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Archive for August 6th, 2024

Leah Neukirchen: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. …” – BLÅHAJ Social

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/06

From about a year ago, but too funny not to repeat:

[Wayback/Archive] Leah Neukirchen: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. …” – BLÅHAJ Social

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. blahaj.social/@leah/110781718156325459

--jeroen

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Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«…

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/06

Please do not overdo Unicode outside the ASCII realm for identifiers and stay away from Emoji: [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«…”

Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«
»
🎼initializer🎱«
»
💦 mutable, 🧱 not.«
»
🎁 on the heap, 🥞 on the stack«
»
🍼 ctor, 🪦 dtor«
»� non-utf string result«
»any of
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 as a concat operator«
»
📁📂 block delims«

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