Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.
Removed by mod
Now how do I get it to drift over everything but teams a and b?
It’ll hit the bomb, so teams a and b will be blasted either way :)
There is at least one user here in the superposition of being on two tracks at once.
Fuck the metro I guess.
I like those odds
Javascript Standards Team is such an Oxymoron.
They’ve done amazing work trying to turn the clusterfuck they started with into a good language
That “trying” is doing the heavy lifting in that sentence.
What are some of the outstanding issues that haven’t been addressed? I feel like there are genuinely good ways of doing everything these days
Javascript
Yeah, didn’t know there was a standard committee and can’t believe how inept they are.
Middle track. Then I have plenty of time to hotwire the nuke with my handy dandy mallet
“You and your entire family” means “All life on Earth”.
That should make the decision somewhat easier.
I thought seaweed didn’t have a common ancestor
By my definition, family is who you treat like family.
I try to treat everyone I meet like family
If you make it “all human live” it starts to look quite attractive again
I like those odds
there might be an argument that JavaScript kills more than a nuclear bomb
Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.
the c++ team is a sacrifice I’m willing to make. can we just shoot Brendan Eich in the head if he’s not in there too?
Push him onto the pressure pad. Make it his fault.
C++ is obsolete now that we have Go
wat
I am currently in the process of completely rewriting the BSD kernel in go.
how are you handling the GC? how are you handling things like interrupts?
GOd will handle it 🙏
oh so you haven’t actually done any of it.
C++ is better suited to lower level operations than Go, C++ can have huge control over the environment (allowing it to be run on bare metal with no OS) while Go is limited due to it using a garbage collector
If there was a replacement for C++, the best bet IMO would be Zig
As someone who knows neither of the three: Why Zig over Rust as a Cpp replacement?
Rust has its own issues.
Before the memory safety craze, Rust was hyped as a functional programming language, meaning it not only has lambdas and monads, but also const by default, which will force you to rethink all your programming decisions. Also no classes, so you do even more rethinking.
I don’t just rethink my programming decision but all my life decisions every night. Seem like Rust is the perfect language for me.
As someone who just picked through the Zig docs (take this with a mountain of salt), Zig has a few things going for it:
- spec is simple and closer to C in scope
- modern language design, toolchain, and overall ergonomics
- Go-like struct & interface system
- 1st-class C interoperability
Go foists co-routines on you and the runtime, and Rust has the borrow checker. Both of these things deeply impact language design, standard libraries, and the overall developer experience. So Zig might actually be a “more modern C” in many ways which makes it a contender. That said, it’s not a 1:1 comparsion since it lacks everything else that C++ does: you’d have to re-envision your software designs as something other than OOP if that’s what you’re used to.
I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn’t be a huge loss.
my family is dying and i dont like it, atleast get me on the tracks with them, would not be able to live with the guilt anyway
Take another look, you’re already standing on the top track.
well that gives me some soothe
Are we in the blast zone of the nuke?
Maybe we could use Javascript to direct a simple robot to set the lever while we remain at a safe distance?
Maybe the real solution to this diagram is to nuke it from orbit.
But the robot has to run windows vista
And have a valid Apple developer account?
I’d take my odds with the bottom track.
I agree. And if it doesn’t fire the missile, I’ll go get that and hook it up to my Motorcycle like Raven (Snow Crash)!
poor impulse control
Oh, don’t misunderstand. I had that thought first time I read Snow Crash about a decade ago now. Haven’t found thought changing mind since. Just because Raven was poor doesn’t mean he made a “bad” decision in certain senses!
He literally has it tattooed on his forehead.
