general category of stuff that has exactly one widespread implementation, in OpenCV, one nice-looking reimplementation with like 30 GitHub stars in a language I don't use, and then a long tail of student-project/hacky-looking reimplementations that I don't trust https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01KMKERP2MWDH2TEN0Z7EJ356B

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"You should use numeric values of those from your system syslog.h file, because I haven’t got time to implement yet another hash table."

PLT Steam. R5RS Steam

"a goat on the Unix farm"

Is there something better/simpler than ZeroMQ for "I want a 'socket' that can deliver a multipart message atomically"

(that is, the parts all get delivered or none do, the parts can be arbitrary byte arrays, it communicates the part boundaries/lengths, and I can disconnect & reconnect client to reach a 'fresh' server state if things go wrong)

Need a barcode scanner that also gives me the entire surrounding camera image at the moment that it detects a barcode

"the exponential growth of modes as mutable properties are added, as was the case with EGLConfig/WGL pixel formats/GLXFBConfig"

"quirk options" https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/00329f8b8f/embedded/www/tcllib/files/modules/uri/uri.html#section5