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Trust me, nobody being interested in you romantically/sexually is not as great as it sounds.

Dislike: every post inevitably has someone complaining about capitalism, Trump, police, Musk, …

How do you weigh a boat precisely enough to detect a soda can missing?

True. A more reliable way to achieve this is to buy a domain and use addresses in the form websitename@your.domain.

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

Unexpected Keyboard.

What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

You’re so close to reinventing Smalltalk…

Because immigrant from, say, Islamic countries behave differently than those from, say, Vietnam.

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.

The unlocking flow is slower. With the fingerprint scanner, I just put my finger on the screen and go. With face recognition, I have to turn on the screen, wait for it to pick me up, then swipe to unlock.

For whatever reason, GIMP includes this image of a green pepper as a built-in brush.

In what settings is it socially acceptable to talk to strangers?

First off, thank you for engaging critically with my comments rather than dismissing them :) I apologize for the delayed response, I had to sort my thoughts about this.

Basically, your brain thinking “no, don’t do creepy shit.”

But with your example, exercising rationality actually would help, because “the sadness that comes from seeing couples in public or among your friends and knowing that you’ll never experience what they’re doing” is actually an irrational thought.

Isn’t it kind of an example of what you stated in the previous paragraph? By acknowledging that women don’t see me as a potential partner, my brain is preventing me from hurting women by showing my romantic interest. While I could try to combat this thought, it would not be in the best interest of others.

On the contrary, wanting a partner is an irrational thought because it ultimately comes from the natural instinct to reproduce. Hypothetically, if I were asexual, I could just live a fulfilling life alone and everyone would be better off.

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