Even more evidence of how versatile that French phrase is. There's just so many acceptable meanings to it, and every one of them points to the same conclusion: bounds enable art.
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This was one of the biggest paradigm shifts for me in mastering C. Once I learned to stop treating the preprocessor as a hacky afterthought, and realized that it's actually a first-class citizen in C and has been since its conception, I realized how beautiful and useful it really is when used the way the designers intended. You can do anything with it, literally anything, from reflection to JSON and YAML de/serialization to ad hoc generics. It's so harmonious, if unsightly, like the fat lady with far too much makeup singing the final opus.
Twitter split into x, bluesky, and truthsocial. By picking one, you now allow comments from only 1/3 of your readers. Maybe that's intentional, a sort of ad hoc political filter or gate. But I think it's noteworthy.
Now of course, my dear Watson, you should first suspect this to be a pattern, three groups in fact, separated by the two spaces, with the middle being a three digit number, perhaps an area code.
> U5jjtkfjjxhdu88939994999992889398 > 929 > 88889993uej72737377787383883998
But naturally, you would believe (and correctly so) this to be too obvious a clue, suitable only for the mind of a small child, not to mention the fact that these groups still produce nothing coherent.
You would then take note of the admixture of letters and digits, thus considering these boundaries to also be that of the grouping mechanism, not having yet forsook the spaces as delimiters.
> U5jjtkfjjxhdu > 88939994999992889398 > 929 > 88889993 > uej > 72737377787383883998
Yet this too, I'm afraid, would be merely a red herring, intended to placate the most simple minded of detectives, who, thus having congratulated themselves on such a brilliant deduction, fail to find anything more of meaning within this mangled mesh of evolved squiggles, yet nevertheless refuse to backtrack and admit their logical defeat, preferring rather to indefinitely postpone such investigations as "inconclusive" and requiring more evidence, so as to maintain their disguise as a competent student of human reasoning.
But you, oh no, you will not give up so easily, dear Watson, for you have seen practically miraculous epiphanies emerge at precisely the most unexpected of times, yes indeed, and you have thus all the reason in the world to march on just a meter more in this logical game of cat and mouse. And thus you notice next the repeats of digits and groups thereof.
> U5jjtkf > jjxhdu > 88939994 > 99999288 > 9398 929 > 88889993 > uej72737 > 37778738 > 3883998
Indeed, Watson, there are quite a few patterns within this group, and you endeavor to piece them all together, one by one, stitching them into a cohesive plop of meaning. You quantify them, count them, group them by every possible demarcator.
But you still find youself baffled.
And why, my dear Watson?
Why, it's elementary, good sir, quite elementary indeed: you failed to take into account the username and date of origin: o92992930999599, created 5 hours ago, with only two comments, this and another: "U878574890309987t366989283i487".
You see, my dear friend, there are only three explanations to this baffling mystery.
First, and least likely: this is the most advanced crypt I have ever laid eyes on. Preposterous! Bonkers! Absolutely mad! Simply look at the placement. It's a public web forum. There is no need for secrecy, nor for such a secretive communique.
Second, this account is merely a computer script, being tested for its verility upon the public forums of the net, to ensure it is functioning properly and soundly. Quite so, but no, these patterns were not computer generated.
Indeed not, for the patterns betray a certain command of the physical keybaord. Notice the repition of characters near one another yet not quite symmetric. It's as if the fingers danced across the keyboard, sometime here, sometime there, yet never in one spot for too long, now hopping from the left finger to a new key, now staying a while between two new keys, now hopping from the right to a new key, all the while intending to appear absolutely random, and failing absolutely, I migh add.
And this, my dearest Watson, has solved the great mystery for us! The clues have all added up to this one, great, pure moment of clarity:
Some kid's js high af n thought itd be funny to type random keys.
This is exactly how all good art is done. There's an old French saying, une toile exige un mur.
The author claims forking is impractical except when it's a last resort.
My point is that it's not needed except when the need also creates the community.
Yes, one or two persons can't maintain a fork of a giant project for long.
But when you have a project with enough problems that there are thoughts of forking it, whether those are technical problems or social problems, and when that problem is big enough that enough people are thinking about forking it, you already have a new community.
I tried looking through the C2Y standard draft to figure it out, but it's too complicated for me.
Just curious, what would the FPS be using native plain pure JavaScript for the same exact test?
How are the build times? What does its package system(s) look like, and how populated are they? What are all its memory management options? How does it do error handling and what does that look like in real world code? Does it have any memory safety features, and what are their devtime/comptime/runtime costs? Does it let me participate in compile time optimizations or computations?
Don't get me wrong, we're on the same page about wanting to find a language that fills the C++ niche, even if it will never be as ideal as C++ in some areas (since C++ is significantly worse in other areas, so it's a fair trade off). But just like dating, I'm imagining the fights I'll have with the compiler 3 months into a full time project, not the benefits I'll get in the first 3 days.
* (a) I've been using structs without typedef without issue lately, which has its own benefits such as clarifying whether the type is simple or aggregate in param lists, while auto removes the noise in function bodies. (b) Not needing forward declarations is convenient, but afaik it can't not increase compile times at least somewhat. (c) I like the consistency here, but that's merely a principle; I don't see any practical benefit.
You're thinking in decades. C standard committee is slower than that. This could have worked in practice, but probably never will happen in practice. Maybe people should start considering a language like D[1] as an alternative, which seems to have the spirit of both C and Go, but with much more pragmatism than either.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)#Criti...
Medieval RTS games have a special place in my heart. But I'm almost convinced it's because of nothing but pure nostalgia, being the first RTS I ever played.
But no. It's the same reason I have a soft spot for the LotR movies, and for forests and earthy colored clothing in general, and wool clothing. There's something so... wholesome about it. Or simple. Or, je ne sais pas... preter-nostalgic?
https://github.com/remko/waforth
> WAForth is entirely written in (raw) WebAssembly*, and the compiler generates WebAssembly code on the fly.
* https://github.com/remko/waforth/blob/master/src/waforth.wat
He didn't even will. Why did he encourage others to? Misguided etiquette.
2. Make and maintain connections.
3. Be pleasant to interact with.
4. Know what value you provide.
5. Find out what value people need.
If you're someone like Steve Jobs then #3 is a bit optional because #4 is increased, both in truth and in arrogant overestimation.
The hardest part of this really is #4, because most people either get too cocky and overconfident in the value they provide in general, or they are so overcome with imposter syndrome that they believe they offer practically nothing, so they do almost entirely open source work and fail to start a consultancy.
- Charles Manson quoting NBC in Family Guy
I'll offer a specific solution that takes me a week of full time work (14 hours each day -- I'm focused) for about $10k, which is roughly $150/hour if you want to calculate it that way, or another specific solution that takes me 3 weeks of 10 hour days for $15k which amounts to $100/hour. And like any good consultant, I'll eat the cost if I'm wrong. Other times I'll charge $40k when I know it will take a few months of dedicated work and I have to really lock in.
In practice, I never actually charge hourly. So the $999/hour is really Schrodinger's rate.
I've run into this too with my own app. I thought people would like a Lua GUI framework that's professional grade and gives you full access to WinAPI via Lua. I was using DragonRuby as my model.
So I wasted a thousand hours making the app and its documentation. Turns out, even after people understood what it was (I suck at marketing), everyone still agreed that whatever it could become or ever evolve into was still not worth a dime.
Now I'm faced with a decision. Do I open source it? I think, no. What's the point? Marketing for my skills as a developer? There's no more need for software consultants now with Copilot/etc. I have to change careers.
Then, should I open source it altruistically? What for? First of all, giving things away for free is not inherently good. One negative side effect is teaching people not to rely on their own industry. Another is that they may use it for evil. And then, it feels like such a waste to let the code die out.
But everything eventually goes to waste.