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@NewAgeRetroNerd Already being familiar with programming it looks like this is the best place to start:

@learntToCode Would you have any book recommendations for C++?

Yo, can any of my moots back this up? Wouldn't mind getting into C

@NewAgeRetroNerd I would go with a C++11 book as that was the update that changed how C++ is written.

@NewAgeRetroNerd That would be prudent

@learntToCode What if I learn both???

@beausolai @unusual_whales Thinking about it for 10s more he exudes serial fabulist vibes like Dario is going to sell me a monorail.

@beausolai @unusual_whales He exudes mental breakdown vibes. Altman exudes serial liar vibes. Musk is by far the most normal AI CEO who just exudes industry standard autism vibes.

Anthropic CEO: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.”

@TheCinesthetic Trying to get blocked are we?

Before J.J. Abrams took over, Paramount reviewed over a dozen scripts for a new Star Trek. Some focused on young Kirk and Spock, others on events after Nemesis. Abrams was chosen to reinvent the saga, not just resurrect it, and he absolutely succeeded.

@_trish_xD The argument for learning C first is that you are exposed to hardware and learn how machines really work.

why does the "just learn C first" debate get so heated? part of it is the pattern. there's something both beginners and senior systems devs share that the mid-level guy doesn't. but what is it? it's not syntax knowledge. the mid-level dev has that. what they share is *knowing their limits*. the beginner knows they don't understand memory. the senior knows exactly where their mental model breaks. the mid-level dev thinks they get it - they don't know what they don't know. that's the real reason cargo-cult C programmers are dangerous. they've learned enough to be confident. not enough to be careful. knowing a language and understanding what it's actually doing under the hood - those are so so different things. the gap between them is where bugs live.

@ChShersh Not doing C++ any favors here

Bro, I never understood this franchise. Why is Mario so popular? Why your dream fantasy is playing as a plumber who beats turtles??

@Sellingvol Real

real convo with my wife... how much is this claude thing? like $200 a month... Wtf is wrong with you?

@BilwarAmaan Well it definitely has lots of charm then. Don’t forget to frequently restart.

@learntToCode charm = memory leaks

And take away its charm?

@ChShersh That was 9/10 C code. 10/10 would use XOR before returning i.

It was a good post

Man who sells shovels promotes spending half your day moving dirt.

@antlionai But aren’t the Jews controlled by the Lizard people who in turn are controlled by the time traveling multi dimensional aliens?

Only Jews have agency, the more agency you practice the more jewish you become.

@antlionai Yes. Choo choos are for high trust, high population density countries. But a self driving taxi fleet is better than trains.

Why America doesnt want to build Trains. Which sucks, because Trains are actually pretty cool, and make cities better.

I sure hope people adding age verification compliance to Linux remember that you can have negative Unix epoch ms values.

Chuck Norris has not died, he has broken the level cap and transcended.

@SebAaltonen Straight to binary soon and you’ll wonder why it is slow and bloated

std::span doesn't support initializer lists. Our span does, but LLM is pessimistic... LLM writes a C-array as a separate object :( C++ guarantees that function parameters (temporaries) outlive the function call. Making initializer list safe in span.

@wenlll @exQUIZitely Telepathic Unification was always fun to play. You can conquer planets and assimilate the population.

@learntToCode @exQUIZitely That's my jam!

Best turn-based strategy game of the 90s. What would be your pick? Mine would be Civilization II from 1996.