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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I like Nim and many concepts of it with the big point of discussion being that function names get normalized (helloWorld === hello_world).

    But I feel like that Nim is a language without purpose. It’s all nice and cool on paper, but it has no use case where I think “I have to do it in Nim”.

    Go is known for making small, fast startup web apps, Python for making small one time tasks or Data work, Rust low level programming if you like functional programming, PHP if you want yo setup a website as fast as possible.

    But Nim doesn’t have this, it doesn’t have a library that’s better than in all other languages. It’s nice but what for?




  • I used the chat feature semi-regularly to chat with people about more private stuff. It was mostly about exchanging in creative endeavours, sharing what we had before posting it to Reddit.

    So I am a bit moved now that they want to delete it.

    But I also hated Reddit’s implementation of it. Under certain circumstances it wouldn’t load older messages and worst of all it was only available on the official app, not even their mobile web app. So continuing my chats forced me to use my desktop, or to try out the app which was horrible.

    At this point, let Reddit burn in their mistakes and hopefully the others will make it better.





  • If we randomly assume they were halfway down (no idea on where they actually were but as a blind guess 50% is a good starting point)

    The wreck was found 500m away from the wreck of the Titanic, the Titan descends in a curve and not straight downwards, gives pretty good indication that they were near the depth of the ocean floor. Combine that with the fact that they descended faster than anticipated and that they lost communication right around the time they were supposed to reach the lowet point, I think they were close to the ocean floor.

    But cautiously saying half is probably better.