brainw0rms [they/them]

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Cake day: August 31st, 2023

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  • I think learning and working with C was worth it for me. I however don’t still use it regularly (except in-so-far that I use C++ regularly, but they aren’t really comparable). I also didn’t start with it, but in retrospect when I finally did start learning C and using it in real projects, I’d say it was one of the times I significantly “leveled up” in my career.

    Its usefulness really depends on where you are already at, though. For example, I was already fairly proficient in other more abstracted languages like C#, and some scripting languages. But those don’t really give you a solid understanding of how things work on a low level, how they are implemented, what makes things go fast (or slow). I had no idea what a “pointer” was or what they are used for, for example, until I learned C. Stripping away all the abstractions that other languages offer you forces you to have to understand the basics and think about things in a different way than you otherwise would be allowed to.




  • Right, but the protests and the aftermath were pretty much over by early to mid-June. He didn’t even go to Hong Kong until August, if I remember correctly. Sure it may have been a topic of discussion while he was there, but he was not actually there during them. Just seemed incredibly silly that he kept trying to maintain the facade. He could’ve simply admitted he misremembered/misspoke (which he did sort of eventually do, only to immediately backpedal it and repeat the original claim again, to the moderator’s confusion). It was an absolute softball of a question and he completely fumbled it.



  • Yeah I’ll be honest he’s doing better than I was expecting. He’s managing to not let himself get pinned down defending stupid things Trump, and even he himself has previously said, and has been fairly charismatic and articulate. Walz sounds incoherent at times, and keeps bringing up terminally-political-brained stuff without giving sufficient elaboration/context, so most normal people won’t even understand what he’s referring to. Vance is a piece of shit for sure, but he’s surprisingly good at making Trump and himself sound palatable, if you didn’t know better.