mhoye

foone , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

I'm writing rust without fully understanding the language. Pray for me.

Actually I guess that's true of most language I program in? Like, I'm sure there's some obscure python syntax or behavior I can't remember, despite calling myself a python programmer and having done it professionally for many years.

but my point was more that I barely know any rust. there's entire parts of syntax I don't understand yet. but I'm coding anyway!

mhoye , vor einem Tag

@foone I would sometimes like to be able to turn on something like “student’s syntax highlighting” in a language I don’t know, that simply explains the operator or form I’m mousing over to me like it would to somebody who doesn’t know the basics yet.

foone , vor 20 Tagen an Random Englisch

Idea: a USB-controlled gun, but the USB protocol implementation is the most cursed part.
Any ideas? I have a better one, but I'll start with that it's a USB printer class. Every time you tell it to print a page, it fires

18+ mhoye , vor 20 Tagen

@foone "next slide please"

darius , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I regret to inform you that the genders have been compromised.

mhoye , vor 2 Monaten

@yhancik @darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

you know what'd be a cool feature for an image editor?
"export last action as code"

where it looks at the last thing in the undo/redo buffer, and saves it out as a program (in C/C++/whateverscripting) that uses an ImageEditorLibrary to do the same thing

mhoye , vor 2 Monaten

@foone "turn this thing I just did into one line of imagemagick I can run in the shell" would be a beautiful thing.

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

mhoye , vor 2 Monaten

@foone little-endian v. Big-endian societies is an interesting idea.