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Extremely out of touch and not useful at all. He needs to learn how to tell when he has something important to say and when he’s just yapping. How can he think making just a little bit of money is even an option? I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home. I can’t even imagine how terrible my life would be if I took risks.
This is because you chose to live an expensive life. Most of the world gets by on less.
msvan commented on Zb: An Early-Stage Build System zombiezen.com/blog/2024/0... · Posted by u/zombiezen
As a current Nix user, what I would really like is a statically typed language to define builds. Recreating Nix without addressing that feels like a missed opportunity.
msvan commented on Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust rapier.rs/docs/... · Posted by u/excsn
I got sucked down a Geometric Algebra rabbit hole a few months ago, which seems like a remarkably concise and intuitive way to work in a very wide variety of geometries, including 2D, 3D, 4D+, non-euclidean etc. I've wondered if GA would make a good foundation for a physics engine...
There are a few small rust libraries that look interesting [1][2], but none with a lot of traction.
Has anyone looked into this?
[1]: https://crates.io/keywords/geometric-algebra
[2]: https://github.com/Lichtso/geometric_algebra
If you dare, a good place to jump in might be Freya Holmér's Why can't you multiply vectors? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI - Then https://bivector.net/index.html
This one has some more traction: https://github.com/fu5ha/ultraviolet
Bit of a side note, but COSMIC depends on the rustybuzz text shaper which is deprecated: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz/issues/74. There was some work underway to bring it up to sync with the latest harfbuzz and then handing over ownership to the harfbuzz team, but this seems to have fizzled out.
I think the final remark about a hypothetical language, Rust-like but without all the low-level requirements, is important here. There is essentially no widely-adopted programming language out that feels like a modern ML with a good tooling situation. Until that happens, Rust will continue to awkwardly serve the audience of such a language while never truly being what they want it to be.
At the time I had seemingly limitless motivation for grinding away on flashcards and other learning materials. My progress was strong and I passed the HSK6 after a year and a half or so of studying, which at the time was the highest level of certification offered. I think they changed the system since and added more levels beyond 6. You can do amazing things if you're dedicated!
Today my Chinese is absolutely unusable, and my views on China have soured to the extent that I don't really want to revive my old skills. My takeaway is that learning one of these languages, the CJK languages, Arabic, or similarly weird languages, is just too much effort and I don't think it's worth it. I clearly had a lot of excess energy at the time that I could've directed towards something better. Knowing Chinese is about as useful as juggling and you might as well get really good at juggling if you're bored. It'll save you a few thousand hours.