• I Cast Fist
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    172 days ago

    I’ve played enough X-COM to know that 50/50 is actually 100%, I just don’t know which way. Better trigger it!!

    • @[email protected]
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      82 days ago

      30%? Let me deliver that shot with crit across the map to your teammate hunkered down behind full cover for you!

  • @[email protected]
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    2243 days ago

    Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.

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      683 days ago

      the c++ team is a sacrifice I’m willing to make. can we just shoot Brendan Eich in the head if he’s not in there too?

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        143 days ago

        I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn’t be a huge loss.

        • KSP Atlas
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          C++ is better suited to lower level operations than Go, C++ can have huge control over the environment (allowing it to be run on bare metal with no OS) while Go is limited due to it using a garbage collector

          If there was a replacement for C++, the best bet IMO would be Zig

            • @[email protected]
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              Rust has its own issues.

              Before the memory safety craze, Rust was hyped as a functional programming language, meaning it not only has lambdas and monads, but also const by default, which will force you to rethink all your programming decisions. Also no classes, so you do even more rethinking.

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                I don’t just rethink my programming decision but all my life decisions every night. Seem like Rust is the perfect language for me.

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              As someone who just picked through the Zig docs (take this with a mountain of salt), Zig has a few things going for it:

              • spec is simple and closer to C in scope
              • modern language design, toolchain, and overall ergonomics
              • Go-like struct & interface system
              • 1st-class C interoperability

              Go foists co-routines on you and the runtime, and Rust has the borrow checker. Both of these things deeply impact language design, standard libraries, and the overall developer experience. So Zig might actually be a “more modern C” in many ways which makes it a contender. That said, it’s not a 1:1 comparsion since it lacks everything else that C++ does: you’d have to re-envision your software designs as something other than OOP if that’s what you’re used to.

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    Well, you can take yourself out of the equation because you’re not tied down and can just move after flipping the switch.

    chooses bottom track

    “C’mon…c’mon!”

    trolley heads towards committe members

    “Dammit!”

    runs over and jumps on the nuclear bomb pressure pad

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    Am I also in range of the nuclear bomb, or am I safe? Unclear as the image doesn’t specify if it is drawn to scale or not. Also which direction are the tracks currently pointing.

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    22 days ago

    Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.

  • @[email protected]
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    473 days ago

    “You and your entire family” means “All life on Earth”.

    That should make the decision somewhat easier.

  • @[email protected]
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    293 days ago

    Ok so this one just isn’t fair.

    Two possibilities end up with me dead, two end up with millions dead, and one ends up with me being unemployed.

    Sorry not sorry Team A and B, sacrifices must be made.

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          32 days ago

          Unless you work for the committee or for ISO somehow, then I don’t think that really follows. C++ and JavaScript were both used in production for decades before they had standards, and the dissolution of the standards committee wouldn’t cause compiler vendors to stop developing compilers.