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I began learning Rust in my spare time - as a C++ dev it seemed like the right thing to do. I ended up using Ratatui for a hangman implementation. I really liked using it, I ended …

Interesting - it's been a long time since I used / looked at it. There was a big uproar in the company though and a drive to move away from it due to licensing and cost from there.…

---Was talking about a previous company who made steps to shift from it for pricing reasons. Seems they where misinformed.

Maybe it's the jobs that I've worked, or the country I'm in ( UK ). But I've really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV's. Every co…

I retract that - if you use the search bar you can get modes of any scale you want, this is fantastic!

You never see the modes of the harmonic minor in these things - always the major modes ( aside from the relative natural minor of course ), as a metal head it'd be useful to see on…

Given the ones you suggest in your post, I'd say: Agricola Race for the Galaxy Tiny Epic Galaxies Splendor Would all be good for the same kind of player counts as them, without any…

The Arduino IDE is fine to begin with. Eventually you may want to grow into dealing with more of the family of Atmel chips, tiny85s can be fun for miniature projects for example. Y…

No the criticisms are still valid. There's still severe frame rate issues under quite a few circumstances. The military thing is more subjective though, it's still a complicated sy…

C++ Developer - must admit I used to use spaces, then switched to tabs. This was for several reasons - firstly - makefiles will not be parsed correctly if you start using spaces ra…

It's really going to depend on what you're doing with the graphics. As soon as you start emulating basic shaders for effects on the CPU by comparing and writing to a screens worth …

Thanks very much for the paper, I'm always more than happy to be proved wrong, I'll have a read.

It's an interesting point about India, but I'd say there is much more of a focus on getting enough food to survive there than in overpopulated first world cities - which is closer …

I think you're reading into the term "utopia" too much. The experiment was a utopia of the body perhaps where there are no biological needs that aren't satisfied with no external f…

"Newer generations born in the now dysfunctional mouse utopia became withdrawn, spending their days grooming obsessively and dedicating their time solely to eating , drinking and s…

The mice utopia experiment.. There are a surprising amount of small parallels between it and some of our recent cultural phenomenon. Interesting thought.

Population control with the right to children is a very delicate subject and hard sell. My thoughts on the matter was always that nature itself will eventually take care of the num…

Surely this is a good thing? We (as a species) have been growing exponentially in an unsustainable manner. It'll be tough as we transition into looking after more elderly with less…

An art director? Ascii in itself is entirely it's own aesthetic. There's a huge roguelike community that much prefer graphics like that.

Previous posting of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908942

And potentially creating a heap of new problems seems as there is a good deal of research which suggests that carbon nanotubes are genotoxic and carcinogenic. Disposal of it could …

Didn't know that - thanks for the information. Was it wear against the side of the casing that led to the issues then?

Perhaps they could come up with some system like what we see in traditional piston engines piston seals - a replaceable seal that goes around the rotary triangular err piston for l…

To be honest I think Tarn isn't wanting to release the source for a couple of reasons: A - He wants complete control of the direction that the game is heading, B - He's not proud o…