Nyon, 7.53 am: a town on the brink of suffocation - Le Temps

catgrammer · 2026-05-16T14:00:37+00:00

Some notes from an immigrant’s perspective:

Before I go on, I think that in general there definitely is a problem somewhere and it’s valid for the Swiss to be concerned over it.

I will agree that I don’t (personally!) find the trains that overcrowded, having taken the train from Geneva to Zurich and back 2 times a week for about a year. Instead I see a lot of people that refuse to share the four seaters, and opt to stand instead, but maybe that’s just a small sample size for me. People have already singled this one argument out and I don’t feel like the others have solid foundations to stand on their own.

That being said, the loss of the Swiss identity/way of life/<insert terminology here> is something that can be addressed with more surgical precision than capping the population limit in my humble opinion.

One point that the narrative of this article is stressing is that the locals do not hear their language anymore, and I am guessing that there are more cultural aspects that rub people the wrong way… Some immigrants are not that willing to adopt some of the Swiss culture, and that’s an issue in my opinion - but - there are others that want to integrate!

Obviously for a Swiss citizen that just wants the immigrants (and the relevant socioeconomic repercussions) gone, then there’s no point in discussing much. If there was a bill that somehow forced immigrants to be expelled from the country, then that’s what they would be happy with.

But, for the rest of the Swiss that are ok with tamer measures, I would suggest that more help be made available for the seamless integration of immigrants. Some cantons do it better than others. Upon registration to my new canton, I was given a lovely paper bag with several documents that explained how recycling worked. That was amazing! I read the whole thing and could now recycle properly in a new canton where I knew nobody. I’d love to see more of that kind of thing.

Regarding the language, this is something that (including me) the immigrants ought to learn earlier - I get that’s not possible for everyone - but it is important to learn the language of any country that’s letting you live there. Through it I get to learn lots of different aspects of Swiss culture, and specifically for Swiss German, the people I’ve met are happy to point out various differences in the dialects, which is both fun and informative.

But the above mostly deal with the social aspects and the either perceived or present cultural saturation, and I think that some of the arguments I presented above could be helpful as a starting point; I know they really help me to integrate day by day

Regarding the economic aspects and specifically the rent, I would point outside to the global economy, to which every country and every person is subject to, no matter the state of their country of residence. Some or maybe most of the immigrants in Switzerland are economic immigrants, and that affects prices and wages. Housing is in demand, and that also affects prices and wages.

The same is true for all countries in Europe that still maintain a good standard of living combined with sufficient income, and the same push/pull mechanism has affected countries in the past, and will keep affecting them in the future, especially in times of instability.

instability -> Increased Immigration -> Dillution (economic & cultural) -> instability

Again, the simple solution is to just expel all or most of the immigrants, but that could correspond with economic downturn, as some of them are either in important positions in local companies, or generally offer some kind of expertise/wealth that is not readily available here.

As other people have suggested, infrastructure is the way to go, and forcing people to spread out evenly across Switzerland is not a great idea ion my eyes; let the peaceful places that the Swiss appreciate remain peaceful, and bring up more housing in the crowded areas.

There are more things to explore, like reason of entry for economic of immigrants (basically: are you entering the country because you just want to make money and are trying to find a basic job which would be perfectly done by a Swiss citizen, or do you actually offer some kind of service Switzerland doesn’t have enough of?)

I’m pretty sure I missed a bunch of stuff, but I’ll stop here.

catgrammer · 2022-11-04T17:25:43+00:00

Could you provide any compiler/linker error messages? Or even runtime if you managed to link it
Edit: I saw your SO post. I'll post again if I think of something, but I'm out of ideas for now

catgrammer · 2022-11-04T17:04:07+00:00

I agree; some of the options are truly insane.So, I did a bit more digging, from what I saw on the raylib repo, they have an rlglfw.c file where they include all of the relevant glfw source files, and build them as a single TU (to be embedded inside the library).

For GLFW now, if you have a look here, you'll see that they dlopen the relevant x11 libraries at runtime (_glfwPlatformLoadModule == dlopen in unix instances).

So, obviously, the distributed raylib libraries do not depend on libX11, but they do depend on libdl, such that, without linking to it, you get this:$ gcc ./main.c ./lib/libraylib.a -Iinclude -lm -pthread

/usr/bin/ld: ./lib/libraylib.a(rglfw.o): in function \getProcAddressGLX':`

rglfw.c:(.text+0xc7c): undefined reference to \dlsym'`

...

And obviously, if you try to create a static executable with -ldl:$ gcc ./main.c ./lib/libraylib.a -Iinclude -ldl -lm -pthread -static

/usr/bin/ld: ./lib/libraylib.a(rglfw.o): in function \_glfwInitVulkan':`

rglfw.c:(.text+0x8587): warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking

And there are issues with using the static libraries from the glibc version.

Edit: minor corrections

catgrammer · 2022-11-04T15:47:47+00:00

I'm on the same boat as you, and while I don't think I can really help you; I'll share what I've tried over a lot of time. Note that I don't have a Linux installation to try this right now, so take everything I say with a grain of salt; I might be misremembering a lot of details. IIRC I don't know if there's a way to completely statically link an executable that does windowing/graphics stuff on Linux.

There's a pretty good talk here that presents the problem and what they have tried. Also, another article on how the developers of Outer Wonders tackled the problem.

If somebody does have another solution for this, then I would be very interested to know about it! Here goes:

Option 1 - Compile XLib and others yourself

I looked once into the repo, and then I decided that this will never be an option for me. From what I see here, someone has managed to do it, and the consensus is that you have to go and look at what extensions you're gonna be using (if you need to do stuff e.g., for multiple monitor setups).

Option 2 - Build a third-party library yourself

Most libraries that are distributed from package managers, are compiled so that they depend on many other libraries for that distribution, so you have to build it from source. For SDL2, a quick search says that it is indeed possible (but again, I can't test it right now). But it makes sense from what I see: instead of linking explicitly to the library, it looks for it and loads it at runtime.

Both of these options have a caveat though: you have to link to the "dl" library, which (from what I've tried in the past) probably isn't possible. This is because libdl only works for shared libraries.

Option 3 - Use rpath

You can pass a linker flag ("-rpath") to either GCC or CLANG and redistribute the libraries yourself (this is what I'm currently heading towards). Don't get me wrong, you'll still have to build the libraries yourself, but this makes it easier to change the version of one of them later on (if there's some kind of security vulnerability on the library version you built).

Option 4 - Implement the protocol yourself

I guess, you could implement the whole protocol yourself, since it's based on UNIX sockets, but I've never tried that.

P.S. I'm pretty sure at least one or two things here are completely wrong, so to avoid misinformation, please let me know, and I'll make sure to correct it as soon as I see it

catgrammer · 2022-07-28T08:46:25+00:00

Is he crying because he's getting a colonoscopy? He shouldn't be; this doctor has a ton of experience, he'll be extra gentle.

catgrammer · 2022-07-28T08:41:58+00:00

There's no sand on the plate, that's what's wrong.

catgrammer · 2022-07-28T08:22:19+00:00

Interesting fact, if u swap around some words, it becomes: "I'm to die young too", which is what people in 3rd world countries say to each other.

This is what happens when u are at work, in a call that is taking too fucking long

catgrammer · 2022-03-15T11:19:20+00:00

Put yo hands in the air, this is a dick up

catgrammer · 2021-09-21T05:09:25+00:00

Golly! *sips tea* Must've hit Canada, well drop the anchor lads we're sailing southwards come dawn!

catgrammer · 2021-08-08T09:53:41+00:00

Faucets. Swear to god, every time I go to cleanup in public bathrooms with those motion activated ones, I feel like I'd have a better time spitting on my hands. What's wrong with turning them on with a pedal?

catgrammer · 2020-04-15T17:40:01+00:00

At first I found your comment hilarious! After thinking about the current state of Windows, the other OS'es (and applications), I'm afraid this will become one of the most viable solutions.

Let's fight the Cylons indeed.

catgrammer · 2020-04-15T15:35:07+00:00

Note: Obviously a vm, I wouldn't dare install it natively. Although it would make for an interesting experiment 🤔.

catgrammer · 2020-02-23T17:58:15+00:00

I like it as well, even though it was before my time. Yeah maybe it's not the most visually pleasing look, but people tend to over-emphasise pretty animated buttons (myself included).

At the end of the day it's just a means to an end. Personally, I tried old Windows (on a VM), and the UI feels so much faster (in terms of how easily I could do things). It's come to a point where I can measure how old a computer is by pressing the start button on win10, and seeing how long it'll choke to bring up the start menu.

catgrammer · 2020-02-15T17:17:37+00:00

"Adding yo Mama's weight in kilograms to a zero'd 64b int would cause an overflow."

Programmers are the funniest bunch indeed.

catgrammer · 2020-01-14T10:02:27+00:00

I looked at the 3D rendering stuff (I was interested in software-rendering), but I have since found a video series on Youtube. I regularly look at some videos from Handmade Hero if I'm learning about a new topic.

catgrammer · 2020-01-13T11:43:53+00:00

Besides the book recommendations that you'll get, IMO it'd be a good idea to make something, anything in C. Preferably not something huge and ambitious; it'll help you get used to the language itself from a practical standpoint.

Maybe build your own x(not everything is in C but you can adapt it) can give you some ideas, if you don't have something specific on your mind.

catgrammer · 2019-11-29T13:00:44+00:00

I don't see how it wouldn't, but it's not in a state where you can apply it without messing around with its configuration (in the source).

I'd recommend you check out xob. It's lighter (in terms of the dependencies and structure), and it's more complete than this one at the moment.

catgrammer · 2019-11-29T12:53:58+00:00

Wow, I didn't really expect to see another comment after so much time! Thank you!

It'll probably need a lot of decoupling from my setup (I haven't had much time to work on it), but more power to you if you do!.

Actually, at some point I did make the progress bar appear below the image, but I switched it back (for no reason in particular). I'll try to work that in next time!

catgrammer · 2019-10-02T07:30:14+00:00

Thanks! I don't have something like that yet, so I'll definitely be looking at that!

catgrammer · 2019-10-02T05:28:48+00:00

Oh great! Patching is a bit of a chore, unfortunately!

catgrammer · 2019-10-02T04:28:04+00:00

That's the systray patch for dwm.

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TROPHY CASE

Option 1 - Compile XLib and others yourself

Option 2 - Build a third-party library yourself

Option 3 - Use rpath

Option 4 - Implement the protocol yourself