mmaniac

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by mmaniac 2y ago
Funny... My TCL TV (75C745K) has been nothing but headaches. Extremely buggy and often needs to be rebooted. Great panel but the software stinks.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I wonder whether any other ISAs support something similar. In 32 bit ARM you could get close with variations on a load/store instruction with an offset of 0. LDR R0, [R1] LDR R0, [R1, #-0] LDR R0, [R1, #0]! LDR R0, [R1], #0
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This will be a fascinating port to watch take shape. There are many DC to PS2 ports which show the PS2 unfavourably. But GTA 3 is a game which utilises some of the PS2's strengths like faster vector performance and more RAM. A PS2 to D
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by mmaniac 2y ago
These are stupid rules. The point of the proposal is to invite discussion on the proposed rules. Introducing implicit type conversions that throw to a language which is otherwise strongly typed is an awful idea. Java should take a look at i
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying the distinction - that's worse than I thought. When an expression as simple as bb = b can throw something has definitely gone wrong.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
> In this JEP, nullness markers are explicit: to express a null-restricted or nullable type, the ! or ? symbol must appear in source. In the future, it may be useful, for example, for a programmer to somehow express that every type in a
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Essentially the same as continuation passing style with a choice of continuation to return with.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Exactly.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
What CPU?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Doing the dirty work of someone whose ambitions differ from yours due to coincidentally aligned short term objectives is exactly what makes one a useful idiot. Anarchists wanted the Tsar gone. Didn't work out for them in the long run.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Apart from all these legitimate reasons not to use an ISP router or modem, I find that they just... suck. The signal strength on mine is awful.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Optional types don't fix this. The problem here is not having default (or named) function arguments. With optionals, you still have to pass every arg explicitly. Languages with both of these features like Python don't end up using
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Ah I've got it. Async is a monad and the function is just polymorphic over Monad m. In the sync case m is Identity. Can you point me in the direction of some libraries which offer functions like these?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I only ever use my debit card for cash withdrawals, and I purchase exclusively on my credit card. Why wouldn't I? My direct debit clears the balance every month so I never pay interest, and I enjoy a couple quid of cashback and better
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Would have been nice if the headline was prefaced with "Book Review" as it is once you click through. Then I would have been less disappointed that the article did not answer the question it apparently asked.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Can you give an example of a language which is polymorphic in this way and how that looks?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Incels with kids? Get your narrative straight before you blow a gasket.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The entire tax regime in the UK is outright designed to inhibit class mobility and penalise hard work. The 60% tax trap and other benefit cliffs over 100k are just punishing. At the same time the capitalist class enjoy a cool 20% haircut on
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Why wouldn't you want std::tuple<> to be the same as std::monostate, though? In many languages with a proper unit type such as Haskell and Rust, the zero tuple is the unit type.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Independence achieved at last, for men and women.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Labour's share of the vote hardly changed from 2024 to 2019; fewer people voted Labour in absolute numbers. Labour's electoral prospects improved because of the implosion of the Tories, not anything they did.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Yet GCC will still apparently let you call this function without as much as a warning. This should be one of the easiest mistakes to find statically. Clang at least errors out here. C++ is a mess.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I've already experienced two AI-powered phishing attempts personally in the last few weeks. One was pretty transparent, but the other almost got me. I expect we'll all see a lot more of these soon.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Deconstruction would be using tropes of a genre in a way which challenges their usual narrative function. It's related to subversion, but it also has something to say about the genre's implicit themes in general. Undertale is an R
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The title of this article threw me for a loop. I was expecting a deconstruction in the literary sense. Still, I didn't leave disappointed.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
In the period this report concerns he was a fairly standard "racist libertarian" type. His videos promoted revisionist narratives around the impact of police violence on racial minorities, antisemitic theories regarding the US-Isr
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by mmaniac 2y ago
There is an implicit assumption baked into both of these quotes. Equality and equity are interchangeable because human beings are essentially fungible and will experience the same outcomes given the same opportunities. Inequality of outcome
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by mmaniac 2y ago
A lot of this author's complaints about Rust remind me of similar historical complaints about C++, but amplified. Hijacking and overtaking new projects? C++ and Rust both do that. C++'s compile times were a joke, Rust is even wors
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by mmaniac 2y ago
> In 2018, Tumblr banned porn on its platform after Apple deleted its app from the App Store, which ultimately led to Tumblr’s demise. Sometimes I can still hear his voice...
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The problem described in the article is the opposite of what you say. malloc() is too high level - it hides the allocation size and simply returns a nice neat void*. This leads to implementation hacks like sneaking a capacity field into the

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