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by cjensen 3y ago
The C++ equivalent is... it just works. Static variables in a function are initialized exactly once the first time a function is entered per the language definition. This is one of the many great improvements of C++11
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by cjensen 3y ago
I appreciate your kindness towards me. But he wasn't a first famous social engineer. That was extremely old hat by then. People keep claiming he is a notable technologist, but I can't think of how. The Internet and other systems h
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by cjensen 3y ago
Are you asking if I lost money or was inconvenienced when someone stole my personal info? If I steal your medical records, are you only victimized if I share them?
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by cjensen 3y ago
What greedy executives? This was the early days of the Internet and there was tons of competition. And yes, OF COURSE IT WAS MITNIC'S FAULT. Why in 2023 would you even think of blaming the victim.
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by cjensen 3y ago
As one of the people whose credit card number was stolen from Netcom, I would strongly object to this. I'm not here to speak poorly of the dead, but I'm definitely here to judge those who think too highly of him.
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by cjensen 3y ago
A bit of a nitpick: 1080p24 was added in 2008 along with h.264. It was not part of the original spec, so the original HDTV sets could not decode it. Broadcasters sensibly don't send 1080p24 since 1080p60 is "good enough" and
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by cjensen 3y ago
iOS is a supported target in Visual Studio Professional on Windows.
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by cjensen 3y ago
It was still worth reading. Every critic needs something to read and nitpick ;-) Keep at it! Just as every program is a chance to improve programming, every article written is a chance to improve writing. It was well written.
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by cjensen 3y ago
It's not just that the C compiler lacks the information... but the reader of this article also lacks this information. String length tells you the frequency with which nul terminators will be found. Without knowing frequency of occur
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by cjensen 3y ago
The problem is the author of the article is making some huge implicit assumptions that the compiler can't possibly know about. Consider this statement: "However, we know some things about this loop. We know that the only time we b
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by cjensen 3y ago
Worth mentioning that this requires mods which break many in-game devices. The official in-game behavior was not able to be scaled. That's an interesting and legitimate strategy to the scaling problem, but good to know the downsides wi
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by cjensen 3y ago
Yep. This is like saying "who needs building codes because it's more important the owner maintains the roof and paint?" To have something properly function you need both a solid build and maintenance. Doing one well doesn&#x2
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by cjensen 3y ago
Controlled burns are being done already by the government. The government owns most of the forested land. This is about a major expansion of the concept, and includes (1) an insurance scheme so that private landowners can do a burn without
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by cjensen 3y ago
You can't "know" with 100% certainty from a sound, and generally searchers don't give up until they must.
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by cjensen 3y ago
Sorry, let me clarify my fuzziness a bit... You are right that you cannot enter the data yourself, as far as I know. But if your lab or physician uses a system that can let you download the records, they will be stored. So I have access to
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by cjensen 3y ago
The comments from people living in the "Lake Tamarisk Desert Resort" are just mind-boggling. The resort, which is named after an invasive species, is an artificial lake in the middle of the desert. A resident is quoted as saying &
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by cjensen 3y ago
Apple Health tracks the data. It just doesn't provide graphs except for the most common variables. I'm not really sure why no one makes a graphing app that works off HealthKit data
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by cjensen 3y ago
BOMs do not have "positioning" remarks attached to them. Marketing positioning information does not have a BOM attached. This is fake. Or at least altered from the real information.
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by cjensen 3y ago
I very much endorse that book. I only have two small shelves of technical books, but that one makes the cut to be on it.
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by cjensen 3y ago
nullptr has been such a Godsend for C++. Good to see it coming to C. If you ever see the macro NULL in code, be afraid. There are two valid ways of defining the macro and that cause weird issues when porting code. For example, in the statem
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by cjensen 3y ago
An issue in C++ is that it only supports atomic changes to the builtin types. For example, you can only CAS a 64-bit value if your largest integer/pointer type is 64-bits. Good lock free algorithms use double-width instructions like cm
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by cjensen 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by cjensen 3y ago
Fair.
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by cjensen 3y ago
One per person on the planet in a single year? Never preface your talking point with an obviously wrong statistic.
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by cjensen 3y ago
The pressures involved have a bad habit of enlarging any hole when venting.
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by cjensen 3y ago
Sea ports used to broadcast a local correction signal[1] back when GPS was intentionally less accurate. Seems like an oversight that farms don't have their own correctors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differen
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by cjensen 4y ago
The article says that manufacturers are not allowed to list sesame as an ingredient unless it actually is an ingredient. The law says they can't warn about potential sesame contamination. Instead it must either be an actual ingredient
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by cjensen 4y ago
Yep. Love the idea, but the score is pretty wrong. E.g. Fremont. According to the map, there is a large area north of Sacramento for whom "Fremont" refers to an unpopulated place in Yolo County[1] rather than the city of a quarter
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by cjensen 4y ago
Self-delusion is not fraud. It's only a crime when you are not deluded and knowingly lie.
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by cjensen 4y ago
$0.14/kWh in the US? My goodness. It's double that in the Bay Area. There's a reason I invested in solar for my home. Also the map of low-carbon countries looks a lot like a map of where it rains a lot.

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