Joel Uckelman

Working on V4 | Github: uckelman | Logician | UvA CS PhD | FOSS guy | Wargamer | Short-stack developer | Now @uckelman.bsky.social

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Moving on to where the skies are blue. Find me at @uckelman.bsky.social. DIAF, X.

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This worked well for migrating all my follows: https://t.co/Md01SoHq12

[Joel Uckelman @uckelman]

Moving on to where the skies are blue. Find me at @uckelman.bsky.social. DIAF, X.

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@lemire I was today faced with a test for if a buffer size fit in 63 bits. So you're passing this function a buffer that is more than 2^63-1 bytes in length?! And the whole point of the test was that nobody bothered to be careful with the arithmetic in the rest of the function. Argh.

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@tsoding If all my typing were instant, the amount of additional code I would write would be zero. It might even be negative---typing is what I do with my hands while I'm thinking.

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@codeslack B-tier is exactly the Agile discourse you get here.

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From what I've read about Agile, it's the best example of the No True Scotsman fallacy I've ever seen: If you're doing Agile but it didn't work, then you're not doing Agile.

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@steveruizok My favorite is "guillemets" (angled quotes used in French) being misspelled as "guillemots" (a type of sea bird) in the PostScript specification.

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@scotthannen It's not wrong. You could get different results later.

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@fjzeit I guess we're not talking about the same thing, in that case.

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@fjzeit Example?

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@fjzeit True for every problem, due to information theory.

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@janetacarr A deep stack of decorators can be a performance disaster.

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@basit_ayantunde You could write C++ as though it didn't have exceptions (mostly). It's hard to avoid std::bad_alloc, but that's typically fatal anyhow.

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Vassal 3.7.15 is released.
https://t.co/PuJwkd5yvc

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@tdraicer I'm not guaranteeing this, mind, but you asked for a scenario and I believe this to be a likely one. It could also be much, much worse.

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@tdraicer The first T admin didn't focus on policy and when they did, didn't know how to operate the levers of government. People trying to restrain T then were also the ones who knew how things worked; this time, with even more chancers and grifters, they'll make noise but do even less.

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@ChShersh This is why I swore off writing anything but one-offs in Python.

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@TheGameChief Tbf, Iowa State is 2-1 against teams from Texas this year. Seems legit.

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@allenholub @RickyAH @heuristics I agree with you. None of this makes it any less overwhelming when faced with 100k lines of untested code.