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by kjksf 1y ago
I actually used the "virtual function" approach earlier in SumatraPDF. The problem with that is that for every type of callback you need to create a base class and then create a derived function for every unique use. That's a
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by kjksf 1y ago
I've listed several reasons why I decided to write and use this implementation: - better call stacks in crash reports - smaller and faster at runtime - faster compilation because less complicated, less templated code - I unde
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by kjksf 1y ago
I can honestly say that I couldn't write that thing in 100 years. I can't even read it. That's the fundamental problem with C++: I've understood pretty much all Go code I ever looked at. The code like the above is so obt
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by kjksf 1y ago
I don't know fancy C++ so I don't understand your point about perfect forwarding. But I do know the code I write and you're wrong about performance of Func0 and Func1. Those are 2 machine words and all it takes to construct t
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by kjksf 1y ago
Don't worry about being nice, 15 years doing open source develops a thick skin. But you didn't respond: which language should I use? Go didn't exist when I started SumatraPDF. And while I write pretty much everything else in
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by kjksf 1y ago
As opposed to? Today, if I was starting from scratch, I would try zig or odin or maybe even Go. But SumatraPDF started 15 years. There was nothing but C++. And a much different C++ that C++ of today. Plus, while my own code is over 100k lin
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by kjksf 1y ago
One, I didn't know about it. Two, my main objective is extreme simplicity and understandability of the code. I explicitly gave up features of std::function for smaller code that I actually understand. fu2 seems to be "std::functio
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by kjksf 1y ago
It's back up now. Somehow my blog server got overwhelmed and requests started taking tens of seconds. Which is strange because typically it's under 100ms (it's just executing a Go template). It's not a CPU issues so ther
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by kjksf 1y ago
Putting SpaceX under the CEO of Boeing would make SpaceX as bad as Boeing, not Boeing as good as SpaceX. Also, it's still America. Good luck to anyone trying to "force" SpaceX, a private company, to do anything they don'
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by kjksf 1y ago
Maybe people should first understand the context of this. Apparently, here's the data: California is losing its grip on the film industry as Canada, the UK, and Australia outspend the U.S. on production subsidies. LA’s soundstage occup
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by kjksf 1y ago
Both are harming US jobs. VAT is bad for US because a car made in US is 22% more expensive when sold in UK than a car made in UK sold in US. VAT makes it harder for US car company to sell in UK. It reduces number of US jobs making cars. UK
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by kjksf 1y ago
It will reduce the profit margins of Hollywood studios. Maybe reduce the bonuses of their CEO. It'll help thousands of Americans that used to be employed by said studios but were fired not because they couldn't do the job but beca
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by kjksf 1y ago
Is it, though? > Entering the United States illegally is not classified as a civil offense; it is a criminal offense. Under U.S. law, specifically under Title 8 of the U.S. Code, unauthorized entry into the country is considered a misdem
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by kjksf 2y ago
US is still sanctioning Russia, meaning there's zero trade between US and Russia. It's illegal for US people and companies to buy from Russia. That's why there are no tariffs on Russia: there's no trade, there's not
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by kjksf 2y ago
It's not "cast as", it just is rapidly appreciating asset. But yeah, knowing that $100 in bitcoin today might be worth $150 in a year does deter buying non-essential stuff. Why is that a bad thing? Personally, It won't d
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by kjksf 2y ago
Today the most common use is is as a store of value. If you have excess cash, be it $100 or $1 million and keep it in dollars, you'll loose ~8% a year, which is the historical yearly rate of US money printing which is the real inflatio
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by kjksf 2y ago
Real estate has taxes, insurance, repairs, tenants that can trash your place, competition from other real estate, illiquidity, high transaction costs, hurricanes, fires, floods, riots, is impossible to move. Bitcoin has none of those proble
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by kjksf 2y ago
If government spends $100, did that $100 came from taxes or from selling bonds (which you call "debt"). I object to calling it "debt" because you can't tell. And my greater point was that buying a liquid asset is ne
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by kjksf 2y ago
The same argument applies to gold i.e. governments and central banks buying gold is just like a hedge fund making bets while paying off gold retail holders with taxpayer money. This is Status Quo Bias. If you accept that Bitcoin, like gold,
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by kjksf 2y ago
No, because you can create as many liveoneggs-coinz as you want. But I do invest in Bitcoin because you can't. Bitcoin is scarce, your coinz aren't. Do you get it now?
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by kjksf 2y ago
I know that, I've read about tulip mania before. To expand on my previous response: econ 101 teaches us that the price of any non-scarce product will converge to the cost of production plus some small profit margin. Tulip is not a scar
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by kjksf 2y ago
If quantum computing breaks Bitcoin hash then it also breaks any other encryption so I can ssh to your server, login to your bank account, change the code in your github repo. > El Salvador is not recommending Bitcoin and found low inter
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by kjksf 2y ago
Gold is not just legacy. Countries and banks (including central banks) are still buying gold as a hedge against dollar and other currencies. For example, "from November 2022 to April 2024, China reported adding about 314 tons to its re
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by kjksf 2y ago
Up to a (meager) daily / monthly limit. Unless you're Canadian protester and the government freezes your bank account. Unless you're American, like Melania Trump, and the bank decides to kick you out and take away your credit
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by kjksf 2y ago
There are estimated 420 million owners of Bitcoin. The "crypto bros". We don't need governments to "bail us out". The value of Bitcoin rose from $0 to $2 trillion without ownership of large governments (small govern
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by kjksf 2y ago
Ignoring arguments on semantics (the meaning of "strategic"), here's the difference between AAPL or NVDA and Bitcoin. In the long term AAPL and NVDA market cap / stock price will converge to their future financial perfor
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by kjksf 2y ago
I can create (grow) as many tulips as I want. Can you create as many bitcoins as you want?
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by kjksf 2y ago
It is, however, strongly correlated with value. Therefore, if you want to argue that any specific asset is overvalued (or has no value at all), the onus is on you to provide an actual argument and not a lazy slogan. What kind of usefulness
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by kjksf 2y ago
Buying Bitcoin is neutral to spend (or "debt" in your framing). If you "borrow" $100 and "buy" $100 with it, nothing has changed. You didn't spend anything hence you didn't incur any additional debt.
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by kjksf 2y ago
If you don't believe that long-term Bitcoin is going 10x - 100x and becomes, at the very least, a planetary store of value, then of course Strategic Bitcoin Reserve doesn't make any sense. If you do believe that then you understan

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