Many people have been unhappy with having long covid.
But I'm very pleased to inform you that, finally, in C++26, we will have long long covid.

This has been your C++ programming joke for this year, I will issue another in C++29.

Good day as any to delete Facebook, Instagram, and/or Threads if you have not already

The fact that Meta will not rule out using private photos on your camera roll to train AI is abominable, full stop

futurism.com/meta-sketchy...

Just discovered the Japanese Snow fairy exists and thought I would share.
Source: www.reddit.com/r/Birdsfacin...

Change a letter, ruin a band:

Stonk Temple Pilots

Quitting social media soon, because I don't want to keep a close eye on america's descent into hell anymore.

But I'll briefly post about plf::bitset(s): they have better performance in some areas, additional functionality, and a license that makes some people scream loudly.

plflib.org/bitsets.htm

Given recent american election, and the people who voted for the new president, I am thinking of new collective pronouns:

An 'embarrassment' of Americans?
Also, a 'mope' of Goths.
A 'creep' of politicians.
An 'enstrangement' of neurodiverse people.
And so on

iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

Great article

It occured to me the other day that Cryptocurrency is basically an inverse carbon credit - that is to say, for the energy expenditure, 1 bitcoin should be worth a negative amount of carbon credits.
I hope to see this in law soon.

There is still kindness in the world. Strive to be happy.

cleantechnica.com/2024/09/01/e...

Wild. Conventional wisdom in the battery biz was to slow charge the battery right after build (10 hours), but it turns out doing it in 20 minutes makes the battery last 50% LONGER (not to mention the obvious improvement in production time)

I look forward to the day when positive outcomes of AI use are not the edge cases.

I just discovered (via checking in on the moddb page) that my Quake build, Epsilon, and it's expansions have been downloaded 120000 times through moddb alone - that doesn't account for downloads through google drive links (included on each download page) or torrents.

www.moddb.com/mods/quake-e...

andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/updat...

Hilarious

Great talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8t...

Couple things I don't agree with, otherwise I intuitively follow this philosophy anyway.