Leif Messinger

Leif Messinger

@leifmessinger.bsky.social

Current multiple S&box Marble Racer world record holder Former Garfield Kart world record holder.

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At this point, the C++ devs should just fork Rust if they hate it so much I bet whatever features Rust is missing that C++ has is easier to implement than trying to shoehorn safety into C++

I hate permissions systems that bundle something you want to do into a "super dangerous" mega permission. If you want to use a MIDI keyboard on chrome you had to enable insecure websites. If you want an app to change the screen resolution on Android you have to enable WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS.

If DLSS 5 is so good at doing shading, they could just make it do deferred shading. I think they don't want to admit they can't do that without all the other genai hallucinations Although I like the idea for old games like F.E.A.R. or Just Cause 1 where they didn't give you much to begin with

The clock app's reliance on presets is stupid. Need an alarm for 6:30 pm? Better hope you entered that in at one point. Want a timer for 25 minutes? Just use the 10 minute timer and hit the add minute button 15 times.

I bet a lot of people are going to be confused about the early age of computing where the most used computer was the printer/copier, and all it did was put stuff on paper and we were happy with that

Why are people trying to sell me life insurance? What am I going to do with a couple thousand dollars after I'm dead? If I really cared I'd just start saving. Hell, somebody's getting my bank account after I die. That should be enough for them.

I like how the dev commentaries for old games are like "We added this long corridor to show the player how to walk, and we added this ledge to ensure they knew how to jump. We also limited their running speed to make sure they couldn't bhop fast enough to clear this 5 meter gap"

There should be stdlog for logs. stderr is basically this, but it also gets printed to the screen. Maybe something that is hidden by default and could be redirected. It would be to stderr what stderr is to stdout.

In the year 2060, they're going to use the carbon in the atmosphere to grow plants to feed a resurrected T-Rex, and then they'll kill the T-Rex to make more fossil fuels Thereby turning fossil fuels into a renewable resource

LLMs really like writing in rust. Python and Go follow the "There should be only one obvious way to do something" philosophy While rust has a "There should be a thousand great ways to do something" approach LLMs temperatures(?) are too high for Python and Go, but in Rust, it has room to improvise.

I like how the only reason AI isn't replacing all skilled workers is because you can't ask an AI about something that you don't know exists. I spent about a week asking how to do nonlinear transformations with a 4x4 matrix, and I only found out what perspective division does when I asked about it.

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