> The myth of DNS “propagation” needs to die. What's the actual issue? Are you being frustrated by people laboring under the assumption that DNS records are being sent by carrier pidgeon or something? > There is no…
> Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? Yes. No. Yes. I've worked in gamedev, helping ship code that ran on consoles. Nice fixed hardware targets. You OOM, you crash. We crashed a lot,…
C++'s stdlib collection algorithms were basically all mutate-in-place instead of return-a-new-value until C++20 introduced ranges, and I still don't know anyone who actually uses those. By contrast, people actually use…
> But you can learn to phrase your WTFs about your colleague's code politely and constructively. I would even argue that this an absolutely basic skill for professionals. It typically leads to faster and better answers…
I don't want the private API key I temporarily hardcoded in my public history. Nor do I want the drag of worrying about so much as sneezing in the general vicinity of a secret in my editor window, when I already self…
I'll note that speedrunners absolutely buffer mid-pipeline in Factorio, and not just for hand-crafting purpouses. Sometimes you're waiting for R&D, sometimes you're just running half the machines for twice as long,…
> That's the point, std::byte is for opaque bytes. You're not expected to do arithmetic directly just like you can't do arithmetic on void. That'd make a whole lot more sense to me if `std::byte` didn't explicitly…
To be fair, the `void*` is already a pretty big hint that you're in the danger zone.
> if somewhere in the plumbing you connect the wrong source to the wrong destination, you get no warning. A valid concern. I've been in the position of having to fix those bugs. I'm not going to recommend `qsort` over…
> Fair point (although to be honest: 'complexify' feels a bit of an exaggeration here to me) Both uint8_t and std::byte require a header (<cstdint> or <cstddef>) which may expose you to platform x config specific build…
TIL the horror that is the existence of non-serializable isolation. I'm a gamedev. I've worked alongside webdevs (frontend and backend) that build our websites and forums. Alongside coworkers who handle networking stuff…
> I disagree that you'll find "many red flags for any job" If they're hiding the many red flags, that's the biggest red flag of all!
> If you're steeped deeply enough in that NDA-preserving culture If you've throroughly absorbed a culture of honoring non disclosure agreements (NDAs), which are legal contracts demanding you keep secrets and avoid…
> Like seriously, what's the point of explicitly allowing this? Explicit permission can be useful to preemptively cut off some questions from well meaning people who, acting in good faith, might otherwise pester for…
My trick: Walk to meals and other excursions/shopping in lieu of driving. If I leave on a walk for the exclusive purpouse of "exercise", I immediately feel bored, and like I'm wasting time, even if I "know" I'm not.…
My family accepts me just the way I am a bit too much. I can't bring myself to blame them, when past "reformist" pressures have been misguided/misapplied and backfired, but I recognize the trap. It'd also be…
Trade is just a combination of give and take. I give you X, and in exchange, take Y. Without the "take", it's not a trade, it's just a gift.
> Interesting you single out commercial and government entities but not people. What defines the difference? Bureaucracy? Concentration of resources? Legal theory? Not OP, but for me, kind family and friends, and…
I use a horrific mix of: • Markdown (most of my notes these days, supplanting my previous use of plaintext.) • Single-file HTML (when my use case for fancy documents exceeds markdown's limits. While you can embed HTML…
> One explaination for that would be stripping "out of scope" macros that the sublibrary depends on but wishes to avoid including. Another explaination would be the original source being multi-file, with the single-file…
> no commit history, 10k+ lines of complicated code This kind of pattern is incredibly common when e.g. a sublibrary of a closed source project is extracted from a monorepository. Search for "_LICENSE" in the source…
(Rust has a similar fn: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.isize.html#method.ch... )
In fact, Windows 10+ now uses a thread pool during process init well before main is reached. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920132133/https://blogs.bla...
> video games Often use dynamic/scripting languages to improve iteration on gameplay code, even if a lot of the fundamental underlying code is native. And add dev-time hot reloading wherever we can so when you change a…
Record low launch temperatures are exactly the kind of boundary pushing conditions that would warrant unmanned testing in a way that not all of those previous 25 would have been. Then again, so was the first launch, and…
> The myth of DNS “propagation” needs to die. What's the actual issue? Are you being frustrated by people laboring under the assumption that DNS records are being sent by carrier pidgeon or something? > There is no…
> Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? Yes. No. Yes. I've worked in gamedev, helping ship code that ran on consoles. Nice fixed hardware targets. You OOM, you crash. We crashed a lot,…
C++'s stdlib collection algorithms were basically all mutate-in-place instead of return-a-new-value until C++20 introduced ranges, and I still don't know anyone who actually uses those. By contrast, people actually use…
> But you can learn to phrase your WTFs about your colleague's code politely and constructively. I would even argue that this an absolutely basic skill for professionals. It typically leads to faster and better answers…
I don't want the private API key I temporarily hardcoded in my public history. Nor do I want the drag of worrying about so much as sneezing in the general vicinity of a secret in my editor window, when I already self…
I'll note that speedrunners absolutely buffer mid-pipeline in Factorio, and not just for hand-crafting purpouses. Sometimes you're waiting for R&D, sometimes you're just running half the machines for twice as long,…
> That's the point, std::byte is for opaque bytes. You're not expected to do arithmetic directly just like you can't do arithmetic on void. That'd make a whole lot more sense to me if `std::byte` didn't explicitly…
To be fair, the `void*` is already a pretty big hint that you're in the danger zone.
> if somewhere in the plumbing you connect the wrong source to the wrong destination, you get no warning. A valid concern. I've been in the position of having to fix those bugs. I'm not going to recommend `qsort` over…
> Fair point (although to be honest: 'complexify' feels a bit of an exaggeration here to me) Both uint8_t and std::byte require a header (<cstdint> or <cstddef>) which may expose you to platform x config specific build…
TIL the horror that is the existence of non-serializable isolation. I'm a gamedev. I've worked alongside webdevs (frontend and backend) that build our websites and forums. Alongside coworkers who handle networking stuff…
> I disagree that you'll find "many red flags for any job" If they're hiding the many red flags, that's the biggest red flag of all!
> If you're steeped deeply enough in that NDA-preserving culture If you've throroughly absorbed a culture of honoring non disclosure agreements (NDAs), which are legal contracts demanding you keep secrets and avoid…
> Like seriously, what's the point of explicitly allowing this? Explicit permission can be useful to preemptively cut off some questions from well meaning people who, acting in good faith, might otherwise pester for…
My trick: Walk to meals and other excursions/shopping in lieu of driving. If I leave on a walk for the exclusive purpouse of "exercise", I immediately feel bored, and like I'm wasting time, even if I "know" I'm not.…
My family accepts me just the way I am a bit too much. I can't bring myself to blame them, when past "reformist" pressures have been misguided/misapplied and backfired, but I recognize the trap. It'd also be…
Trade is just a combination of give and take. I give you X, and in exchange, take Y. Without the "take", it's not a trade, it's just a gift.
> Interesting you single out commercial and government entities but not people. What defines the difference? Bureaucracy? Concentration of resources? Legal theory? Not OP, but for me, kind family and friends, and…
I use a horrific mix of: • Markdown (most of my notes these days, supplanting my previous use of plaintext.) • Single-file HTML (when my use case for fancy documents exceeds markdown's limits. While you can embed HTML…
> One explaination for that would be stripping "out of scope" macros that the sublibrary depends on but wishes to avoid including. Another explaination would be the original source being multi-file, with the single-file…
> no commit history, 10k+ lines of complicated code This kind of pattern is incredibly common when e.g. a sublibrary of a closed source project is extracted from a monorepository. Search for "_LICENSE" in the source…
(Rust has a similar fn: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.isize.html#method.ch... )
In fact, Windows 10+ now uses a thread pool during process init well before main is reached. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920132133/https://blogs.bla...
> video games Often use dynamic/scripting languages to improve iteration on gameplay code, even if a lot of the fundamental underlying code is native. And add dev-time hot reloading wherever we can so when you change a…
Record low launch temperatures are exactly the kind of boundary pushing conditions that would warrant unmanned testing in a way that not all of those previous 25 would have been. Then again, so was the first launch, and…