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1. 91.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   That's one of the themes in "Schismatrix": part of mankind turn their back on technology (blamed for disasters like the melting of the ice caps) and stay on Earth, remaining stagnant for centuries. The remainder, not allowed
2. 92.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   Thanks! I've been meaning to read those for a while. I'll start with "Consider Phlebas".
3. 93.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   Hey, thanks for the comment. I totally respect the authors for writing hard sci-fi space opera. It's just that... the bleak hopeless future theme is getting a bit long in the tooth, you know? If I want to feel depressed I can just turn
4. 94.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   Asteroid mining, if it ever happens, won't be done by poor exploited people toiling under the sun with pickaxes. It will be very expensive, and most likely fully automated. Even today Rio Tinto operations are becoming increasingly more
5. 95.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   I liked the hard sci-fi elements in The Expanse, but the idea of people mining asteroids in poor third world-like conditions makes absolutely no sense to me. Or an evil megacorp that murders millions of people with no adequate explanation.
6. 96.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   I wasn't reading it correctly, it does work for characters > 127. For pure ASCII you wouldn't even need t1
7. 97.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   > I personally didn’t know of this bit twiddling hack and am grateful to learn about the approach in Muła’s code Yeah the last line had me scratching my head for a bit. Cool stuff.
8. 98.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   Cool trick, but if I'm reading this correctly the test fails for characters with codes larger than 127
9. 99.▲
   by f00zz 5y ago

   Congratulations on finishing your game, that's a huge accomplishment!
10. 100.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Telegram, Maya, Ableton Live?
11. 101.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    I wonder if Qt developers are that hard to find.
12. 102.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    I just use pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/
13. 103.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Not an expert, but integer overflows getting silently truncated sounds pretty terrible. I understand there are safe arithmetic libraries, but overflow exceptions should have been built right into the VM
14. 104.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Looks interesting, thanks for the recommendation. Another one is "The Toaster Project", about how a guy made (well, sort of) a toaster from scratch: http://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/
15. 105.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Not with that attitude.
16. 106.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    The nice thing about C is that it's so small that you can hold every corner, nook and cranny of the language in your head. There must be less than a dozen people in the world that can say that about C++.
17. 107.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Don't know about kiosks, but QML is quite popular in applications like in-vehicle infotainment systems.
18. 108.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    also, no Electron apps. all I see is upside
19. 109.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    I wish I could say that to my younger self
20. 110.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    The Russians have a few of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BES-5
21. 111.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    I think there were DRAM futures contracts at some point, but looks like the idea never panned out (probably for the reasons you mentioned)
22. 112.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    You should negotiate working remotely and move out of the US, with that kind of income you could live like a king in most of the rest of the planet. I'm not even being snarky
23. 113.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Had similar experiences working at LatAm banks. I thought it was a third world thing.
24. 114.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    The idea in those 1970s proposals was to build power satellites with materials mined on the Moon. I guess this sounded more realistic back when the Apollo landings were still within living memory.
25. 115.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    That idea has been around for a long time: https://space.nss.org/colonies-in-space-chapter-3-power-from...
26. 116.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Valgrind is pretty useful: https://valgrind.org/
27. 117.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    Thanks!
28. 118.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    > There is some, lets call them experimental, C++ libraries for that. Could you provide some links?
29. 119.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    You could just use std::vector<int> there
30. 120.▲
    by f00zz 5y ago

    If that's too simple for you, you may have fun with the strlen implementation in glibc: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=strin...