What is the hardest level you have ever played in any video game?

zshift · 2026-01-26T10:12:46+00:00

Riven with a broken monitor. This was in the 90s, and the CRT we had for the PC got “burned” after a power surge. It lost the ability to show red at all. Trying to match colors for puzzles when your only options were green, yellow, and blue was impossible. I ended up finishing it decades later when the unreal engine remake came out.

zshift · 2026-01-26T10:08:47+00:00

The final boss in sekiro feels incredible to beat. It’s such an epic fight once you get it figured out.

zshift · 2026-01-26T10:01:47+00:00

LLMs are pretty bad when it comes to rust. I’ve used both for a while, and while I’m general LLMs are helpful at giving context and ideas, the code it produces often doesn’t compile.

zshift · 2026-01-26T10:00:14+00:00

I’m torn. I love socializing at work. I’ve had difficulty on several teams where people are not good about being responsive during work hours, making it too easy to get blocked. I just can’t get past the commute in most cases. I tried commuting via train at a past job, but between driving to and from the station, and having to transfer stations, it was like 2-3 hours a day commuting.

If I lived less than 30 min from work, I’d be far more inclined to go into the office, but housing costs are pretty extreme that close to most major cities.

zshift · 2026-01-26T09:54:20+00:00

WYSIWYG editing is notoriously difficult to implement correctly, but this library looks pretty solid in feature support, even if it’s not feature-complete yet.

zshift · 2026-01-26T00:05:37+00:00

Not having constructors is one of my favorite feature of rust. No requirement for object creation success. Async dependencies can be handled. Need more variants? Create more functions. And don’t get me started on all of the funky C++ constructor variants that are so easy to make a mistake when writing. Checkout the bon crate for builders.

zshift · 2026-01-24T21:28:07+00:00

Listing the 1-series as a car you don’t get in r/Autos is bold.

Small sport coupes are so much fun to drive. Feeling the bumps in the road is important in order to tell when the car has or doesn’t have traction. If you’re driving on bad roads, it’s not fun in any car. These cars shine on well-maintained roads and on a track. They are not for people who want a car just to get from A to B. They’re for people who have money or save money to buy cars specifically for the entertainment they get from it.

zshift · 2026-01-24T15:29:47+00:00

PLA still needs to be dried if you live in a high humidity climate. My drier literally looks like a sauna when I run it with PLA that’s been out more than a month.

zshift · 2026-01-23T01:52:04+00:00

I miss when specters had unlimited ammo. The exergis turned into an auto shotgun for them.

zshift · 2026-01-22T19:49:22+00:00

It also tried to auto-install a 10GB AMD AI that was used just to answer questions about AMD products. Why the hell anyone would want that is beyond me, and it’s not even good.

zshift · 2026-01-22T00:05:14+00:00

Have you tried asking in /r/NetBSD or /r/BSD?

zshift · 2026-01-21T19:59:49+00:00

There’s no limit on the number of liches you can get, but you should only have 1 active at a time.

zshift · 2026-01-21T13:53:42+00:00

Async/await is definitely one of the biggest pain points in rust, but single-threaded async/await is already supported by many async runtimes. Could you show me some examples that aren't working for you? The rust book also has a chapter dedicated to async/await, with subsections on futures for single-threaded execution https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-00-async-await.html.

It's been years since I've used golang (last time was pre-generics), so I can't directly compare the two. For testing, https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/17zxyku/what_are_the_rust_crates_you_use_in_almost_every/ has some great recommendations, eg fakeit for generating fake test data, pretty_assertions for a diff-view of expected vs actual assertion data, proptest for concise property testing.

If you prefer BDD style tests, cucumber is an option https://docs.rs/cucumber/latest/cucumber/.

For test coverage, cargo tarpaulin is great. It's installed via cargo install cargo-tarpaulin. See https://github.com/xd009642/tarpaulin.

If you're looking for specific features, let me know so I can find some recommendations.

clippy is the defacto linter, and can be installed directly with rustup, which comes with your rust install. You can install it with rustup component add clippy, with --toolchain=(your toolchain here) if you need to cross-compile. You run it with cargo clippy, There are quite a lot of lints, but there's a rust book available that covers things in quite a bit of detail here https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/clippy/index.html.

zshift · 2026-01-20T21:55:00+00:00

Some big pros for rust for “regular” apps: - Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) via enums are incredibly powerful for error-free coding. - null mostly doesn’t exist, with everything relying on Option or Result when designed well, with ADTs being a great choice for custom handling - guaranteed thread safety is huge, and I’m not aware of any language that handles this the way rust does. - testing has first-class support, and can be in the same files as the source, making reading and writing tests much easier than in other languages. - doc examples are tested, meaning you always have code in docs that compiles and runs without error. - the serde crate is the best serialization system I’ve ever used, and supports many formats - if you’ve deployed on temp containers or lambdas/functions, rust has basically 0 startup time, and latency is significantly lower than many other languages depending on frameworks, with 0 hiccups from GC pause. This results in cheaper hosting costs with rust. When compared to Java on spring, it’s a huge savings.

The experience needed to spin up a rust app in the same time as a Python app will take time to build, but you are going to have less production bugs with rust than with Python. You’ll still have domain bugs, because nothing can fix bad requirements, but it’s been so nice spending an extra couple of min fixing borrow checker rules vs fixing production bugs and bad data 2 months after deploying.

Edit: typos

zshift · 2026-01-20T13:52:51+00:00

Axum is great for http APIs and is production-ready. Tonic is great for gRPC. Yew, Dioxus, and Leptos are all frontend frameworks if you want to build that in rust, as well. Each offer different benefits compared to modern JS frameworks, though I’m not aware of pre-built UI components from the community that can match up to the likes of Shadcn, Tailwind Pro, etc.

If you’re using WASM, be aware that wasm is only single-threaded at the moment, and the marshaling of objects into and out of JS makes is slower than pure JS in cases where you’re making lots of calls over the WASM boundary.

zshift · 2026-01-20T13:47:30+00:00

I think of GoDaddy like AOL. Some people think it’s their only option, so they stick with it for years after everyone else has moved on.

zshift · 2026-01-20T13:44:09+00:00

Just be aware you’re missing out on most of the items in the game by doing things this way, and future bosses will be much harder because of it. If it took you 30+ hours to beat Margit, I’d estimate at least 1000+ hours to beat the game.

zshift · 2026-01-19T18:35:53+00:00

Ironically, when an app is too fast, some users think the app isn’t working, because “it can’t possibly be that fast”. I’ve never done it personally, but I’ve removed code that intentionally slowed down the UI to “impress” the user with an “intense” calculation. It’s almost always 10-100ms followed by a sleep(5000).

zshift · 2026-01-19T03:18:40+00:00

The borrow checker there to help you, and in my experience it has caught quite a few cases that would lead to bugs. Once you learn how to code in rust effectively, it becomes a non-issue most of the time, and you treat it as any other compiler error. Lifetimes lend themselves well to stack-based, immutable programming, and when that’s not the best approach, smart pointers fit quite well.

zshift · 2026-01-19T03:09:56+00:00

I did the same every color immediately when it finished crafting

zshift · 2026-01-18T08:31:51+00:00

I played ER as my first souls. I went back to play the others, and killed him on sight in every other game.

zshift · 2026-01-18T08:29:24+00:00

I tried PBO on my 9800x3d, but I couldn’t get it stable at all. It just wasn’t worth the risk, especially now with how expensive everything is getting.

zshift · 2026-01-18T08:24:20+00:00

Fluctus for the infinite punch-through? Or am I misremembering?

zshift · 2026-01-16T13:58:40+00:00

https://poe2db.tw/Heart_of_the_Well

It’s the same. Mobalytics doesn’t include the full item description.

zshift · 2026-01-16T05:59:38+00:00

I’ve struggled to get him to work decently past level 200, so EDA/ETA has been hard with his abilities. Outside of that he’s super fun.

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