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Cake day: February 22nd, 2026

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  • No, I agree, I guess my point was - I thought I wouldn’t have to as much, which I guess most people think when buying a robot vacuum or any other robot. Hence the reaction of many people when they see a new robot is - we’re cooked. Yes, in terms of sheer manual, automatable labour, we may be. But not for anything requiring some intelligence. The surprising thing is - turns out a lot of things can be automated and thus useful.


  • I have one of those lidar xiaomi robot vacuums with a mop. It would frequently jam and I would have to make sure to not leave chairs and stuff lying around to be able to make it run. But then new, creative ways of jamming would pop up every now and then. I HATED adapting my house for a stupid robot and used it less and less. When my daughter was born it was all over - forget about it, toys everywhere, I prefer having a dusty house.




  • I’m not proficient enough in Go to say how good or bad it is, but I have tried it in the past and it made and immediately not like it. Verbose syntax, no null safety or any error handling, no templates at that time, people literally copy/pasted the code of containers for different data types and did find/replace on it. The only feature that was kind of convenient is goroutines. For my money, Kotlin and even Java were more modern looking and would prefer them to go any day. Also not apples to apples comparison, but far more similar than rust.


  • Is it just me or does comparing go and rust make very little sense? Other than being popular and relatively new, they have almost nothing else in common. Rust is multi domain language design to be as versatile as possible, very intentionally limited with a set of carefully chosen constraints. Not intended to be particularly easy or quick to use, by design. Go is very clearly web-biased, centered for backend, microservices, not universal by design. Syntax very C like, verbose, feels low level, but actually batteries included. Really, the only thing in common with rust is that it is very popular with developers, but again for very different reasons. People who like rust often hate go and vice versa. You can tell by the comments in this thread too.