A simple way of a caller being able to provide allocation space to a function.
Maybe that's something like `&own`, some way to say "I'm chill with auto-boxing any intermediate allocations I need and passing ownership of them up the stack", or something around in-place-init people are discussing...
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A pink sphinx cat stretching to pry the top of a tall bin open, while turning to look guiltily at the camera.
Egg puncher also learned how to open the kitchen bin. Bin now has a child-lock on it.
No crimes just love.
A pink sphinx cat punching a glass of water with an egg in the bottom.
Blink the egg puncher. He punch the egg.
I will never not be annoyed that JavaScript Dates are 0-indexed for months, and 1-indexed for years and days.
So `new Date(2025, 10, 25)` makes the date 2025-11-25.
I can see how we got here, but...
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Removed `as` casts in favour of specific traits (possibly with some sugar) for each different thing `as` is used for. Still vaguely hoping we can eventually deprecate them, but wow it's a journey.
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"Don't ask forgiveness, radiate intent"
This (short!) blog post by @elizayer.bsky.social is the link I probably share with people the most.
It has wonderful advice, both for professional interaction and life.
Give it a read!
medium.com/@ElizAyer/do...
TIL that `awk` allows specifying multiple delimiters. So `awk -F'[<>]' '{print $2}'` will print what is between <>s!
I started there, and then got upset because of casts between ints and floats...!
I just tried to explain the difference between a "cast" and a "conversion" (e.g. in C++ `(char)65` vs `std::to_string(65)`, but not language-specific).
I... Did not have a good answer. Some guidelines. No good answer.
Does anyone have a good answer?
Does anyone have a really good introduction to WebSockets? Ideally covering "Why do we want these?" "What roughly are they?" "What do they look like in practice?"
Right now I have a bunch of resources that each provide part of the picture, but it feels like there must be a good single overview...?
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