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by jbb555 11y ago
Are there any other sources of information on "modern C"? I'm thinking particualrly on how to handle memory allocations well and safely, and how to write clean containers and algorithms. It's been a long time since I wro
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by jbb555 11y ago
Excellent article. I'm not sure I agree with all the points, but none of them are stupid or necessarily wrong. It's a very constructive argument. I've been thinking for a while that the problem with C++ is that 100 decisions
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by jbb555 11y ago
I don't know about fitbit so much. The main advantage to me isn't the hardware, it's that it all uploads smoothly to their website for tracking. If I got a different device I'd have one website for steps, one for weight
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by jbb555 11y ago
I thought this looked interesting until I read the page :- "A memory cost, which defines the memory usage, given in kibibytes " Kibibytes? Really? Can't read any more. I'll find something else.
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by jbb555 11y ago
Here is the thing. These people produce something of interest to people at the price of 'free'. If their 'product' was worth anything then they could charge for it, but then of course nobody would pay and they wouldn&#x2
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by jbb555 11y ago
As far as I'm concerned advertisers had their chance but they totally abused their chance turning the internet into an ad-laden hellhole and now I just block everything I possible can. If a site decides it doesn't like this then i
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by jbb555 11y ago
Yeah I was a big fan of Elon Musk, and then he says this. Ugh. Tax never solved anything except letting politicians take your money for their own uses. He's fallen for it.
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by jbb555 11y ago
I eat konjac noodles quite often as a lower carb alternative. They are not as nice as "real" noodles but alright to have sometimes, specially if they are served with highly flavoured food. They are not perfect though, so I'm
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by jbb555 11y ago
It's strange, the more new languages I learn, and the more complexity things like C++ acquire, the more I'm starting to feel like we lost something with simple straightforward languages like pascal and even C
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by jbb555 11y ago
Really, they don't have this in the US yet? Wow...
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by jbb555 11y ago
I don't see how this can possibly work. I'm reasonably well paid, and pay a lot of tax. I can save quite a bit. I could afford to live for 5 years from my savings without working. But not forever, so I still work. But if someone w
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by jbb555 11y ago
Oh an editor! Oh... no. It's just a webpage/javascript thing. Not interesting.
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by jbb555 11y ago
It would look empty, because who would choose to live there?
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by jbb555 11y ago
It's starting to seem to me that none of this is real. That we are unable to see how things really work because we are a part of that thing. I'm not saying that we are in a simulation. But imagine if we were. A simulation that c
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by jbb555 11y ago
Seems to me that linux is self destructing, causes by people who think new is better than working. First systemd pretty much ruined linux, I know so many people who lost interest in promoting or using linux what that was forced on us. Now t
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by jbb555 11y ago
Reaction to this VW thing from everyone everywhere except the press trying to blow up a story... "Does this actually affect the cars in any way?" "No, not at all, it's just some numbers on a report". "So.... ok
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by jbb555 11y ago
I like this, I thought containers were just some stupid fad of the day. But this explains what they are and makes me thinks ahhhh! Of couse they will still be overused and so on :)
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by jbb555 11y ago
Yeah this has made me MUCH more interested in what the article said.
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by jbb555 11y ago
I thought this looked nice until I saw that it's not an email client at all, it's an interface to a backend service. Sure, you can get the backend and run it yourself but who wants to do that. Pity, it looked nice.
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by jbb555 11y ago
Nothing happened to email in the last 10 years, IMAP is fine.
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by jbb555 11y ago
"Lets's force people who have taken steps to avoid adverts to watch adverts for our products against their will. That's bound to make them feel good about it and make them buy our products."
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by jbb555 11y ago
No of course not. The certificate is to prove ownership, nothing more. Criminal activity doesn't alter that. There are other laws to cover that.
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by jbb555 11y ago
What? I've had various UK bank accounts for years and I don't remember every being charged anything at all. Except for a few one off things like same day payments to buy a house, that kind of thing.
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by jbb555 11y ago
Most websites are aweful . My monitor is almost 2000 pixels wide and they insist in packing their whole text into about a 10cm little strip of it. I see so many websites that want me to read about 5 words in a row when there is space for a
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by jbb555 11y ago
What is the purpose of this? It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile? This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem
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by jbb555 11y ago
I find it interesting that people don't realize that decimal notation has exactly the same issues as floating point. You can't store 1/10 of a £ in a binary floating point number exactly so don't use it for money. Well,
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by jbb555 11y ago
I agree a great deal with some of this. I disagree a great deal with other parts.
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by jbb555 11y ago
This is an amazing article that's made a lot of things much clearer for me. To stop thinking of particles as "things" and start thinking of them as certain configurations of a field. Perhaps it makes sense to think of them as
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by jbb555 11y ago
They could? That seems suprising
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by jbb555 11y ago
Google now seemed interesting when it was launched... but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. Never seems to display anything useful at all.

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