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New Years resolution the past 5 years: I will get better with Rust.

...and I do get better but somehow it always feels like it's not enough. Like, I'm still an imposter.

I can program an entire embedded USB keyboard/mouse firmware from scratch that can do all sorts of things no keyboard has ever done before yet I still feel like a newbie somehow. Like there's all these people that talk about traits and mutli-threaring with async and GPU and AI stuff and I'm like, "I wrote an embedded_hal crate that lets you use both 8 and 16-channel multiplexers simultaneously!" or, "I wrote an interface that let's you use the extra space in your RP2040 flash memory as a filesystem!"

Yet everything I ever write in Rust always just uses the most basic and simple features because I still have trouble with complex lifetimes (passing them around quickly gets too confusing for me) and traits that work with non-basic types (because in the world of embedded 'static is king).

If you are a business thinking about using a 3rd party passkey when this is available: Don't. 3rd party products that integrate deeply into Windows like this are always 2nd class citizens in the Windows ecosystem.

I guarantee it: Microsoft will push an update that breaks it and it'll be an enormous outage for your company. Microsoft has a very long history of doing this and it's much, much worse than when they screw up their own shit because it'll take a lot longer for a fix to get issued (they have to work with the 3rd party they just broke).

Microsoft also has a history of completely screwing over companies they partner with for integrations like this. One day they'll announce they're ending support for 3rd party passkeys (or just the one vendor you chose) and you will be screwed.

Yes. Well, it depends on the game. A lot of games know that their users will use the Steam forums to complain or ask questions so they'll attend them in a formal manner. Others are just chaotic cesspools that are completely ignored by the developers/publishers.

The Steam forums really are kinda garbage but I don't think it's because of lack of moderation. It's because they're the most minimal interface with no good search function, no good way to figure out what's changed, and it's missing zillions of other features that exist in modern forums.

I'd agree with you but your post is way too long! Uuuuugh! I almost burned a whole calorie writing this reply!

Looks like my dog! 😁

Kind of like how there's taste buds in our lungs.

Oops: Forgot that "multiply by 100" step haha. I'll fix it 👍

$500 billion in federal spending cuts.

defunding organizations like Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting

• Planned Parenthood received about $148 million in 2021 and much of that was for providing COVID-19 vaccinations. No idea how much they're getting right now but I know it's less.
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a budget of $535 million for 2025.

If they cut both entirely that's 0.14% of that $500 billion in cuts they're promising.

For those that don't know, this is one popular way of laundering money.

The other is real estate (which is how Trump made his comeback from early business failures).

Where I come from we call these, "up only" stairs. Kind of like how Perl is a write-only language.

Is there such a thing as a conservative sociologist? Does that even exist? It sounds like a myth, like a conservative professor of ethics (not a self-described "professor of ethics" 🤣)

She lives outside all year round! We have a heater in there and heating pads for the winter months when it gets cold (we're in North Florida so it only gets below freezing for like a week or two every year and even then only at night).

She seems to prefer 65-75°. When it's around that temperature she'll spend all day wandering the yard with plenty of energy. When it's hotter she doesn't wander the yard as much when the sun's out and mostly does her foraging in the morning and evenings.