I mean… you can already kinda do that right? Raise your children to have similar values to you and they’ll vote like you when they grow up. That happens constantly. There’s just an 18 year latency to it. Obviously you lose the vote once they grow up to vote by themselves. I feel like you’re making a bit of a strawman out of what I’m saying here. We clearly just disagree and that’s okay.

The idea is that the parent represents the child. We don’t trust children to make an informed vote, but we trust parents to make all kinds of choices for their children, including extremely personal choices. The current alternative is to not give children a vote at all. I think letting parents choose the vote for their child is better, and fits pretty well with all the rest that parents currently choose for their child. I also think it’s better than simply letting children of all ages vote, since again, they probably won’t be able to make an informed vote.

In that regard, they already have representation by their parents’ votes.

But that vote only counts as much as one person, so it doesn’t give any more representation to the child if you ask me. My whole point is that a parent should have outsized voting power because they represent two persons, not one (okay actually each parent would get 1.5 votes as the child’s vote would be split on each parent but my point is the same).

Until they reach that point, it’s essentially their parents or guardians getting an extra vote.

Honestly I’ve sometimes thought that parents ought to be able to vote for their kids. At least that gives some form of representation to children.

They were also plain C functions in my case, but it doesn’t take too much discipline to only call it through the struct. Also, you can put the struct in a different crate which includes the C bindings to ensure that you can’t call the C bindings without the struct.

Just use the Mutex from the parking_lot crate.

The only time I’ve ever needed a Mutex<()> so far with Rust is when I had to interop with a C library which itself was not thread safe (unprotected use of global variables), so I needed to lock the placeholder mutex each time I called one of the C functions.

Actually I think in this case you’re still better off using a Mutex with “data” inside. I’ve done this before. The idea is that you make a unit struct MyCFuncs or whatever and then you only call the C functions from methods of that unit struct. Then you can only access those methods once you lock the Mutex and get the instance of the unit struct. It feel elegant to me.

I’m curious just because I never use ropes or knots - what kind of work or activity do you do where you use that regularly?

That’s hardly low tech, especially not the newer ones.

The expect lint is really great, been looking forward to that for a while.

Still waiting for more flexible const generics 🤞

I’d rather not do that :)

But you can see on SteamDB that it regularly goes on a -40% sale. I’d suggest you just put it on your wishlist and wait to get the email from Steam that it’s on sale 🙂. It hasn’t had a sale for a while now so probably won’t take long.

This looks good but I’m really not into horror at all - how much horror would you say this is?

The Talos Principle. It’s my all time favourite game. It has a sequel too that expands on the story.

It’s a puzzle game with a story that you discover while solving the puzzles. It’s kinda similar to Portal in that sense but instead of a focus on comedy, there’s a focus on philosophy. If you don’t mind reading some philosophical texts and being asked questions that will literally make you question your own value system, then definitely give it a shot.

CrossCode. Excellent fluid combat, fun puzzles and an interesting concept. But most of all, the story is great and the characters are really good. You just can’t help but love the characters the more you play I feel. Give it a shot, it’s good.

Enjoy it! I still can’t get over how good it is. Don’t even read the Steam description!

But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn’t be specific to lemmy.

It shouldn’t be lemmy specific. Lemmy is just one fediverse app.

Most anything that is US-centric, like US-only news or US-only politics. Mainly 2 reasons:

1. These threads are usually filled with heated, badly-moderated, frustrating discussions that lead nowhere.
2. I am not american, so I cannot even vote or affect things over there in any way, which just makes hearing about the chaotic state of things even more frustrating.

Thus I simply elect not to see those posts at all.

I also block most meme communities, since they otherwise fill the All feed. I can easily just go on incognito/log out to view the all feed with memes if I want a laugh (it’s not that I dislike memes in general).

For instance, it imply that some poor women are gonna take it regardless the consequence, just because it’s the best alternative to pay the bills.

How is this principally different from a poor person taking any shitty job to pay the bills? Like garbage collector or similarly unpleasant/disrespected jobs. The system always forces poor people to settle for shitty jobs. Sex work is not the issue there, the system is.

I once again encountered something where const generics for something other than the current supported types would be awesome but alas… Guess I’ll live with the inconvenience for now.