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1. try to sort out family photos
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the main idea here was to play around with the new (unstable) std::error::Error::provide API which, as long as your error type agrees on some protocol with your error handler, lets you stuff additional information into a plain old Error. this also means you can nest errors from different libraries any which way without losing information
so, given the source here: https://gist.github.com/Porges/34
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kid at daycare: “my dad has the same shoes as you”
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1. try to sort out family photos
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4. write a GEDCOM parser
5. want to improve errors
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there’s a nice combination of C++20 features which enable such badness as “statically allocated BSTRs”
if you don’t know what this is consider yourself lucky
moved this off notion to somewhere more permanent https://porg.es/occult-computing-sources
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if a function returns the wrong value about 99.999999% of the time, what would you call it?
follow up tip: try multiplying two 32-bit numbers
the main idea here was to play around with the new (unstable) std::error::Error::provide API which, as long as your error type agrees on some protocol with your error handler, lets you stuff additional information into a plain old Error. t…
this means they might be going into Unicode 17.0, if the UTC agrees
the Script Ad-Hoc committee has agreed to recommend the characters to UTC at their November meeting
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