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
Fuck the metro I guess.
I’ll take the 50/50 because those are some damn good odds!
those are the best odds i’ve had in years
-dr. mann
Ok so this one just isn’t fair.
Two possibilities end up with me dead, two end up with millions dead, and one ends up with me being unemployed.
Sorry not sorry Team A and B, sacrifices must be made.
Wait, which one leaves you unemployed?
The lack of standards path of course.
Unless you work for the committee or for ISO somehow, then I don’t think that really follows. C++ and JavaScript were both used in production for decades before they had standards, and the dissolution of the standards committee wouldn’t cause compiler vendors to stop developing compilers.
Ok.
Fair.
Am I in the Metropolitan area?
You are on track A and the bomb is within sight. If you get the shit end of the 50/50, everyone in the diagram would be vaporized instantly
Lmao
So you’re saying there’s a 100% chance the comitees get vaporized by choosing the bottom track.
Well, no.
In scenario A they are instantly vaporized. In scenario B they are brutally sliced into multiple pieces and crushed to death, rather painfully depending on the speed of the trolley.
You need to study up on your trolleys. That’s clearly a Vaporizer Trolleynator 3000.
Let’s play coin flip!
there might be an argument that JavaScript kills more than a nuclear bomb
I’ve played enough X-COM to know that 50/50 is actually 100%, I just don’t know which way. Better trigger it!!
30%? Let me deliver that shot with crit across the map to your teammate hunkered down behind full cover for you!
Now how do I get it to drift over everything but teams a and b?
It’ll hit the bomb, so teams a and b will be blasted either way :)
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.
Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.
wait nvm I fucked up
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?
C++ is obsolete now that we have Go
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
As someone who knows neither of the three: Why Zig over Rust as a Cpp replacement?
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.
I don’t just rethink my programming decision but all my life decisions every night. Seem like Rust is the perfect language for me.
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.
wat
I prefer the binary format over the text format of WASM.
I am currently in the process of completely rewriting the BSD kernel in go.
how are you handling the GC? how are you handling things like interrupts?
GOd will handle it 🙏
oh so you haven’t actually done any of it.
I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn’t be a huge loss.
Push him onto the pressure pad. Make it his fault.
Middle track. Then I have plenty of time to hotwire the nuke with my handy dandy mallet
I think I’ll take my chances with the bomb
Bottom tracks, easy
Worth it
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Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.
“You and your entire family” means “All life on Earth”.
That should make the decision somewhat easier.
By my definition, family is who you treat like family.
I try to treat everyone I meet like family
I thought seaweed didn’t have a common ancestor
If you make it “all human live” it starts to look quite attractive again
