this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
39 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1430 readers
111 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
39
On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers (izzys.casa)
submitted 5 days ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

this post has been making the rounds on Mastodon, for good reason. it’s nominally a post about the governance and community around C++, but (without spoiling too much) it’s written as a journey packed with cathartic sneers at a number of topics and people we’ve covered here before. as a quick preview, tell me this isn’t relatable:

This is not a feel good post, and to even call it a rant would be dismissive of the absolute unending fury I am currently living through as 8+ years of absolute fucking horseshit in the C++ space comes to fruition, and if I don’t write this all as one entire post, I’m going to physically fucking explode.

fucking masterful

an important moderator note for anyone who comes here looking to tone police in the spirit of the Tech Industry Blog Social Compact: lol

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

ackshully F22 is not a civilian killing weapon, americans are very cagey about it, foreign sales are forbidden, can't operate from aircraft carrier, has been only flown and maintained by americans. its final task would be air defense of north american airspace in ww3 scenario. the civilian killing machines would be drones like MQ9 and since we're talking about turkey, bayraktars. that, and older multirole jets like F16 and helicopters and whatever ground attack aircraft they have. turns out things are much simpler if you're just slinging PGMs from above, or outside MANPADS range, against people that can't fight back otherwise. these things would be useless in normal war

i guess lots of code in f22 goes into radar, some other sensors (ir for example) and comms (link 16, communication to missiles etc), a place where i suspect c is a good choice