• I Cast Fist
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    172 days ago

    I’ve played enough X-COM to know that 50/50 is actually 100%, I just don’t know which way. Better trigger it!!

    • @darkbaron202
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      92 days ago

      30%? Let me deliver that shot with crit across the map to your teammate hunkered down behind full cover for you!

    • @houstoneulers
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      22 days ago

      those are the best odds i’ve had in years

      -dr. mann

  • @[email protected]
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    Am I also in range of the nuclear bomb, or am I safe? Unclear as the image doesn’t specify if it is drawn to scale or not. Also which direction are the tracks currently pointing.

  • @[email protected]
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    Well, you can take yourself out of the equation because you’re not tied down and can just move after flipping the switch.

    chooses bottom track

    “C’mon…c’mon!”

    trolley heads towards committe members

    “Dammit!”

    runs over and jumps on the nuclear bomb pressure pad

  • @ZILtoid1991
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    21 day ago

    Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.

  • @kryptonianCodeMonkey
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    2213 days ago

    Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.

    • @Skullgrid
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      653 days ago

      the c++ team is a sacrifice I’m willing to make. can we just shoot Brendan Eich in the head if he’s not in there too?

      • @RoyaltyInTraining
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        123 days ago

        I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn’t be a huge loss.

        • KSP Atlas
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          153 days ago

          C++ is better suited to lower level operations than Go, C++ can have huge control over the environment (allowing it to be run on bare metal with no OS) while Go is limited due to it using a garbage collector

          If there was a replacement for C++, the best bet IMO would be Zig

          • @stetech
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            22 days ago

            As someone who knows neither of the three: Why Zig over Rust as a Cpp replacement?

            • @ZILtoid1991
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              Rust has its own issues.

              Before the memory safety craze, Rust was hyped as a functional programming language, meaning it not only has lambdas and monads, but also const by default, which will force you to rethink all your programming decisions. Also no classes, so you do even more rethinking.

              • optional
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                I don’t just rethink my programming decision but all my life decisions every night. Seem like Rust is the perfect language for me.

            • @dejected_warp_core
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              As someone who just picked through the Zig docs (take this with a mountain of salt), Zig has a few things going for it:

              • spec is simple and closer to C in scope
              • modern language design, toolchain, and overall ergonomics
              • Go-like struct & interface system
              • 1st-class C interoperability

              Go foists co-routines on you and the runtime, and Rust has the borrow checker. Both of these things deeply impact language design, standard libraries, and the overall developer experience. So Zig might actually be a “more modern C” in many ways which makes it a contender. That said, it’s not a 1:1 comparsion since it lacks everything else that C++ does: you’d have to re-envision your software designs as something other than OOP if that’s what you’re used to.

  • Ziglin (they/them)
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    52 days ago

    Now how do I get it to drift over everything but teams a and b?

    • I Cast Fist
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      22 days ago

      It’ll hit the bomb, so teams a and b will be blasted either way :)

      • Ziglin (they/them)
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        I assumed that the bomb would only kill 4.5 million people but all 8 billion are acceptable too, unless the teams a and b happen to be in the blast radius which seems unlikely. To me the area was only referencing the location of the bomb not the train.

    • @[email protected]
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      They’ve done amazing work trying to turn the clusterfuck they started with into a good language

      • @scutiger
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        32 days ago

        That “trying” is doing the heavy lifting in that sentence.

  • @zzx
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    52 days ago

    I like those odds