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Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cool thing to do now is to write it in Rust, only using the standard library.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And I hate it. Nice concept, but I don't like neither, the language nor compiler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It’s a very different vibe. I remember my first seg fault in C - kids days are missing out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
  • The C compiler, when I parse a &(float) as (long) (it's actually an evil floating point hack to run Quake III on an X86_64 CPU emulated in Scratch running on Spotifys Car Thing) (This would never be possible in Rust)