[trying to impress a music buff] yeah i'm a jungle fan too! i've been getting into some of the more uh 'sparse' stuff lately. 'bamboo jungle'- that's what they call the stuff coming out of jiangxi lately. hey have u heard of "large henry"? nah that's too underground u probably wouldn't know about it

i consistently fail to understand why people don’t like .pdf files

i like .pdf files. if i have a page-oriented document and i want to send it to someone and be sure what they see is what i meant them to see, i send them a pdf. if someone sends me a document that i might want to store for reference or print, i would want it to be a pdf.

i can open and read a pdf file on my modern desktop computer just as easily as i can on my Quadra 700 from 1991. this is useful, since that Quadra 700 is also the only computer i have that can run my printer. i would not be able to do this if all the files i want to print were not already pdfs, but they are. very rarely, i may have to re-process the pdf for this to work. this is very rare.

if i download manuals from the internet, i prefer them to be in pdf format. what am i supposed to do with an .html file? open it as a tab in my browser? that seems weird. i’m reading a manual, not a website. and the .pdf format lets me have a nice table of contents in a collapsible bar on the side and quickly navigate or search for things in the document i want to find. you can do that in html as well, sure, but you have to go out of your way as the author of the manual to do that. pdf just has it.

what other options would there be? .docx? .odf? why? i’m not doing word processing. i’m not editing a thing. i have a read-only document that i have no intent of editing and which i may want to print. a word processor is rather heavy-handed for that, no?

the world is a dark and cruel place.

any recommendations on (modern) C++ books that assume the reader has like, some prior knowledge? I know C & Java (plus a couple random OO langs), and have used a limited amount of C++ in the past for coursework, but I really don't want another book that's like "here's 3 chapters on how strings work! here's a chapter on streams! now here's 4 chapters on how arrays work! okay book over!"