This reminds me of the PLoPD series:
https://archive.org/details/patternlanguages0000unse
Note that these books were written when design pattern was still a buzzword.
Readit NewsBut that's clearly not true for every technology. Photoshop, Blender and similar creative programs are "technology", and arguably they aren't as resource-intensive as the current generative AI hype, yet humans used those to create things I personally wouldn't consider "waste".
The real issue is determining how much non-renewable resource consumption is justified for these "valuable" things? Note that we are always inclined to value ourselves too much.
I agree the things you mentioned are valuable in the very common sense and I deliberately assign them no value to the avoid the above issue.
howtofly commented on An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024) jeclark.net/articles/tcp-... · Posted by u/cyb0rg0
IIRC, all latency-driven congestion control algorithms suffer from violent rtt variance, which happens frequently in wireless networks. How does BBR perform under such circumstances?
> Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste
What a sad way of viewing huge fields of creative expressions. Surely, a person sitting on a chair in a room improvising a song with a guitar is producing something not considered "waste"?
It's all about human technology, which enables massive resource consumption.
I should really say humans never truly produce anything in the realm of technology industry.
Manage classical C resources by auto-cleanup variables and do error-handling the normal way. If everything is OK, pass the ownership of these resources from auto-cleanup variables to C++ ctor.
Note this approach plays nicely with C++ exception, and will enter C standard in the form of `defer`.