alkonaut

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871.
by alkonaut 2y ago
No go for net 4.6 which is installed on every currently supported Windows version back to the original Win10 released almost a decade ago. There are still people running Win 7 but I wouldn't worry about that group having a streamlined
872.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Don't forget Avalonia. Looks like it's going to be the sensible WPF version.
873.
by alkonaut 2y ago
If it’s weak, I’d expect a standard distribution to detect it by itself and inform the user. Only revealing itself to a defender who looks for it sounds like it’ll be working as intended in almost all cases.
874.
by alkonaut 2y ago
That insistence isn’t motivated in the post in any way, which makes it a really weird and arbitrary requirement.
875.
by alkonaut 2y ago
But why even use C++ for the front end if it’s going to be .NET? Managed C++ is mostly useful as a shim, not as a platform language. It’s not really an alternative to C# on the .NET runtime but just some C++ extensions for interop with it.
876.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I wonder if any of the 9 characters are checksum (the example math indicates none is), or if the validation scan allows a search without one of the characters e.g AB1?3XYZ in case of sloppy writing. If not, then the system relies on people
877.
by alkonaut 2y ago
While it’s a bit cumbersome, he doesn’t really point out any major flaw with the WinForms/WPF ideas, other than of course requiring two stacks. He says he wants native code and wouldn’t want any C# visible but doesn’t explain why. Fear
878.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Try making a picture of people working in an office with any diffusion model. It looks like the stock photo cover for that mandatory course you hated. Even adding keywords like “everyday” doesn’t help. And a fear it’s going to be worse in a
879.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Agree it does them no service using that name. It’s miles worse than IntelliJ or VS. Even if it became much better in recent years (haven’t used it for over 10) its first 10 years have many of us so many scars we’ll not go near it, and we’l
880.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Good. If there is even a slight suspicion that the best value is team read in 5 or 10 years then CUDA will look a lot less attractive already today.
881.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Because you can cast a pointer to a number and back again. Then you can stuff that value into index [-4] of your array. More or less.
882.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> This website has not received or acted on any government orders to disclose or modify or remove material. Never understood why gag orders don't just say "You can't say you received this order. Oh and by the way if we fin
883.
by alkonaut 2y ago
If you scan the item as you add them to the cart I don’t think it could be adjusted at checkout. For an old fashioned scan-at-checkout it obviously can’t know what the price was when you added it to your cart, so presumably you risk finding
884.
by alkonaut 2y ago
What’s the reason this hasn’t happened everywhere yet in the US when it’s common in (the usual parts of) Europe? Less volatile prices? Cheaper labor that can run around changing the shelf labels? Or something else (inertia)?
885.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> Why would the revision fee not happen with every update? It would. So charge $25 again. So long as they charge what their actual cost is (with a reasonable margin) that's fine. But that's a universe apart from charging 10% of
886.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Which states are that?
887.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I absolutely do NOT want to download/sideload anything from a third party. You are absolutely correct there. Not even from companies I trust (e.g. I wouldn't want to download the Netflix app from Netflix) - I DO want apple to spen
888.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Apples AppStore isn't the shop, it's street where all the shops are. They have decided that no consumer walking this street should know which shops exist or what their prices are. These analogies break down real quick, but the cen
889.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I mean generally, not in this particular case. People who don't make money are often not eligible for e.g. student licenses, nor can they reasonably pay big money for commercial licenses. The hobbyist is a forgotten segment (but I&#x27
890.
by alkonaut 2y ago
one pays orders of magnitude in overhead. It’s a band aid for parts of projects that can’t be written in higher level languages (most C and C++ things) or Rust (few C/C++ things are in this category).
891.
by alkonaut 2y ago
An internal reference could only be cast to a relative memory offset. It’s not a global memory address in disguise like a normal reference. So the same casting rules wouldn't apply.
892.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Or a hobbyist
893.
by alkonaut 2y ago
If I’m tasked with finding a price, the VP or whoever I report to will only find out about the services that have meaningful replies. And if a reply ever insinuated I was too low level to communicate with, that’s the last they’d hear from w
894.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Isn’t the article describing in depth how an experiment showed it possible or did I completely misread it? It even explained the mechanisms behind it?
895.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I have never gotten past the first few pages. Had it ever been a mandatory class in my education, I would be working with something else today.
896.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Free for nonprofits/hobbyists and €500 as soon as you use a piece of software commercially would be very reasonable. But charging the same from someone who doesn’t make a penny as from a company making millions doesn’t make much sense.
897.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Am I necessarily always allowed to convert a reference to a numeric address?
898.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> How do self references work when the struct is moved, given that they're pointers? Are all references necessarily (global) pointers? Couldn't self references be offsets?
899.
by alkonaut 2y ago
For almost any task you can choose something that’s easy to install (maybe a web app!), has lots of features, but is slow. But you can usually opt for something extremely snappy and bare bones. Software is all about tradeoffs but there is
900.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I think I agree with this conclusion. But I work in a Shaw-like enterprise (only the products are more mundane than flooring). What are the hurdles we’d see if we tried it? What processes and practices are we likely using, that would break

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