Longhanks

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by Longhanks 2y ago
Apple was nowhere near a tech giant when the iPhone was introduced. Facebook was a student's project. Consumer tech innovation just doesn't happen in Europe, I think that's the real issue Europe should be tackling, given how
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by Longhanks 2y ago
With these legislations, I always wonder how the lawmakers come up with timeframes like 6 months. Who is to say this implementation doesn't take, say, a year? I doubt lawmakers have the technological know how to estimate such a project
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by Longhanks 2y ago
Well, ISO C++ is a standard, and the standard being finished does not mean the implementation being finished. Also, modules is probably one of the biggest changes in terms of work required in build systems, compilers and tooling since at le
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by Longhanks 2y ago
> Policymakers will absolutely piss off a huge number of people over some basic principle. ...which is why a lot of countries are shifting to the right, people are fed up with policymakers ignoring the public will. (Examples: Netherlands
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by Longhanks 2y ago
In democracies, usually it's up to the population to decide what favors the population best. Also, in democracies with a somewhat free market, you can simply choose not to buy phones that do not ship the port you prefer.
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by Longhanks 2y ago
It's 2024, everything but Windows is UTF-8 \n since twenty years.
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by Longhanks 2y ago
Cries in WinAPI
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by Longhanks 2y ago
Lol, have you ever been to Europe? iPhones are definitely considered premium and there definitely are networks that are more expensive but offer better reception. In Germany, that would be Telekom, in Switzerland, it's Swisscom.
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by Longhanks 2y ago
Someone paying for a premium phone is probably also inclined to pay for a premium mobile network.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Well, you certainly lack the imagination of working with given constraints outside of your bubble, so I guess we've both learned something today.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Choosing not to sympathize with the reality of most C++ devs is up to you, you've made it very clear that you refuse to acknowledge my point. No need to get snarky.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
> Ideally, anything past C++20 should be made available as module as well. > Not every library has to work in all compilers of the world. These two statements directly contradict each other. It's great that you are in a space whe
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Again, they are barely functional. MSVC chokes on many standard-defined constructs: https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/1694 clang does not claim to be "mostly usable" at all - most papers are n
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Ideally, modules should first of all be implemented fully according to the standard - CMake does not support gcc13 (14 isn't released yet), MSVC spits internal compiler errors when mixing #includes with imports, VS IntelliSense is bugg
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Germany's largest party, the CDU/CSU union, has already announced that they intend to revoke the law ("make cannabis illegal again"). It is only a matter of time until they run the state again, and I'd say whether t
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Okay, but in that reality you're morally perfectly fine by just not telling your landlord. Landlords cannot legally visit you in the apartment unless they give you proper notice in advance and they must not keep any keys while the apar
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Or the fact that a big portion of the population is not in favor of legalization. The new law in Germany is controversial, too, and chances are high that the next government (to be elected late 2025, which is most probably shifting towards
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by Longhanks 3y ago
However, bear in mind that consumption is grounds for investigation because of the high probability of illegal acquisition or production.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
I can't think of a law that would allow landlords to enforce that in a rental contract. Renting is heavily regulated in Germany. Consumption is different, but the new law is very specific in what is allowed and what isn't, and an
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Evidence? No other somewhat popular desktop rejects "core desktop ideas" the way gnome does. Both windows and Mac have desktop icons, tray icons, a task bar/dock, minimize and maximize buttons...
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by Longhanks 3y ago
In my experience, most people looking for "just a notebook" don't care about any of those things. They want a low maintenance, high performant (for day-to-day tasks, not gaming) portable computer with a great battery that run
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by Longhanks 3y ago
How did you "accidentally" manage to get this? It isn't even in Arch stable yet? The only distro shipping it right now seems to be KDE neon, whose entire premise is shipping KDE stuff as soon as possible...
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by Longhanks 3y ago
This is always how the iOS ecosystem was marketed and one of the reasons I personally give Apple my money. If the EU is taking that away, I solely blame the EU.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Why do you lead projects if you don't enjoy doing it?
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by Longhanks 3y ago
If I had all the money in the world, I'd also buy the very same car seven times in a row, if it's simply the best car for me. That doesn't mean the car market is not competitive. I'm not arguing that the search engine ma
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by Longhanks 3y ago
> European countries where having a child is not a significant financial burden I'm sorry, but which part of Europe would that be? People cannot afford a house and rents are going up like crazy, energy is expensive, taxes are high..
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Except with drinking, there's at least many adults that can effectively consider the risks of drinking. With smartphone usage, I'd argue that adults are just as bad, if not worse, in judging their own usage. I fail to see how this
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by Longhanks 3y ago
Imagine if Apple or Google were retroactively removing a feature. The shitstorm would be outrageous. Where I'm from, the same discussion appears every two years, when the government tries once more to shutdown FM radio. Luckily, they a
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by Longhanks 3y ago
> You should be delivering the best possible experience for the user based on what their device can do, not the lowest common denominator of some arbitrary set of features. So the exact opposite of PWAs.
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by Longhanks 3y ago
And you really think Apple, selling their devices with the privacy label, would leave the browser market to 100% in google's hands? This would incredibly undermine their marketing strategy. And what makes you think Safari R&D is so

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