Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

This Monday!!!

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Null checks or Contracts?

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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LPT:
Include your name in the name of your resume file.

I receive LOTS of Resume.pdf files, and they get lost (or overwritten) in my downloads folder.

So YourName_resume.pdf

Or maybe try

YourName_TheOneYouWantToHire_resume.pdf

I need a tinfoil hat emoji

PROGRAMMER:

int main(int, char**)
{
std::variant> v = std::make_unique(17);

auto v2 = std::move(v);

return *std::get<1>(v2);
}

COMPILER:

main:
mov eax, 17
ret

godbolt.org/z/M8154ev75

class inheritance is not about common code, but about common future

'Twas the night before release
But VC's were about to divest;
Not a file was compiling,
Not even a test.

It is a sad day.

Some one took my rhyme out of the (draft) C++ standard.

You know when a meeting could have been an email?

I was just looking at a complicated class and thought
"This could have been a function."

@ericniebler.bsky.social I think this is one for you:

template,int>=0>
Pixel operator+(Pixel a, Pixel b)
{
...
}

I only want operator+ on some Pixel formats.
How do I give good error messages, AND also good sfinae?

how can i be sure i’m in the right timeline

unsigned ints are bad and should feel bad