mmaniac

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by mmaniac 2y ago
If you log into a workstation to do all your work, a Chromebook will suffice.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I'd be interested to see what college graduates have to say about the value of their experience on reflection. My degree is merely a checkbox I can add to my CV. If it weren't something employers look for then I wouldn't have
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The fact is that hardware, operating systems, CPU architectures - all these things are boring. We use computers as tools for doing the interesting tasks. Users only start to care about these things when they start to get in their way. If a
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Much of the stuff which Mac users brag about, like long battery life or efficiency under heavy workloads, is stuff that you can't easily test with a display model. You need to make it your daily driver for a week to get the whole pictu
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Despite many efforts to the contrary, there is no such thing as the C++ killer.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Sounds like someone's mad about having a bullshit job.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Part of being a luddite who doesn't discard perfectly good tech when newer and shinier gadgets come out is that I get surprised hearing about negative trends like this. Really, the power button doesn't work any more?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Hey, they can't do that! Only we can do that!
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by mmaniac 2y ago
In 2007 Microsoft was on top of the console market, which was also a pretty new market for Microsoft in general. It doesn't factor into their argument much. In any case, the article is definitely hyperbolic. The overall statement that
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Prefixing the filename with ._ is Finder convention whenever you copy metadata to a filesystem which doesn't support resource forks, like FAT32
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Rust doesn't have constructors. By convention, a static method called new returns a struct - no magic.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Voter turnout is also estimated to be much lower than the past few elections. Even Labour has shrunk, everyone else is just shrinking faster.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
It's funny to observe that this election is somehow a crushing defeat for the incumbent Tory party and also means absolutely nothing for political change. Since ousting Corbyn, Labour have become hard to differentiate from the Conserva
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The compiler doesn't have enough information yet to pick an overload when instantiating the transform template. transform takes any F as the function parameter, which isn't specific enough to pick a specific function pointer from
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by mmaniac 2y ago
> The crux of the problem, where all the examples above share in common, is that C++ does not have a type for overload sets. >There is a recent proposal that aims to address this exact issue: P3312 - Overload Set Types. Painfully comm
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The beauty of Brexit is that voters could project whatever they wanted onto it.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Straight_bananas
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The Conservatives were in power during the Brexit vote and for the next 8 years. Which leftists obstructed Brexit?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The Conservatives are bleeding support to every other party, not just the Lib Dems. Labour's drift to the centre and UKIP/Reform's attacks from the right and over Brexit have an important part to play here.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I expect that the UK will end up rejoining the EU on much worse terms than we had before. Sooner or later it'll happen.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
It's not a surprise to me that computer programs are so widely compared to magic spells, from SICP to SMT, but it remains a cool observation.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Depends on your own sensitivity to latency and slowdown accuracy. A lot of casual players won't notice, but conversely a lot of enthusiasts will.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Would have been nice to find this out before we already filled the environment with this toxic crap.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
TIL Go didn't have iterators until recently.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I don't see why this is being downvoted, it's an accurate description of what happened. The funny thing is, even at the time it was clear that immigration would not decrease as a result of Brexit. Farage repeatedly stressed that i
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Interesting definition of a power grab. Unelected agencies and courts making laws ex nihilo isn't a power grab, but moving power back towards the only directly democratically accountable branch of government and not even the branch whi
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The definition of >>= here is provided by the let statement. Infix operators can be parenthesised like (>>=) to use or define them as prefix functions.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
2008 didn't manage to rid people of that idea.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
https://archive.ph/ZwPWU

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