I mean surely it could at least be optimized somewhat…
Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, “Hey, let’s ruin my weekend.” Migrated the server. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I heard btrfs was the bee’s knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple’s cock. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory. Everything still works perfectly fine.
Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend? Nope.
Was this a good use of my time? Fuck no.
Did it need to happen? Does the pope compile from source in the woods?
I’ll just steal the wheel and reinvent it later
Tech bro strat.
Better make sure the wheel isn’t under copyright tho!
We’d rather re-create reality where we know everything rather than taking the time to learn how to use a system someone else wrote.
IT and DevOPS does this too.
I worked with a group once that re-invented XML so that non-technical people could create text-based rules instead of writing code. But it ended up with a somewhat rigid naming structure with control characters and delimiters. The non technical people hated it more the actual XML they had used prior.
I woulda tried them on JSON. As long as they use an editor that keeps track of nested brackets I think it’s much more natural than XML.
You’re talking about YAML? /s
LOL. not far off
They started out with something close to YAML. As the project moved forward, they found out they needed to represent logic with interlinked sections. They needed section 3, point a to link back to section 1 point 3, sub point 2. So they toyed with some assembly-like operations. Then they needed some inheritance. They really just slowly re-implemented the common applications of xml one at a time, it just had less brackets and <> symbols when they were done.
I feel this! When I need to do something in my computer my first impulse is usually to think about writing the code. Doesn’t matter how many free tools are already around. Why? Because software design and coding is fun! It’s not cost-effective in terms of time and effort, but way more fun than reading a manual for an existing thing and getting good at that thing. Example: right now I’m looking at a self-hosted wiki to organize my upcoming D&D campaign. As I look through the docs for dokowiki and wikijs I’m already thinking, how hard can it be to write one? A mind is terrible thing!
“Or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, saw plus trap”
One of the worst parts about this is that I would never have thought about reinventing it until he told me not to.
Bloody reverse psychology still working on me. >:(
As if I don’t have a stash of previously reinvented wheels to choose from in my personal code. Buuuut, who can resist reinventing the wheel for the 25th time?
Does the wheel fall under any cumbersome non free licenses or patents? If I want to modify this wheel to suit my needs, then share that work and information with others, am I free to do so?
It is MIT licensed, but it’s not implemented in rust.
Clearily it must therefore be rewritten.
If I want to modify this wheel to suit my needs
Steepled fingers
Evil laughing
Another victim!!!
The wheel is Open Domain and does not belong to anyone.
But it doesn’t conform to every cars specifications! A new standard must be invented!
All those wheels made without any unit tests. What was humanity thinking?
Developer: Kill me if you must but i’ve turned the wheel into a modular service called systemd-wheel
Investor: Can the wheel be made into a subscription service?
GNOME developer: “Stop forcing us to use wheels! Why can’t you just import GTK in your project?”
Joke’s on you, the wheel was reinvented plenty of times.
I bet the wheel would be better if it was written in Rust.
(Disclaimer: I have never actually written Rust.)
Hello, Rust developer. [My name, etc.] It works fine, and is written in C++. [Rest of challenge is the same.]
Truly diabolical
But it’s not memory safe!!
I know!! How can Jigsaw claim it “works fine”? He’d probably say something like “it’s battle-tested and state of the art.” What does that even mean??
Military-grade.
*passes Valgrind*
Look, I’m not saying the wheel is wrong. It rotates, but what if two people try to turn the wheel at the same time, in opposite directions?
What if—instead of risking misuse of the wheel—we have a
my_wheel::Wheel, which only one person can rotate at any given time? The multiverse could enforce this safety at compile time by making it impossible for there to exist a universe where two people both think they own the right to rotate the wheel. In fact, it could even make it impossible for me to lend out the wheel to more than one person at a time.And, maybe… we could make the wheel even better. Cars rest on top of wheels, sure. But what if I wanted to make a car that rests on top of other cars? If we rotate the super-car’s wheels, we don’t want to make the sub-cars flap around—we want the sub-car wheels to rotate. It would be more future-proof to make a
Wheeltrait, then to makeRubberTyreimplementWheel. Then, if we ever needed to make cars into wheels, we could have them also implementWheel—but delegate the responsibility of rotating to their own wheels.In fact, we should make it into a whole library. Our other projects could need wheels. Mr. Mittens might need them eventually!
If the goal is speed then just use a few turbofish.
Disclaimer: I have never actually written Rust.
neither have most of the people advocating for (or against) rewriting stuff in Rust lol
I’ll have you know, I’ve started several projects in Rust!
Only to realize I don’t have time to do unpaid work even if it IS fun.
rust is a terrible material for wheels. Corrosion is not usually a good thing.
You just have to rebrand it as “iron-based ceramic”.
I shudder at the thought of potholes.
I guess we’ll have to reinvent a pneumatic tire as well to protect it.
I think they mean to write the word “wheel” into surface rust.
I’m thinking WaaS
Circular thinking
