@James Widman
We could probably do better.
he/him or they/them
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TIL about the explicit hatred expressed by the anti-disco movement of 1979.
@nprofile1q... unfortunately there's a lot of dependency-resolving infrastructure that now expects the "${major}.${minor}.${patch}" syntax, such that a lot of things would break if we were to migrate to a different syntax (or if you start a new software project and decide that you're going to "fix" this notation); e.g.:
https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/versioning/version_ranges.html
https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/versioning/version_ranges.html
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... so... this just popped up:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/us-lawsuit-accuses-samsung-sk-hynix-and-micron-of-worsening-the-ram-crisis-by-fixing-memory-prices-and-supply
presumably there will also be an antitrust case in ROK, so everybody stock up on popcorn-and/or-other-theater-food
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/us-lawsuit-accuses-samsung-sk-hynix-and-micron-of-worsening-the-ram-crisis-by-fixing-memory-prices-and-supply
presumably there will also be an antitrust case in ROK, so everybody stock up on popcorn-and/or-other-theater-food
This article, "C Is Not a Low-Level Language; Your Computer is Not A Fast PDP-11", by David Chisnall of Cambridge, is a critical self-assessment of C, modern CPU architectures that pander to C, and mo...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... David, re:
> A processor designed purely for speed, not for a compromise between speed and C support [...]
How feasible do you think it would be to support existing C programs on a system like that through some set of bridging extensions to the C language (maybe something reminiscent of the extensions that were added to ObjC in order to support Swift)?
Does the answer to that question change if we assume that this new architecture supports CHERI or similar?
> A processor designed purely for speed, not for a compromise between speed and C support [...]
How feasible do you think it would be to support existing C programs on a system like that through some set of bridging extensions to the C language (maybe something reminiscent of the extensions that were added to ObjC in order to support Swift)?
Does the answer to that question change if we assume that this new architecture supports CHERI or similar?
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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzd6p99dvq75u96hrvzr6ukhas3ydy6830gtje245573pfvg54xqq38c5ug I wish static analysis can warn this, but neither my compiler (clang) nor clang-tidy d...
@nprofile1q... but... what would the warning be? the pattern of "case c: { break; }" isn't obviously a bug; it could be intentional.
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Spent way too much time debugging this stupid bug. C-style switch statement is annoying.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/726/279/637/589/184/original/8bed11ee1...
@nprofile1q... this seems like the kind of thing that clangd could help with...
it already provides a code-action to auto-fill a switch with a case for each enumerator; so it seems like we ought to be able to set a config option that specifies a format string that clangd will use during auto-fill; like:
# ~/.clangd:
Completion:
NewEnumCaseFormat: "case %c: { abort(); }"
it already provides a code-action to auto-fill a switch with a case for each enumerator; so it seems like we ought to be able to set a config option that specifies a format string that clangd will use during auto-fill; like:
# ~/.clangd:
Completion:
NewEnumCaseFormat: "case %c: { abort(); }"
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Related: everyone should go to nebula and watch the 2nd episode of _Day Pass_, which is all about the free public transit system in Luxembourg.
There's lots of potential for many other free & high-quality public goods/services. And we could have all of it if-and-when we organize.
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I'm also realizing that all of those times Trump said "I stopped 7 wars! I prevented so many wars!" should have clued us in more to what he was going to do next.
His people have been primed with thi...
@nprofile1q... i thought their deal, more than anything else, is a belief in a strict hierarchy...?
so if the leader of that hierarchy feels like being isolationist this week, then they're isolationist. if he's more in the mood for war, then they're in the mood for war.
so if the leader of that hierarchy feels like being isolationist this week, then they're isolationist. if he's more in the mood for war, then they're in the mood for war.
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@nprofile1q... only problem is that the idea of a viable skynet built on slop code breaks the suspension of disbelief
@nprofile1q... ok i've heard of zulip but i have no idea whether any of the others are real, or whether this is just someone's incredible commitment to the bit
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