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Do you know why?

I don’t think that makes things any better.

He has repeatedly stated during the campaign that he wants to use military action on people with opposing views (or “enemies from within” as he calls it). If that isn’t fascism, then I don’t know what is.

Good thing he’s not running for another term either.

If you’re siding with the more extremist candidate, then you’ve probably made up your mind to vote.

If you haven’t made up your mind yet, then you’re probably doubting about the more moderate candidate. The post is about setting aside those doubts and vote anyway.

The “it could be worse” is “US is having a president who’s fine with using military action against his political opponents”, aka dictatorship.

The type is dynamic. It can be whatever you wish.

Reminds me of a YouTube video giving thorough advice on what you should do if you would ever time travel back to medieval Europe.

https://youtu.be/-aSdFrPnlRg

From the original document:

Software manufacturers should build products in a manner that systematically prevents the introduction of memory safety vulnerabilities, such as by using a memory safe language or hardware capabilities that prevent memory safety vulnerabilities. Additionally, software manufacturers should publish a memory safety roadmap by January 1, 2026.

My interpretation is that smart pointers are allowed, as long it’s systematically enforced. Switching to a memory safe language is just one example.

If people don’t laugh at your offending joke it’s not a joke. It’s just offending.

I never thought the leopards would eat my face, says person voting for leopards eating faces party.

Some person I just met at a party asked me if I have Asperger’s. He explained he has Asperger’s himself and just wondered.

I thought it was a rude remark of him. Especially since we barely know each other. I certainly don’t have Asperger’s. This was some years ago.

Either way, I just got diagnosed.

Apparently it’s super successful. Has made $3 billion within a year.

TAOCP is a misleading title. It shouldn’t be computer programming. It should be computer science.

For most people, programming is the engineering discipline. I think that’s a very different art form. Software engineers are rarely dealing with the type of problems TAOCP is concerned about.

Squadron “Feature Complete” 42

I’m mostly working in Java now. I’m proficient to the degree that I can solve most things without looking for reference online. I think that matters most to me.

OO languages typically use garbage collector. The main purpose of the borrow checker is to resolve the ambiguity of who is responsible for deallocating the data.

In GC languages, there’s usually no such ambiguity. The GC takes care of it.

Sounds like you’re thinking more about the builder pattern.

Mainstream statically-typed OOP allows straightforward backwards compatible evolution of types, while keeping them easy to compose. I consider this to be one of the killer features of mainstream statically-typed OOP, and I believe it is an essential feature for programming with many people, over long periods of time.

I 100% agree with this. The strength of OOP comes with maintaining large programs over a long time. Usually with ever changing requirements.

This is something that’s difficult to demonstrate with small toy examples, which gives OOP languages an unfair disadvantage. Yeah, it might be slower. Yeah, there might be more boilerplate to write. But how does the alternative solutions compare with regards to maintainability?

The main problem with OOP is that maintainability doesn’t necessarily come naturally. It requires lots of experience and discipline to get it right. It’s easy to paint yourself in the corner if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Could be rounding errors. At 50+, you don’t care about your exact age anymore