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by knorker 2mo ago
Sure, but you could have done that without pimpl, too. At least without defaulted or inlined constructors/destructors/etc.
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by knorker 3mo ago
I read the parent commenter as proposing headroom. Because if it's an exact match, then it doesn't help at all with ABI compat, and arguably doesn't add anything. Well, aside from compile time, but that's maybe better so
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by knorker 3mo ago
Not sure what toolchain has to do with your code retaining ABI compat like size. Nor how dynamic linked library helps. Dynamic linked libraries are exactly the ones that have the most use for pimpl to maintain ABI compat.
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by knorker 3mo ago
Yup, agree that in some cases this fixes it. Indeed, in another comment[1] on this comment branch I said "Not everyone works at Google and builds all binaries from scratch from a monorepo every time". So you're only trying to
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by knorker 3mo ago
I've been thinking about things like that a bit. I see a very useful and safe Rust pattern, and wonder if I can possibly implement it in C++. Mostly the answer is no, because C++ is too powerful. I would love to proved wrong, but every
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by knorker 3mo ago
Not everyone works at Google and builds all binaries from scratch from a monorepo every time. And even then, maybe even Google doesn't rebuild libstdc++ as part of this. GNURadio consistently uses pimpl for blocks, as I understand it m
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by knorker 3mo ago
But if the pimpl size grows too big, you're forced to break ABI? And before it grows too big, it wastes memory. For your use cases it may not matter, and the saved pointer indirection may be more important, but maybe the person who has
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by knorker 3mo ago
pimpl also makes it much easier to make changes without breaking ABI. E.g. shared libraries.
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by knorker 3mo ago
And when thinking of passkeys, remember that Amazon, who presumably have at least one employed engineer, decided in its infinite stupidity to only allow a single security key to be registered. So Amazon did not understand FIDO, but J random
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by knorker 3mo ago
I assume this is another push to force people onto the terrible "new" UI. When they eventually remove the old reddit, they'll lose this 18 year reddit veteran. No way in hell am I using that infinite scroll abomination.
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by knorker 3mo ago
Yup, "just don't do that, then" is better. But I have to point out that NL gov did not round up jews, but the bad outcome arrived anyway, from outside the system. So in the example we're talking about, that was not a sol
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by knorker 3mo ago
Ironic, since LLMs have had problems counting, and so do you in counting paragraphs. I felt your comment was so uninsightfully vapid and arrogant that it's uselessness could not be described briefly. But sure, it does boil down to &quo
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by knorker 3mo ago
Your comment sounds like a politician who has just heard a magic technical incantation that solves everything. I'm sorry, you can't just drop "quantum computer", or "zero knowledge proof", or "flux capacit
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by knorker 3mo ago
Sure, but the poster was not just wrong, but wrong like "peace in our time" wrong. "Adolf? What a charming name" wrong. Amusingly fantastically wrong. NL may have its own issues like you linked to, but more uniquely had
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by knorker 3mo ago
I'm not even saying your conclusion is wrong. But choosing Netherlands about how information control is safe in the hands of the government is a bit of an own goal. Like if I was the boss of a train company I would probably not put up
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by knorker 3mo ago
Funny you use Netherlands as a good example, considering that famously, their existing unusually thorough registry was super helpful for the Nazis rounding up jews later. I don't think it's Godwin's Law when you are so spot o
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by knorker 3mo ago
What's worse about negative leap seconds? The "experienced" time by systems will just look like they froze for a second. Added leap seconds are worse, surely, as time goes backwards.
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by knorker 3mo ago
The explanation may be spelled ITAR.
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by knorker 3mo ago
The difference with this kind of tech, though, is tracking down the operator .
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by knorker 3mo ago
It's not a counter example to give examples of what does exist. And it's not like the BGP daemon is on by default. That'd be dumb. You could equally say that any Ubuntu system has equally many steps to turn on a BGP daemon,
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by knorker 3mo ago
> But Bluetooth is basically a giant blast of security vulnerabilities Yes, but this is exactly the point. And running OpenBSD is not a problem, until you run into a brick wall like this. If you don't need it (and things like it), t
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by knorker 3mo ago
I'd say it's true. They chose to not implement SMP until consumer CPUs surprised them by going multi thread. And obsd has no Bluetooth, right? A pretty big subsystem to drop because security.
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by knorker 3mo ago
What do you mean? Are they valid flaws or not? Would you like it to stop when there's still flaws in the code?
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by knorker 3mo ago
The bitcoin people bought a pardon for their hero, one of the biggest facilitators of drug smuggling in the world, and someone who personally paid money to have people killed. Including explicitly saying to indiscriminately kill whatever un
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by knorker 3mo ago
When it's from an industry consisting 100% of organized crime and negative-sum grifting, it's a lot. I'd read a donation with "from the oil industry" and "from The Organization Of Stealing All Copper from Publi
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by knorker 4mo ago
> You’re still making introversion out to be something that you should work at to compensate or fix Not fix. You just to hold your nose and do anyway, with no expectations if your experience of it ever changing. Compensate? Not the way I
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by knorker 4mo ago
> I still think when you use terms like "take my medicine" it's like you're trying to cure (or treat) a disease. Well, that's on you. Especially since I also added "Or getting exercise" and another clar
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by knorker 4mo ago
> You say this as if introversion is something to be "cured." Not at all what I'm saying. You don't get cured by exercise either. You're never "done" exercising. It's just a thing you do, in order
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by knorker 4mo ago
As a fellow introvert, I would recommend that you see it as taking medication. Or getting exercise. You don't do it because you like it. You do it because if you don't, then you'll be worse off years later.
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by knorker 4mo ago
> I find myself questioning for whom am I leaving a trace for? What kinds of humans or entities? How's your reasoning there? You only want to be nice to people who have earned it? This sounds a bit too close to the "you have to

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