namark @namark@qoto.org

The idea that a general purpose programming language designed for portability and efficiency should map directly to your favourite machine architecture (thus the implementation of it on any other being a virtual machine of said architecture) is both relatable and delusionally egocentric.

#programming

what we say to save our skin: a garbage collector is more efficient than smart pointers in real world projects.

what we actually mean: if you want to write spaghetti code, with smart pointers you'll hit a brick wall pretty fast, while a garbage collector will delay this face flattening experience long enough for you to abandon ship.

the absolute state of #programming

also not a fan of these pure code specs in the standard (apply and make_from_tuple), spelling it all out in english they probably would've avoided these weird inconsistencies... reminds me of some video codec specs, where it feels like they just copy pasted the implementation: "there ya go, cryptic c code, that's your spec"...

so whether tuple_cat works with tuple-like types is implementation defined,
apply doesn't work with them period (except standard tuple-likes),
and make_from_tuple apparently is like apply in c++17, but is supposed to work with them in c++20, and yet no implementation complies... I must know who is responsible for this! some pussy ass library vendor no doubt >:(

#cpp

old code new question: can you spot the undefined behaviour? omg! and how can I ever recover from this?

#cpp

because baby lonians screwed up with gpl2

if i win world war 3 and get to rewrite history: euclid published the elemnts under agpl3+

It knows how to step forwards and sometime even backwards, It can dig something out from right in front of It or sometimes even behind It, while otherwise completely unaware of the surroundings, be it mines, pitfalls or ledges. How can you ever possible dream of such a beast performing a sidestep?

In order to not care about efficiency, the abstractions must be efficient. Otherwise the care is still taken, except in the most backwards ways.

#programming

Array indices correspond to meaningful positions, not elements. Array of N elements has N+1 meaningful positions. Array[i] is not the ith element of an array, it's the element ahead of the position that is i units ahead of the first meaningful position (or behind the position that is i units behind the last meaningful position). This is why we start at 0, just like on a number line. Nobody counts from 0.

#programming #array #indices

Don't you love it when your fresh baked gui designed to handle any screen size and dpi breaks, cause the underlying system changes the meaning of a pixel, so that some old fart application that didn't care scales?

- Why don't you just go fix the old farts?
- We can't they proprietary ToT, here is some backwards API you can juggle to get back to sanity ^_^

#programming #gui

donut?

Is the object empty? Neither javascript nor lua know...

meanwhile:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/is_empty
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator/empty

#programming

живот живёт

compulsively installing videogames

@lapduck -> @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe -> @lapduck

#coq #equality

Pesky misleading semicolon like this just cost me a couple of hours of going absolutely insanely bonkers crazy (in another language): http://ix.io/2Lu3

Very glad that gcc is actively ruining this guy's whole career.

Also something in this paste is breaking ix.io's html syntax highlighting. It turns <iostream> into an html tag:
http://ix.io/2Lu3/cpp

Wonderful.

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