Notices by luna, only carbon now (luna@pony.social)

“Ah,’ said Arthur, who — for reasons which are unlikely to become clear — found himself in attendance at a C++ committee meeting, ‘this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.”

at the retail park. straight up "gerking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My whopper.

Do you have a thing for dominant women with sultry voices degrading you?
Would you like to have a thing for that?

Play Portal today!

closing all my jira tickets as “by design, won’t fix” because the purpose of a system is what it does

and another thing that cohost got right and nobody else does

the option to hide reblogs when visiting someone's profile so you can see just their own original posts

let he who is without sin approximate it with a taylor series

Re that poll I shared, the correct answer is of course to use literally any other language than C++

so you know how the "warning, vehicle reversing" noise changed from using a beep to using a white-noise burst because it's much easier to pinpoint the location?

we should do that for the smoke alarm low-battery chirp too, because there's one going off somewhere in my apartment building and i think it's in the vacant unit next to mine but i can't pinpoint it properly

[alright, let's try this one again, hopefully I didn’t make any glaring errors this time]

Did you know that humans are fallible?

Did you know that programmers are humans?

Did you know that sometimes programmers make typos?

Did you know that you can mistype a += b as a =+ b and it’ll still compile/run, so long as the language you’re programming in has a unary plus operator, and the return type of +b is assignable to a?

Did you know that it’s even easier to make the same mistake with a -= b as a =- b because unary minus seems to be more commonly available?

Did you know that you can also do this with if (a != b) as if (a =! b) in cases where the result of an assignment expression can be interpreted as a bool, a is mutable, and the unary not operator is also a thing that exists?

Did you know that you can catch the latter case by making a immutable, but that won’t work for the earlier cases?

Did you know that these mistakes might be slightly easier to spot if you use a code formatter that rearranges the whitespace to a = +b etc, but even that still depends on the reader noticing the discrepancy between the intended behavior and the code as written, and in the case of a = -b it might even be harder to spot that something’s wrong?

Did you know that in JavaScript you can typo if (a >= b) as if (a => b) and neither immutability nor the formatter will save you? (But a good linter might.)

Note: The correct response to everything I’ve just written is “oh no”.

(also on my blog, with additional footnotes: https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/operator-transposition/)

You can do this for exponents, too!

A lot of people don’t know this one weird trick — much like JavaScript, C also lets you perform arithmetic with mixed types:

While today it’s near-ubiquitous to have both, early CPUs often featured a ‘mul’ instruction while lacking a corresponding ‘div’

Meanwhile, as of 2024, HTML is the only major language to feature ‘div’ but no ‘mul’

Things you can say in the Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Pepperoni-Salame cooking instructions and also in your Grindr bio:

gonna go around town stapling these to the telephone poles

I own seven domains.

Most of them expire around sept/oct time, so I get a lot of renewal emails all at once.

This makes me think about domains.

I own eight domains.

> go to “gas” station
> squeeze the pump
> it's liquid

totally unrelated to my new expensive hobby — if anyone’s hiring for ex-gamedev C++ programmers with a decade of experience, hit me up?

(UK remote ideally)

y’know if you could tell teenage Luna that she’d be spending a Sunday evening in her 30s watching chemistry lectures of her own free will, she’d think you were mad

> buy kodak gold film
> look inside the emulsion
> it's silver

wtf did i get scammed?

Delivery options, as someone with ADHD:

⚪️ Next day (extremely convenient)
⚪️ Two weeks (you will forget and be pleasantly surprised when it arrives)
⚪️ 3-4 days (you will be stuck in waiting mode, constantly checking the tracking information, unable to do anything until it arrives)