> Are you actually going to wear this to your graduation?
> Heck no.
What? That would have been so much fun!
My graduation cap runs Rust
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Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#42I am pretty sure I purchased my cap and gown instead of renting. But my college was a bit smaller.
At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.
It’s not just for graduations! You can wear it at any gown-appropriate event!
Marriages, graduations and funerals carry forward some traditions that haven’t made sense for generations. They are the irregular verbs of modern life. Interestingly, marriages and funerals often have a religious element, and religion itself is conservative—but graduation doesn’t have that excuse.
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or to automatically write command bitching about it.
That would likely entail an LLM today. Which is the single topic that is more highly represented on the HN homepage than Rust.
You forgot the lowkey accusation that a comment is llm-generated. With that we have the trifecta.
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#44> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.
Yes, you have to pay a decent wage to the people helping you fit, cleaning, and storing the goods. Manufacture is done in a low cost country with cheap labour, so buying clothing seems cheap.
Do you truly believe most of that goes towards wages?
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, you have to pay a decent wage to the people helping you fit, cleaning, and storing the goods. Manufacture is done in a low cost country with cheap labour, so buying clothing seems cheap.
Do you truly believe most of that goes towards wages?
Yes. Competitive forces would push the cost toward the most expensive input which is likely people. That would be somewhat muted if the supplier was sole source but even then outright purchases would put downward pressure on the rental price.
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#46> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.
As opposed to what buying the thing and storing it or throwing it away?
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#47> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.
As opposed to what buying the thing and storing it or throwing it away?
It's a $10 gown, renting it for $100 is madness
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you truly believe most of that goes towards wages?
Yes. Competitive forces would push the cost toward the most expensive input which is likely people. That would be somewhat muted if the supplier was sole source but even then outright purchases would put downward pressure on the rental price.
What competitive forces? It's not like people have a choice in choosing whether they want a particular cap or gown and the people who contract the rental agreement (i.e. the university admin) are not the ones bearing the cost.
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#49Technically it runs AVR-RISC :-)
Fun project though!
Re: My graduation cap runs Rust
#501. No it doesn't, it runs machine code. 2. Yet again we have the need to announce Rust to the world, when the usage of it is inconsequential in this context
Do you go on every project that announces itself to be written in C/C++/Zig/Fil-C/Java/etc. and make those same complaints? That must be tiring.
No need!