axilmar

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by axilmar 8y ago
C++ programmer here. I've been tempted to use Rust in my personal projects, but I have yet to find a reason. Even in complicated stuff, I usually write C++ code (not C) that needs few iterations to be without errors. But I have good ex
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The moment a programmer conflates OOP with 'complicated graphs with lots of interdependencies between nodes', it's the moment I stop reading their writings. OOP does not force one write complicated graphs of objects. OOP has
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How about building new better houses for the rich or the richer, and so the old houses would be left for the poorer? Why not deal with the problem by manipulating the supply side of the equation?
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Doesn't it seem to you that the problem is those regulations that can allow the exemptions rather than rent control? I mean, if it wasn't possible to exempt a building from the regulations, there wouldn't be an issue with ren
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Well, here is what I believe brains do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022206 It makes total sense for the brain's job to be minimizing surprise, because minimizing surprise is the best and most basic strategy f
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Exactly the reason why Communism/Socialism fails. In these political/social systems, The Powers That Be are informal and no one can challenge them, leading to all sorts of distortion of the socioeconomic system.
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> It creates a situation in which every individual using the internet violates, or benefits from the violation of, civil law every day. That's the problem of the internet, not of intellectual property. And it would be easily solved
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I wholeheartedly and completely disagree with the article. I believe that copyright should be eternal and one should be able to profit from their works for as long as their works are found desirable by other people. There is nothing to be g
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Get a circle of people that satisfies your needs. Let most of the bullshit be outside of that circle. People do that all the time, and also they do it online. That's why online communities exist. People share their bullshit, thinking i
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A more down-to-earth explanation for the lights could be spherical lightning bolts or spherical clouds or a combination of these two things.
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Yes, absolutely. If one creates a timeless piece of work, then whoever inherits the rights to this should enjoy the benefits as well.
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> Just because something could provide access to copyrighted material via illegal means doesn't mean it should be stopped or blocked. And your justification for that is? you failed to give one. The possibility of links being changed
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> I'm assuming this was sarcasm. Unfortunately for you, I am deadly serious. > If a [farmer|musician] stops working, there is no reason he should get paid. There is no such thing as 'stops working'. There is a thing ca
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In my humble opinion, this guy deserved what happened to him, which was justified in its entirety. He was an enabler of technologies that allowed sharing of information for enjoying content without permission from authors of said content. A
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Nothing of value was lost. None of what this WM offers seems to be really useful.
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The technical solution is easy and it is the same solution as when we make bank transactions online: one time pin codes. If another company wants you to send payments to another bank account, then you mail back the received pin code to that
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I don't buy that at all as well. They could have made the console a bit bigger, and a bit more flexible inside. I wasn't asking for the full powerdrift arcade experience, but something that can emulate it to a certain degree.
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64 bytes per scan line X 200 scan lines = 12,800 bytes. 1,000,000 / 12,800 = 78.125 i.e. frame rate = 78 frames per second could be updated with that speed. I am sure 78 frames per second are not really desirable, so the resolution cou
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Our TVs where fine for the resolution of, for example, ZX Spectrum. C64 and Atari and Amstrad CPC graphics looked extremely blockly on our televisions/dedicated monitors (well the Amstrad had such a beast). I had connected all the abov
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I will forever wonder why 8-bit computers of the 80s didn't have more powerful video hardware. It's not that the technology wasn't available, since most arcade machines at the time had a lot more powerful graphics hardware th
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Also, delaying a competitor's trucks to put them out of business...
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So, the wave of light is actually 3d? then if it is 3d, why don't we see the vertical bars in the interference pattern like this ? - - - -.
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If we can't make the analogy between the surface of water and light, then how come the double slit experiment shows us that the interference pattern is due to the wavy nature of light?
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Sorry for asking this in here, but since the double slit experiment is mentioned, I have a question. Is the wave formed by light a 2d wave, like waves on the surface of the water? And if so, then if we turn the slits sideways, why does the
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also, that atrocity named Go...
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Following the population explosion of mosquitoes.
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Wouldn't it be better if the slow RAM we have was replaced more and more by the fast RAM used in caches, before we do anything else?
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This is the original concept of object-oriented programming, i.e. don't ask for information, pass a message instead and let the destination object do its job. Ultimately, this doesn't really work, because it increases coupling. In
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I am on the exact same bandwagon.
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One must first find his/her passion and then quit their job to pursue it. If no passion exists, there is nothing to build on.

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