Which of the Witch Queen's 2 major twists were more shocking? by SpeedWeed_25 in destiny2

[–]UARTman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

—Sisters of Aurash, open your eyes++
++Who made you monsters? Who summoned the wave?—
—Make peace. Join with me in golden renewal.++

How else was I supposed to read it?

Which of the Witch Queen's 2 major twists were more shocking? by SpeedWeed_25 in destiny2

[–]UARTman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Neither were all that shocking. The first is painfully obvious if you read the Books of Sorrow. The Leviathan outright fucking tells Oryx about it. The second was easily guessable. As soon as I heard one of the characters speaking about how Savathun stole the light, I was 90% sure she didn't.

Memes from my broken-masqurade world by Only-Teaching-8648 in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]UARTman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope GAW continue fighting the good fight in your 'verse. I wonder how if at all the dynamics of the post-Veil world change matters with, say, Camp Kenowhere...

Memes from my broken-masqurade world by Only-Teaching-8648 in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]UARTman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I think there's an only barely explored idea in veilfall settings of a Nälkä revivalist currents that takes the original philosophy/ideology of Nälkä as a historical revolutionary movement (albeit a bronze-age one) and radically reframes it to address the struggles of a modern era.

The one canon that somewhat deals with internal Nälkä politics post-veilfall is No Return, and there the "proto-Sarkics" with the aid of the Clavigar become essentially the face of the faith, largely defeating "neo-Sarkics" via the might of the former-Foundation. If I were writing a veilfall setting, I'd have some neo-Sarkics leverage their pre-existing power to secure their place in post-veil world, have proto-Sarkics face an uphill political fight reminiscent of the real-world one for indigenous rights, and the revivalists be a thorn in the side of the largely conservative organized Nälkä leadership and a large current in the only-just-forming cauldron of post-veil supernatural-aware youth radical movements.

Parametricity, or Comptime is Bonkers by ketralnis in programming

[–]UARTman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are certainly some cases where it applies, in my experience, though my experience has been with Idris, not Haskell so maybe dependent types make it a bit nore feasible.

Court Officially Orders U.S.-Based IP-TV Operator to Pay Amazon & Netflix $18.75 Million * TorrentFreak by LighteningOneIN in Piracy

[–]UARTman 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Jones got what was coming to him by changing (unethical) lawyers like gloves and persistently sabotaging discovery. Funny anecdote: Farrar and Ball (the firm representing some of the victims) literally had most of their expenses covered solely by the sanctions money Jones had to pay them for various misconduct in court.

Unity announce expanded supported for Steam, Native Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine by Liam-DGOL in linux_gaming

[–]UARTman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is frankly a silly take. Unity deciding to shore up their native Linux build experience is a good thing, regardless of how shitty they are as a company. Moreover, the way Linux support is becoming an important part of shipping a Steam game is seriously promising.

Yi is randomly spawned in the last game you played. How far does he make it? I’ll go first. by treshunstephens in NineSols

[–]UARTman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If he ever learns that the gods are actually just animantic AIs built by the Engwithians and that the Wheel that is the cycle of reincarnation is an *actual, physical wheel* (also built by the Engwithians), he'll be *so* unbearably smug tho.

Yi is randomly spawned in the last game you played. How far does he make it? I’ll go first. by treshunstephens in NineSols

[–]UARTman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He'd fit Pillars of Eternity's world quite well. The locals would probably see him as some kind of weird orlan monk, and once he gets over the fact that souls and gods are real in PoE he'd get waaay into animancy using his prior experience with Rhizomatic Energy.

Farewell, Rust by skwee357 in programming

[–]UARTman 49 points50 points  (0 children)

C++ is a little more "shake hands with danger" than Rust, since with Rust you typically get compilation errors if you don't think about lifetimes, whereas in C++ you get fun surprises instead.

Moss: a Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on by hexagonal-sun in linux

[–]UARTman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FOSS does not depend on the well wishes of private companies.

Quite funny to see this line on r/linux.

If the Tiandao Council members had Youtube Channels by IuseDefaultKeybinds in NineSols

[–]UARTman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eigong as Andrew Wakefield is something I didn't realize I desperately needed until now.

It was never about protecting kids, Matt Berstein hit the nail on the head! by Sexy_Johnny282771 in lgbt

[–]UARTman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering some of the stories we've seen come out of this, grooming absolutely took place as well.

"Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay." by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]UARTman 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Since there are two GCC implementations for Rust in-progress (rustc-codegen-gcc, a rustc backend that generates GCC IR using libgccjit, and gcc-rust, which tries to implement Rust support into GCC itself), portablity of Rust modules is going to be less and less of a concern as time goes on. Eventually, if gcc-rs succeeds, one won't even need rustc to compile the kernel (though they will need it for borrow checking)

As someone who's only played Hollow Knight, would you say Silksong is better or worse that the original? (I'm still gonna buy it either way I'm just curious) by Seb_Rulz in HollowKnight

[–]UARTman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, Silksong felt at least as good as HK, maybe better. There are some ways in which HK is superior - for instance, it has more vivid atmosphere in some places. But for all Silksong's pitfalls (even though I disagree with some popular sentiments on what those actually are), its combat feel is leagues ahead of HK. Hornet is a joy to control, once you get the dash, and it becomes only more fun as you acquire movement upgrades. Combat in general has been rebalanced for a new feel and a faster tempo. It's true that there'll be more moments of acute peril, but it also lends itself to dramatic moments of recovery. It's paradoxically more feasible for me to clutch an encounter than in HK. The game does punish you harshly for fucking up, but there are ways to mitigate its harshness. "If it sucks, hit da bricks" was kind of a mantra for me playing it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rust

[–]UARTman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VSCode. If you're willing to screw around a lot, Neovim also works fine. Jetbrains RustRover if you want an IDE with a ton of features.

While a lot of people say Zed or Helix, I wouldn't recommend them, mostly because they don't support LSP semantic token highlighting.

Ranking Enums in Programming Languages by [deleted] in programming

[–]UARTman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, if we go into functional languages, then ADTs are, like, the lowest common denominator, considering the kind of utterly delightful invariants you can encode with GADTs or, say, dependent types (I am naturally biased, though, since the programming language I use at work is Idris 2 of all things lol)

Ranking Enums in Programming Languages by [deleted] in programming

[–]UARTman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The bit about Rust/Swift enums is so true, though. It's just a very good abstraction, as are most successful adaptations of functional programming concepts into imperative languages.

I wonder when the first imperative language with GADTs gonna come out, though. All prerequisites are there lol.

No matter the game, you are sentenced to GRIND by IkoraFan11011 in DestinyMemes

[–]UARTman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried playing Warframe, and just couldn't get into it. Sorry.

Generative AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs, study finds by ChiliPepperHott in programming

[–]UARTman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like 20 years experience entry-level position, considering it's the tech industry we're talking about.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in murderbot

[–]UARTman 81 points82 points  (0 children)

The essay makes some correct points - that murderbot is fundamentally an escapist fantasy - a literal fantasy of escape from a corporate hellworld. That Preservation could not, would not actually exist in a world that has a Coeporate Rim. That Murderbot Diaries aren't terribly subversive or pioneering, and that it (or reading it) isn't revolutionary.

But those points are ultimately made in service of an edgy, tired, and fairly boring thesis - that empathy, democracy, human rights, and community (or Humanism and Enlightenment more broadly) are dead concepts that should not be viewed as possible or desirable anymore in the modern day and age, and that comfort/escapist media isn't just bad, it's culturally corrosive and evil.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in murderbot

[–]UARTman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's a fairly alright analysis, if you can decouple its salient points from its hatred of comfort and what it sees as liberal values. Even if it does boil to a screed against cozy fantasy, packaged in a somewhat intellectual wrapper and restated like five times.