I drove a truck with four pedals in high school. Leftmost was the parking brake.

Anyone else reading this in 2037?

I’ve been an embedded developer for coming up on 20 years at this point, and recently went through a job hunt. Of the three that made it to the offer stage, two used Rust almost exclusively in their embedded stack and one used Rust in their embedded LInux stack and was trying to decide if they were going to use rust in their bare-metal/RTOS stack. I ended up at on of the Rust places, though I had no Rust experience. I have to say, while I do find many parts of the syntax too cute by half, in general I’m pretty happy with it as an embedded language. My current target architectures are ARM Cortex-M7 and Cortex-A53. In general toolchain, and debugger support has been good, peripheral support has been ok but could use improvement.

I do this pretty regularly, with a default order. First is a simple guess the number game, then I update it to hangman. After that is either pong or minesweeper. Depending on what I’m learning that should be enough, or I can extend them in some way, such as multi-window pong or turning minesweeper into network battleship.

Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?

Yoga clothes?

To be fair, he was almost certainly using Arabic numerals.

/s, obvs

My version is definitely wordier, but I like it.

add-alias() {
  if [[ -z "$1"  ||  -z "$2" ]]; then
    echo "Useage: add-alias <alias_name> \"<command_to_alias>\""
    return 1
  fi
  echo "alias $1='$2'" >> ~/.bash_aliases
  source ~/.bash_aliases
  echo "Alias '$1' for command '$2' added and sourced."
  
}

And, of course, the first thing I test it with is $ add-alias alias-add add-alias.

Oh I have, a few times. Mostly them seem to be into mild restraint kink, though I know at least one who is into cross dressing.

My 13 year old Thinkpad runs Linux great ‘cos Linux…

There is a huge amount of C code underlying most things, including the Linux kernel, most compilers, the Python interpreter, etc. At the same time, C doesn’t have dynamic arrays as a built in type but they are often critical to the operation of all of those. So, C developers keep implementing them in specialized ways for all of their applications.

I was a C/C++ dev for a long time. Then a while back I got an ewaste Thinkpad running Linux and have started developing in Rust. When do my programming socks show up?

My cat would disagree. She was very upset when I replaced her favorite warm perch with a flat screen.

Trader Joe’s registers run Suse.

As someone with narcolepsy, this very much sounds like narcolepsy. I also have a cpap so I use an alarm for my naps and keep them to 45 minutes.

I’m pretty certain at this point that I’m about to be forced to buy some programming socks.

I kinda love it in winter mornings when I’m a bit chilly and then I kick off a big compile or play something and there is this lovely warmth flowing from my main desktop and then I make a big cup of chai.

I bought two old Thinkpads on eBay for $20 each. They run Debian + i3 great and have become my daily portable drivers.

Edit: a new battery and ssd did bring the total up to $100 for the pair.

Couldn’t even listen to the first five seconds to hear the full question, huh?

So you’re saying systemd is the emacs of init?