My graduation cap runs Rust(ericswpark.com)
132 pointsby ericswpark6 hours ago15 comments
  • rustybolt7 minutes ago
    > Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture.

    Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.

  • katzgrau5 hours ago
    > It probably would’ve been easier if I didn’t use Rust and just used the Arduino libraries, or if I used a different board. But I was really married to this blog post title idea

    Worth it, nicely done

  • 0cf8612b2e1e6 hours ago
    If you go to a bigger school, they have multiple graduation ceremonies. Split the rental amongst anyone who does not share a time slot with you.

    That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.

    • dhosek5 hours ago
      I skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myself in need of such, a scenario I cannot imagine ever coming to pass.
      • irishcoffee4 hours ago
        Yeah, I skipped mine too. I was not (and am not) at all proud of my box-checking degrees.

        I had a blast in undergrad, not at all because of the classes.

        • llbbdd3 hours ago
          Same here, walking across the stage in a dress is for the school, not for you. Got my paper, bye
    • tombert4 hours ago
      I just did online school and didn't bother showing up to any kind of ceremony. I was 30 when I finally finished school, I didn't really feel the need to prove anything.
  • hona_mind4 hours ago
    Genuinely the best use of "I was really married to this blog post title idea" as a justification for a technical decision I've ever read. Congrats!
  • LandenLove5 hours ago
    I am pretty sure I purchased my cap and gown instead of renting. But my college was a bit smaller.
    • wolpoli3 hours ago
      At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.
    • airstrike4 hours ago
      Wouldn't the purchase option be priced at a multiple to the rental?
      • xboxnolifes3 hours ago
        OP paid $94 to rent their gown. I'm pretty sure I paid less than that (if not a comparable price) to buy mine. Thank god it wasn't multiple more, I only wore it for 5 minutes for a picture, since I graduated during Covid.
    • bigstrat20033 hours ago
      Yeah, there was no option to rent at my school. I purchased those things, not that I'll ever use them again.
  • kmoser4 hours ago
    > So you do need to shell out to rent them. And they don’t give you the option to buy the cap and gown outright.

    You can't buy them from a 3rd party? Maybe a cheap Spirit Halloween costume? Maybe even make your own from cardboard and a black napkin or two?

    • thekevan3 hours ago
      Then you probably won't match the rest of the class.
  • florilegiumson5 hours ago
    Living in the PE side of software, with its EBITDA and other metrics, poorly researched product initiatives, senseless firefighting, and toxic bro cultures, it's nice to be reminded some of the reasons I got into this. Thank you.
  • brcmthrowaway2 hours ago
    Oh to be young and have oodles of free time again
  • Aperocky6 hours ago
    > I thought about it but decided it looks pretty tacky. It looks like what kids would think of as a gaming PC and what boomers would think of as a seizure.

    Missed chance to be a school legend and initiation of a career launching arc.

    • Waterluvian6 hours ago
      I think if designed in a way where it’s subtle when off/low and at appropriate times can be activated on-demand, that would be great.

      But to be in a crowd of people all dressed the same, all graduating as well, having a gaming PC on your head might be too much main character energy.

      • invalidSyntax4 hours ago
        I don't recall that there is a situation that you can turn on gaming RGB on your head. Someone suddenly starting to shine is as bad as keep shining. It's just either stealing everyone's concentration near you or give a jump scare to how ever was unlucky to look at your direction when you turned it on.
        • Waterluvian4 hours ago
          Say you’re at the reception after and you want to take a few photos with friends and family.

          Or the traditional post-commencement board mortaring where you light up and throw it into the air.

          Actually that gives me an idea: a grad cap that is also a drone. So when you throw it up with everyone in celebration yours just keeps going.

          Goodbye hat. I uploaded my student debt into you. Don’t come back.

  • classified2 hours ago
    Cool project. And it goes to show how this education system is scammed out to the max, even cap and gown.
  • pipeline_peak3 hours ago
    If there’s anything I really want written in Rust, it’s a Chrome extension to filter out all the HN posts about Rust.
    • yjftsjthsd-h43 minutes ago
      That seems unnecessary. JavaScript is memory safe.
    • unrealhoang2 hours ago
      Or to automatically write command bitching about it.
  • jasonmp855 hours ago
    [dead]
  • wotsdat4 hours ago
    [dead]
  • Ferret74465 hours ago
    1. No it doesn't, it runs machine code.

    2. Yet again we have the need to announce Rust to the world, when the usage of it is inconsequential in this context

    • fluffybucktsnek12 minutes ago
      Do you go on every project that announces itself to be written in C/C++/Zig/Fil-C/Java/etc. and make those same complaints? That must be tiring.
    • outside12344 hours ago
      I bet you are fun at parties
      • dylan6044 hours ago
        As much as anyone else talking about Rust or programming at. a. party.
  • jdw645 hours ago
    If Rust could create the girlfriend I still do not have, I think I would have learned Rust by now.
    • ozten3 hours ago
      There is a joke around ownership or borrowing that I'm going to take the high road and not make.
    • AnthonyR5 hours ago
      [dead]