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by copx 3y ago
Just like our power bills - the highest in the world. Electricy has turned into a luxury good here thanks to our focus on "renewables". Germany's energy policy is the worst in the world by any standard. Not only has it lead t
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by copx 4y ago
>Most founders are still men from Ivies or Stanford. That's the key part of the "entrepreneur" story the OP missed. From Gates over Zuckerberg to Musk, all these people were born rich, into well-connected families. If you
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by copx 4y ago
In normal Rimworld raids enemies only attack walls if you do not leave an open path for them. That is why meta players always leave one door open. The AI will brainlessly walk in .. right into your kill box.
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by copx 4y ago
RimWorld raids are actually ridiculously easy to defeat. The problem is that there are two ways to play RimWorld which will lead to very different results there. A.) You do what "makes sense" to a normal human being dealing with a
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by copx 4y ago
Their customers are hypocrites too.
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by copx 4y ago
Yes, unfortunately the "learning" mostly consists of learning cheesy meta tactics like "kill boxes" which I find very immersion-breaking. E.g. kill boxes only work because the enemy AI is ridiculously stupid and seeing
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by copx 4y ago
AFAIK Go was and is primarily used to write back-end server software and this is commonly called "systems programming" (as opposed to application programming) too. It is kinda confusing that the term is used for that and for low-l
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by copx 4y ago
It is not hard to design a language which is a "better C than C" because C has obvious warts, the article mentions a few. But the warts just aren't big enough to justify switching to a different language. That's why no &
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by copx 4y ago
SSDs are produced in China, most things are these days, and the Chinese Communist Party certainly won't start taxing carbon.. So you could only add the tax to SSDs when they are sold in a country where the government supports such taxe
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by copx 4y ago
Bitcoin offers "value" too - in the market economy sense. It allows you to buy illegal products and services on the DarkNet and do so anonymously (if you use one of the Bitcoin "washing" services which make it impossible
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by copx 9y ago
That was just a random example of a phrase. I made it up on the fly.
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by copx 9y ago
No, they don't but I know what you are referring to. Most of the time I get the result: No results found for [phrase] Results for [phrase] (without quotes) ..but the thing is that I know websites containing [phrase] exist. Of
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by copx 9y ago
What annoys me the most is that Google seemingly no longer allows searching for phrases at all. In the past I could search for a specific phrase like this.. "It never rains on a Wednesday in Rockshire" ..and Google would re
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by copx 9y ago
"The market" is only going to "punish" you if.. - The masses actually care - There is an alternative Neither is the case here. Most people couldn't care less about things like ME and AMD and Intel are a oligopoly. I
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by copx 9y ago
How is the pipeline operator better than bog standard method chaining you have in any OO language? let result = "hello" |> doubleSay |> capitalize |> exclaim; vs. result = "hello".doubleSa
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OCaml release 4.06.0(sympa.inria.fr)
8 points by copx 9y ago|2 comments
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by copx 9y ago
Because most people who use Python use it not because of the language itself but because of its library / framework eco-system and PyPy's compatibility with that is limited. Also PyPy offers no performance advantage if all the CPU
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by copx 9y ago
In QBASIC/QuickBASIC the IDE is not file-based. By default it only shows the content of the current sub routine, as opposed to the content of a file. If you want to look at / edit a different subroutine you open the sub routine se
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by copx 9y ago
No, QBASIC could not. QBASIC was a limited, interpreter-only version of QuickBASIC which you got for free with MS-DOS. QuickBASIC was a separate commercial product from Microsoft which did include an AOT native code compiler.
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by copx 9y ago
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/81104943490146304
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by copx 9y ago
>5. I wonder which implementation of Lua they used. Lua can be pretty fast, one of the fastest dynamic languages out there. I looked at the binary trees benchmark and while the Python version used multiprocessing to parallelize the code,
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by copx 9y ago
This could be made massively less ugly and more readable by typedef'ing the function pointer types by the way. Then one could just write: case 13: mv->val.f13 = (F13)func; break; As a C programmer I got to say people in gener
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by copx 9y ago
>I think it’s precisely this level of hubris toward biology and the natural world which has led humanity to the state we are in. You mean this awesome state where most of our children don't die before reaching adulthood? You should
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by copx 9y ago
>My expectation would be that Go and Java should have similar performance in due time. Indeed, both are modern garbage-collected languages supported by major corporations with deep pockets. Google only dedicates a small amount of resourc
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by copx 9y ago
Does anyone know the status of UFCS? I know it's not in C++17, will it be in C++20?
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by copx 9y ago
"Many" is an understatement here. Pretty much every Windows desktop app is written in C++ and Windows runs on over 90% of all desktops. Adobe will never rewrite Photoshop in Rust or whatever. If you thought burying COBOL was hard.
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by copx 9y ago
I have always hated this fashion with passion too. For me it makes UIs less aesthetically pleasing and harder to use. One of the reasons why I still use Windows 7 is that I like its 3D transparent glass-like look and utterly hate the fl
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by copx 9y ago
Your code is still needlessly verbose. Have you ever seen how the ancient Romans wrote Latin? Not only no white space, no interpunctuation either, and everything in uppercase. E.g: http://ratcliffe-college.co.uk/wp-content&#
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by copx 9y ago
It actually is the consensus in the OOP world these days that composition is preferable to inheritance in most cases. Declaring class inheritance to be the defining feature of OOP just because it was fundamental to 1990s Java courses makes
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by copx 9y ago
Well, to me Rust code looks fundamentally like any other OO language e.g. let mut window: PistonWindow = WindowSettings::new( "piston: hello_world", [200, 200] ) .exit_on_esc(true)

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