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by asveikau 2y ago
> In 1998 a friend and I had a small business of ordering Cheapbytes CD-ROMs from the US and relabeling them and then selling them for much more locally. I ordered a few discs from cheapbytes in the US because it beat downloading ISOs on
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by asveikau 2y ago
One thing I find interesting in the labels of place names here, that I've also found in similarly old Bay Area content: Spanish names written in English where there seems to be confusion between "o" and "a", especia
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by asveikau 2y ago
lpwszThanks. In seriousness, no, that's not what I'm suggesting, and I find it an unusual thing to read from my comment. I'm saying a descriptive name for foo() can give you a hint about what the type is, even if it doesn&#x2
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by asveikau 2y ago
I'll agree that your second example is less readable than the first.. This could be mitigated with the name of foo() being more descriptive. If the return type is particularly wordy, auto could still be appropriate.
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by asveikau 2y ago
There's so much redundancy built into the language if you don't. Imagine: std::shared_ptr<T> p = std::make_shared<T>(); Then replace T with a very long type. And that's not the most verbose example, just
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by asveikau 2y ago
It's still an important piece of the app compatibility story.
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It should have been supported approximately 20 years earlier than that. I was coding against Win32 looong before 2019 and wondering for years why they wouldn't let you. An explanation I heard ~10 years prior is that doing so exposed bu
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by asveikau 2y ago
I share your recommendations of always using PWSTR when using windows apis. > I'm not sure why the non-unicode APIs are still so commonly used I think because the rest of the C world uses char* with utf-8, so that is what people are
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by asveikau 2y ago
I read with showdead on. I feel like people don't get modded for opinions here. Usually if the comments are dead it's because something is perceived as ad hominem, hostile, aggressive, violent, etc. It's usually the tone that
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by asveikau 2y ago
One of the most user visible things they did, though, was make it work better if you didn't have a config file.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Ronald, your comment is flagged and I cannot reply. I think it is possible that you are the one working backwards, i.e. you want to consider your opinions on race to be a fact of nature and you get defensive when I point out that this is
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by asveikau 2y ago
I would argue that there is not an excess of the former. A lot of the so-called techies don't know tech either.
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by asveikau 2y ago
People frequently seem to think that identifying these traits is a permanent thing or a fact of nature, rather than as you say, a statement about the current day (and I would add, an often inaccurate statement based on corner cases like t
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by asveikau 2y ago
Ethnicities and tribes and inclusion therein are ambiguous, and it changes over time. Look at any society and its history. They're not homogeneous. All the historical countries and tribes were multiethnic. One example is Rome. Every re
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by asveikau 2y ago
To understand the "race is a social construct" thing, it's helpful to (1) consider border cases and ambiguities and (2) consider history 1. Breaks down especially with the existence of mixed race people. Did you know that the
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by asveikau 2y ago
It's getting weird that people cite ChatGPT to settle debates. Even on places like HN where supposedly people have a technical background and know they shouldn't blindly trust an LLM as a source of truth. Even with the banners it
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by asveikau 2y ago
If an AI says it, it must be true? This seems like a possible hallucination.
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> The problem with exercise is everything in modern life is set up to discourage it. That sounds like a problem with modern life rather than a problem with exercise.
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by asveikau 2y ago
To me the scariest part of that sentence is that multiple people would subscribe to a misanthropic statement like "no lives matter". We should also object to telegram being called an encrypted app. It is not encrypted by default.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I put recipes in google sheets. I hope that Google gets the ratios right on some killer ragù.
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Judging by some of the list I don't think he's learned the right lessons.
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Just remember that this is the genius who brought Windows 8 and the Windows RT tablet that wouldn't run recompiled Win32 apps.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I think the interfaces we are talking about are not part of upstream Linux. They will bolt on half baked stuff regardless of the interfaces Linux provides.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I find any time I've put lineage on a device, the support lifetime is lower than I expect. In a perfect world, you would be able to bring your old device forward to multiple new major android releases beyond the support lifetime of the
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by asveikau 2y ago
I mean I share the sentiment against low quality food and its effect on health, as probably everybody who eats there is also probably aware of too, but again, this is not the time or the place...
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by asveikau 2y ago
Didn't he go through a phase in the 80s in which he was super into Christianity?
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One meal won't kill them.
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The same is true of Rochester, NY, where Xerox came out of. I went to school there. In the old days the university fed into local employers (Xerox, Kodak), but now it's a college town where the university and its med school hospital is
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by asveikau 2y ago
Explorer (known in MS jargon as "the shell", but I'm avoiding the term because it confuses Unix users) is limited by MAX_PATH characters when it stores absolute paths. Win32 allows you to use paths above MAX_PATH in length wh
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by asveikau 2y ago
connect(2) and these other kernel mode interfaces are definitely the wrong layer. Should be done in user mode. You also want to be able to replace the transport layer with whatever you want. I think an opaque layer that lets you poke at int

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