Some programming languages have really powerful type systems, so we're really leaving money on the table if we don't take full advantage of them. In the case of Rust, I believe the type system has been shown to even be Turing-complete! (That's not an injunction to implement everything at compile-time.)

I know, for myself, coming from a JavaScript background, strict type systems seemed... restrictive, at first, but I've gradually grown to love and even depend on the strong guarantees provided by languages like Rust.

This is a presentation I recently gave at a work conference in article form. I've also recorded a YouTube video version if you prefer that format.

I was born and raised in America, and for some reason I have this classic notion in my head that people should be dancing at weddings.

However, now that many of my friends from earlier in life and college are getting married, when I go to those weddings, the dance, if they even have one, is on a tiny dance floor, maybe even just a small part of their reception hall that they scooted the chairs and tables out away from.

And it turns out, many people simply don't know how to dance. Sure, not everyone is a competitive ballroom dancer, but even my non-dancer friends in college would still go to swing dancing night and mess around on the dance floor.

Now, however, people just stand on the dance floor and sway or shuffle. I am loth to even call it dancing. It just seems like people are uncomfortable and not really having fun.

What happened? Did people stop dancing?

PS: Please check out the dance community for more dance related content. I just created it and would greatly appreciate some help with getting it off the ground!

Edit: "am loathe" -> "am loth". STT is a b.

I've been a part of the dance community for about 5 years, as a ballroom dancer. I encourage you to explore the wonderful world of dancing with us over at m/dance!

/m/dance@kbin.social

https://kbin.social/m/dance

!dance@kbin.social

Hopefully the links work.

I posted a meme to a federated community (on sopuli.xyz) from kbin. It shows up fine when I view the community on kbin, but if you visit the community on the original instance, it doesn't show up. Why?

Is it possibly related to https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/104218/Lemmy-ml-is-blocking-all-requests-from-kbin-Instances ? Obviously it's a different instance, but it still seems to be a federation issue.

#kbinMeta

Jordan Belfort responded to Coffeezilla's request for comment claiming what Coffee alleged was "Wildly Misleading".

Level up your Rust skills.

This is a blog post that I update somewhat frequently with random Rust tips and tricks I use in my own personal projects.

Hope someone here finds it useful!

I recently bought a suit to go to a friend's wedding.

New vocab:

• 生地 cloth, fabric
• 生地感 texture of fabric
• 縮める bring in the sides/waist/legs
• 仕立て tailoring, fitting
• 直線的 linear
• 曲線的 curved (style for broad-shouldered as opposed to 直線的 for skinny guys)
• 既製 off-the-shelf, ready-to-wear (as opposed to パターンオーダー)
• お渡し ready, done

What new vocab have you learned in-context recently?

最近、何かを読みながら「忠実」という言葉に出会ったが、ふりがなはなぜか予想の「ちゅう・じつ」の代わりに「ま・め」だった！辞書になかったから、投稿の記事を見つけた。

記事の纏め：

「水面」と書いて「すいめん」と「みなも」。また、「最中」と書いて「さいちゅう」と「もなか」。 漢字の中には、こんなふうにまったく同じ漢字なのに二つの読み方をするものが少なくありません。 そこでこの記事では、上記のように“二つの読み方がある漢字”をピックアップしてご紹介。あなたはいくつ読めるでしょうか？

What are the best programming or tech blogs out there? I'm trying to revitalize my RSS subscriptions.

#programming