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by 4bpp 8y ago
I've written some heap-heavy code and never used unique_ptr, but I don't remember ever causing a double deletion. What's a pattern which you figure makes one prone to doing that? (On that basis, I'm a little inclined to
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by 4bpp 8y ago
I haven't encountered any context in which it would add value (i.e. you can't just figure out yourself where it will go out of scope and delete at that point, which also makes the code clearer), and all other things equal, using i
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by 4bpp 8y ago
This is a fair point, but I still feel like there should be some regulations on how it is used in libraries (lest we wind up in a "this chunk of code is going into a .so, so everything goes!" situation), since library code still h
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Personal opinions on the "right subset" of C++: * Yes to classes. * Yes to inheritance and virtual member functions, because interfaces are a very useful and easy to understand abstraction. Moreover, especially for games, idioms s
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I think that at this point, C++ has basically to be treated the same as the English language. Sure, you could write sentences that span three pages, employ Shakespearean vocabulary or words that hardly anyone has known since the abolition o
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> Our most technically-competent agencies are prevented from finding and countering influence operations because of the concern that they might inadvertently engage with real U.S. citizens as they target Russia’s digital illegals and ISI
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by 4bpp 8y ago
1. Well, humans produced a lot of music long before anything like a copyright system existed, so maybe that's actually not the example you want to look for. 2. If people charge money for covers[1], the public does tend to exhibit some
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by 4bpp 8y ago
One potential confounder that the paper does not appear to address is the possibility that members of those missions fathered children with the native population, who(se descendants) stayed in place even after the mission left. Do we have a
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It's on a weekly cycle, with peaks presumably on the weekends. Maybe more home internet connections than workspace internet connections are IPv6, so there is an uptick in registered IPv6 connections when people are at home. (Note how t
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What if the subject of a prediction market is a matter that is subjective and/or politically charged? Suppose, for instance, the question asked is "Is the Trump presidency a net positive?", or something even more seemingly fa
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So this is suggesting that childhood poverty may be a strong correlate of whatever the marshmallow test tests (and childhood poverty is plausibly a strong correlate of life outcomes, so the effect might be completely mediated via childhood
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Why do you think it is more likely that a given obsessive editor is a good-faith Wikipedian who cares about an unbiased and comprehensive encylopedia than an agenda-pusher? My proposal was implicitly based on the opposite assumption, namely
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> i don't think that's been said. I think it's implied by the phrase "they are free to inject their biases unchecked." > false. or i guess we'll exclude most of quantum mechanics and dozens of other thing
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If the ability for Wikipedia to have a neutral article on a topic hinges on the existence of a single irreplaceable person with that level of dedication, then I think the right solution is to not have an article on the topic. In general, fo
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There's an object-level point that can be made about referencing an even more partisan source like Rationalwiki as a response in this particular thread, but the more interesting meta-level observation is that the whole Wikipedia sourci
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> ‘Philip Cross’ has edited @georgegalloway ‘s wikipedia page over 1800 times. This, and many other political arguments I have seen on it before, really makes me think that Wikipedia would benefit from a policy where a sufficient number
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by 4bpp 8y ago
It's slightly curious to see one of these for a (to my best understanding) not particularly politicised as of yet topic, but maybe it is worth reasserting that "I anticipated your argument and put it on a bingo board!" is not
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by 4bpp 8y ago
I think your post hints at a general schizophrenia in the latest, culture-war-fueled push against Facebook. On the one hand, the public debate is still significantly dominated by the old guard of anti-Facebook activists, whose objectives ca
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by 4bpp 9y ago
There is a lot I am tempted to call out in this post, but just for a particularly glaring example, > It's important to stress that the differences between members of the perceived groups ("ethnicities", "country of or
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At this point, I get the impression that for most (by numbers) of those who believe in a race-$trait correlation, the important thing is not to persuade those who are indifferent but to prove those who strongly assert that there is no such
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by 4bpp 9y ago
> We called them savages for living in harmony with the land. I thought the "living in harmony with the land" thing has generally been considered discredited along with the rest of the "noble savage" tropes out there.
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I wonder if there are any test cases from the other side of the culture war - say, a multi-day sit-in at an abortion clinic in defiance of an injunction, covered by an ambiguously activist reporter for a Christian newspaper who "does n
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by 4bpp 9y ago
I understand the case in the case of Mozilla, because a browser is an intrinsically absurdly complex product. In the case of Signal, the benefits of having a foundation like that seem unclear to me. What exactly is it that they want to do b
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I hate to be the one naysayer, but it seems to me like the benefits of this influx of funding and scope has very few tangible benefits, while predisposing them to a standard failure mode of large and well-funded tech activist organisations
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> It seems to me, from personal experience, that the people who feel alienated are the ones who bring politics to work in an overbearing contrarian way, seeking to cause offense under the guise of "debate," and then pretend to
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I am put off by the circumstance that in spite of the title, nowhere in the article does it seem to say (nor even suggest that the paper answers) why people dislike really smart leaders.
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If nothing else, the difference between those and Google is at least one of scale and power. With great power comes great responsibility, but Google does not really appear like its sense of responsibility has grown in proportion to its powe
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The obvious countermeasure seems to be to feed them bullshit data (wrong reviews, pictures from elsewhere and what-not), but for some curious reason this feels antisocial against other Google users in a way that outweighs the benefits of sa
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Another step towards teledildonics?
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> I'm disgressing but I'd argue in those European countries you probably won't see kids walking to school alone and for strong safety reasons. I don't know for sure about Italy or France (though I'd be very surpr

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