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rydwolf

02:48

Ginger

Chat G. Pt

lyxal

@rydwolf small image preview on mobile made me read it as Ukranium at first

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rydwolf

15:23

My linkedin account got banned :(

Probably because I put my "interests" as "drinking, crime, SDC buggy" and my "skills" as Physical Security, Criminal Intelligence, Sexology, Cocktails, and some fifth one along those lines that I have since forgotten

and also I wrote a linkedin article about "abusing stimulants in a professional context and blaming my productivity on the pomodoro method"

mousetail 'he-him'

Surprised that's banable, LinkedIn has a lot of joke accounts with similar bios

Oh the article would do it

You can't really talk about drugs in most places

zoomlogo

16:14

@wasif OMG hello!

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Seggan

17:48

@rydwolf mine is literally as barebones as possible :P

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rydwolf

20:17

I would also send as many personalized connection requests as it would let me with a free account, always with the message "caught lacking"

The Empty String Photographer

20:58

@Neil CMC is Czechia Monaco Chile

ATaco

21:32

CMP: What should the result of compare be for two values that are not equal, nor orderable?

Seggan

make sure compare is not used for equality

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21:55

@ATaco Ideally, a distinct "incomparable" value that exists solely for that purpose :P

or rather, in a type system that makes that meaningfully possible, you'd just have an option type wrapping a 3-way result

but assuming that's not the case... unironically I am TEMPTED to suggest NaN lmaooo

if for no other reason than NaN being where that comes up in common data types in the first place

but then ofc that, uh, also kinda makes it a pain in the ass to test the comparison result

@Seggan I think as long as you're doing numbers this is the most sensible answer--0 doesn't mean equal, it just means not greater or less than

att

22:08

complex infinity

ATaco

22:32

I've settled for 0 as it's the most reasonable for my applications, just requires an extra equality check for those instances that want to differentiate between unorderable and equal

The most obvious use of compare is as an ordering function anyway

lyxal

Is throwing an error out of the question?

emanresu A

would very much depend on context

ATaco

@lyxal This is for a golf-lang, in which niche edgecases can be the difference between a handful of bytes.

emanresu A

0 then

lyxal

23:09

@ATaco mm certainly 0

I know all about how edge case design can be the difference between a neat byte shave and a byte penalty for having to handle something explicitly :p

rydwolf

23:54

GUYS

Apparently SIGBOVIK is at CMU???

Redz

whos that?

rydwolf

> SIGBOVIK is a yearly conference celebrating the inestimable research work of Harry Quernstone Bovik. Since his research has been so variegated, the conference is traditionally a forum for discussion on many subjects, including: Inept Expert Systems, Deep Space Navigation, Science, Perplexity Theory, Thaughmaturgic Circle, Self-Adjusting Computation, Denotational Semantics of Pidgin and Creole, Worm Causality, Dimorphic Computing, k-Armed Bandits, Regret ...

Redz

adds yet another entry to the 'why cmu is cool' list

rydwolf

Are you thinking about applying?