CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@memoire2cite Giscardpunk intensifies

@neil this is just an age test. No need to be cruel.

@navi @dalias Yeah, the way most people write C with pointers everywhere - because that's what they've been taught - isn't very compatible with that. Again, it comes down to: the way we teach C is really, really bad.

Will you co-author my C book, that I'll write when I retire from coding? (that probably means in two decades or more )

@dalias For complex objects, the main problem I've identified is the coupling of storage and structure. When storing data in the structure, it's easy to free when you shouldn't and vice-versa.

Decoupling storage from structure is the best practice I've learned over the past 15 years, and it's applicable even when you can't reserve your storage in advance.

Storage provisioning is useful, but it's mostly useful with another safety aspect: failing as early as possible and avoiding resource allocation in critical moments.

@artemis Cancel culture is bullshit when it targets me. Well, not me exactly, because I have no artistic skill or talent whatsoever that would result in me getting famous in the first place, but people who look like me and whom I can identify with.

@catsalad This is not a seamless loop, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

@dalias what is the collective plural for FTMs?

A boilerplate of FTMs.

@artemis The Pentagon failed 7 audits in a row, and is currently unable to account for 63% of its budget.

63%.

I don't think this money is going into weapons or geopolitical strategy meetings.

@navi @mhoye @c0dec0dec0de absolutely, and I think I will shamelessly plagiarize the Redox OS Contributing document for my own software.

@f4grx @ariadne nothing would change, channers already don't pass the Turing test

@ariadne how to produce the most toxic chatbot possible

@JessTheUnstill @davidgerard It's not imposter syndrome if... you know what, I'm not going to finish the thought