I actually just started learning C++ today.

If Lovecraft were alive today one of his stories would start with this line.

“If the shoreline fits”

I’ll ride on the wing

Reddit, is that you?

Homer tells Barney he’ll strangle Bart if CPS responds to Ned’s call

1. Job security
2. its not COBOL

Kibimanjaro, the user-friendly rolling-release distro for cluster computing

In my experience, this often doesn’t happen. So many developers are either inexperienced or cowboys, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with either. But at places where projects are small and numerous, teams often end up with nothing but a combination of the two.

As one of our office’s engineering “fixers”, I’ve taken over maintenance of several such projects. They usually have shattered remnants of code taken from other projects, open source libraries, internal libraries, stack overflow, and so on. Whole source files copied into the project, modified in ways that introduce impressive new failure cases while failing to add new functionality, and used in ways that completely ignore the features natively implemented in that code while those same features are bodged in as barely-working piles of if statements, balanced on a knife’s edge to avoid triggering the failure modes added by the project’s modifications of the copied code. I’m usually able to purge 20-30k lines of code from such projects in the first month, simultaneously closing multiple outstanding issues the PM had been led to believe were intractable.

That probably sounds like arrogance and/or shitting on everybody else’s work but it’s just reality at many workplaces due to a pace driven by unreasonable expectations from management. I just happen to be the person here that ends up sifting through the wreckage when a project reaches the inevitable osteoporosis phase, because of a natural disposition for reverse engineering. It would be great to escape for this and other reasons, as far as I can tell, most places aren’t that different.

Hurricanes gonna be lining up around the block in excitement

This is correct. Additionally, if x is NaN, then x ≠ x.

Or maybe metric should measure in Hartleys

cries in verilog

The fanfic about her grandson really took a turn, didn’t it

Now whoever has the longest name has an advantage

Wasn’t it that she had more magical ability than the rest, then got into all the potions that boosted it more, and she was using her magic to make herself grow and become human?