Arguably Zig has a simpler approach to memory management (which can also lead to more errors, arguably) which makes the transition from C somewhat easier. Downside is that the language is still under heavy development and you definitely have to be up for the ride.

Tbf beats 99% if the slop you read today.

My comment is unable to simultaneously address “it’s a slop generator” and “it’s highly effective at writing code because it’s stolen other developers hard work”.

I was merely addressing the “AI is slop” by saying “for code AI is not slop”.

But with respect Linus is talking about AI for code generation, bug finding etc. For that purpose specifically AI is remarkably efficient at converting intent into workable code.

That's the announcement. It isn't the story.

AI writing detected in an article about the evils of AI. It’s like rain on your wedding day.

Denmark had a joke candidate who won a term in parliament 1994-1998: Jacob Haugaard.

He ran representing the Party of Intentionally Workshy Elements (slogan: If Employment is Healthy, Give it to the Sick), on a programme of:

• More tailwind on cycle paths [clearly a Danish issue]
• A standard work day of 8 hours spare time, 8 hours of sleep and then 8 hours of rest.
• Army field rations to include Nutella.
• Shorter supermarket queues

When he got in he was clearly terrified, but over time he did participate and take part. I don’t think he could quite believe it.

I loved his parting shot, after his term ended, when his portrait (like that of all MPs) was hung in Parliament and he said: “Let this serve as a warning that any idiot populist can get elected”.

The best summary of “the real world” vs principles.

This is legit the biggest lol. Yes I’m aware this is the PS/2 path only and today it’s actually polling on USB or Bluetooth keyboards but this really tickled me. The face of that CPU bird!

“Due to COVID we are temporarily suspending the trolley service in your train”. Never returned.

“Due to COVID, we have temporarily removed your inflight magazine”. Never returned.

“Due to COVID, we now temporarily only clean your hotel room if you request it”. Still have to request a room clean.

“Due to COVID, the salad bar has been temporarily suspended”. Still no salad bar.

“Due to COVID, you now have to book a slot to go to the tip”. Still have to book a slot.

“Due to COVID, the sleeper train has been temporarily suspended”. Never returned.

These are just the examples I can think of.

Been there, so many times.

Late in Perfect Dark Zero’s development (a complete shitshow to get launched for X360 day 1) we added something called “kill planes”, behind which all entities would get nuked. The aim was that you would physically move through the world and eventually get to “no turning back” points, behind which we could remove all entities to save some cycles.

Turns out there were a large amount of places that assumed that once they had a pointer to an entity that pointer would remain valid.

So yeah, code that was like “I’ll just flip this bit on this entity I kept track of” was now flipping random bits on memory.

These were fun to chase down.

In the end we inplemented NoTaD pointers (“notified on target destruction”, essentially weak pointers but this was back in the day when weak pointers and smart pointers weren’t really well defined) that would discover when the thing they took a precious pointer to was actually no longer valid.

What if I told you that by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.

Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.

And yes it’s basically built with tokens.

You identify with a government system in an app. The services issues you signed tokens that are anonymous. You hand these anonymous tokens over to the sites that demand proof of age.

Yeah but the party prefers their brown shirts.