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Friday Fun Thread for November 22, 2024

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Diablo 4 players, how likely do you think it is that Elon Musk is bullshitting about his global ranking? What time investment would you need to get into the top 20?

Do you think he has a ghostwriter, er, ghostplayer? Because the run itself looks legit: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1859304361547182451

Not a Diablo player in the least, but John Carmack publicly stated on X that Elon actually does that, and that even his wife plays Diablo with him so as to be carried through tougher dungeons.

The other night I rewatched a movie I liked when I was younger, Heartbreakers. If you want a light comedy featuring a funny performance from Ray Liotta and a hysterical one from Bob Hoskins (and also a leading turn from Jennifer Love Hewitt in her prime, displaying acres of leg and cleavage), check it out.

The premise of the film (this is revealed in the first ten minutes of the movie so it's hardly a spoiler, but the movie would probably be more entertaining if you go into it blind) is this: Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are a mother and daughter, Max and Page Connors, who play a long con on unsuspecting marks, the first of whom we see in the movie is Dean Cummano, the character played by Ray Liotta. Max meets Dean and gets him to fall madly in love with her, but tells him that she doesn't believe in pre-marital sex. Dean marries Max, but Max pretends to fall asleep on their wedding night, preventing him from consummating the marriage and leaving him even more sexually frustrated. The following morning, Page seduces Dean, and Max catches him in the act. Max divorces Dean and demands a massive one-off settlement; because Dean runs a quasi-legitimate business, he agrees, because dragging him through the courts would open up his business to legal scrutiny.

What I was thinking during this rewatch is, while this long con is obviously dishonest and shady - is it actually illegal? It's not a crime for a woman to ask her daughter to attempt the seduce the woman's husband to see how he'll react. As Page subsequently argues in the movie, "we can't make a scumbag do anything a scumbag wouldn't do anyway". The con hinges on Dean voluntarily choosing to be unfaithful to Max with Page - if he succeeds in keeping his dick in his pants, it's game over.

I listen to music more nowadays since I am on concerta so some recommendations. A lot of it is farily mainstream electronic music wise but many may not have heard these

  • For about 4 years (2012-2015) Inspected Records got some artists to collab and make music, the proceeds of which would go to movember charities, the tracks being Beyond the shadows, Cascade, Mosaic and the very last If you hadn't. These are mostly Koan Sound and friends from in or around biristol

  • Polychrome is a great mix of what many just call bass music, unlike deadmau5 their stuff is not 4 to the floor so the variation in drums is a nice contrast. Koan Sound's first album, their music just sounds polished audio wise, far more than a lot of other music I have heard. Their remix of Halo 4s green and blue is pretty nice too.

  • Random Album Title by deadmau5 (pronounced deadmouse) turned 16 this year and it is my favorite album of his, electro and progresive house was fairly good during the late 2000s and it caputres a good bit of that vibe. Tracks I recommend are Alone with you which is my favorite track from the album, Faxing Berlin was one of his breakout hits at the time, I remember was another breakout hit where he collaborated with kaskade and Jaded.

  • New Energy by Four Tet is pretty nice. It is not as strict genre wise as either of the two entries before, the standout track here is two thousand and seventeen which samples classical Indian music in the best way possible.

  • Immersion, is Pendulums most popular album due to having thier most iconic tracks like watercolor,witchcraft,crush and The island. They make rock-heavy drum and bass, with the island being their non dnb mega-hit.

I should catch up on new music though so any suggestions are welcome.

Fights

Petr Yan fights Figeuridoin at UFC Macau. Finally, a UFC card that I can watch in the evening; otherwise, it's a pretty thin card. Some time ago I pointed how MMA did not feel as fun as it once was, 309 was just terrible. two 40 year olds fought where the older, less active one lost because he was older, less active and did not care. Bo Nickal threw the kind of strikes you dont expect from anyone not a heavyweight and Michael Chandler looked terrible too.

have a fun weekend folks.

Which indentation style do you prefer?

IMO, Ratliff makes the most sense, because it's the only style that reduces the number of tabs after typing the closing brace, rather than before.

if(this){
	that();
	if(nothing){
		something();
		}
	}else{
	other();
	}

Indentation style is a problem for the IDE. The user should never think about it.

I find it disconcerting and nonsensical for the IDE to automatically delete a tab before the cursor when the user types a closing brace in non-Ratliff styles. Also, I'm not much of a programmer, but I imagine that writing a program to pretty-print code in non-Ratliff styles must be a major hassle, because it would force you to move the cursor backward and then forward again after finding every closing brace.

I don’t understand why more people don’t recognize that Allman is clearly superior.

If you get paid by the line, then it certainly is.

K&R, accept no substitutes.

It's logically consistent, space-efficient, orderly and readable. The others don't even come close.

While Visual Studio and C# are my drugs of choice, the worst thing about them may be the default linter & style guide's insistence on Allman.

K&R has always been the best, and as you say, it's not close.

I prefer K&R with mandatory braces around single-statement blocks.

Whatever the linter thinks is ok

There's a saying "code should be written to be understood by humans first an only incidentally executed by a machine".

None of them are actually harder or easier to read, it's just a matter of familiarity. You need to train your brain to quickly parse code and tweak that for new indentation styles.

You're going to have a better time if you just learn to read the most common styles quickly. You're inevitably going to be reading a lot of other people's code.

I like otbs. It's K&R without skipping braces on one liners, which can lead to bugs on a messy merge.

This looks very wrong to me. Closing brace being at the same indentation as the start of the block is what makes sense to me.

if (condition) {
    do_it();
}

This article made me laugh probably more than anything I've ever read on Substack: https://suedonym.substack.com/p/the-real-lesbian-master-doc

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