adontz

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   by adontz 3y ago

   Also https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName
2. 62.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   The most popular Russian opposition leader died in prison, a month before president elections.
3. 63.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/repor... OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing Altman has reportedly
4. 64.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   Have you ever wondered what ycombinator.com is in news.yconbinator.com?
5. 65.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   There is no motivation on linked page.
6. 66.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   Because you can have something usable instead of dreams. If you want to have completely independent code eventually, then replace modules one by one, while having a working product. Like Mozilla did with Servo. They had C++ codebase they wa
7. 67.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   What I hate the most is that Outlooks and Teams do not give a damn about what my default browser is and always open Edge.
8. 68.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   I believe we should care about privacy and education of general public, instead of building silos for geeks. One may use NetBSD, but their family members, friends, coworkers, neighbors may not.
9. 69.▲
   by adontz 3y ago

   >> once with one allocator and then again with another allocator? I would: 1. Prohibit concatenating strings with different allocators. Strings with the same allocator can be concatenated. 2. Provide StringBuilder for concatenating an
10. 70.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    Something like this would do https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/Allocator
11. 71.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    By this logic assembler is the best, as the most explicit language. I believe "number of footguns" is a metric people use for C++ exclusively. C++ is a mix of a few generations of a few languages, but most importantly several cult
12. 72.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    I guess it's fair to say that "western standard" is what an average EU judge does to an EU citizen, not King Leopold's ideas.
13. 73.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    I believe that's a different story explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178993
14. 74.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    Developer may place defer close enough, it does not have to be close. RAII is better by this logic, but too "hidden" by Zig standard I guess.
15. 75.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    >> operator overloading means that when you are reading unfamiliar code, you can never be sure what functions might be called. This just means abstraction were abused. Which as I said, they can be. Nevertheless most popular programmin
16. 76.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    All examples are abstractions, so if point is about something else, maybe article needs different examples.
17. 77.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    Basically your argument is that strncat is more readable and easier to understand than std::string::operator+
18. 78.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    As I said, abstractions can be abused. OK, your terminology, hidden function calls can be abused. Does not mean not having them is good.
19. 79.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    I'm confused by "No hidden control flow" To me control flow is "if", "switch", "?:", etc. What article describes are abstractions. Abstractions are not bad. They, just like anything else, can be
20. 80.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    If you mean FTP, then no. One socket is for commands, another is for data. Both bidirectional.
21. 81.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    Speakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too. Native English speakers write "hahaha" or "ha-ha-ha", but speakers of many Slavic languages write "ahahaha" or "a-ha-ha-ha", w
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    by adontz 3y ago

    #5 Моргенштерн Алишер Тагирович Crazy rap performer. #8 Чичваркин Евгений Александрович Businessman, moved to London before FA law was implemented. #59 Новиков Илья Сергеевич Lawyer of Nadezhda Savchenko I am not surprised they are on th
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    by adontz 3y ago

    The way Russian authorities tend to interpret laws may be quite surprising. For example, Russian government insists they conduct Special Military Operation (SMO). It is enough to reference Russo-Ukrainian conflict as War, instead of SMO, ev
24. 84.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    >> The founder & lead developer is Russian and does not accept donations, perhaps noble, perhaps to avoid a financial trail. In modern Russia, if one receives money transfer from any other country, they may receive "Foreign A
25. 85.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    FYI, article and quote are from 2015.
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    by adontz 3y ago

    Actually, this guy lives in Luhansk, active war zone in eastern Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/world/europe/in-bleak-ukr... Perhaps most unusual about the pair is that in a war that has
27. 87.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    OMG, I'm so old I understand this joke. This is sad actually.
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    by adontz 3y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWq6L94ImX8 This is English dubbed Russian video of extending WiFi with proper antenna. There are series of these videos by Kreosan. They improve antennas over time. I believe they achieved r
29. 89.▲
    by adontz 3y ago

    I believe the following is the solution. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app... No?
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    by adontz 3y ago

    Their use of words is quite misleading. Code generation as a process of generating code is orders of magnitude faster, but not the generated code, result of code generation.