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I liked your first post, but this one is in line with the article.

I feel this is a more accurate assessment. The relationship between abuse/quality of parenting and anxiety/disfunction can't be thought of as linear. When parenting starts qualifyi…

Very cool. I'm not a super big horror fan, but when this whole pandemic thing started, I consciously went on a ~2 month horror binge for fun, watching a bunch or horror films (of v…

I thought most of this was just normal life tbh

I thought they were better on the road that season? It's not clear sign stealing helps much oddly enough.

Unless you are doing web stuff, you'll face significant resistance from your platform with no clear gain imo

If you're doing dynamic dispatch then there is still code that's living for each specialization. Sort of solves linking because symbols don't have to be generated and compile times…

I really don't like the monomorphization approach to generics (I think that's the concept?), where the function/struct essentially gets duplicated for each type. It seems to mess w…

Typesafe generics via a better void* would make me super happy. There are definitely other quality of life improvements that could be added or reworked that wouldn't affect the sim…

This is a very beautiful piece. Thanks for posting it.

8 days per week. 5 days of work. The calendar has been conspiring against us.

If status is not tied to a sense of self then I don't know what is. You mentioned in another comment that the skills you've learned are not you (roles?). They are just things you h…

I'm treading into Marxist territory, but I think industrialization, technology, and their societal consequences are a large part. If I dropped the first part, there would be no dow…

Basically allowing societies to function (people assuming roles, shame, and whatever). It should be of no surprise that a damaged sense of self often correlates with poor integrati…

God forbid poor people catch on to this noble lie

Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for program…

No doubt, but they are all non standard which is irritating for people who expect that out of the box.

This is bait but whatever. Keeping some properties of C is very hard if you go this route. It also seems you'll end up playing lanaguage design whack-a-mole problems which manifest…

Don't do allocations in the call until the API becomes annoying and unpleasant to use. Also weighted upon the domain and performance implications of the particular API By nature of…

Unfortunately, it's often algorithmically less efficient and more error prone, so everybody ends up replicating what git is doing with 'strbuf' but in slightly incompatible ways. T…

The thing you are pointing to could have its length prefixed. I've always assumed that this isn't the case because nobody could commit to the size of the length prefix. Is it strin…

I do this, but I like to just return the actual struct and also avoid typedefing pointer semantics. Can double as a dynamic array too. It's true. We all have string libraries...