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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Oops! My mistakes cheat authors but bring me more revenue. Win-win!"
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Fortunately, those can almost all be ignored almost all the time. Rust will seem fine until you are writing a library and find no way to express what would make the library nicer to use; or you find using some library awkward and error-pron
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yet, still pocket change. It is commendable that EU does not allow miscreants to tie up fines in an endless legal maze.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"If new true friend not protected for explicit private union, break case and try using this."
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Good news, with modern usage, memory leaks are a thing of the fast-receding past. Occasion to investigate core dumps is lately vanishingly rare. (I have spent strictly more time filing compiler bug reports, in recent years, than debugging m
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Official", quote, alludes to very active curation by participants in the standardization process, with example code frequently updated to reflect changing best practice. Recognized best practice changes with both experience and w
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by ncmncm 4y ago
> said to happen in both democrat and republican counties You outed yourself. "democratic- and republican-leaning" would have been correct. An important difference is whether you have any interest at all in the results of inv
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I gave up waiting for the AMD version. Intel must be able to turn the screws down really tight on small shops. I wonder how it is done, exactly.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Can you guess how long it used to take to get the Kentucky results to DC? The end of Clinton's term wasn't until well after (let me check my calendar) Jan. 6. The party requesting a re-count was obliged to say which counties they
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You have already revealed your true colors.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is no constitutional time limit on when election results have to be complete. They have very frequently in the past taken much longer. At the time of their ruling, the SC did not know how the final count would turn out. They did not w
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This is not about choosing. It is about prosecuting. If one side commits more and worse crimes, they should get more prosecutions and stiffer sentences.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Try to explain the difference between "no new projects" and "no programs". Any program I have not written yet would be a new project. Any old project is one where the program has already been written. So you are being di
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Calling people delusional means you have no argument. If my employer announced no new C++ projects, that would mean, at best, a sharp demotion. I would be relegated to maintenance of legacy products. The kind of systems I make would no long
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by ncmncm 4y ago
People on both sides are at fault. That does not imply "equally".
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is one thing for people to advocate a thing, such as "you should fire all your C++ staff and hire us", and another thing for my employer to obey. But that difference does not make advocating it less bad, unless they are obvious
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I like Rust fine. But Rust is not suitable for my work, where C++ is. So, anyone saying "no programs should be written in C++" is saying, exactly, that I should not be able to do my work, and that I should not have employment. Tha
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by ncmncm 4y ago
That would seem to make democracy pretty important, then.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Strictly speaking, the Supreme Court did steal that by forbidding Florida to count any more ballots.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
That does depend on honesty of unobservable USPS activity. So it's not obviously better. Even with USPS honest, people opening the envelopes need policing.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
And so you can see the difference it makes vs non-gerrymandered races. A big, big difference.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
A myth Republican Party operatives clearly believe, as they work to make voting harder.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Good point. But if democracy were not important, would they put so much work into undermining it?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The first step in committing ballot fraud is always accusing the other side of it. We know who was trumpeting that even before the election. And, somehow, it is all said to have happened in counties the accusers controlled.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Buried Lede: comparing sworn deposition to video evidence, "Latham said that she went to her job as a high school teacher and stopped by the election office briefly that afternoon. But the video image shows her arriving at 11:37 a.m. w
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Ancient Architects used to be fringy, but has lately strayed a bit too far to orthodoxy, e.g. courting Younger Dryas bolide-strike denialism. Lots of good new material. https://m.youtube.com/c/AncientArchitects/vid
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by ncmncm 4y ago
If an idea is any good, you generally have to fight tooth and nail to get anybody to listen to it, and put in a hundred times that to get anybody to understand it, and that again to act on it. If you don't directly control how that ha
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Haskell and OCaml both have FFI, and means exposing C function symbols, so can call one another. It is not the same as between C and C++, but it is comparable. But more to the point, it is fully as absurd in the cited context.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
They're thinking "how do we get those C++ businesses to stop hiring C++ coders, and start hiring us Rust coders instead". The original purpose of Rust was to displace C, a laudable goal. But it is failing at that, because C c
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The topic in this subthread is overbearing Rust evangelists and their effects. To the degree that management pays them any attention -- and a CTO parroting their advocacy in tweets (squawks?) certainly counts -- the threat is real. Other co

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