rom-antics

On the other hand though, it brings symmetry to types and values, and makes destructuring feel natural.

  let i: i32 = 1;
  let &i: &i32 = &1;
  let &mut i: &mut i32 = &mut 1;
  let (i, &mut j): (i32, &mut i32) = (1, &mut 2);

I'm not sure how you'd recreate this symmetry without using the same symbol in both places.

When I was a kid I had a toy electronics kit and one of the circuits was an AM radio that worked without batteries. A normal radio station signal is strong enough to drive a pair of earbuds without any additional power. Since then I've always wondered if you could harvest that same radio energy to power other things without batteries, maybe even a Game Boy. There's electromagnetic radiation in the air all around us. And I'm sure you could build a Game Boy using today's tech that's much more power efficient than the ones from the 90s.

You mean due process? Sounds great, sign me up!

If you want compact, use an array of tuples:

  const foos = [("foo", 1, "bar"), ("foo", 1, "bar"), ...];
  for (str1, num, str2) in &foos {
      // ...
  }

For a proper struct you have to name the fields, because otherwise refactoring the fields could cause struct instances to silently get out of sync with the definition.

This is megabytes (at most) of text we're talking about, not gigabytes. And ripgrep is absurdly fast. Grepping a 5MB text file should be pretty much instantaneous.

> discord has a search feature, but it’s pretty awful

Their search makes me want to pull my hair out.

Why can't I just search the history with grep? That's a feature I would pay for (if anyone at Discord is reading this and wants my $10/month)

How about a nice game of chess?

The word "fraud" has really lost its punch these last couple years. OpenAI has actual, working products that people think are valuable enough to pay for. The name is misleading, sure, but that doesn't make them a fraudulent company.

Is there a word for the opposite of the euphemism treadmill, where people call ordinary things by worse and worse names trying to get an emotional reaction out of people?