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This was a good blog post. I particularly appreciated the statement about the validate and parse function comparison: "Both of these functions check the same thing, but parseNonEmpty gives the caller access to the information it learned, while validateNonEmpty just throws it away."

Is that a water dispenser? I need something like that.

I would love to see professional chess players give this a fair chance. The clock could stop when they declare their move verbally (ensuring that the game doesn't devolve into an endurance test) and start up again for the next player upon the move being completed.

That's something I haven't heard before about the memory safety. In what ways is it not memory-safe?

At first I was disappointed to see this, but after looking into it it looks like they weren't using hyper as a means to migrate the project to Rust. If they're not going to move away from C, it seems like a fair decision.

There is a market for a game engine that uses algebraic variables and geometry to guarantee purely accurate collision detection. That said, a bit of searching shows that it's going to be much slower then current approximate approaches.

Do you happen to know of a few situations where bloom filters are super useful? I need to identify when to use them.

I feel almost the exact opposite. I don't feel any progression and I do not enjoy the PvP elements of the game at all. I'm glad that you enjoy it, though.

Edit: by comparison, I've recently started playing Deep Rock Galactic and feel a great sense of progression without the game-ending effects of PvP. Losing a ship in Eve is a guaranteed time loss.

I tried GW2, but I'm just not a fan of the graphics. There are also numerous clipping issues throughout the world. With a game as old as GW2, it worries me that simple vertex issues still exist. I need to see what end-game looks like, though. Maybe it's worth it, idk.

I remember Click (2006) being very sad, but I haven't watched it in a long time.

The episode "The Sign" of Bluey, the end.

I've been playing for the past year and I'm about to quit. It really demands so much time and being on coms. I want an MMO that I can play while I have videos or a movie going on the other monitor.

I've wanted to get back into Elite Dangerous but I wasn't even aware that it was an MMO. What am I missing?

The aliens haven't yet consumed our planet in this timeline. Consider yourself lucky.

Even if you were using the builder pattern, this maintains the immutable variable in the parent scope while you use the mutable variable's builder pattern methods (basically exactly as my example demonstrates) in the inner scope.

edit: Oh, I think you mean you would chain the builder pattern calls and assign it to an immutable variable. Sure, that makes sense if you own the struct.

I prefer to encapsulate a mutable reference to the instance in a scope.

 rust

    
let post_form = {
    let mut post_form = PostInsertForm::new(
        // your constructor arguments
    );
    post_form.some_mutating_method(
        // mutation arguments
    );
    post_form
};


  

This way you're left with an immutable instance and you encapsulate all of the logic needed to setup the instance in one place.

The Majority Report. It's awesome. https://m.youtube.com/@TheMajorityReport

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I've literally sat down in city centers surrounded by buildings. It's an amazing feeling.

I wish I could experience that. I wish our sci-fi fairytales of space travel were happening now. Alas, I must simply exist in a life lived better than a king of old, living longer than our ancestors, with food untasted by the billions before us, and all while I fly around in space within Eve Online while watching Star Trek. Life is great, but it's so easy to want it to be just that much better.