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by gary_0 2y ago
They started changing the definitions in C++11 to support move semantics. I don't remember much about C++98, that was decades ago. If that's what the Standard said back then I'll take your word for it, but I wasn't talki
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by gary_0 2y ago
Of course I know about the POD idiom. You and chipdart are misunderstanding me because there's a tension between how the C++ Standard defines things and how C++ gets used in real life. Because strictly speaking, the Standard doesn&#x27
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by gary_0 2y ago
Any similarly of keyword naming between C and C++ is purely coincidental. :P C++ is somewhat unique in that it started out as a few extra features on top of C before gradually splitting off and mutating into a totally separate programming l
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by gary_0 2y ago
Didn't the early versions of Skype, which was coded by like 4 guys, do decentralized end-to-end encrypted messaging like 20 years ago? Before MS bought it and removed all the security at the behest of the government[0], I mean. So two
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by gary_0 2y ago
In other words, C structs and C++ structs are not the same thing (although C++ can usually handle C structs too). C structs are Plain Old Data. C++ structs are "objects" and there are pages and pages of rules in the C++ Standard a
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by gary_0 2y ago
The toad's abode is by the road The frog's abode is boggy That is why the toad seems dry And why the frog is soggy. - Jack Prelutsky
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by gary_0 2y ago
Not specifically "clicks" because phrases like War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War on Christmas predate widespread use of the Internet. For instance: > The term "war on drugs" was popularized by the media shortly aft
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Seawater is rushing under Thwaites Glacier, potentially dire impact on sea level(cnn.com)
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List of Fictional Plants(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gary_0 2y ago
Posting AI generated info-dumps is considered bad netiquette.
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by gary_0 2y ago
The userspace read() and write() syscalls aren't the same thing as read()/write() in file_operations. Presumably the syscalls will be updated to use the new _iter operations. In fact, the syscalls already support f_op->read_ite
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by gary_0 2y ago
I don't own an EV so I don't understand... when I go to a gas station, I just tap my debit card and fill up. The price and running total is shown on a display on the pump. Why don't EV charging stations work that way?
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by gary_0 2y ago
Well, just because he made iPads inspired by Star Trek doesn't mean Steve Jobs wanted war with the Klingons. Although apparently his company wants musical instruments and works of art to be crushed out of existence and replaced with a
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by gary_0 2y ago
No, 4D spacetime is a real thing in physics, which explains things like time dilation and the speed of light. But sci-fi does tend to abuse the term "dimension" for other ideas that are not scientific.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Capacitors and batteries work very differently. Capacitors are made from two conductors separated by a non-conducting dielectric and rely on the behavior of electric fields to charge and discharge. Batteries use the energy from chemical rea
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by gary_0 2y ago
But is the system really working usefully in this case? It seems like the intended purpose of CVEs is to actually identify serious (and less serious) exploits, which requires that someone, somewhere do quite a lot of work figuring that out
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by gary_0 2y ago
CVEs being issued willy-nilly (both inside and outside the kernel community) makes me think of the modern US Patent Office. It's too difficult and expensive to neutrally examine the deluge of incoming candidates (and nobody really want
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by gary_0 2y ago
I'm looking forward to the mass production of next-gen robotics platforms and components; hopefully these companies will get a good product improvement feedback loop going like other manufactured goods (cars, batteries, screens, electr
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by gary_0 2y ago
According to Wikipedia[0] it uses 38.7MW of power, beating Fugaku (29.9MW) to be #1 in the TOP500 for power consumption. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(supercomputer)
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by gary_0 2y ago
People are really missing the point of the sick mom metaphor. When people were acknowledging the problem and the mom was getting treatment, things were better. When the author was pointing out there was a serious problem and people resented
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by gary_0 2y ago
Pretty much. "Have fun, just don't be stupid about it." I have a deep suspicion of proponents of asceticism.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Maybe because kids aren't stupid and they can tell Western society doesn't practice real piety, doesn't respect celibacy, doesn't care about the health of its citizens, and glorifies recklessness over studious caution? Y
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by gary_0 2y ago
Exactly: Firefox doesn't add anything I want (eg. better performance, useful features, more customizability), but it doesn't do some of the bad things Chrome does, so that's why I use it.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I don't use Firefox because it's Firefox, I use it because it's not Chrome.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Note that EASTL (an alternative STL used in game development) does std::string the "Clang way": https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL/blob/master/include/...
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by gary_0 2y ago
What moonchild meant is that higher-level semantics are necessary because directly describing what the hardware is doing won't work because almost every model of CPU does something slightly different. Your argument that the higher-leve
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by gary_0 2y ago
I agree, the real problem with TikTok is social media's unregulated ability to manipulate and surveil people en masse. It's hypocritical to ignore all the other nation-states and corporations that are doing the same kind of thing.
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280080 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051514 for instance. The latter was briefly on page 1 or 2, I think.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I imagine--I dream--that it will be able to run not just the vast majority of games with ease but the vast majority of Windows software, including the Adobe, Autodesk, and MS Office products that many professionals require.
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by gary_0 2y ago
One data point: I'm a Linux user and I prefer GUIs for fiddly things like version control, although in some cases I end up using the terminal anyways because all the GUI options are terrible.

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