In part to combat the wave of junk articles crapped out by generative AI with examples using the most faggy language (python) ever designed, I decided to start showcasing various aspects of C++, easily my preferred platform.
It has its oversights and shortcomings I'll also present, but generally C++ has a respectable, formal style which helps the compiler produce performant and efficient binaries while also exposing the abject peasantry of various other languages once you get to know it. Exactly as human language was more well-spoken decades ago, so too was computing language, to the extent that using other platforms seems like writing foul-mouthed vulgarity in comparison.
This is also sort of a test-post to see how well the site formatting system handles code (I tried it in a message to myself but the formatting doesn't work there).
` #include <iostream>
int main(int, char**) { std::cout << "The iostream syntax is weird, but allows for some compile-time checks and runtime safety.\n"; std::cout << "Terry Davis was right about it being niggery compared to printf though.\n"; return 0; } `
If the code delimiters don't work, it'll probably interpret the pointer asterisks as bold text, or perhaps the include directive as a HTML header level.
If the `code` doesn't work, it's because you have a messed-up C++ compiler resulting from another attempt at Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. For sake of argument I'm using GCC g++, but in general a compliant compiler ought not require preprocessor directives specific to itself.
I volunteer for a veterans charity on the weekend. I was in front of a wally world in west central florida. 2 saturdays ago.
A guy comes out. In his sixties. Wearing a track suit. As hes getting on his expensive bicycle he says to me "You want to help me? Have Elon Musk stop stealing my social security and medicare!".
Now I have become very good at ignoring the assholes, and there are plenty of them, but this was just too stupid to let slide.
And NO ONE EVER mentions juuz! You keyboard warriors are too scared to say it in public!
I reply "You cannot possibly believe that!". I repeat it " You cannot possibly believe that. MORON!" He's unlocking his bike with his head down.
I tell him " Congress and the Senate have been stealing your social security and sending it overseas!".
He waits till he's on his bike pedaling to say "Keep drinking the Kool-Aid"! THAT made me mad! I shouted after him "keep slurping propaganda!".
The CCP covered up the true death toll of COVID19, the reality is that China lost hundreds of millions of people over the past five years due to the pandemic, today even a casual observer can see that Chinese cities and villages are noticeably empty.
In 2018 the Russians estimated China's population at between 500 and 800 million, noting China's population in 1945 was 490 million, before Chairman Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and the subsequent "Cultural Revolution" brought famine and countless deaths.
Whereas the decades old one child policy means it is impossible that China's population surged to 1.4 billion, other Russian experts added up the publicly available urban population of every Chinese city and county and got only 280 million people. Lei's Real Talk.
I didn't know who she was until I heard some news radio story about her hot wheels comment. Now I can't stop listening to her. This is quite possibly one of the stupidest people I've ever heard or seen. She looks stupid, sounds stupid, walks stupid, has those weird tarantula leg eyelashes, dresses like a street whore and talks like a short order cook in Alabama. How the fuck did one whole political party get here? I thought the Guam tipping over guy was dumb, but there were layers even below that.
