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

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.Text as T (Text)

correctAnswer :: T.Text
correctAnswer = "Haskell"

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Doom Emacs with lsp and rust-analyzer

No, not at all. The three [[Witch’s Mark]] and the two [[Hopeful Vigil]] meant I could work through my deck quickly enough to draw [[Archon of the Wild Rose]] or [[Tale for the Ages]] and see the game out quickly.

For removal, using [[Werefox Bodyguard]], [[The Princess Takes Flight]], and [[Expel the Interlopers]] wound up being enough.

I can’t recall playing it before tonight. I think that like you the need to discard for the draw was too high. Then I realised that in an Aggro deck you’re likely playing on-curve and emptying your hand quite quickly. Furthermore you don’t really get much benefit from > 6 lands. So swapping a land for (hopefully) two non-lands in that mid-phase of the game when you as the beatdown are losing your advantage can make a massive difference.

That’s not even taking into account that if you don’t discard, you get +1/+1 to a creature, something that might proc Celebration, and if your opponent deals with that creature they take one damage. If you Bargain the role, your opponent still takes one, and Bargain effects are super powerful. In one of my games I had two creatures with Wicked roles and my opponent was on five life and they had to play around that.

So, yeah, I’m now a convert.

[[Grasp of Fate]]… Tbh I hadn’t internalised that it could remove an opponents Enchantment and that’s useful. I think maybe for what it is it’s kind of over-priced? The meta is quick and seems to favour going wide. You wanna spend 1WW on a Removal that can be un-done on an enchantment you are never going to want to Bargain? Just off the top of my head [[Torch the Tower]], [[Titanic Growth]], [[The Princess Takes Flight]] are all better. [[Expel the Interlopers]] is much more useful in this meta of going wide and there’s not a world of difference between 3WW and 1WW (less than there is between 4W and 2W anyway).

But I think you’re right, it seems to not be valued and I think I just internalised that without examining it.

Thanks :D I’d been on a run of curving out really well and then top-decking until my opponents found a way to win so I kind of over-compensated on card advantage but it turned out hugely beneficial. Not sure I’ve ever played [[Witch’s Mark]] before tonight but it’s now secured a place in my heart.

Like I said, White was really, really open, so I had the luxury of getting all the best white cards. Have to admit that I completely missed that sacking [[Hopeful Vigil]] would proc [[Savior of the Sleeping]]. When it happened for the first time I got quite excited 😂

You’re welcome.

For real though, someone developed this feature. Like, how soul-crushing must that be, developing such blatant anti-features.

Why fix, when you can sell?

“This change is designed to create an easier way for Outlook and Microsoft Teams users to reduce task switching across windows and tabs to help stay focused,” says Katy Asher, senior director of communications at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge. “By opening browser links in Microsoft Edge, the original message in Outlook or Teams can also be viewed alongside web content to easily access, read and respond to the message, using the matching authenticated profile. Customers have the option to disable this feature in settings.”

I don’t know if this is a neurodivergent thing but I 500% could never see myself in a position I could say something I knew to be such BS and put my name to it.

I had a little personal crisis when I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time and just hated it. I was so bored.

I’ll have to give it another go and hope I get it .

Resident Evil 2 Remake is an all-time classic IMO. Phenomenal entry point. No knowledge required from Resident Evil 1.

Season 3 of The Wire. That’s pretty good hype music but I’d probably rather the Season 2 cover.

The pricing Reddit is charging is obscene and would mean that Apollo would be forced to pay $20 million per year to keep the app running. Other popular third-party apps would have to pay similarly outrageous costs. It’s clearly a blatant attempt to run them off Reddit so the site can force users to use its first-party app instead.

I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.

Thank you for taking the time to read my response. I really appreciate having the approval of someone with decades of experience (which, I very much don’t). Out of curiosity, when you started programming would have been the early days of Java, C++ etc. and the start of the ‘OOP revolution’. Can you recall why you started with C, when OOP was very much en vogue?