Both Estonia and France are now ready to send troops to Ukraine as part of a coalition of the willing. These will not be frontline combat troops, but will carry out other tasks such as training in western Ukraine, freeing up more of Ukraine's own forces.
@nf3xn
Yeah… Mastodon has a classic thundering herd/Slashdot problem with each instance trying to create link previews. It has already crashed smaller sites, which I guess is a sign that Masto has made it to the big leagues 💪.
I also wonder why some of these secretbins don’t have an “ask user to confirm before showing them the secret” function, like 1ty.me does. Ah well. I’m sure they have rate limits or something else to prevent curl loops…
A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.
Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”
@0xabad1dea
Floats also allow some languages to write cool documentation like “If <language> encounters a number beyond the bounds of the int type, it will be interpreted as a float instead. Also, an operation which results in a number beyond the bounds of the int type will return a float instead.” 🙃