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Software licensing is notoriously labyrinthine, so resources like the site Microsoft will close – Get Licensing Ready – can be very handy. Today, the site offers over 50 training modules plus documentation.
I’m sorry, mister MSFT, why did you cause there to be more educational content about your stupid licenses than there is for theoretical physics in an undergrad programme, have you ever considered that it’s time to stop? Get some help?
I had no idea so much of C++ and the Committee was so closely linked to the military industrial complex. Like people who design fucking murder drones just casually send their requests to them and they read them and care? And Bjarne Cplusplus, the inventor of C++, helped Lockheed Martin on the F22???
No, seriously, sorry, I cannot put myself into a hypothetical headspace where someone sending me a letter “hello, we need this feature to kill civillians better, thanks” isn’t interpreted as a prank, since if it weren’t then the only acceptable response would be to return a pipebomb to the sender.
Of course, this brings up the title of this section. The C++ Alliance. Shortly after making a shitload of money from the massive rise of value in bitcoin in the late 10s, Vinnie Falco proceeded to purchase the C++ Slack under the name of this non-profit organization.
Wait a second, record scratch, stop, what on earth does “purchase the C++ Slack” mean? Since when are we trading Slacks? What’s the value of a Slack? Can I buy someone’s Slack? How many users do I have to get on my Slack before it’s worth something on the open market? What the fuck does this mean???
I am about halfway through but it’d really help if someone could maybe do a TL;DR about the C++ features that are mentioned in this post.
Like what the fuck are profiles? Modules? C++ has modules? Half of my current job is in C++ and I have no idea what any of those things are. Which seems to be a common problem with C++, e.g. I’ve recently learnt that something for garbage collection used to exist, but it was scrapped and removed from the standard before I’ve first heard of it.
It’s hard to understand the reddit comments linked without this context and the post itself is like an hour-long read.
EDIT: Okay I see profiles are explained in a section later, but modules are not? Also they’re explained in opposition to “contracts” which I’ve also never heard of and jesus fucking christ, this language is a hellhole
EDIT2:
I’ll add operator . to the list of plot important characters that get no introduction if you’re not familiar with the C++ Extended Universe
Oh, is this something about memory safety and how people twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify using C++
opens article
Unfortunately, this post has mentions of rape and sexual assault.
Oh for fuck’s sake, why is it always this
In that sense, no underlying physical state could be said to hold “more” information than any other, right?
In an information-theoretical sense, you can have a message that has a lower or higher information content. This is where entropy gets derived from. But it only makes sense for a fixed distribution – a more likely outcome has a lower information content. So I think you could have a physical state holding more information, if it’s a less likely state for some fixed definition of likeliness.
This would probably be closer to an actual link between informational entropy and physical – a given microstate has lower physical entropy when it is a less-likely state (e.g. half-squished cup of coffee), and that state would have higher information content if we considered the state as the message. This intuitively makes sense, because physical entropy is in some sense the ability of a system to undergo change, so indeed a low-entropy system is “more useful”, just like a message with higher information content is “more useful”.
Also can we make awful.systems render Latex in posts, I had to screenshot my formulas to put them here and I feel unclean