Welcome to the War on Cars, Conor Dunne.

/cc: @TheWarOnCars

https://youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?si=OIFtuwdIxT_bHvkR

It’s a long article on these insanely bright car headlights, but it contains this paragraph ⬇️ https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents?lid=dpe6tiyd81ev

Don't tell me how to live my life.

#284 Given the following in C++

template <typename... T>
void f1(T......); // A

template <typename... T>
void f2(T..., ...); // B

Without checking, which is valid:

A. A
B. B
C. Both
D. Show results

#Cplusplus
#Cpppolls

Also, every time I read one of these I think that the Dutch should have a travel advisory for the US & Canada along the lines of:

"Beware of motor vehicles in the US and Canada. Road safety is very poorly enforced, road design is unsafe, and you have a much higher chance of being injured or killed by a motor vehicle. Be careful crossing the street or walking on sidewalks, as vehicles are driven faster and much more recklessly. Riding a bicycle is extremely dangerous and not recommended."

New make !

Laser engraved slate coasters with famous CPU markings...

Friends, today is the day before Thanksgiving here in the US. Friday is also a holiday for many people here so that we have the day off to go buy stuff that looks like it is on sale but really isn't.

What does that mean to you? It means that it is time. Time to push that code to production. Push it like it's never been pushed before. Use all the git flags.

Testing is for people who are not confident in their abilities, and we don't have time for that sort of negativity around here.

Today is your day.

Tomorrow, and beyond? That is ops problem.

Elon Musk just confessed to tampering with the X content algorithm so people will not read the news, effectively creating a platform where unsourced claims get prioritized, and statements with links to documentation gets pushed aside.

X really is the platform of dumb.

I have a spreadsheet full of #Steam #game keys (all legit!) and I'm giving away.

I'm *not* doing this to get new followers. You DON'T need to follow me to get a key. This is about generosity when the world could really use some.

The only thing I ask is you follow the Wheaton rule: "Don't be a dick".

05/09/23: Still going. We've given away 202 games now, and I'm still adding new keys.

To avoid keyfarmers and resellers, I have some guidelines, though.

1. No new accounts. Sorry. You've got to have been here on Mastodon & obviously human; ie. no keyfarmers (If I don't know you, I'm checking profiles).

2. One game per person; please pick your top three preferred games, in case your first preference is already gone. First in, first served, I go through PMs in the order that they're received - see below.

3. *Private Mention* me with the game number *AND* name, in order of preference. (Web: Profile > Three Dots > Privately Mention...), your app may vary.

I cannot reiterate this enough. You *must* -->PM<-- your request (consider this the "Brown M&Ms" clause).

4. "When can I ask for another key?" Minimum of 2 months between requests.

Key sources:

Green: My keys

Donated Keys:
Blue: @McCovican
Orange: @tojosan
Yellow: @miga
Light Magenta 3: @hypolite
Light Red 2: @desiree
Darker Green: @artbol
Lilac: @elfi

Game listed multiple times = multiple keys.

FAQ:
Q: "Can I donate keys?"
A: Yes, provided they're *your* spares. PM me, and I'll go into more details.

If you don't mind boosting this post; this is my small way of trying to make the world & Mastodon a nicer place to be.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17uJVhaUJsFdQDTUbMa_swKiG_yphmhrmRHBB2MYz8V0/

#gaming #giveaway #MastodonGiving #Steam #PCGaming #Games #MastodonGaming

Did I mention that #Gentoo has now #time64 stages for #x86?

Well, we have #Docker images now as well:

$ docker run gentoo/stage3:i686-openrc python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.datetime(2044, 1, 1).timestamp())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t
$ docker run gentoo/stage3:i686-ssemath-t64-openrc python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.datetime(2044, 1, 1).timestamp())'
2335219200.0

(there's only a "ssemath" variant, using "-mfpmath=sse" — the floating-point computations are done on 64-bit SSE registers rather than 80-bit x87 registers, giving more consistent results between 32-bit x86 and everything else)

I know there were a few fedi-folk there, but the only one I recognized was @mbonsma who was pretty hard to miss riding her car-scale bicycle. We chatted a bit about cargo bikes. The best part was watching her navigate downtown streets during the ride. What a pro. Everywhere we went people looked confused, then figured out the point of it and cheered and waved at her.

2/

#TOPoli #ONPoli #Toronto #biking

That you admired Richard Stallman when you were a young coder just entering the world of open source development is no mark against you -- abusers are like that.

Where judgment of you comes in is now -- you're an adult, you know your asshole from your elbow, and you have been shown evidence of who the man actually is. What you say and do in response to that -- that's what defines what kind of person you are.

I have implemented AArch64 support in the smtgcc GCC translation validator.
https://github.com/kristerw/smtgcc

The support is somewhat limited and only handles a subset of the A64 base instructions, but it has already found a bug in the GCC AArch64 backend!
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117186

@oleksandr @ljs @vbabka that's it
your evaluation period has expired

Proposing that C++ acknowledge that there are exactly 8 bits in a byte.
I’d love feedback, especially from embedded / DSP folks who think this is a terrible idea.
https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P3477R0.html

(this is from 2018 but it's a gem) speculative execution almost destroyed the xbox 360 https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

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