csb6

5 ms·

31.
by csb6 6mo ago
Ada 83 did have generics - maybe you meant OOP support? That wasn't added until Ada 95.
32.
by csb6 6mo ago
If profit is the measure of utility, then gambling is just as useful: a winning bet makes you a profit or reduces your overall losses (depending on how you view it). But fundamentally you are making a bet that some future dice roll will go
33.
by csb6 6mo ago
The key contradiction is that financial speculation and gambling are a distinction without a difference. Financial speculation is just now more accessible and widespread than ever due to the accessibility and aggressive promotion of gamblin
34.
by csb6 6mo ago
A house can be aesthetically appealing and matched to its surroundings without being leaky or damp. A house that is ugly and out of place can also be leaky and damp (they often are because those architects often are also prioritizing form o
35.
by csb6 6mo ago
> They should be trying to mesh with and improve the neighborhood they are in. They should be rooted in time and place. I take it you are not familiar with FLW's philosophy? He believed buildings should mirror their environment usin
36.
by csb6 7mo ago
There is no evidence Iran has an active nuclear weapons program or has had one since the early 2000s, which even the article's author seems not to know. They have enriched uranium that could be further processed and used to make weap
37.
by csb6 7mo ago
It just doesn't seem that hard to send someone a message stating: "Run foo.exe --bar from command prompt/the terminal"
38.
by csb6 7mo ago
Seems a lot easier to have a --help flag that lists all of the options and their function. That is self-documenting (assuming the descriptions are useful) and helps with discovery. Changing the name of the file to foo--bar.exe doesn't
39.
by csb6 7mo ago
Interpreters for Python, Lua, etc. can be embedded so using them does not require a separate process.
40.
by csb6 7mo ago
I was responding to this comment in the article and wondering about the historical context: > Although, I do not know for sure why the original Wayland authors chose to combine the window manager and Wayland compositor, I assume it was s
41.
by csb6 7mo ago
Yeah, that makes sense. It seems like instead of introducing another IPC protocol like this project does, there could be a compositor that loads different window managers as plugins. Then everything is in the same process and there is no ne
42.
by csb6 7mo ago
> Was it moral or good for the American republic? Again, he is not an elected official so it doesn’t matter. Not sure where you have gotten this idea that morality or "doing the right thing" only applies to elected officials. T
43.
by csb6 7mo ago
Wasn't one of Wayland's key design features combining the window manager and compositor? I am not too familiar with its history but surely there have been presentations or papers about the Wayland designers' reasoning for doi
44.
by csb6 7mo ago
> Who cares anyway today about newspapers and tv Maybe the subscribers of the Post? They (reportedly) left in droves after Bezos interfered to stop the opinion board from endorsing a candidate and more recently fired nearly all internati
45.
by csb6 7mo ago
Not sure if I agree with his conclusion that Dijkstra believed all programming should be done by an "elite corps" of programmers. He believed (rightly or wrongly) that undergraduate students could be taught his mathematical method
46.
by csb6 7mo ago
Destroy civilian areas neighborhood by neighborhood until they comply? That's not only a war crime - that would create an international humanitarian crisis and millions of refugees. Tehran alone is a city of more than 9 million people.
47.
by csb6 7mo ago
Attacking Iran has made the entire region less safe and so far there is no evidence Iran has been deterred. They continue to successfully hit targets with missiles and drones, and they have expanded operations to successfully close the Stra
48.
by csb6 7mo ago
The message to all other states to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible is reinforced by Trump's scrapping of the Iran nuclear deal. Even if you negotiate a treaty with the U.S. agreeing to deescalation, a new leader will likely tea
49.
by csb6 7mo ago
The generic algorithms that come with the C++ standard library are useful. Once you get used to using them you start to see that ad-hoc implementations of many of them get written repeatedly in most code. Since most of the algorithms work o
50.
by csb6 7mo ago
Sad that his (and many others') dream of widespread formal verification of software never came true. He made really fundamental contributions to computer science but will probably be mostly known for quicksort and the quote about his &
51.
by csb6 7mo ago
The blog author says that Jonathan Bowen informed them, so it is possible it hasn't been officially announced.
52.
by csb6 7mo ago
Having a single digital ID that is used for everything makes sense from a technical perspective (less duplication, ambiguity, and need to maintain multiple IDs) but from a privacy perspective it is bad. Effectively everything you do online
53.
by csb6 7mo ago
That is one advantage of C++ - you can use higher level features like generic data types/algorithms, member functions, constructors, destructors, and iterators and still have performant code. You can use object-orientation without havi
54.
by csb6 7mo ago
I think the name was likely a tongue-in-cheek reference to PL/I being notoriously complex to implement a compiler for. Wirth designed a language for teaching that had an extremely small set of features (making its complexity much close
55.
by csb6 8mo ago
Yeah, I work on avionics software where we sometimes need to support old releases with fixes for many years, and this is basically how we do it. Essentially maintaining multiple trunks and only backporting changes needed by customers using
56.
by csb6 8mo ago
It seems people have figured out that sociopathy and self-promotion are rewarded in the current culture and that being a con artist has essentially no consequences anymore. And all of it is done by ambitious people who are p-zombies, lackin
57.
by csb6 8mo ago
One way to view the history of the Republican Party is a power struggle between Wall Street and regional/small business owners. Wall Street understands that the U.S. consumer economy depends on international trade to provide cheap, abu
58.
by csb6 8mo ago
I believe it means Apple's other hardware platforms (phones, tablets, smart TVs, VR headsets, smartwatches)
59.
by csb6 8mo ago
Yes, having built-in generic containers and algorithms is the part that keeps me favoring C++. Bespoke versions of these can always be written in C (and work fine) but C++ makes it much easier and saves time. Lambdas and function objects ar
60.
by csb6 8mo ago
I've never seen another repo with public commit access like that. I guess the project is niche enough that you don't get spammed with bad or malicious commits.

More ›