Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout

somehow going from believing that What-I-Do unconditionally helped to make the world a better place to seeing it as social asbestos with no safe minimum level of exposure

@mhoye@cosocial.ca this is to me what makes this whole fucking thing an anti-technology, negative space of invention like for a while i thought they were just, idk, "hiding" the interface? because thry thought it was clunky or something? and it turns out it literally doesn't have one, there isn't a way to actually direct or "use" the fucking abomination, it's assault on thought all the way down @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place the trick is coding with intent to provoke emotion in the reader (personally all my code is intended to evoke a fight or flight response)

@eniko but just think of all the extra time you could have for clicking the LGTM button, progressing tickets through Jira manually, assuming personal liability, and all the other ✨fun✨ parts of the job!

@thephd aw hell yea in addition to the primary use, im super excited for an alternative usage it enables which ive wanted for many years: #define let_in(TMP, VAL, EXP) _Generic((VAL) \ , typeof (VAL) TMP: (EXP)) // temporary variables within expressions! int x = let_in(tmp, side_effects(), tmp > 10 ? tmp : tmp - 1); finally you can write a correct max macro lol (what i think of as "lightweight lambdas" - all i want is a name binding, don't need the complexity of anything bigger)

@fancysandwiches it seems just about anything can be classified as "faster" if you simply choose not to count time spent on parts of the problem as "working on it" someone recently "improved" the time to complete a task from ~2hr to ~4days but so long as the first 3.99 days can somehow be justified as "not counting", they can call it faster i think it's half and half: there is pressure to deny reality, there is also the perennial inability of enterprise programmers to accurately estimate any task, past or future: i think some folks genuinely aren't perceiving the time spent @daisy

@joe liked it better when there was only one obvious candidate :(

@skyfaller the existence of any space that does not reaffirm Received Truth is inherently a threat to it @xgranade @jwz

@thomholwerda good industrial design is one of the ultimate "if you do it right people will think you did nothing at all" jobs @eniko

you can't steal something that was freely given

@level98@mastodon.social well, u ope they are anyway @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party

hahaha lol wow it is not in fact the most MISRA-ful time of anything, but because my approach to dealing with stress is "run away, hide, do not open emails for four weeks at a time" i was unaware that the meeting was cancelled 😅😓🤦‍♀️ oh well, back in the other direction we go 🎶

@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog a cognitohazard 🤢 @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@graydon to add to which, doesn't mean we couldn't attempt to answer the top question - the meaning of that answer is already different for different people - but would pollute the data by doing so @LilahTovMoon

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt on a personal level (and i don't think i can say this with the safety-critical hat anywhere near me lol) i do think that if you're not extending the syntax, you're not writing with the full language syntactic abstractions are one of your tools for expression if your high-level logic expresses things like allocation modes you should feel safe expressing your intent with blocks like no_gc { /* statements */ } or summat the ideal of any API is composability obviously, many C interfaces (of all kinds) fail dramatically at it @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

@uecker actually yeah seems you can, which is strictly better since duplicate expansion always adds the risk of exploding the size of the result even when it's guaranteed by typeof not to evaluate at runtime thanks for the reminder! @thephd

@addison considered outright leaving the field if we end up steering towards these tools being not just commonplace nobody solicited my opinion, but i feel like this is the only good option if the choice is "get with the times or be left behind", i choose to jump off (ive started working on making this part happen - better a massive pay cut than to work with these things) @regehr

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt this is about as far as i got when experimenting to see if such a thing as dict-passing would be plausible https://gist.github.com/AlexCeleste/a2f5dc3ddae9144ac99a59824446a2e7 i guess it's an exercise in seeing which sharp corners would need to be sanded off the core language "...several" @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt well, you get into interesting library design philosophy questions there a well-designed library interface for any feature shouldn't leave the user needing to think about how its macros expand any more than they usually should think about what lies behind a function call boundary - which is a non-zero amount of the time but it is comparatively very low (obviously anything built with #include INCREMENT failed hard at the first hurdle but ygwim) @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

@uecker@mastodon.social oooh i had forgotten about the Elvis operator, glad that got in, i had wanted to vote yes on that

@stroz@infosec.exchange absolutely been asking myself this question recently and the answer is similar @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

@Fiona typeof is the way that it is expressly for inter-language compatibility decltype chose a different keyword at the time it was introduced because C++ needs additional semantics that aren't in the GCC precedent and would retroactively break C if it was given that name the name was therefore intentionally left available by WG21 for the C Committee to do something with typeof can still be trivially implemented as a macro using features from if you need it for compatibility in C++ @typeswitch

@Njord@zeroes.ca tbh i still don't know, we visited Rayne's parents one time and came back with CC entirely without me processing what had actually occurred

@Nine@chitter.xyz sniff twice if your nose is full of cat hair @Njord@zeroes.ca

@ClarusPlusPlus ohhh boy you know you're tired when you're dreaming about just want to sleep or similar @psilocervine

@siege even the physical maintenance advice assumes this "you should be able to stop dilation after you start having sex every week" is a sentence with at least three incorrect premises, masquerading as a legitimate medical opinion

@Craigp@mastodon.social my friend is a teacher and a few years ago (there are more free options now) he was bemoaning that he couldn't teach image editing because "Mr ___ went on the internet and showed us a GIMP" would be the fast track to a different career

@tinmouth aka "train driving is a specialized skill" @davidgerard

@paul_edwin the purpose here seems to be to avoid learning or sharing at the review stage though that's not what folks are doing, they're cutting that entire step and moving towards incomprehension @samir

@slotos maybe i don't remember a time when it was so explicit that actually building software didn't matter a lot if management types are now actively arguing that the way to "achieve AI success" involves letting go of preconceptions about silly little things like shipping products, and at that point idk how to even argue with it because clearly none of the things i thought mattered were ever even goals @tilton

@luna https://tech.lgbt/@erisceleste/112548107956225944

@tillybridges in recent weeks the BBC has been consistently phrasing it as "'trans women' (men who ..." which is a new level of mask-off @Li @oddtail

@buherator@infosec.place i have a non-programmer friend who vibe-coded an app they now want a professional to take over maintenance for, and ... well i ain't doin' that, though IDK whether it's better or worse for a client to be able to show you so-exactly what they want at least they're aware the vibe-coded version doesn't scale and needs changes @IngloGamesDev@mastodon.gamedev.place

@heiglandreas@phpc.social @kboyd@phpc.social @syntaxseed@phpc.social @dangoodin@infosec.exchange it's to harvest training data for "agent" models

@janpieter@mastodon.social if it's similar to the UK, it's probably legal to write that clause in there (i.e. they are allowed to tell you that) but not to enforce it in any way @juliank@mastodon.social @riley@toot.cat @ysegrim@furry.engineer @grendel84@tiny.tilde.website

@cypnk@mastodon.social sign is ambiguous, does it apply to the cat's step or the one above 🤔

@rra please be an insider troll job, please be an insider troll job sobs it is just. so. hard. to care about software quality in anything any more

@sushee haha nah sorry, one completely unrelated to PHP

@danbrotherston increasingly thinking there might not be, that's the worrying problem @juergen_hubert

@sushee ironically the language i dislike the most is for peripheral reasons to anything about it (i won't name it but it's quite nice design-wise) unfortunately its association with a reprehensible designer means hup into the memory hole with ya (not referring to sth in current widespread use)

@agmlego@tacobelllabs.net if you're at all into medieval type stuff that whole area of the country is extremely castle-dense, again too many really to be specific there's also some much older stuff - i have a specific visual memory of some standing stones - but working out what im actually thinking of will take a second 😅

@agmlego@tacobelllabs.net while i have family up there i don't live there or have personal experience of the region, but in general the nature of the island is not such that there are really many places you'll be at serious risk on a short visit; that's not how it manifests in most of the country (usual caveats apply: the upcoming election may give you some hints and if you see people flying certain party colours maybe you want to avoid those people, but even they probably won't actually approach you) near Telford: depends how you're going to be able to get around but the Shropshire Hills in general are super beautiful, always worth making time for simply sitting and staring into the distance ☺️ you're right up against Wales (which i am more familiar with) and if you have access to a car, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant or Vyrnwy might be worth spending the time to get to (the drive will be half the point), or ... frankly too many other landscapes to mention

@thephd@pony.social if the question is, can you not only match on two types but also introduce identifiers for them, i think you're definitely requiring a tree-like structure of nested generics (outer match on argument 1, each branch of which leads to a match on argument 2, each nbranch of which leads to a match on argument 3 ...) because each introduced identifier would require its own generic, no? i doubt i have much to contribute that you haven't thought of: a few years ago i apparently came up with https://stackoverflow.com/a/25715458/1366431 but i can't see how that's any better than being able to use the function pointer technique now the main thing i was investigating recently was whether you can use generic for open-set/c++ stye overloading: you can, but it's ugly, you just need a dispatcher and to re-register your starting point i don't think this has a ton to do with what it sounds like you want to achieve though sorry @simontatham@hachyderm.io