glaebhoerl @glaebhoerl@schelling.pt

✨ Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code?

https://matklad.github.io/2023/04/09/can-you-trust-a-compiler-to-optimize-your-code.html

#rustlang #rust #cpp #programming #developers

I tried hard to find a way to view the bay on both sides of this ridge but this worked in the end

the beginning of time was midnight on january 1, 1970. everything before that is negative time which means it's actually something that is going to happen after the end of time (january 19, 2038)

Here’s a doozy of a C++ edge case I just ran into.

In https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/P35fdhczP, struct A has no copy constructor. That’s a problem when I pass a const A& to a function that takes A by value. But A does have a constructor taking const B&, and B has a constructor taking const A&. So the compiler… converts the A to B and then back to A?

Yet C++ normally doesn’t chain multiple implicit user-defined conversions.

And if instead of A->B->A, I try A->B->C, it doesn’t work: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/377YoWGEo

If you haven’t read Umberto Eco’s famous short essay “Ur-Fascism”, set aside 30–60 minutes to read it today.

It succinctly enumerates the properties of what we all instinctively recognize as #fascism. It gets to the essence of Fascism—not merely the particular instances of it, e.g. Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, but their “family resemblance”.

I find this an essential read. I think Eco is right that the archetype of Fascism is ever-present; I think of it as a pattern that can be deployed to exploit the peculiar ways in which the human psyche operates. Its spirit is very much alive today in political parties around the world.

You can read it for free here [PDF]: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Eco-urfascism.pdf

Lyrics from the early hits tend to be a bit incoherent because the songs were written by 100% Swedish teams, who had a good but imperfect command of English, e.g., Hit Me Baby was originally written for TLC, which makes no sense until you find out that they meant Hit Me Baby to mean "call me", as in "hit me up", but they got the idiom wrong (the rest of the lyrics also make more sense if you use the intended meaning and ofc TLC declined the song because "hit me baby" doesn't match their brand).

How long before we commonly see the programmer equivalent of artists griping that "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/

Poll in next message because you can't attach a poll and an image in the same post :-(

heyooooooo new article: "A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us" https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/03/20/a-world-to-win-webassembly-for-the-rest-of-us

Of interest if you wonder: why does it seem like only rust and C are winning with WebAssembly? what is the deal with garbage collection? how would you compile scheme to wasm? how can I win with my weirdo altlang? also, is WebAssembly haunted? guaranteed success or your money back!

Susan Kare
https://www.moma.org/artists/38483
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/188382?artist_id=38483&page=1&sov_referrer=artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare

"Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT."

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#Marchintosh

for your consideration

In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.