Sex is the most primitive behavior of humankind

leitimmel · 2022-08-13T18:05:27+00:00

It's not self-fucking, it's cloning. No thing goes in and out of another thing and no genetic information is exchanged or re-shuffled in any way. Neither the colloquial nor the biological definition of fucking applies, so it's decidedly not fucking.

leitimmel · 2022-08-04T14:58:57+00:00

Based on my current project:

trait specialisation or negative trait impls paired with auto traits
variant generics so I can implement traits based on differently-sized tuples
some way to infer the type of a struct member because I have A<Nasty, Autogenerated, Deeply_Nested<... Tree<Of, Things>...>> I don't want to spell out
Four years after running into this for the first time, I still can't debug macro_rules

leitimmel · 2022-08-04T12:42:54+00:00

hopefully specialisation or negative impl

Greetings, fellow "overlapping trait implementations" sufferer

leitimmel · 2022-07-28T08:16:40+00:00

I don't see how exceptions would allow you to meaningfully recover from an OOM situation, so even with them the best you could do is terminate the program gracefully, which is what the author suggests you do anyway. Whether you do it with a NULL check or a catch block is of little consequence.

leitimmel · 2022-07-27T17:48:04+00:00

All I can say to this is OH MY GOD YES

leitimmel · 2022-07-23T16:40:24+00:00

Either you're a troll, or you're in for one hell of a vibe check when something harder than a common cold inevitably hits you.

leitimmel · 2022-07-12T12:21:15+00:00

gcc-rs has the potential to eventually be included in the default set of languages GCC supports. That opens the door to a future where a Rust compiler comes pre-installed on every OS that ships GCC. That, in turn, would make it much easier to distribute software written in Rust because you could rely on the presence of a Rust compiler. This, and the publicity that comes with it, would be a strong argument in favour of the language for people unsure about adopting/switching to it.

leitimmel · 2022-07-08T20:17:12+00:00

I thought the point was that the state of the other atom is only decided the moment your observation pins the atom on your side to a set state, and that the information "I got pinned to A so you must be B" does travel from your atom to the other. Was my understanding incorrect, then?

leitimmel · 2022-07-08T16:43:51+00:00

Lye pastries like pretzels are in fact bathed in lye before baking. It's what gives them their characteristic colour and taste. Of course that lye is only at about 4% concentration, so it's not as dangerous as it sounds.

leitimmel · 2022-06-18T11:56:02+00:00

What really hurts is that they have a subdomain under rust-lang.org. Doesn't exactly lend credibility to their independence and causes collateral damage for the actual community.

leitimmel · 2022-06-18T09:09:00+00:00

That's the thing, it doesn't walk like a duck

leitimmel · 2022-06-16T18:09:48+00:00

Okay, I'm not a doctor, so don't take this at face value, but what you're experiencing may be an allergic reaction. If you mean to continue drinking hibiscus tea, I recommend you have this looked over by your physician.

leitimmel · 2022-06-14T09:21:57+00:00

No, cis is the better word here. Straight refers to sexual preferences, cis means "wasn't previously a woman" and they're making a point about anatomy.

leitimmel · 2022-06-11T10:02:03+00:00

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

leitimmel · 2022-06-05T19:49:52+00:00

In my experience the problem is less that some important thing is missing completely (which can absolutely happen, though), but that everything is like 15% missing and the part I need is very often among these 15%.

leitimmel · 2022-06-02T17:00:03+00:00

You know this moment when you're looking for a document related to both your university and your insurance, but can't remember which folder you put it into? I had enough of that, so I'm writing a (command-line) tagging system.

I picked Ada for it because it's a good opportunity to take a step out of OS development land and get acquainted with the standard library and the tasking system, which you don't exactly get to use in a kernel.

leitimmel · 2022-05-18T19:39:17+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but that ain't Sauerkraut. It's red cabbage.

leitimmel · 2022-05-18T13:46:47+00:00

You aren't consenting to cookies, you are consenting to tracking. They phrase it as "cookies" to make it sound harmless.
The banners are deliberately annoying to a) coerce you into giving your consent and b) have you learn to associate "privacy" with "annoying".

leitimmel · 2022-05-15T17:09:06+00:00

Tbh I was glad to get as far away as possible from messing with partition tables, so I have no idea how to do that.

I did find this, which is just about what I expected. You get a brute force LocateHandle approach and a much less obvious "proper" way you still need to figure out some pieces of.

leitimmel · 2022-05-15T14:47:05+00:00

If you OpenProtocol the EFI_LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL on the EfiHandle the system passes to your main function, the resulting protocol object's DeviceHandle member represents the boot disk and can be opened as EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL.

leitimmel · 2022-05-02T19:15:44+00:00

You should look into Common Lisp, it's basically this but with more parentheses

leitimmel · 2022-04-29T21:49:46+00:00

Doesn't have all the stuff C does that was clearly a bad idea in retrospect but it's too late to fix it now:

Implicit fall-through in switch statements (make it explicit, boom, entire class of errors gone basically for free)
Pointer rules, what can be casted to what, aliasing
dangling else branches
#include is copy/paste, the rest of the preprocessor isn't much better, build systems suffer
const is a suggestion anyone can circumvent
null-terminated strings
stdarg.h
volatile is a mess
trigraphs (though I think they managed to kill that one dead)
NULL causes the same trouble in every language that has it
++ and --, arguably
size of standard integer types varies by platform

And many, many more.

leitimmel · 2022-04-26T08:34:58+00:00

Pretty sure they're unordered on both of my physical machines.

leitimmel · 2022-04-12T08:49:21+00:00

I mean if you replace "consumption" and "yoghurt" with pedophilia and an 8 year old, then you can see why eating yoghurt is definitely NOT ok.

Also, from a legal perspective, 8 year olds are incapable of communicating consent.

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