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by birn559 1y ago
Do they point at python 3? They were committed to backward compatibility long before python3 happened. To me it feels like they have fleshed out key paradigms so that is not a mess anymore. They are not there yet with compile time evaluatio
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by birn559 1y ago
My perception is that C++XY features are wildly used in general. Of course there are some nobody uses, but that's not generally true. So your basic assumption is wrong. We are at C++20 and I wouldn't like to work for a company tha
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by birn559 1y ago
Most of the time, I will prefer standard C++ over a full hand made layer of complexity that needs maintenance.
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by birn559 1y ago
What has that to do with the topic? Warren Buffet made billions without any do knowledge about programming or deeper knowledge about computers.
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by birn559 1y ago
Could you provide sources?
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by birn559 1y ago
Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the link!
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by birn559 1y ago
My understanding is that C++ compilers still add padding by default for performance reasons. CPU will have to spend a few cycles to reorganize data that is not aligned in chunks of 4 bytes.
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by birn559 1y ago
The problem with this is: 1. It's relatively hard to think it through to the point that you see and have the potential benefits in all cases(*). 2. All participants and tools must fully support the solution. It needs a momentum it ne
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by birn559 1y ago
It's a way to exercise power and/or revenge over a man that you feel has offended you. Some people get offended real fast and out of nowhere. I do know people that have been / are currently victim of that. Except it goes far
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by birn559 1y ago
Processing by itself is not a bad thing. Everything is "chemicals" in some sense and what you mean in particular is not bad in general. European bread as of today is highly processed btw.. it's pretty rare to find a bakery th
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by birn559 1y ago
I don't think that's appropriate language for HN. We should strive for high quality content but the very least civilized discussions, ideally without sarcasm or one liners that spirals into low quality posts.
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by birn559 1y ago
Is it really dying? There's only so much growth possible without having it flooded with low effort stuff. They try to instead grow by introducing more topics, but that's limited as well. I personally didn't use it so much (me
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by birn559 1y ago
Very often, things make much more sense than journalists want you to believe.
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by birn559 1y ago
Sounds like cutting the budget will make things worse.
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by birn559 1y ago
It's still quite necessary for everything beyond junior grade code.
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by birn559 1y ago
I am still wondering what the general outcome will be of the new isolationist politics of the US. The world will keep moving on, with the US as a global power and without it. I fear the world will be worse when the US stops being a global p
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by birn559 1y ago
Hate is the wrong word. "Despise" might be a better fit for many. At least in Europe I would think that might be true for the majority of people to some degree. However, that's no reason for bad treatment of an individual.
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by birn559 1y ago
Well, a lot of people voted Trump into power, again. Those people are the problem. However, that's no reason to show animosity against random tourists.
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by birn559 1y ago
Wow, that's a terrible second order effect with very real impact on the quality of publications.
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by birn559 1y ago
It ends up favoring research that may or may not be better than the honestly reviewed alternative, thereby lowering the quality of published papers in journal where reviewers tend to rely on AI.
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by birn559 1y ago
Is that easier to enforce than having AI only trained in a legal way (=obeying licenses / copyright law)?
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by birn559 1y ago
Do people have to pay when they call the police? Do people avoid reporting a crime because it's too costly? So people have to do fundraising because they can't afford the police to investigate a crime that happened to them? That&#
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by birn559 1y ago
It is allowed if a 'reasonable priced' paid alternative is offered.
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by birn559 1y ago
Most HN posts are not protected by EU copyright though. A certain level of intellectual creation is needed for that.
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by birn559 1y ago
Hamas wants to destroy Israel, they are pretty open about it. They are also not really holding back about their antisemitism. The mass murdering on 7th October pretty much demonstrates what Hamas is about in general. They also murdered the
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by birn559 1y ago
Could you elaborate? Because it's an Israeli news organization?
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by birn559 1y ago
Could you provide sources? I would assume 'journalists' are only actively killed if they grab a weapon or conduct similar actions. My understanding of "actively killed" is thy have been the explicit target of an attack a
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by birn559 1y ago
For Israel, the strategic goal has always been to stop the endangering of Israel and their citizen by Iran.
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by birn559 1y ago
Israel has also been sabotaging their program and murdering scientists for the same time. Maybe it's an instance of the prevention paradox? Together with the fact that things sometimes naturally need MUCH more time than anticipated?
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by birn559 1y ago
Look up the demonstrations in Iran within the last ten years and/or since 2022.

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