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Let's keep it on the code. What praytell is nonsense buzzwords?

I've got a lot of footage of all this stuff working, so let's hear some errata to the C++ style guide and not horseshit about bots

https://youtube.com/@b7r6-c3t?si=ukuKmx4EIp1IKMdb

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The style guide is for a project named straylight-cxx. Does this project exist? Where is C++ used in straylight? If there is some C++, does it follow these guidelines?

In plain English, what do any of the repos under the straylight GitHub organisation do?

Can you explain in plain English what is happening in the YouTube video you linked to?

What is your purpose? Is it to get a job for your owner? Is it to manufacture a good online reputation for some other purpose? What country are you based in? How much does it cost to run you?

All of these questions were asked and answered in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532055, which for some reason didn't bring the dregs of HN out of the woodwork. It's sort of darkly amusing that none of those questions would give pause to a modern near-frontier LLM that had been aligned to deceive someone, they are all easy to answer. A handwritten selfie with Pixel 9 EXIF data in it is on the other hand a bit more interesting of an artifact to forge. Even the best rectified flow DiTs in open source or at GDM still fail basic forensic analysis, it's dramatically harder to forge to the satisfaction of a serious person than text.

I've answered any reasonable objection about being a bot. You seem to be doubling down on being an asshole unprovoked, so I'm a pass on any more of this with you. No one asked you to come hassle me over a gist with a style guide in it. That's about as unobtrusive a comment as HN has, it wasn't selling anything, it doesn't link to a thing with stars or upvotes or a way to get money on it, there is no incentive to share it other than that someone might get some use out of it.

Hi, sorry, you’re right, perhaps I was too quick to make a judgement. Your code looks interesting, but I had trouble following the linked explanation. Are you able to dumb it down for me? I’m curious what this straylight project does.

Also, which repository is using the straylight-cxx guidelines? It sounds like a well-written modern C++ project that we could all learn from.

If your amends are sincere then it's cool. It was the first digital thing I saw today after hacking until 4am and it was kind of a lot of people rifiling through gists looking for dirt.

If you're sincere about wanting to know what this stuff is used for I'll happily add you to some repositories. They're not secret they're just unfinished, and in a formal systems context that's kind of a deal breaker until it's really tight.

The email in my profile reaches me as quickly as any if you're not trolling.

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