can be explained to anyone. I can tell it to my college algebra students and they will still understand and be more interested in it than the endless factoring of quadratics.

@lnxist This video is a trap and I cannot escape.

@smonky sounding a bit like a super villain there bud

@greylaw89 From what I can tell D is probably the easiest to learn and its compatible with C libraries which is a huge plus. In rust you still have to go through a (very light) native interface. But c++ and c are still the most widely used system level languages so I guess which one you sink time into depends on what you want. C is also easy to learn btw since its so feature light. C++ is a monster but its everywhere so still worth knowing.

@greylaw89 I have not. However, looking at the documentation, it reads like D is a modernized implementation of a c-like systems language. Rust feels more like someone that really likes haskell wanted to make a system language. One of the advantages of it is the use of ad-hoc polymorphism through traits, which I find more natural and expressive, instead of inheritance. Is this a reasonable characterization of D? That its basically less shit c or c++?

Been writing a simulation of the ising ferromagnetism model in c++ since I realized its been years since I wrote anything in c++ and that's concerning.
Current mood, thankful for modern language features. Going back to c++ has made me feel far more appreciative of rust and its enforcement of safe memory practices. Also, I forgot how ungainly and c++'s feature set is. Its time to stop.

@crackurbones That's fascinating. The lack of proper solutions to a seemingly reasonable system is far more interesting than the existence. It alludes to something fundamental missing in the model.

@design_RG It means that enough people are using it that it is not valuable for them to hold on to it.

@freemo spacemacs does come with a lot of bloat and sometimes the layers and modes seem to conflict in weird ways. The people I know who use vim like to do everything from the terminal. One does most of his programming remote through ssh.

@freemo it's what I use btw

@freemo lol spacemacs is so unpopular

@freemo Is visual studio sacrilege?

@realcaseyrollins I don't understand what point the author here is trying to make. Just that communities have norms and speech has consequences? It feels very everyone is stupid but me.

@dialyzer I agree with the sentiment but its disingenuous to pretend crypto isn't valuable to criminals. In fact, if you believe that crypto is a useful alternative to the financial system that allows people to transact without oversight it is necessarily useful to criminals. This is not even a necessarily bad thing, as a criminal might simply be someone with the wrong opinion in a despotic country.

@freemo Its not that my neck feels cold. I just feel way warmer in general with the scarf. Its probably just the result of extra insulation in an area with high blood flow.

@namark That's what math does to you. I feel uncomfortable whenever I cite a theorem and I can't remember how to prove it.