Posts by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
 (DIR) Post #AQCK7b0KiRSuQG03g8 by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-12-02T05:21:15Z
       
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       wrt the instance overload problem, something i’ve been thinking about is the fact that mastodon already has a mechanism for users voluntarily migrating to other instances, but instances themselves have no way to rename themselves, or split into shards like yeasts do when they get too large. that might be a worthwhile functionality https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius/109383027753990134
       
 (DIR) Post #AQFSADvKMsauobIo76 by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-12-03T18:55:19Z
       
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       @eliza i am constantly thinking about the time a university project we were going to help with for laser cross- and down- links on orbital vehicles got axed by counsel because they decided it came uncomfortably close to violating the outer space treaty
       
 (DIR) Post #AQFSAExUWJv41bK37o by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-12-03T18:58:49Z
       
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       @eliza the apocryphal quote was something like “we understand that you want to get a phd in centimeter-precision steering of an atmosphere-penetrating laser to an arbitrary ground target, which is exactly why you will not be getting one”
       
 (DIR) Post #AS4iKHCn6Z5fLuQgIi by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2023-01-27T12:30:33Z
       
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       reddit is such a cool website. i love finding Guys on it
       
 (DIR) Post #AS7Biv8LadBn7nNFhY by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2023-01-28T18:54:36Z
       
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       i can't believe that my shitpost about inspecting the value of the expression `c / c++` to determine what compiler you're on turned out to _actually_ expose a difference between gcc and clang```cint c = 1;int d = c / c++;```in GCC, both ints are `2`; in clang, `d` is `1`
       
 (DIR) Post #AS7BiwGXNfKodUDJ6e by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2023-01-28T18:55:02Z
       
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       i'm gonna mcfreakin lose it
       
 (DIR) Post #AS9I9kavry3kIZqDAG by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2023-01-28T19:04:51Z
       
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       @sixohsix i think the evaluation order of multiple sequence points in a single statement is “implementation defined” rather than undefinedwhat’s also cool about this is that clang emits a warning and gcc does not
       
 (DIR) Post #ASKWXUjF2kmN9QMLCq by myrrlyn@tacobelllabs.net
       2023-02-04T08:20:25Z
       
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       @bonifartius don’t worry, gcc is well defended from sabotage by virtue of the fact that sabotaging it would require interacting with a gcc maintainer, and nobody wants to do that