Chaosvex

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by Chaosvex 4mo ago
Yeah but that's a distribution problem, not a production one. The starving Africans line didn't work on me as a kid. (tongue firmly in cheek)
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
You've attacked a strawman.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
That's your opinion, others won't agree and would much rather not pay the price at all.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Strangely, I've never seen any nice code from Casey despite all of the mud slinging he's done over the years. Maybe it exists somewhere but I watched a lot of Handmade Hero when it was starting off and the code was a mess. It feel
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Saying it doesn't even do bounds checking (in release builds) is to miss one of the major points of C++ - not paying for what you don't need. It's not a mistake, it's a feature. You complain about it not being suitable f
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Yet they spend a lot of time complaining about features that were deprecated or removed.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Grossly exaggerated or misunderstood in many cases. Some of their arguments are just flat-out wrong. I mean, why are they blaming the standard library for inherent properties of linked lists? Yeah, you don't want to use them without g
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
That article probably isn't the best source to cite. You can look at the discussions on it elsewhere, although I'd just dismiss it as slop. The standard library is mostly fine to use unless you have specific needs. The bit about l
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Because it's not a real standard and there is no blessed RFC for it. The DWARF spec is as close as you'll get and it says, "The integer zero is a special case, consisting of a single zero byte." So in a way, it doesn&#x2
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
True but also not particularly relevant?
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
You wouldn't. It's a strange argument that can be countered with, "maybe don't do that?"
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Yeah, I know, I was just giving the colloquial name for them in the UK. We like calling things plugs, including what you might call a socket or outlet. Not exclusively but very commonly.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Kettle plugs in the UK, close enough. I'm not sure if most kettles even use them at this point.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
It's a little amusing that he's seemingly linked to the dangerous fuses using his Amazon affiliate links. Hey, may well make a buck if someone's going to buy them anyway, right?
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
But LAN parties were probably more common during the CRT era. I wonder how much of an impact harder to crack games has had, as well as many titles removing LAN play as a form of DRM. PC LANs were basically driven by piracy.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
And the locked cockpits have been indirectly responsible for a huge number of deaths. Best intentions and all that
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Nah, that's fair, I was just being a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
> and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t For something to take "longer and longer" to realise, doesn't they imply that it's been realised at least once before or that there was an expected deadli
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Oh, I'm sure there are people that already do it intentionally.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article. Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Agreed. Weird to see a bunch of posts trying to argue that E2E doesn't imply that provider can't see the data, at rest or in transit.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
You copied his password? *******? (I really hope that was an intentional reference or this won't make any sense.)
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
They broke it not too long before Musk bought it when they wanted to boost user numbers. It'll frequently display tweets from literal years ago as being the latest. It's why proxies/mirrors are often linked rather than Twitte
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Yeah, fun for who exactly?
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
I've also worked on MMOs and the architectures there can get quite hairy, particularly when they're deeply plumbed into shared services and infrastructure that they couldn't operate without. Those layers occasionally have clo
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
I'm countering your argument that it's "not that bad". If that wasn't your point with mentioning the three person team, what was? Recap: > Client-server architecture does make things more complicated to implement
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
Among Us is also incredibly simple compared to the services required to support some AAA games and even then, their networking code was riddled with exploits that no professional would have written, including RCEs. Didn't stop it from
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
The short version is that it's fine in C++ as long as you only read the member that was last written to or a char type.
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by Chaosvex 5mo ago
A comment defending abusive software terms on a website called HackerNews. Something amusing about that.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Yes, subsidised by the government. That's all.

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