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by zombot 1y ago
Types are a catastrophe in C++ that cannot be fixed, no matter how much cruft you bolt on after the fact. It's time to leave this dinosaur and use a sane language.
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by zombot 1y ago
By now they just declare encryption illegal and order backdoors everywhere.
633.
by zombot 1y ago
He was a consultant, not an actor.
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by zombot 1y ago
Our weekly dose of pedantry give us today!
635.
by zombot 1y ago
> only standardising existing practice But this would do nothing to introduce safety-related features, which are still sorely missing after 2+ decades. In light of upcoming regulation to exclude unsafe languages from certain new projects
636.
by zombot 1y ago
Exactly, one for the core lang, one for the stdlib. But the same overall topic.
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by zombot 1y ago
How is it technically indefensible?
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by zombot 2y ago
Such a pity. Does it have a switch to turn sycophancy back on again? Where else would us ordinary people get sycophants from?
639.
by zombot 2y ago
I was about to say, "If it can run Doom...", but actually the deamons in Windows are worse and even more hellish than those in Doom.
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by zombot 2y ago
So this has nothing to do with the Homebrew package manager on macOS? I'm confused.
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by zombot 2y ago
If-Then Considered Harmful. Seeing how that complicated if-then logic is just too stiff a challenge to your average developer, we should probably just dispense with it.
642.
by zombot 2y ago
It happens, but it's rare.
643.
by zombot 2y ago
The majority has exceedingly bad taste, that's why mediocrity and bad taste always seem to win.
644.
by zombot 2y ago
Interesting! Does it run on macOS hosts only, or does it install any macOS inside the container?
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by zombot 2y ago
> it was time to leave modern macOS behind. I can relate. But there's one thing I really find great in Sonoma: Select Cyrillic text and hit the keyboard shortcut for Speech and it pronounces the text in Russian. Select Japanese text
646.
by zombot 2y ago
What ever became of the Private Eye headset? Seems amazing for the time.
647.
by zombot 2y ago
Just like Harvard graduates hire other Harvard graduates, criminals hire other criminals.
648.
by zombot 2y ago
Nobody has ever been fired for buying Microsoft, which is a shame.
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by zombot 2y ago
Maybe they want more predictable dreams.
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by zombot 2y ago
When watching 24 season 9, I saw Catelyn Stark sick a horde of dragons (drones) on King's Landing (London) to avenge the murder of her husband Eddard. My fanciful mind makes me mix series, movies and games with each other and reality
651.
by zombot 2y ago
As a throwback to the 1980s moral panics, video games are called "murder simulators" in Thimbleweed Park. That could even be a direct quote.
652.
by zombot 2y ago
We don't even need video games for freaky and unpleasant now, just run-of-the-mill politicians. That's what progress means these days.
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by zombot 2y ago
Ha, `poet.bas` is the ancestor of all LLMs!
654.
by zombot 2y ago
Interesting to know. I'm using the Bottom symbol (Boolean false) in one of my apps for output in "mathematical" syntax.
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by zombot 2y ago
But “have AI help people share better content” is so indispensable! How could humanity ever survive without that? Even better, soon none of us will have to use social media at all, our AI bots will do it for us. Then we will finally find pe
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Empirical Data Shatters the Speed vs. Quality Myth(forbes.com)
1 points by zombot 2y ago|0 comments
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by zombot 2y ago
Not stupid, just careless. Trump has fuck-you money, he doesn't care about the rest of the country. He wants means of extortion so people have to lick his boots to get a reprieve.
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by zombot 2y ago
And C++. While it does have slightly better types than C, I can still apply functions that the compiler doesn't even warn me about and that crash my program at runtime. If I'm lucky. When the phase of the Moon is adversarial, my p
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by zombot 2y ago
> # Anyone wondering why their first seven Kubernetes clusters deploy just fine, and the eighth fails? Yay, octal numbers! But don't panic, lots of supposed C programmers fall for exactly the same trick when prefixing numbers with
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by zombot 2y ago
Yay, in one of the photos there's a giant mermaid beside the submarine! Great article.

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