May well be. I’ve just ordered a gateron switch tester. They apparently lube their switches for you, so maybe their switches are quieter/smoother 🤞

I think you might be on to something there. I’m in Denmark and Scandinavia have been forerunners when it comes to equality and LGBT+-rights and such, so perhaps the use of the “fem” in the term feels undue for my cultural background.

There’s surely some issues still to work on with gender equality, but the main big ones have been pretty much solved as best we can.

I think this very much depends on where you live. I’d say that even in Denmark, which is very well ahead of most of the rest of the world, there are still lots of gender equality issues. We’ve only “solved” them in the sense that the laws are fairly equal (not equal to the extent I would like it, but almost), but the culture is still somewhat unequal. Women still take much more parental leave than men do, for instance.

I prefer the term egalitarian or something to that effect. I definitely fall under the definition of a feminist, but I think it’s sort of ironic that a term for equality has an inherent bias for women in the word itself, even if it is not the intended meaning.

I think the word itself has actually harmed the movement significantly. Turns out the words we use matter a lot. So again, I prefer a more neutral sounding term, like egalitarianism or equal rights.

Yea my big problem is also that I need way more storage than what I have on my phone.

I’ve never personally had these issues. Sent large files without problem and never had discovery issues.

I’d love to use this but I just mostly don’t use multiple devices at the same time, so I don’t see how the sync would ever happen.

Been using it for a long time, it’s great!

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

I have used KeePass for many, many years and have never run into this. Besides, I usually have a copy of the database on some other device so I’m not too worried

People have a psychological bias to humanize anything that communicates with them and companies are trying to latch onto that mechanism because they benefit when people get an emotional attachment to websites. So I think Google and many others are trying to make people think of websites as things with agencies, rather than machines controlled by people. And yea I think they are partly successful.

Not dissimilar to how LLM AI is marketed nowadays.

My mom asked me the other day whether a virus warning was a scam or not. It was a webpage in her browser. She did not understand that it was not her computer system warning her, but just the website itself. People can’t even tell the difference between their operating system and their apps.

I think you vastly overestimate the technical proficiency of the average user. The average user does not understand technology and computers at all. The average user can barely send an email.

Wow, I did not know that still runs in 32 bit. Damn, Valve should really get on that 😅

Does it affect you somehow? I don’t know anyone still running 32-bit systems.

I think I read somewhere that part of the motivation is that they won’t need a runtime to be installed to use it, but Go could fill that role as well of course.

But I think you said it yourself:

I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs

I guess they also prefer Rust to Go. I’d choose Rust over go for a CLI any day. Why do you say Rust wouldn’t be good in an “industrial setting”? I use Rust professionally and I don’t see any problems in that setting.

Isn’t it a good start in any case? I would not say that it is pointless to start with this.

This story is already strange and OPs post history contradicts it. Seems fake.

Long but a very good blog post. I largely agree with all the conclusions and similarly wish Rust would go in a better direction with regards to certain features, especially compile-time reflection.

I also sadly agree with the comments on the Rust leadership. My personal experience with contributing to Rust has not been great, though I haven’t tried very hard (but exactly because the initial feeling was not great).

There is nothing pointless about following your passions - in fact I’d say that is the only point of life. It’s the opposite of pointless.

Maybe you need to reframe it as not failure, but progress. See how you get better and closer, not how you didn’t reach the goal. It’s about the journey.

I don’t think it’s immature - I wish more people had that kind of motivation.

But you say you’re entering your 30s. I’d just like to remind you how long time you actually still have. I studied computer science myself and I had multiple friends at the university in their 40s. People do switch up their careers if they want it enough. It is possible.

I love programming and will continue my computer hobbies for life. I will never make a profession out of it

Why do you say that? Is it by choice or do you not see how you could make it a career?

I’m slowly coping with the fact that all my work will ultimately influence very nearly nothing at all…

What kind of impact were you hoping for? I mean lots of jobs have little “influence” - I would actually say almost all jobs. But that doesn’t mean we are not all part of collective progress.