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by ludocode 6y ago
Exactly. We're supposed to believe Zuckerberg is stuck in a position from which he cannot escape, and that he somehow deserves sympathy? Sorry, but no. He lives in a free country. He could walk away this minute if he wanted to. He coul
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by ludocode 6y ago
Minor nitpick, but inline and weak are not the same thing. Weak linkage is a property that is resolved by the dynamic linker (at runtime startup); inline linkage is a property that is resolved by the static linker (at compile-time linking.)
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by ludocode 6y ago
I mostly agree with you. An important qualifier is that these libraries are meant for games, especially games that package their own font files, and especially games that are on locked-down platforms like consoles and mobile phones. On cons
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by ludocode 6y ago
I'm guessing that's an AMD GPU thing and not a Wayland thing. I run a triple-monitor setup with an AMD GPU on X.org and I have a similar problem: every once in a while when I boot my PC one of the monitors just doesn't come t
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by ludocode 6y ago
This is also true of mobile games. In-app advertising is so lucrative for popular games that it has mostly replaced microtransactions, and yet every ad is for some other mobile game. It makes the whole thing feel like some kind of pyramid s
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by ludocode 6y ago
Google doesn't just use the search term. It also uses your search and browsing history. This is why if you're a programmer, you're more likely to get results from StackOverflow because your search is more likely to be about p
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by ludocode 6y ago
He wrote some code and gave it away freely, and all he wanted was a thank you. You say he should have hired a lawyer to write his own license. This is absurd.
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by ludocode 6y ago
This article from two years ago describes the "75 cent dollar store" as an analogy for MoviePass which is basically the same idea: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...
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by ludocode 6y ago
I don't believe I'm arguing in bad faith. Of course I think this would be wildly inappropriate for C2x, but I am still genuinely curious about this which is why I spent so much time reading it and writing that post. I do actually
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by ludocode 6y ago
Is this a serious proposal for a new C language feature? Or is this just an experiment from someone's masters thesis or something? The paper is titled "Proposal for C2x", but this can't possibly be seriously considered.
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by ludocode 6y ago
I am not the OP of this thread; I suggested no solution. However, if you'll permit me to suggest one, I don't think getting the government involved is a bad idea at all. Google is financially successful not because of their browse
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by ludocode 6y ago
Sure, if you want to make a simple personal web page, it will probably work in other browsers. Meanwhile we have government and banking websites that say "This browser is unsupported" when viewed with any browser other than Chrome
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by ludocode 6y ago
I have an older Roomba from before they did mapping and before they had internet connectivity. I would never buy an appliance that required an internet connection.
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by ludocode 6y ago
Before I bought a robotic vacuum cleaner, I read lots of reviews from people saying it wasn't as good as vacuuming manually. It misses areas, it has a hard time in corners, it takes forever. I bought it anyway. The simple fact is it do
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by ludocode 6y ago
I read the book first and was deeply disappointed in the movie. They could have done so much more. Instead they spent like half an hour on dumb fight scenes which are only a couple pages in the book. I can't enjoy it just because of ho
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by ludocode 6y ago
Indeed. The comments on this article are surprisingly negative. It seems most developers, even on HN, believe you can only pretend to achieve 10X by cutting corners and leaving your coworkers with the mess. My experience has been the opposi
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by ludocode 6y ago
> Besides, if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else. It's their choice. This is not what happens. The vast majority of users don't know or care why something is slow. They'll just say &qu
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by ludocode 6y ago
I also only use private browsing mode, but the login annoyance is not enough to make me use an app. Most apps in fact track like crazy (potentially even third-party apps for sites like HN), and the whole point of private browsing is to not
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by ludocode 6y ago
This is mostly good advice. I don't love configure scripts, I don't agree with the heavy reliance on POSIX if you intend to be compatible with Windows, and I don't love the fact that the author recommends third party data str
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by ludocode 6y ago
It depends what you mean by zero-copy. It can't be traversed without parsing the structure, but strings and binary blobs can be used in-place without copying. (This is also possible with JSON even, for example with RapidJSON's in-
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by ludocode 6y ago
No, they could not monitor all conversations. They could only listen to as many calls as they had agents to listen to them. It was not possible for them to listen to everyone at once, nor could they use this as means of discovery. They had
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by ludocode 6y ago
The idea is to use try to use NAT traversal (i.e. STUN or UPnP) to get a direct connection, and otherwise relay (i.e. TURN) with end-to-end encryption. I'm hoping IPv6 will eventually allow direct connections everywhere so nothing need
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by ludocode 6y ago
The exact same thing happened to me. They must be rolling it out gradually because it hasn't happen to my wife yet nor to several of my other contacts.
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by ludocode 6y ago
I'm extremely disappointed about how this Signal PIN rollout has been handled. Signal refused to let me view my received messages until I created a PIN. I filed a bug report about it [1]. I don't know if I was just caught in an A&
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by ludocode 6y ago
There are 149 comments so far in this thread. Absolutely zero of them have suggested socialism. Workers' rights are not socialism. Unions are not socialism. Minimum wage is not socialism.
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by ludocode 6y ago
Interesting example. With board games I avoid the deluxe versions because they're often incompatible with expansions. Power Grid and Settlers of Catan come to mind.
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by ludocode 6y ago
No, Western Digital is the only one that advertised (and continues to advertise!) SMR drives as optimized for RAID. The drives are failing in RAID rebuilds, that's why this is getting press. Seagate and Toshiba are not using SMR in the
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by ludocode 7y ago
Thanks, this looks like it will work.
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by ludocode 7y ago
The inability to detect musl is indeed frustrating. One example of this problem is in detecting C11 thread support. This is a feature of the C library, not the compiler, but it's the compiler that sets C11 feature flags. For threads, y
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by ludocode 7y ago
This is technically correct, except that almost all JSON libraries parse JSON numbers into either 64-bit integer or 64-bit double, so you get those lossy conversions anyway. I've worked on a production app where we had to swap out the

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