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I really dislike the complexity of modern C++ language specs, but does it obscure much detail about FP ops?

TL;DR:

A vast majority of the programmers I've worked with don't understand the nuances of FP in general, nor the various extents of IEEE-754 support in different programming languages.

So for important numerical programming, I think clarity regarding the FP operations being performed can be crucial. I'm just unclear if modern C++ is a significant factor for that.

Codeberg Is Down 25 days ago

Sounds like we have the basics of an oscillating system now!

I wonder what it's resonant frequency is.

That's an interesting point and worth discussing.

I'm not sure why you got down voted. Maybe people are perceiving some subtext that I'm not.

Why even reduce an easy to exploit attack surface when there could be holes elsewhere?! Because, you know, it makes things much more secure even if imperfect.

I'm still trying to calibrate my take on this view.

If attacks are randomly chosen from the set of all potential vulnerabilities, without the attacker knowing which ones had been patched, then that logic clearly makes sense.

But in an adversarial situation where the attacker can guess which vulnerabilities you still have unpatched, or can try many different attack vectors, then having already patched some other vulnerabilities doesn't matter so much.

I guess reality is more complicated though.

I am curious of that allows the new President, while in office, to assassinate the previous one and insta-pardon himself.

It's amazing how much of America's political stability might rest not on the law, but rather on the self-restraint of each cohort's leadership.