the downside with this approach is that it will eventually terminate. the version in the original post has the advantage of giving me plenty of time to contemplate life’s many mysteries.

don’t do this to me

the only possible way this could be worse was if it was called CloudChain and also had weird blockchain/crypto nonsense.

i am willing to bet that before the year is over, there will be people who cut mouth holes out of these types of masks to make it clear that they aren’t wearing masks for public health reasons

we have always been at war with Eurasia.

looks like we’ve got 10⁷⁸ years to figure out time travel

this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.

but i don’t want to print my screen, i just want a picture of it.

i will never forgive them for making the pointer type be T* instead of &T. most confusing thing ever.

don’t even get me started on C++ making T& the reference type and then making T&& be something other than the double reference type.

god, what a beautiful language. it brings a tear to my eye

i will never forgive C for making the type syntax be

char* args[]

instead of the much more reasonable

&[char] args 

it also bothers me that char* args[] and char c are “the same type” in the sense that the compiler lets you write

char c, *args[5];

with no problems. i think the C languages would be way easier to learn if they had better type syntax. don’t even get me started on C++ adding support for

auto fn_name() -> ReturnType { … }

i agree but would like to add that it’s generally good practice to stay away from rockets

why not just take it a step further and make true = “Yes” and false = “No”

this is p-adic gender erasure

why couldn’t you compute p/q < r/s by checking ps < rq? if you follow the convention that denominators have to be strictly positive then you don’t even have to take signs into account. and you can check equality in the same way. no float conversion necessary. you do still need to eat a big multiplication though, which kind of sucks. the point you bring up of needing to reduce fractions after adding or multiplying also a massive problem. maybe we could solve this by prohibiting the end user from adding or multiplying numbers

if cows could be on the C++ committee i would eat nothing but hamburgers

i’m a bit bothered by aoc’s response here. i’m okay with “whoa” or “woah”, but “whoah” just doesn’t sit well with me. the h needs to pick a side of the “oa”.

i hope that afterwards they petition to cancel oracles javascript

they should have just used rust smh

this does make sense. thank you for explaining it. i had always thought that retweet was the twitter word for reply (a reply that is also a tweet), but this makes way more sense.