WatTyler

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[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

They've got at least two: an NA one and an EU one.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Sod's law someone finally posts this on the day I decide to make a post. I promise I did check the board yesterday when there wasn't an update! Thanks for the explanation though.

 

Hi,

When I try and login to my account on lemmy.sdf.org, I just get the loading 'beach ball' spinning infinitely, with no progress or errors reported or anything else.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm learning Rust at the moment and I too think I have some reservations with its syntax. Most of these reservations come from my strong preference for functional programming over OOP.

I am unsure if I like method-syntax period, even if it isn't inherently OO. Chaining just makes me feel uncomfortable in a way piping doesn't.

Also it seems idiomatic for values of enumerated types to be written Type::Enum, which seems ugly and unnecessary.

What'd you make of this article?: https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.Text as T (Text)

correctAnswer :: T.Text
correctAnswer = "Haskell"
[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 120 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Reflecting on my first year running solely Linux (as opposed to dual-booting), I think that this culture comes from the fact that, on Linux, problems can more often than not be solved. If not solved, then at least understood. When you want to change something on Windows, or something breaks, you have far less room to maneuver.

When I was a Windows user, I'd barely ever submitted a bug report for anything, in spite of being very tech-literate. It felt hopeless, as my entire experience with the OS was that if a fix would come, it'd have to be done by someone else.

Linux treating its users like adults, produces users who are more confident and more willing to contribute.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Following up from my previous comment, there is a Flatpak of Emacs available on Flathub. Here are the instructions for how to install, whilst enabling native compilation, which will offer a performance increase and allow you to use features such as vterm (the best terminal emulator for Emacs).

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not too familiar with how Flatpak works but Emacs benefits from compiling it on your machine natively. Tell me what distro you're on and I can see if I can find out how you'd do that.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Lots of replies mentioning Emacs but Emacs out of the box is gonna be essentially a text editor (insert obligatory: Emacs isn't a text editor; it's a LISP interpreter).

However, install Doom Emacs, and you have a full IDE experience for essentially any language you could ask for. I highly recommend it.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

My answer to this would always have been Metal Gear Solid 3. If Konami mess up the remaster (which I'm just assuming they will), then this will be my answer again.

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hijacking your comment to plug my favourite game review channel who made a video on Vagrant Story.

https://youtu.be/NMNFj02IB24?si=f-5TMbjmNACqE3BR

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

Doom Emacs with lsp and rust-analyzer

 

Hello,

First of all many congrats on releasing the app. I imagine it's been a tough few months since Reddit screwed over their community.

As far as I can recall, I used 'Small Cards' as my layout for the Reddit app. However using it now and the cards are far too large for my taste.

Is there any chance of us being able to set the max height of image previews, so we can tweak it to our preference?

Thanks,

Wat

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I recommend Pocket Casts.

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