Trailblazing Braille Taser

Relevant reading: https://justine.lol/lambda/

What an unmissable sign-off line

Once upon a time, my landlord’s management company tried to shake me down for an additional day of rent. I pointed out that my rental agreement stated I would pay exactly $x every month, so they can pound sand. They, too, decided to “let it slide.” How magnanimous.

(Edit: I just remembered, first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay. Wtf.)

I swear they must have created a new spreadsheet with an off-by-one error somewhere and mailed out hundreds of bills instead of double checking.

Same thing here. When we’re on vacation, my wife can fearlessly walk up to the edge of a cliff, but I just can’t. I’m afraid that I’ll get disoriented and lose my balance!

When I consider the risk (death or dismemberment) versus the reward (standing several feet closer to the edge), it just doesn’t seem worth it at all. Maybe I’m just rationalizing my fear, but these sharp drops really seem like a uniquely dangerous situation in my life.

The jury is out on whether every finite sequence of digits is contained in pi.

However, there are a multitude of real numbers that contain every finite sequence of digits when written in base 10. Here’s one, which is defined by concatenating the digits of every non-negative integer in increasing order. It looks like this:

0 . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ...

Wtf, why would you put the third cat at risk like that? You already had ample evidence that the name is cursed!

With less matter for the photons to interact with, I assume the WiFi’s SNR would be improved. If fewer data frames need to be retransmitted at the link layer (WiFi), I figure the apparent bitrate at the IP level might actually be improved!

Actually, I would not be shocked if WiFi itself adapts to conditions, e.g. by sending less data per frame with more error correction bits when SNR is already low.

(Not a networking expert, I am just bullshitting.)

In practice, I tend to agree. It’s easier to avoid shooting yourself in the foot with C++, but it’s still just waiting for you to screw up.

I’m mainly getting at Undefined Behavior (UB), which both C and C++ have plenty of. This article from Raymond Chen has some excellent concrete examples: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633

The C++ side gives you what you need to create your own seat belt: spools of razor wire and clippers to remove the sharp edges (but no gloves). If you cut yourself, it’s your own damn fault. Real developers have discipline.

Yeah, I’ve been finding myself arguing with zealots more and more on Lemmy. This is really not a healthy community. I hope it’s some form of keyboard warrior syndrome and not the way these people behave in the real world.

I don’t think asset seizure going to be easy, but it’s going to be significantly more effective and safer for everyone than staging a new French Revolution.

If you’re truly advocating for murder on the internet (are you?), I don’t think there’s any point in trying to change your mind. I’m not “this close” to getting it — I already got it and rejected it.

I prefer “eat the rich” as a metaphor for seizing their assets, not a literal endorsement of cannibalism. I’m actually surprised how many people literally mean “kill the rich”. Are you guys actual sociopaths?

Democracy dlweaks in darkness

It’s called “getting Munched”.

Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?

This is Deadpool wearing a Spider Man costume

Take a look at all the struct definition. It’s a pure virtual method of 🍴 with a bunch of overrides in the structs that inherit from 🍴.

Dats a goose

Ok boomer

That’s neat, I’d never heard of it before!

It is an open question whether an Angel of some power k can escape forever.

Looks like you’re quoting the Proceedings of 11th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics from 2005: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2958119.2958180

Apparently, it was solved (twice!) the next year.

In late 2006, the original problem was solved when independent proofs appeared, showing that an angel can win. Bowditch proved that a 4-angel (that is, an angel with power k = 4) can win[2] and Máthé[3] and Kloster[4] gave proofs that a 2-angel can win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_problem