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

“Fragments of Self”

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You know how spelling bees are largely an english-speaking thing, and that countries whose languages are phonetically consistent don't really have them?

I think about that a lot when I see people posting C++ brainteasers.

who called it Adobe’s Generative AI and not Photoslop?

finally clearing through the 400+ browser tabs I’ve accumulated on my phone, apparently some of them are old enough that they’ve link-rotted already

You know how people in tech often dream of pursuing farming?

C++ friends, is there a standard way to iterate over unicode code points (not code units) in a string (or i guess a u8string)?

edit: yes i know how to decode utf8 manually, my query is about the stl specifically

Consider this code. One thread repeatedly prints the number 100 in decimal to std::cout. Another thread repeatedly prints the number 0x100 in hex (which will output as '100') to std::cout.

You might reasonably expect that the output will simply be '100' over and over and over.

Unfortunately, the calls to operator<< can get interleaved so you end up with crosstalk of the format specifiers:

questions that can really derail a sunday evening:

is std::cout thread-safe?

(not in the way you'd want it to be, no)

it's always fun when you're trying to build software with a compiler that's old enough that its C preprocessor doesn't support such novel features as variadic macros

Feeling Insecure About Your C Knowledge? Relax, This Compiler From 1996 Hasn't Read The C99 Spec Either!

"british people can't drive" factoid actualy just statistical error. average british driver has 0 accidents per year. Dashcams Georg, who runs a content mill & uploads over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

dashcams youtube is one of my guilty pleasures, especially british and australian ones

memory unsafety may cause a lot of software crashes, but it also helps a lot of people jailbreak their game consoles, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

no wonder c++ is such a mess, bjarne's solution to the footguns has always been to just put his feet somewhere else

“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