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They aren't breaking up NOAA just for the sake of privatization, reliable weather reporting also makes it harder to ignore Climate Change. From Project 2025 "[NOAA offices] form a …

I did a `"0" == false` which returned true. I may need another cup of coffee before making claims.

edit: I'm mostly wrong here. Because "0" is false. In a logical world, a non-empty string being truthy is fine even if the value is "false". Javascript isn't logical.

I somehow missed the comments on this post. I think I need to respond not just to this but to the other (completely valid) criticisms in the comments here. And because you bring up…

Someone else mentioned the acrylic, I'm going to mention Scarlett Sparks' Open Source Knitting Machine if part of the fear is actually investing in the machine https://github.com/S…

Anecdote/Tangent: Roku TV wins an award for worst input switching UX. From Home, you have to go into Settings (the quick settings accessible from the remote aren't enough,) then sc…

Honestly might just be a Discord in-joke on a C++ server as I can't find much specific either. Sorry for misleading!

C++ has an absurd amount of UB to the point where there's an entire thought exercise devoted to how malicious a compliant compiler can be (Hell++.) There are things that are allowe…

Needed this post and this comment. And hopefully I'm not misreading either. Halfway through my greenfield redesign that I claim is catharsis because I was too scared of breaking th…

Does reading a dozen papers on different algorithms to accomplish a specific goal count as scavenging. Asking for me because I've gone down a rabbit hole with recent work. Not tryi…

I don't think you're misunderstanding, it's a strange choice to make even if the example here loses context to make it easier to make the point. It wasn't code that anyone currentl…

I mentioned it in a side note that I trimmed because there were so many that it spilled into the footer (faster to trim the article than to fix the CSS,) but Microsoft is the only …

Don't get your hopes up, the behavior when lo > hi is explicitly undefined.

I did a double take on this because I wrote a blog post about this topic a few months ago and came to a very different conclusion, that the results are effectively identical on cla…