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I remember reading about Windows 4.0 in PC/Computing magazine. If you want a glimpse of the excitement surrounding the release, take at look at the the cover story. https://archive.org/details/pc-computing-magazine
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My intuition is that given the literal life or death nature of the enterprise, mushroom pickers should avoid leaning solely on any book, AI produced or not. Mushrooms in different parts of the world look different. There can be subtleties t
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> The study, published in the journal Nutrients, analyzed data from the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which tracked the meals of more than 10,000 adults over a 24-hour period. 12% of Americans ate half the
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I think you want it more specific than a timezone. For example, instead of London, suppose you wanted to meet in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 1st 2030, at 6pm local time. Currently, Glasgow in is timezone Europe/London. However, it is no
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Not just coworkers. If a customer service has really helped me with my issue, I will ask if I can talk to their manager to let them know how much I appreciated their help today. So far everyone sounded pretty happy about that. I tell the ma
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What surprising to me is that sigmoidoscopy shows a benefit but colonoscopy doesn’t. In colonoscopy, the entire colon is examined by using a long flexible tube. In sigmoidoscopy, only the lower portion of the colon is checked, again by usin
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It would be interesting to repeat the study using American Football centers. They spend a significant portion of the game looking back between their legs, and in addition need to be able to judge accurately to hike the ball so the quarterba
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> One thing that makes the vagus nerves so attractive is surgical accessibility in the neck. “It is quite easy to implant some device that will try to stimulate them,” says Dr Benjamin Metcalfe at the University of Bath, who is studying
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A non_null_unique_ptr<T> that is enforced at compile time would be far more valuable for me. That would mean some kind of destructive move where the compiler guarantees that you can not access a moved from object.
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If you want some nice examples of how undefined behavior results in weirdness, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63... An interesting example from there is how the compiler can turn
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Here is a secret trick for finding information about windows internals. Prefix your search with "Raymond Chen" So when I did a search for "Raymond Chen" win32kfull.sys Near the top of the results was https://w
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The standard library may not be the best way to learn C++ for several reasons. 1. The standard library is allowed to do things that you are not allowed to do. Because the standard library goes hand in hand with the compiler, it can take adv
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> Yes, I had failed to see the proper solution: a class generator — so that I didn't have to manually copy code again No, please don't. This is jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If you think abstract base classes can b
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What’s interesting is that all of science rests ultimately on intuition. The laws of logic and reasoning rest on axioms which basically rely on the intuition that they are true.
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Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theater discovered(apnews.com)
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Maybe we should have a Bejerot Syndrome. This is where an “expert” impugns the intellect or morality of the people who disagree with them instead of trying to understand the very real reasons why.
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> Millennials who went to the Cheesecake Factory, especially for special occasions, associate it with good feelings. If the restaurant is where you spent your parents’ anniversary or your own birthday, then it’s going to be tethered to h
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As I have grown older, I have realized more and more that the most important things can't really be measured directly. Yes you can measure some related things that give you some hints about the thing you care about, but they are fragil
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> According to legend, the Aksumite king Ezana (reigned ca. A.D. 325–360) was converted to Christianity by his childhood tutor, Saint Frumentius, a Christian born in Lebanon who became the head of the Ethiopian church and its first bisho
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And there have been order of magnitude improvements before. For example, Visual Basic was an order of magnitude improvement in creating Windows form based applications over programming then using the Windows API.
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> It seems that there is no way to configure the printing of floating point values to automatically maintain exact number of decimal digits needed to accurately represent the value. C++17 has to_ chars/from_chars and c++20 has std::
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Does anybody else get nervous over architectural patterns that exist only/mainly to make unit testing easier? My preference for these type of situations is to try to encapsulate as much logic as I can into pure functions. In addition t
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> there's something really magical about having one ecosystem where you can so seamlessly play with user input, network requests, audio, graphics, It seems that that was the experience Smalltalk was aiming for back in the 1980&#x27
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> Carthage was trying to conquer Rome. They had no choice but to keep fighting. Not really. They could have reached a negotiated settlement. Both the first and second Punic wars ended in a negotiated settlement (of course very much in fa
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As a heuristic, any study, that is not a large, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study that is featured in main stream media, especially if it is not a human study, is more likely to be wrong than a study that is not featured in
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I wonder if there is some recency bias in how AI is viewed with regards to the letter or recommendation. Sure, recently, writing a letter of recommendation is setting time on fire (unless like some others have mentioned, the professor makes
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Another example is pass interference in college football. It is a first down and 15 yards from the line of scrimmage. Thus if you are getting beat on a play, rather than potentially allowing 40 or 50 yards and a touchdown, it is better to b
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Evidence Based Medicine is one of those things that is a good thing, but was pushed so hard by its proponents that it ended up overemphasizing a particular kind of study as the only real way to know things in medicine. Yes, absolutely, medi
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memory_order_consume has been around since C++11, but discouraged. If you want a good overview of what it is supposed to do, https://preshing.com/20140709/the-purpose-of-memory_order_co... goes into more detail with lo
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I think previous experience programming in C++ can be helpful, in picking up Rust faster. For me, in large part, the borrow checker is encoding in the compiler rules that you should be following in C++ anyway. A few hours debugging dangling

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