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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Yes, we should all use rigid types. Name me one language you actually like writing quickly with that has types?

    Pyth-oh. Bash-oh. Lisp-oh. Perl-oh. Oh yeah… typed languages suck because of all the boiler

    Edit: Fine, Python / Lisp / Perl are all technically “typed” languages, but I ask you what’s point of throwing type errors at runtime. Javascript and Rust actually have it right here that the code is either going to run, or it simply isn’t. No pussyfooting letting it run first to throw complaints









  • I didn’t see any of the hype for the Barbie movie (apparently they painted streets in London pink?), but I just went in and saw it. Awesome film

    Also: A laser tape measure. I always heard about people ranting about them, and often thought “I get it I get it you’re a child who likes shiny things”, but I finally got one and it is one of my most prized possessions. I can now find out the distance to things like THAT.

    Didn’t live up the hype: I caved in and got a mechanical keyboard. A nice one. Keychron something such. I now have a heavy clackety-clack keyboard. That’s it. The usual plastic 15 quid keyboards I get are only every so slightly less good. Don’t buy into this fad. It’s for ASMR fanatics and their heavy wallets




  • I guess, just imagine if someone who you didn’t particularly find atttactive but was friendly, said the same thing to you.

    You would suddenly feel a little less liberated in your nudity, and perhaps feel the need to avoid that person, even if their intentions were not impure.

    I think you meant well, and you added the nudity part to your compliment because it was such a new and profound way to suddenly see something beautiful.

    Nudity usually takes on an erotic undertone, so it may genuinely have been a eureka moment for you to see something naked and beautiful outside that erotic context.

    Unfortunately that undertone is there, no matter your intention, and I know you want to defend your intentions, but you would be digging a hole by doing so.

    No need to spiral into complete self-doubt on whether you’re a good person or not. You know your intentions, you just goofed up on the delivery and unfortunately that made someone feel less secure.

    It’s a learning experience, and you seem keen to learn, and I think just tread a bit more carefully in the future.

    Thanks for sharing your story by the way, I feel like I’ve learned from it a bit myself