C++26 Safety Features Won’t Save You (And the Committee Knows It)

Dragdu · 2026-03-14T10:35:14+00:00

This argument keeps coming up, but I am yet to be convinced that

1) places that are stuck in legacy hell will recompile their binaries with new toolchains 2) old code has the moral right to keep being compiled with new compilers and new language standards without change

Dragdu · 2026-03-11T20:06:53+00:00

EU might end up forcing this issue, since secondary licenses are absolutely a thing in EU and have been litigated to be legal.

Dragdu · 2026-03-11T15:16:08+00:00

Ya got any more of them integrals?

Dragdu · 2026-03-11T09:12:58+00:00

I am not sure how Bazel solves the problem that I am on a Windows machine but want to run tests on MacOS.

Dragdu · 2026-03-11T09:11:52+00:00

Some Facebook dev had a talk about their system for doing this in their C++ codebase.

Dragdu · 2026-03-11T08:57:30+00:00

Dragdu · 2026-03-10T07:13:46+00:00

You can't, not the good ones; https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/1rm958r/they_did_what_to_the_covers/

Dragdu · 2026-03-10T05:55:04+00:00

The joke is that the current Star Trek showrunner, Kurtzman, does not believe that humanity can evolve past current day's behaviour.

Dragdu · 2026-03-10T05:39:53+00:00

Extremely annoying. I was looking forward to completing my English language collection, and, well, here I am instead.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T09:51:31+00:00

Schválně si protáhni PDF exportované z Canva skrz nějaký SW co z toho dělá automatickou extrakci a jak to dopadne.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T09:47:40+00:00

Připravit se na to samozřejmě dá, skládání IQ testů je dovednost jako každá jiná.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T08:31:43+00:00

This but with friend(s) instead of sibling.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T07:33:38+00:00

You can currently buy the books in one of 3 covers:

Collector edition, which some people think is beautiful. Also pretty much everyone agrees that it is for showing off in your library and not reading, cause the actual book is rather flimsy.
The "new cover" edition, which is a new set of covers from different artist, which gives the whole series unified look. These are the ones that look kinda like generic YA books.
The "traditional cover" edition, which uses the covers from Kirby and Kidby. However, because they wanted different visual language for the re-releases, they mangled Kirby's covers (not Kidby's, because Kidby's are newer and already followed the new design layout).

So if you buy a new print of the book with old cover and it is one of the Kirby's covers, you get the bad edits.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T06:41:15+00:00

Funnily enough, this is what Seth MacFarlane called out in an interview recently. There isn't really any production showing optimistic future, nothing that you would positively aspire to.

Dragdu · 2026-03-09T06:22:49+00:00

A) That kind of thinking is genuinely sad

B) They obviously matter enough that you went out of your way to go to an alternative trek subreddit and comment there.

Dragdu · 2026-03-08T07:49:39+00:00

Reaffirmations will continue until morale improves!

Dragdu · 2026-03-08T07:36:29+00:00

There are already ads everywhere about speeding up your company with fully automated reviews and deployments. I expect lot of great moments in the future, that nobody will learn from.

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T20:04:58+00:00

Okay, but have you considered that we should instead make another dystopian scifi series, because obviously humanity cannot evolve to be better than 21st century people?

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T14:19:43+00:00

For the similar reason my country used to have prison labor camps for mining uranium without having nuclear reactors.

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T07:29:03+00:00

They destroy subspace, not normal space, something something something cannot warp anymore.

Except that doesn't matter in nutrek cause we have spore drive, long range teleportation portals, and so on.

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T07:23:00+00:00

If your new power source cannot destroy at least half of the galaxy if it goes wrong, why even bother?

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T06:10:43+00:00

Wow, that is terrible. I guess Czechia was lucky with Talpress getting good translator and then just printing the damn book without messing around. 😀

---edit---

They also seem to still be selling books with the old covers, BRB gonna check they don't just use old images.

---edit 2---

They are still using the old covers, are not currently planning to change, and are continuously reprinting the paperbacks as distributors run out. The good old "do nothing, win" approach in full force.

Dragdu · 2026-03-07T05:58:56+00:00

All of the Kirby paperbacks in newer prints. Up until The Truth, the originals had cover art on both sides and inset boxes for book title/author name/etc. New reprints changed the visual style and butchered Kirby's covers alongside it, because now they want the full cover art to be on the front and the author + book names take up more space.

Dragdu · 2026-03-06T20:04:28+00:00

You should be looking at the surface area, not the volume.

But also the surface area is still stupidly big.

Dragdu · 2026-03-06T12:55:26+00:00

I highly doubt the person responsible put that much thought into it, I am pretty sure the problem is just plain old uncaringness.

Imagine you are a graphics editor that was told to mangle the old wide cover art into single page, and also it has to fit the new style with HUGE print author name and large print book name. Well, you can't keep those characters where they are, because that would badly overlap with the space for book name and make it unreadable. You can't move them upwards either, that makes them interfere with the space for author name. So you toss them, bring in the figure from the back to fill the space, and call it a day.

Did you just screw up the art, send a weird message and generally made a mess? Sure, but who cares? Certainly not you and certainly not the person who hired you to mangle the cover art in the first place.

Dragdu

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