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Comment · 10 months ago
Arguably a single datapoint doesn't allow you to discern which caused what....

Did being alone underground for months warp his mind...?

Or do you have to be pretty bent to start with to do what every non-warped person doesn't do, because they can foresee it would really suck....

Comment · 1 year ago
It used to be C++ would be the last choice for embedded...

Modern C++ with constexpr and friends and the massive work and cunning they have put into avoiding template bloat....

...C++ is now my first choice for embedded.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's part of a compiler ecosystem. ie. The front end is shared.

See clang-tidy and clang analyzer for example.

ps: That's what I like most about the core guidelines, they are trying very hard to stick to guidelines (not rules) that pretty much uncontroversially make things safer _and_ can be checked automatically.

They're explicitly walking away from bikeshed paintings like naming conventions and formatting.

Comment · 4 years ago
Skip the "Russian" bit, down rank _all_ sites associated with disinformation.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nah. Unless it's a social call, the video stays off in our team.
Comment · 4 years ago
In the Good Old Bad Old Days...

The South African Rand Note had the words, "I promise to pay the bearer, on demand at Pretoria, one Rand" and had the facsimile of the signature of the Governor of the Reserve Bank at the time.

I don't know of anybody who made the trip to exchange one. But by the time I could read that and understand it... you wouldn't of got much gold!

Comment · 4 years ago
Logs are there for those WTF!? Moments. When something unexpected happen and you don't know what. When you need a clue any clue.

Logs are there for observability, so you can get those, "Oh wow! Cool!" moments when you see something that you never knew.

If you never make a mistake, or if you know your external systems and uses perfectly.... Don't log.

If you're a mortal that gets surprises... log.

Comment · 5 years ago
Don't care. Want my morning time back.

I hate Morning Losing Time.

Comment · 5 years ago
...the History of the History of Lisp threads.....
Comment · 5 years ago
And there is the core difference....

For some socialization is stress relief.... for others, such as myself, it's stress.

Comment · 5 years ago
Asshat bosses want bums on seats in plague pit openplan offices even if #WFH is eminently possible and as someone over 60 even vaccinated I'm still more at risk than I'd like.

If I was more financially secure I'd resign in a heartbeat, so looking around for a remote job.

Comment · 5 years ago
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism

"Last month, The Economist and The Atlantic published long features purporting to explore the phenomena of “Left-Wing Illiberalism” and “New Puritanism,” respectively. While both stories display the superficial features of investigative journalism, a deep dive reveals the same motivated reasoning, nonexistent evidence and indefensible editorial standards that misinformed the public about frivolous lawsuits."

Comment · 5 years ago
Or that which open plan offices most effectively destroy.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anybody got the NNT vs NNH for the Pfizer covid vaccine?
Comment · 5 years ago
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