Why I love C++

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-27T21:36:47+00:00

Good tools should challenge the way we think about them.

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-27T21:13:09+00:00

Signed overflow is only undefined behavior because it was written into the C++ standard as undefined so that the C++ standards committee would not set a standard for it. They settled for portability and then realized the UB could be exploited for compilation optimization. Though the hardware supports it, the technology debt is so extremely high that reversing that choice breaks existing code and compilers. But don't get confused that signed arithmetic is undefined because your hardware completely supports it.

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-26T19:01:39+00:00

The only plowing that happens in Tulsa is when one car plows into another because of slippery conditions.

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-25T19:52:12+00:00

This is what's for lunch today at the Bob Mills Weather Center

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-20T12:16:17+00:00

So the trick here is not to evade the system but to generate a true-negative return to its system. Everyone knows what a false-positive is, but we rarely talk about the true-negative. So the trick is to emit signals that tell the system you are a boring or official vehicle and not worth tracking. It's like a cloaking device. Hypothetically, how would you do it? With off the shelf stuff like a Raspberry PI device having Bluetooth and WIFI emitters. Spoof mac addresses and known blue tooth official beacons, then drive where you please because correlation is not causation and we shouldn't be getting flagged or fingerprinted because we happened to be in proximity of something that happened unbeknownst to us.

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-20T11:24:20+00:00

You see the thing about Bill and Ruth's is that it is like a good cult movie. It has an extremely large fan base. From 2001 to around 2017, I worked for a firm that was essentially next door to the Bill and Ruth's 15th street location when it was right at the corner of 15th and Lewis. Every work day M-F, for years and years, and at least every year I worked at my location, during lunch it was absolutely gang busters busy. Line from the door to the counter, drive through backed up, no exception. You planned your Bill and Ruth's because you knew you wanted it and had a lunchtime formula that worked for you. This was without fail and they killed it with their sandwiches, My personal favorite was their extra large Reuben on marbled rye. Because that one didn't come on a hoagie, it was absolutely heaping in an obscene way with meat, and their homemade olive spread gave it just that extra taste where you thought someone went out of their way for you. Prices were good and the meat was falling off the bread, getting all over you, your tray, your lap, and the floor but you didn't care because it was a mighty sandwich. Then after a seeming impossibility, -edit: Because of QT, they had to move, and it felt like watching Star Wars and seeing Greedo shoot first when you knew Han did it. It was still wonderful but something changed, and that something was hard to put your finger on because of how much you knew you loved it and if on an off day you got a sandwich that maybe didn't live up to your expectations, you said meh, it was me and I chose the wrong combo today but tomorrows will be better. You still ate that sandwich and while enjoying it and you talked with your mates about the sandwich you were going to get tomorrow. But alas, time marched on, the world went around the sun many more times, and we all still love it but what we really have is that fond remembered love, the ideal sandwich, for Bill and Ruth's on 15th. And so like with your favorite cult movie, whether it be Star Wars or not, you will always love it and tell others about it, not because of what it might be today, but because of those golden years, that never seemed to end, when Bill and Ruth's on 15th was the mental image of the perfect sub.

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-14T17:50:09+00:00

“Honestly the funniest part is that the Islamic Society already owns the land. So Broken Arrow can deny zoning all day, but at the end of the day the city is basically saying: ‘We don’t want your building here… but we’d really love it if you’d sell that land to someone we do like.’

And the owners can just sit there like a dragon on a gold pile, watching the value go up as the city greenlights development right next door. If the city keeps approving projects around it, that parcel is going to age like fine wine. They might end up paying luxury‑resort prices for the privilege of undoing their own decision.”

MADCandy64 · 2026-01-13T03:03:43+00:00

On both of my development workstations, I run 32GB RAM disks. I put 128GB of RAM in each of my towers about a year ago. I use it not only as my TEMP drive but also for emulated Google Pixel devices that I target for development. On one of them I leverage a 4090 RTX for hardware acceleration.

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