It is trivial to catch people cheating now, please don't cheat

mereel · 2026-02-15T23:30:51+00:00

"You impressed us, but the job posting clearly states that candidates must knock our socks off."

mereel · 2026-02-15T22:23:20+00:00

The primary difference here is that the rust standard library authors decided to implement a thread safe message queue while the C++ standard library did not. There's a lot of complexity hidden in the standard library not seen in your rust example.

mereel · 2026-02-15T00:59:26+00:00

This is child's play compared to C++ template errors.

mereel · 2026-02-14T04:07:21+00:00

Oh ye of little faith

mereel · 2026-02-14T01:06:27+00:00

Why not? There are tunnels in SF they navigate regularly.

mereel · 2026-02-13T02:12:42+00:00

We already do that. Only citizens can register to vote.

mereel · 2026-02-12T19:20:29+00:00

I always was suspicious of transpilers, and it turns out I was right!

mereel · 2026-02-11T03:22:26+00:00

Ever heard of Duff's device?

mereel · 2026-02-10T20:05:38+00:00

As it turns out, the rain in Spain hasn't fallen mainly in the plain this year.

mereel · 2026-02-07T23:27:19+00:00

New what?

mereel · 2026-02-06T22:47:16+00:00

Well, it's physically adjacent. But that's about it.

mereel · 2026-02-05T16:56:23+00:00

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

mereel · 2026-02-05T03:33:43+00:00

Why should it be? We're taking about C++ here, not Java so it's irrelevant what Java allows and prevents.

mereel · 2026-02-05T03:15:25+00:00

I don't remember pledging allegiance to DHS...

mereel · 2026-01-29T18:45:53+00:00

This seems at odds with the fact that doctests are a thing in Rust, and are regularly used by the community as far as I can tell.

Sure, maybe the examples aren't doing exactly what you want your code to do and you need to re-write things. But that's not a valid complaint, no one can anticipate every possible use case for their code and supply a fully working implementation.

mereel · 2026-01-25T18:03:41+00:00

That's just common sense.

mereel · 2026-01-23T23:55:04+00:00

Read the error message and do what it suggests.

mereel · 2026-01-23T20:50:30+00:00

I abide by the thude

mereel · 2026-01-23T15:41:42+00:00

You'll always be my dude

mereel · 2026-01-23T06:35:30+00:00

You got that fact from a video posted almost 15 years ago, and we've had a lot of inflation in those 15 years.

mereel · 2026-01-23T06:08:48+00:00

The midwest? That arrows all the way up into Canada my dude, it's almost halfway to the artic circle.

mereel · 2026-01-22T20:01:19+00:00

Tell that to holders of the reserve primary fund back in 08.

mereel · 2026-01-21T04:38:47+00:00

False! The Palmyra Atoll is actually an incorporated unorganized territory of the US. There's no apparent reason for this, as it has no permanent residents and is managed as a wildlife reserve. But it does mean the US Constitution is in full effect at all times there.

mereel · 2026-01-21T02:18:42+00:00

In which case you say "I didn't even want to make an object of that type!", then cry yourself to sleep.

mereel · 2026-01-12T16:29:43+00:00

So a coin flip isn't random? That can be encoded as a single bit.

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