camblomquist

il y a 12 moisdiscuss

They aren't breaking up NOAA just for the sake of privatization, reliable weather reporting also makes it harder to ignore Climate Change. From Project 2025 "[NOAA offices] form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity."

camblomquist

l’année dernièrediscuss

I did a `"0" == false` which returned true. I may need another cup of coffee before making claims.

camblomquist

l’année dernièrediscuss

edit: I'm mostly wrong here.

Because "0" is false. In a logical world, a non-empty string being truthy is fine even if the value is "false". Javascript isn't logical.

camblomquist

l’année dernièrediscuss

I somehow missed the comments on this post. I think I need to respond not just to this but to the other (completely valid) criticisms in the comments here. And because you bring up what I think is a more interesting problem, you're the comment I'm replying to.

The anger I think stewed for a long time but was in it very nearly since the beginning of this project two years ago (I stopped working on it for quite a while).

First, my anger was directed at C++. std::map forced to be a Red-Black Tree for one. And I had originally written a lot about that anger in the first draft. I had written about how if this paper had baked in the oven a bit longer, they would've had C++11 to work with. I wanted to try to write a Modern C++ version of the code but that goal was what kept me from touching the project for over a year. I had gotten sick of C++ as a whole both at work and in my personal projects. And by the time I got back to it, the discussion on C++ no longer felt like it had a place in the post if it were to have the structure it ended up having.

On the rewrite, I found myself getting more and more frustrated by the original paper itself. The methodology felt flawed yet I felt I had to keep it. I said in the aside how the read of the paper gave this impression that they wanted to shill Go with this paper, like this was going to be its big debut as a language until it failed pretty much every test thrown at it. I don't know how this turned into Google Hate. Or at least, I don't remember. Maybe something about the current state of the world or an impression of Google company culture based on the tone of the paper. Maybe I just didn't want to be angry at Hundt specifically.

Much like the original paper, this post should've spent more time in the oven. But after spending so much time on it, it also felt like I just needed to get it out there so I could be done with it.

camblomquist

l’année dernièrediscuss

Someone else mentioned the acrylic, I'm going to mention Scarlett Sparks' Open Source Knitting Machine if part of the fear is actually investing in the machine https://github.com/ScarlettSparks/KnittingMachine

camblomquist

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Anecdote/Tangent: Roku TV wins an award for worst input switching UX. From Home, you have to go into Settings (the quick settings accessible from the remote aren't enough,) then scroll down the Inputs menu and then select your input. At least with LG, inputs are directly available from the Home menu.

camblomquist

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Honestly might just be a Discord in-joke on a C++ server as I can't find much specific either. Sorry for misleading!

camblomquist

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

C++ has an absurd amount of UB to the point where there's an entire thought exercise devoted to how malicious a compliant compiler can be (Hell++.) There are things that are allowed and even common in C but UB in C++ (union type punning,) and things that people reasonably can assume would work but are UB anyway (signed integer overflow.) Then you have weird edge cases like assigning the return value of a two argument std::max involving temporaries to a reference. There are so many UB foot guns, no reasonable developer can be expected to keep track of them all.

camblomquist

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Needed this post and this comment. And hopefully I'm not misreading either. Halfway through my greenfield redesign that I claim is catharsis because I was too scared of breaking things before they got better. I hope that I can put that redesign to rest and actually make progress with the original code.