accessibility settings should be customizable per application i don't need the application that already uses a large font size make that even larger.

C enjoyer: "passing fat pointers for slices pales in comparison to my solution utilizing the raw efficiency of C: i pass a thin pointer to an array... and a size_t for how long it is. this is not a fat pointer because i wrote it manually in two arguments so it Feels Efficient."

i am CONSTANTLY saying this!!!

ok help how do I do rust database stuff good? i'm mainly just writing a proof of concept thing but i want a database that works well for small (local) and large scale, slight preference to nosql, derive macros would also be nice, pure rust would also be nice.

hey i wonder if you could take the concept of durable execution and apply it to online games to handle network reconnections you could even do something like this with having an offline mode where it logs your actions then syncs them to the sever when you come back online

[runs programming article through thesaurus] the iron oxide indoctrination lexicon owns both sanitary and unsanitary larges

Rust really should have a way to specify function pointers with lifetimes. I would imagine this would be helpful for anything that does dynamic loading, including the linux kernel.

It's crazy how "I'm not sure that's the best idea" sounds worse than "I'm not sure that's a good idea", despite the fact that a literal reading would suggest the inverse.

another day, another "github is not a functioning piece of software" "File renamed without changes", except most of the new filepath and all of the old filepath are hidden by an ellipsis, and hovering over it only shows the new path. workarounds: 1. zoom webpage way out 2. view plaintext diff

fill it out, nerds

gui devs: optimize your startup time I'm begging you

Capitalists won't think about long term profits when it comes to not running a profitable business straight into the ground, but apperently "we need to make the lies machine free for everyone for a while" is where they suddenly can think about the future.

one of these days someone will write an HID driver that Works

imagine if the USB HID spec let controllers send images that would be used to refer to the buttons, for hints in-game

to put this another way. making a replica of something is normal trying to convince people that the replica is actually the original is not

A big thing about genai that the more convincing of a simulacrum you try to create, the more unsettling/creepy people typically find it. plushy? normal. doll? controversial. wax figure? generally unsettling. trying to create an exact replica instead of just generally evoking it is weird.

hey couldn't you just write a rust proc macro that does string interpolation by force, re-parsing the string contents as a TokenStream?

anyone who thinks rust syntax is strange has not spent enough time exploring tbh. have you seen all the stuff ruby gets up to??

anyone know how to make full programs not have a billion noise?

owning a home for the purpose of rent-seeking should be illegal

I think children and teens should have more rights than they do, and should not be treated as if they are simply property of their parents. They should also have more avenues to leaving abusive homes or living situations.

“This public figure I hate is doing vile and evil things therefore they are mentally ill or a psychopath” SHUUUT UP being a bad person =/= mental illness

Decriminalize sex work and all drugs. Universal basic income for everyone. Housing for everyone. Abolish the police. Justice should be victim focused first and community focused second. Companies should be dissolved if they kill people and their CEOs/majority shareholders banned from other companies

We could fix a lot of problems if we abolished the stock market.

our society downright hates children, they have no rights, they're treated as their parents' property, and they're generally looked down on as lesser beings, but they're full on human people just like the rest of us, they deserve the same respect and rights as full grown adults

If you’re forcing employees to work in an office building when they could do the same job remotely, then they should be clocking in when they leave their driveway, and clocking out when they return to it. They should also be expensing all of their mileage. And lunch meals.

High schoolers should be taught how to do piracy just like they should be taught sex ed/drug safety. Non judgementally, with an emphasis on safe practices to diminish the risks involved and reduce harm + ethics (for sex ed it's consent culture for piracy ed it's don't steal from indies etc.)

Children need way, WAY more autonomy and freedom. A child/teen should not be the parent's glorified servant, actually.

Lower the voting age to 15. Give them full rights to decide their own healthcare, including birth control, abortion, HRT, and vaccines. Let them decide where they want to live, and make it easy to emancipate themselves from their parents without a lengthy and difficult legal process.

Labor should be organized by the people providing it, and rather than being a valid career where you can jump from company to company to extract maximum value from them, C-suite roles should be elected positions where you answer to the people who make up the company's work force.

Anyone who emailed Epstein after his 2008 conviction should have all their money taken from them and redistributed to pay for social programs

Rehabilitative and preventative justice are the only forms of justice. Yes even for that. And that. There are no exceptions.

Sex work should be fully legal and sexual education should be improved, mandatory and provide a safe space for children to report problems once they're able to recognize it. Free healthcare. Go. More taxes, if we even need money anymore. Unused spaces should be seized and given to the unhoused.

There shouldn’t be any jobs that are better performed by one sex over the other. If women are being discriminated against because the job needs physical strength, that’s a sign that the men doing it aren’t being given sufficient tools and reasonable schedules, either

Universal basic EVERYTHING. Income? Yes Housing? Definitely Food? Of course Clothing? Yes it is actually possible There is enough material wealth in the world that no one has to go without ANYTHING

Our society basically normalizes treating anyone under 18 as essentially subhuman in a way that very few people are actually willing to address.

honestly if your programming language's documentation isn't at least as good as the Go docs, i'm not going to want to touch it. Ranking of doc tools: 1. haddock/hoogle: great 2. rustdoc: good 3. go doc: acceptable everything else i've tried has been an active hindrance to use.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Shit shit shit. Difficult realization that we're financially at our limit. I need work yesterday to support my wife and I. At this point, anything goes. Full time, part time, you pay and I code for you. I'm a 20+ year pro software/gamedev in "Fake London" Canada mikekasprzak.com/Resume-MikeK...

rustdoc got a major rework so it can operate without loading the entire search index into memory, so now i wonder how viable it would be to just make a documentation bundle with the top few thousand crates and just use it like hoogle

You know it's dire when it's faster to write a tool yourself than find an existing one online.

how is there not a website that just gives you the posix TZ for a given zip code or something. every time I end up just guessing until it looks right, and I always wonder if its gonna end up like, not handling DST properly or something.

.ini and .nini

I really wanna do technical writing and stuff but I really do not have a good track record with reviewing my own stuff, it's real hard to get quality reviews from friends, and professional review sounds really expensive for a hobby.

patents just straight up don't work for incentivising tech innovation. i mean they kinda don't work in general bit especially not for tech the status quo seems to be that if you invent some novel new algorithm or technique, you're not gonna see any benefit unless you manage to turn it into a grift

One of the many reasons I am skeptical of LLMs for code is because most software these days is already coming apart at the seams, and they don't really show any signs of improving that. They seem... ok... at catching most basic errors in code review, but sometimes invents problems where none exist.

sign your art! sure there's always bad actors that will remove watermarks, but there's a lot more people who will simply save/screenshot an image and not note down where they got it from.

the whole Arceus vs Arceus pronunciation is debate is silly bc they're both correct, one is the original pronunciation and the other is the localized pronunciation.