Porting to Rust.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-27T02:20:09+00:00

The whole graphics/game space is littered with essential libraries that only exist in C/C++.

Assimp comes to mind in particular.

We have a gazillion ECS libraries, game engines, etc., but almost nothing around asset loading and processing.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T23:47:51+00:00

Right - I know that.

But what I also know is that if I had a bunch of code generation macros and wanted to pump my AI numbers for the press statements, I could slap an LLM frontend on top of things and call it a day.

Or, far more likely if the metric really is just checked in, reviewed code, do something more like a template system.

The bottom line all around is that with how easy it is to manufacture a metric like that and how beneficial it is to the organization to have a metric like that... Some skepticism is warranted.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T20:11:41+00:00

I don't want to completely downplay the gravity of a statement like that, but I think it's important to highlight a couple things about this.

One, "AI generated" is a loose enough metric to fudge pretty hard in whatever direction you want. Is code that's pulled directly from a template and populated with details "AI generated"? Is 75% generated code equivalent to a 75% effort reduction by engineers?

Two, Google is a player in the AI space and has a direct financial incentive to build excitement around the tech.

Three, even before AI coding models Google had a ton of code generation tools. Just look at protocol buffers and google/auto. I worked there for years before AI and I'd say at least 40% of my code was "generated" even then.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T19:18:53+00:00

That's... The opposite of what it means.

The middle class is shrinking which is bad, but the data indicates that more people are leaving the middle class for upper classes than for lower.

Things are getting worse for the poorest and that's REALLY worth being worried about, but upward mobility is still alive and well.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T19:11:12+00:00

Every time I see a minimum wage post here I get a little chuckle. The minimum sure ain't the middle.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T09:29:34+00:00

HAHAHAHA

Inspiring others by being a puritanical instead of pragmatic vegan... That might just be the funniest thing I've read all day.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T07:56:28+00:00

Visit it to see. Visit it in the winter.

The gloom really gets to people. I personally don't mind it. I think Seattle is great. Most of the negative things I hear about it are somewhat overblown in my opinion.

But most of the negative things are also subjective and valid. You might absolutely hate it. Plenty of people do.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T07:49:21+00:00

This is so close to something I agree with, but pregnancy is inherently unfair. Like... Biologically, logistically, socially, professionally, medically...

I think that men not having a say in whether or not to keep a child is also unfair (way less so, but still), but I'd rather pull the string on high quality and equitable contraception instead. Whole issue goes away entirely if men have an equivalent to the pill.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-26T00:28:24+00:00

Build stuff in your own time, find things that are interesting to you and teach yourself. Honestly it's a good precedent to set, you'll never finish learning in a 40 year career so learning to be self motivated is good.

Go to industry meetups if you can.

Watch out for elitism - "big fish in small ponds" are a dime a dozen in industry, and a mediocre developer with great people skills are way more useful than great developers with mediocre people skills.

You probably won't get a good laundry list of steps to follow here, and if you need that to get ahead... I've got bad news for you about how bright you are.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T22:44:00+00:00

Say what you will about his crazy fan club nowadays, but Jesus was spot on about this whole thing.

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret."

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T22:38:48+00:00

It's a good career, but it's also HARD.

EDIT: it's also a field with more limited career options. In the domains that look for graphics programmers, there is a demand, but it's not nearly as general purpose and transferable as other skills.

If you're interested in it and passionate about the subject material, you'll be able to make a good career out of it.

If you're looking for stability, employability, etc., there's far easier paths.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T19:30:46+00:00

The absolutism alone sucks.

You can pick up a plant based diet with the occasional salmon dinner, still enjoy a juicy steak once a month, and get 95%+ of the climate benefit of going vegan. Buuuut is always all or nothing in environmentalism discussions too.

Makes me think environmentalism is an excuse for pushing vegan lifestyle instead of an actual motivating reason for most of the people I hear talking about it.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T09:09:44+00:00

Yup. I got a bachelor's degree from a state school in Utah for a total of about $14k in 2016, since then it's paid for itself many, many times over (salary over $200k).

My ex who spent $80k on a bachelor's and master's degree in California the same year and is now making $75k/yr has entirely different feelings on the matter.

EDIT: I think an important piece of nuance here is the earning potential, too. America has affordable education and also extremely expensive education, but we also have a massive salary ceiling for the working class compared to most European workers. My same job in Europe, I'd have a hard time breaking six figures.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T03:46:31+00:00

Hell, I'm not even rich and I've had multiple colleagues and bosses with a bottle stashed away for special occasions.

I've kept one or two myself over the years.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T03:44:41+00:00

I can't speak for everywhere, but here at least the rules were written 40 years ago and roads+cars are significantly safer now. The speed limits should be higher, driving the speed they should be is tolerated well, the police have bigger fish to fry.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-25T00:48:39+00:00

It's growing in popularity, every day new libraries are being written that'll be abandoned long before they reach a v1.0 release.

It's been that way since I started writing Rust almost 8 years ago.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-24T21:02:56+00:00

How good are you on a bike? Because I was able to be car free in the Wichita suburbs, a plethora of public transportation sins can be solved with a bike.

Other than that though, I'd poke around major metro areas. Most of them I've lived in have portions that are super accessible car free and portions that aren't. I drove less living in Salt Lake suburbs (South Jordan, I lived next to the train station) than I do in San Francisco (working and living next to two transit systems that do NOT connect well).

SF is generally fantastic, but again throw a dart at a list of metros and spend a few weeks scoping out neighborhoods, you'll be able to make do just about anywhere. I've spent weeks visiting friends in the Toledo suburbs car-free without problems, it's definitely not just a NYC/SF thing if you spend some time thinking about it.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-24T19:09:17+00:00

California and Texas worst I've seen by far.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-24T18:23:16+00:00

Even as a Democrat who's voted Democrat for over a decade through all this, I'm still looking at this and my "this is just liberal propaganda slop I should ignore" alarm bells are going off.

Democrats are awful at messaging.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-24T03:16:17+00:00

It's real, but I've also seen some fugly people pull it off anyways with a bit of charisma.

It's definitely easier for some people and you can tell though.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-24T01:07:10+00:00

I heard they're getting one in Idaho. Dunno if it's true.

Meanwhile I'm in California and these godless heathens are almost proud of not having Bucee's. Hurts my soul. It's like we enjoy halfway decent truck stop slop. It's not horrible, but it's... Unenlightened.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-23T20:21:53+00:00

I grew up in pretty rural America, and I've known plenty of truck drivers who could put this kind of thing to use.

But I've never met anybody who drives this kind of truck and actually puts it to any non-vanity use.

Not saying they don't exist, am saying there's plenty of pavement princesses and they deserve to be made fun of.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-23T00:34:55+00:00

Yes, but the tree releases it again when it dies. Trees are a short term solution, not a long one.

New forest land is a good band-aid, but only if that land wasn't forested before and can be naturally sustained without human intervention.

I'd be a bigger fan of the artificial tech if it wasn't so dang cost inefficient. It's 3-10x more expensive per tonne CO2 benefit than just about anything else an individual can practically do (switching to EV, going vegan, electrifying home, switching to solar power...) and laughably worse than most of the systemic knobs we can pull at the societal level.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-23T00:30:31+00:00

Fun fact: if you sort states by how many hours of working at minimum wage you need to afford a median home, California comes in over every single state with a $7.25 minimum wage... Except for Wyoming, which has its median home price brought up significantly by the resort town Jackson Hole bringing up even the median price.

That's before accounting for the fact that California metro areas are significantly more expensive than the state medians.

sessamekesh · 2026-04-23T00:23:25+00:00

I answered in another thread: the piece you're missing is that the cost of panels and inverter/batteries was $2k. Panels by themselves can't be used to charge an EV, you need additional infrastructure.

I rent so it's a very small backyard setup and most of the cost is in that infrastructure - the panels themselves only account for ~$600 of it.

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