Stephan Beyer @[email protected]

In our team, we sometimes discuss via memes. Today's topic: #MISRA.

@mitsuhiko There are subtle signs of a true workspace.

This is a modern Cargo.toml

@lefticus The one you prefer plus a podman/Docker image based on the one that allows you to run your software without pain.

Should I install the Linux distribution I prefer, or the distribution that commercial products support (and I might need to install some commercial software) I know using the one I prefer will lead to future pain and suffering.

@mitsuhiko I'm always hesitant regarding hypes, especially when I don't get what the hype is about. I somewhat hoped I get some clarification here.

@_sbeyer_ As you should. It’s all about competition :)

If you haven't used Ghostty you should. 1.0 is out now. I have been using this as my main terminal emulator for quite a while at this point and I love it.

@algo_luca I have this as kitty-session which I shared on our company-internal wiki. And a coworker in my team who just switched from VS Code to kitty+neovim (my work setting) could directly use it. And he loves it.

Productivity tip: define a layout with the panes you _always_ use when working on a project. `zellij --layout run-layout.kdl` and you're then ready to work! Faster than creating a new tab, creating each pane, getting command from historys, etc. Easier for contributors, too!

@__phantomderp To be fair, I don't know if SoGoSurvey offers what you want, but from what I've found it made the most things possible with a free plan.

@__phantomderp I had a similar problem recently with slightly different requirements. For my requirements, self-hosted LimeSurvey seems to be the only option. For yours, try SoGoSurvey.

I need to find a proper survey website that allows for some 15 options that can each be rated, and allow for a little explanation box at the end. I would try Google Forms but in order to "limit 1 per response" I have to require signin, and given the community this survey is...

@m_ou_se When reading the release notes I thought there was a lot of interesting stuff going on, but in parts of the language 80+ % of Rust developers are not using. I especially wondered what the big benefit of &raw is -- you have to use unsafe to do anything useful with it, right?

One of the biggest Rust releases in a long time! What's your favourite new feature?

@tonywestonuk @htmx_org Single Return Law is even revoked in MISRA because it turned out harmful.

@htmx_org More than one return per method, is bad practice. look up "The Single Return Law". We need *more* if statements like this.... not less! 🤣

as CEO of IF statements allow me to address this slander: the problem here is the deep nesting the fix is to invert the if conditions & use early returns to linearize the whole thing also extract local vars for the test conditions to make debugging easier plodding, linear code

@MichaelCaisse There are so many things that can go wrong with C++ (or its "wrong" use), but I have never seen anyone running into issues because someone used .h instead of .hpp as their C++ header file extension. 🤔

This slide is triggering. Folks, please use a proper extension for your C++ headers!

@lefticus It has not crashed due to out of memory YET.

@SpencrGreenberg I'd be interested in similar research with the same setting but for MBTI personalities (instead of astrological charts) and people who consider themselves experts in the MBTI topic (there's a whole community around it). I'd expect different results.

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

@TheJackForge You have to compare it to the average salaries over all jobs in the specific country to have a useful comparison.

@lefticus A C++ wrapper for SAT solvers. github.com/sbeyer/commons… Disclaimer: I don't really maintain it anymore (started 2015, dead since 2016), but I just gave it an update to be usable in 2024 again.

Does anyone have a small (< 1000 loc) project, with tests, written in C++, that you wouldn't mind me using as an example in a conference talk? It doesn't need to be anything special, just kind of code I didn't write :) I won't be doing a harsh code review or anything like that.

@__phantomderp I first thought you were referring to taviso as asshole, and I was very confused.

For all he people that kept linking me that asshole's thread, HE'S WRONG. Provably so. Here's an analysis from somebody who's head in on straight and is a literal world expert at this (also featuring a quick Godbolt snippet, praise be to CE!!):

@RasmusPagh1 Imagine the loser analysis has been published by your reviewer.

Note to self: When referring to someone’s less tight analysis, remember that “looser” is spelled with TWO o’s

@jmechner @01FirstSecond @stripepress Is there a video of the moment he got into the spikes?

In 1985, I asked my brother David (age 15) to be the rotoscope model for my new game, Prince of Persia. 38 years later, I've made him a (present day) cartoon character in my new graphic novel memoir REPLAY. jordanmechner.com/en/books/repla… Thanks, bro! @01FirstSecond @stripepress @princeofpersia

@lefticus I think I'll never see one in Europe, as long as they're not allowed here for safety reasons.

I finally saw a cyber truck in the wild... It was on the back of a tow truck. Couldn't safely grab a pic of it.

@ChShersh Or he's used to using Emacs but didn't get syntax highlighting to work.

I’m on a Zoom call with a developer. They decide it’s better to show the code to explain their point. They open Emacs with the default theme and no syntax highlighting. It was at this moment I realised that I’m talking to a tech wizard.