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My house had the cheapest garbage disposal which I quickly broke. When I went to replace it, I found that replacing them is incredibly easy and the mid-tier model (about $120) said it could handle small beef bones and peach pits. I’ve been very happy with that, and all my food waste goes in. I don’t have a lot of room for compost, but the city purports to be generating electricity from the sewage, so I hope it isn’t wasted. It also means that my trash doesn’t smell, which is nice.

I loved the controller except for the long pull on the shoulder buttons.

Based on the synopsis at the top of the article, I’d say absolutely not a good idea.

Well it wasn’t a website, for what it’s worth.

Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files’ headers.

And lawyers are pretty likely not staff at all.

Some of this is probably just getting to know your tools. Learn the language, look at others’ code and interrogate what they did and why. The higher-order functions (scary-sounding term, but they’re not actually scary) you mentioned are useful, go learn them and use them.

Some of it might also be (I haven’t seen your code) getting a better understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve. Figure out what all the separate pieces you need are, and then break those pieces into their pieces and so on, until you’ve got simple, self-contained chunks of functionality that you can give simple names to. Some of those might be functions, or you may find that they’re simple enough that they don’t need to be. Refactor and think about how to make the problem simpler. I think a lot of it is just staring at your work and dreaming of ways the make it simpler and easier to read.

If you really want to optimize for performance, that can come later once you really have a feel for it.

I got super sick from this. It probably didn’t help that I was trying soothe my upset stomach with more peanut butter.

im multisexual which means i like multiple sex

I suspect there are a lot of “Rust devs” that are little more than kool-aid drinkers. Common refrains are that Rust is the fastest language, most type-safe language, and most powerful language. Rust certainly seems to move the state of the art forward in some ways, but you can still write garbage code in it.

I’ve worked with lots of different people in lots of different languages, and I think I’d rather good people in a bad language than the other way around by a mile.

It always grates on my nerves to read laypeople’s opinions of how software development should happen. So much unfettered stupidity.

I can finally finish my Gyro Zeppeli cosplay

I think your quantifier of “any other language” is the issue. There are certainly languages with far more powerful type systems than Rust, such as Coq or Lean.

This is my perspective on a lot of art and music. If something is universally hated, I want to know why it is and if I can find any redeeming qualities. A lot of my favorite things have that characteristic of doing something very specific extremely well but being generally unlikeable.

The absolute disregard for the meme format here. I’m too high for this.

Switching to Linux or… maybe?

Either #2 or #3. /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin exist for that purpose, but some people prefer to keep personal scripts and such in home, maybe as part of a dotfiles repo or something, and so just add ~/.dotfiles/scripts or something to PATH.

I prefer SQL, because you can pronounce it “sequel” or “es-cue-ell”, and it’s fine. CSS just doesn’t have that kind of flexibility as a language.

Alternatively, alliteration am always awesome

Then there’s only one hiding?