Ramy El Garawany

One of the most easily solvable problems plaguing mankind right now: >>> quit Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

I’ve been using VSCode for a couple of years now, and I gotta say, it’s such a high-quality product. Kudos to Microsoft for getting it right. The clang-based “Intellisense” ain’t half bad either.

This has been the worst LA winter in the history of LA winters, maybe ever.

Can confirm that the “hangover after more than 2 drinks when you’re 30” meme that I kept hearing about in my early/mid 20s turned out to actually be true.

I’m a full-on Rust fanboy at this point. Using C++ at work now feels like I’m back in the Stone Age. But I wonder what Rust would be like in massive multi-million line projects. It’s easy to like a programming language when you’re using it for <100k SLoC toy projects..

I remember I was hurrying to cross a busy intersection at a red light in San Francisco once, when a man stopped in a car yelled “YEAH THAT’S RIGHT! RUN FATASS!” I was very confused - I wasn’t even fat. I was actually in pretty good shape.

FPGA development tools are much better than when I first used them ~5-6 years ago. Vivado is infinitely better than that nightmare known as ISE.

I always thought that “using namespace” directives imported names into the current namespace. Just found out it actually imports it into the **nearest common ancestor of the target namespace**. Wtf?? Reason # 547 of why C++ is a terrible language.

Rust’s new Non-Lexical Lifetimes really make the borrow checker sooo much nicer to deal with.

Just finished binge-reading Bad Blood. What I expected to be an eyeroll-worthy snoozefest turned out surprisingly to be an exciting thriller! Almost makes Silicon Valley seem exciting... almost.

Airline seating tiers are starting to get out of hand. First Class Premier Economy+ Economy Comfort+ Economy Sky Priority 2.3++ Economy Comfort- Economy I-Just-Wanna-Feel-Superior-To-Other-People Economy Economy Basic Economy Seriously-You-Cheap-Bastard Peasant Just Fuck Off

Coming back to using Rust after a year+ break is great. Some of my complaints (re smooth Result handling) are mostly resolved. Back to work on my Gameboy emulator. Stay tuned!

I feel like country music is just a conspiracy by Big Auto to sell pickup trucks.

The picture is even more skewed when you look at top 0.1% earners: 53% of all cap gains, $3.8M on average. If you want to tax the “landed gentry” that most people envision rich people are, then tax LTCG.

The blockchain for hyper-parameter tuning.