Notices by Orman (orman@furry.engineer)

@soatok One of the reasons I'm grateful for LGBT people being as normalized as they are, even if it's not perfect, is that I (also ace-spec) kinda detest that "default" culture of how MLM treat each other, and if I could *only* be non-het-by-default in spaces they dominate, I'd never be able to sort through their noise to find someone I was actually interested in.

It'd be nice if men could be more normal about relationships with other people, regardless of gender. I can't even deny there's an appeal to some of the underlying dynamics, but a lot of people don't seem to understand that it's fundamentally a fiction layered on top of the fact that there's a *person* with their own feelings on the other end.

@hyc @nxadm @dalias This is a different aspect of the same point but IMO go is fundamentally unserious at the language level because it focuses on a notion of "simplicity" that makes all complexity the programmer's problem, and failure to handle it their fault.

e.g. we had no excuse for `nil` after the Java/C# era, but go not only has it, it has to twist itself in knots because having `nil` means that, e.g. your type must have a zero-value, it can't have any RAII invariant, there has to be a well-defined answer to things like "what happens if you await a nil channel receiver" (we block forever)

I can appreciate that people are getting sick of the Rust team's political and design decisions, but the technical foundation that lets you use "values as certificates" is a vast improvement over almost every other language going.

@dalias Its a good distinction to make, but I wonder if an obstacle to actually defining a document like that is how complicated the interface contract actually is for most software. Even strongly-typed languages need additional behavioral properties beyond "returns a value of the right type" in almost all cases.

@soatok Enjoy. What I haven't realized in this photo is that that's not a normal air hockey machine, instead it dumps dozens of pucks on the field and you win by getting more into the goal than the opponent.

@dalias @tante I thought "browsers are too hard to make new from scratch" was a matter of e.g. rendering the DOM and CSS together being so complex and fiddly that it needed a large team to be achievable rather than the larger architectural choices of how that view is encapsulated

@soatok @pemensik you wouldn't be able to solve all problems but surely you'd still have some improvements if you could eg mandate encrypted payloads

@f4grx @ignaloidas @whitequark circuit design, especially RF circuit design, looks like the opposite of Lego to this SW dev because all the pieces couple to each other to some extent or another

@acsawdey @demi @cstross also while organic creatures don't have as huge a RCS as metal does, they also don't have stealth

@acsawdey @demi @cstross Sidewinder specifically might be pure IR, I just meant in general systems that will want to integrate both