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by agent327 1y ago
The connection is trivial: you are upsetting an existing power system, temporarily removing all checks and balances. The new power system gets established by the aggressors, and they have absolutely no reason to hold back. At that point, hu
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by agent327 1y ago
Just thinking out loud here, but if the government operated a bank they could apply some common sense to the whole system: * Allow any legal transaction (so if another payment processor refuses you, you have a backup) * Allow an account for
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by agent327 1y ago
There absolutely is a difference between people that die because we, as a species, cannot afford to spend the combined sum of all of our productivity on health care (which means that you will have to tell some people "no", even th
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by agent327 1y ago
It works quite well in China, assuming of course you are not so unlucky as to want to protest on Tienanmen Square. Or have useful organs someone higher up might want to harvest. Or are an Uygur. Or a Tibetan. Or live in a place downstream o
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by agent327 1y ago
Because you fancy a tyrannical dictatorship that will likely kill tens of millions of its own citizens? Do you have no historical knowledge at all? Do you just not know that, every time the "sickle and hammer" are tried, it ends i
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by agent327 1y ago
You seem to think swimming is only useful if you accidentally end up in a giant body of water. In reality swimming skills are damn useful as soon as you end up in any water that goes up to your head, and those bodies of water are everywhere
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by agent327 1y ago
I feel what we need is not this, but rather a cultural change among the corporate consumers of open source. I'm arguing for this at my employer: that we set up a fund to support open source libraries that we rely on for our products, w
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by agent327 1y ago
Oh, don't worry, they'll be monetizing this as soon as you're hooked. Google will show you the AI content... after you've seen this ad. Those data centers don't pay for themselves, you know.
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by agent327 1y ago
I seem to remember that program equivalence is an NP-hard problem. I very much doubt that you can solve it by reducing it to logic gates.
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by agent327 1y ago
That was not the claim. The claim was that assembler was made up out of sequences of OR/AND/XOR, and that claim is demonstrably false.
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by agent327 1y ago
A short look at any compiled code on godbolt will very quickly inform you that pretty much all instructions at the assembly level are, in fact, NOT sequences of AND/OR/XOR operations.
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by agent327 1y ago
Since we are talking about hotel-related scams, I might as well mention getaroom.com and hotelreservations.com. These scum duplicate entire hotel websites (including logos and everything), and will claim to reserve a room, but when you clic
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by agent327 1y ago
How does that compose? If you call somebody else's function, do you just create a superset of all possible errors they can return? What if it is a library that doesn't really specify what errors an individual function can return,
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by agent327 1y ago
Society used to have the wisdom to plant trees for its children to sit under. On the whole I think I like that attitude a lot better than this "apres moi, le deluge" thinking we see so much of now.
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by agent327 1y ago
As a thought experiment, is it realistic to get every tax payer to pay for funny cat videos? Because that will be a reality in your non-capitalist utopia. Or maybe there just won't be any cat videos, because the state has decreed them
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by agent327 1y ago
...for now. But I do wonder how well this statement will age.
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by agent327 1y ago
It's unfortunate that the author hasn't spent some time figuring out how to get a stack trace, that would have saved him from reinventing std::function badly. Also, sad to see people still using new. C++11 was 14 years ago, for cr
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by agent327 1y ago
Sumatra will reload any PDF that changes while you are viewing it (Adobe locks the file, so you can't change it to begin with). This is incredibly useful when you are writing documentation using a document generating system (like docbo
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by agent327 1y ago
I'm confused. Who's name calling? Are you trying to imply stuff about me (and if so, what gave you the idea I don't understand C++?)? Please read this thread, in particular the comments by James20k (who, incidentally, is a C+
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by agent327 1y ago
That would be a breaking change though. Having default zero-init would apply to existing source and convey it's benefits simply by recompiling, without any engineering hours being required.
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by agent327 1y ago
I was not proposing sweeping changes to all the defaults in C++, I was proposing to adopt a single, specific change. That change does not break any existing code, removes pitfalls from the language, and has already been tried by industry an
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by agent327 1y ago
The answer to this is to replace default-init by zero-init. This removes all special cases and all surprise, at a cost that is minimal (demonstrated experimentally by its implementation in things like Windows and Chrome) or even negative. D
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by agent327 2y ago
The US have not become hostile. So far it has made two demands of Europe, and both of them are reasonable: 1. Europe should not rely entirely on the US for its defense (stated by Trump numerous times). 2. Europe should stop its mad self-des
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by agent327 2y ago
More readable? How about this: SELECT DISTINCT authors FROM books WHERE page_count > 1000;
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by agent327 2y ago
So how does this work when I visit the UK with my iPhone. Will it auto-decrypt? Will I be locked out of certain functions?
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by agent327 2y ago
Position-Independent Executables (and ASLR) were used by AmigaOS back in 1985. It had to, since the Amiga lacked an MMU, and had very little memory, so anything that was loaded had to be placed at whatever ram was available. It didn't
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by agent327 2y ago
I don't know how well it works across all languages, but Google Translate has a text to speech option that seems to do a good job for my language. So you don't ask it to translate, just enter the name and the language and click th
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by agent327 2y ago
Is this your general view on all ships carrying fertiliser? Do you know how many people would starve to death if we stopped shipping fertiliser around the world?
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by agent327 2y ago
Where is that $600/month going to come from? Is it going to be printed (i.e. causing inflation) or is it going to come from taxation? Let's try some math: if there are ten people in society, and they all get $600/month, you n
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by agent327 2y ago
The whole point is convincing developers that they are in a 'war' and that making the ultimate sacrifice (i.e. giving up their life just so the delivery date can be made) is acceptable, even heroic. It's a vile way to treat p

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