Andy Simpson

@samir@mastodon.functional.computer Oof. C23 and C++17 have a [[fallthrough]] attribute, so compilers really ought to just default to unannotated fallthrough being an error.

@samir@mastodon.functional.computer I installed Bazzite on my gaming PC a few months ago, and it’s working great. I hear that competitive multiplayer games with anticheat don’t really work, and Nvidia drivers could be better, but otherwise… Linux desktop gaming is here.

@graydon@canada.masto.host @ysbreker@idlethumbs.social @cstross@wandering.shop Trying to add a (computational) cost to sending email lead to the invention of proof-of-work, which lead to Bitcoin. It’s unintended consequences all the way down.

@ScottStarkey@hoosier.social @kaiarzheimer@fediscience.org This is real. It’s the former site of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the hospital itself moved to another site in 1998.

What Dan Hannan thought June 2025 would be like then, and what he thinks about it now. What a clown.