Singing is one of the few things that I suspect may not be just learned. Sure, you can improve a little, but not go from complete trash to someone you would actually tolerate hearing sing. I think our anatomies constrain us much more than for other things. How come some people can naturally sing and others produce a horrible screech? What I've been trying to find is a style that best suits my voice that will make it seem like I'm not horrible. Don't know what that is yet. Finding that is not so easy when you don't have a large vocal range nor a particularly interesting voice.
I had the same exact experience with an Indian contractor. I requested that he used git instead of Shopify CLI for his changes to a store's theme. He acknowledged my request but kept using the CLI. I once again asked him to use git and even offered a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to pull, branch and then push changes. He absolutely ignored everything and simply kept using the CLI. That was actually amazing to witness. The only hypothesis I have is that it's some kind of cultural thing where asking for help is worse than doing the opposite of what's expected from you. I don't know, but your story supports my hypothesis.
Love the concept, but I couldn't figure out how to play. I can't hit the ball back even though I'm typing the right word. I keep getting a hint that says that I should type the return word and press enter, which I do, but nothing happens.
I have the same feeling riding the TGV in France. When another train passes in the opposite direction, the pressure in the interior of the cabin even changes. Not sure if it lowers or raises, but I can definitely feel it in my ears.
I thought planes had insane redundancy exactly so stuff like that don´t happen. How can a bit flip cause the system that controls altitude to malfunction like that?
Unfortunately the answer to that is the Discord server of whatever technology I'm working with. Communities are now separated each in their silo on Discord, far away from the public internet, where nothing can be indexed.
Really cool project. To be honest, I think I don't fully understand the concept of a content addressed language. Initially I thought this was another BEAM language, but it seems to run on its own VM. How does Unison compare to BEAM languages when it comes to fault tolerance? What do you think is a use case that Unison shines that Erlang maybe falls short?
I have the exact same feeling. Turning 30 was like flipping a switch for me. Since then, I've even felt like I've become more intelligent, especially in math. It's like everything suddenly clicked. I struggled with math throughout my entire school life, but now that I've gone back to college, I'm amazed by how easily I grasp concepts. I've recently taken on challenges that I always thought were exclusive to "smart people," like systems programming in Rust and Zig or building compilers.
This is awesome! I've been looking for something to use as my calendar app. I just moved from macOS to Linux. On macOS I used the default calendar app. Because I still have an iOS device, I'd like to sync iCloud events with my computer. I've tried a combination of davmail, vdirsyncer, and calcurse. While this works, it's not a great experience. Calcurse doesn't seem to handle timezones very well and, for a TUI, it has a rather limited keyboard support (I can't copy the description text of an event, for example). I could use a GUI as long as it can handle both iCloud and Microsoft Exchange calendars.
I had the same feeling when I lived in Porto and later visited San Francisco. The two cities have so much in common: similar temperatures, they're both famous for their bridges (Porto actually has several), the fog that rolls in regularly, and even their most iconic bodies of water both have "gold" in the name: the Golden Gate and Rio Douro (which means "golden river"). I think this comes from how the water looks golden at sunset, since both coastlines face west. And of course, both cities are known for their cable cars.
I know that not too long ago there was a "bridge", which was a bunch of boats aligned from one margin to the other. Not sure if this counts as a bridge.
I was wondering the same thing about the road crossing the Douro between present-day Vila Nova de Gaia and Porto. Was there a bridge there during Roman times? Interestingly, it would be right where the Luiz I Bridge is now.
From your comment, I'm assuming you're mostly familiar with interpreted languages. Chances are that you know JS/TS. If that's the case, I suggest that you give Go a go. The learning curve is way softer than Rust's and it's not too uncomfortable to someone who already knows TypeScript. And the advantage of Go over Rust is that the compile time is much, much shorter.
I'm a native Portuguese speaker. Here, when people are first starting to learn programming, it's very common for them to write code in Portuguese. For example, they would write this simple age verification algorithm:
int verifica_idade(int idade) {
if (idade < 18) { return -1; }
return 1;
}
int main() {
int idade;
scanf("%d", &idade);
int verificacao = verifica_idade(idade);
if (verificacao < 0) { printf("Acesso negado\n"); }
else { printf("Acesso liberado\n"); }
return 0;
}
Do French (or other languages) speakers also do this?
Not everyone knows Rust, but JavaScript is widely known. A library that delivers Rust-level performance without requiring developers to learn anything new would likely be very popular. That being said, if you need Rust performance, it's a better idea to just learn Rust. Is not that hard.