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by prewett 5y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't refer to it by name (Pimpl). In C++ it has the advantage that you can change your implementation and retain binary compatibility because the size of your class doesn't change as you add/remove me
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by prewett 5y ago
That's an interesting idea. If I have kids maybe I should tell them "you can play any game you can run on Linux. Here's an Ubuntu CD, helpdesk is at google.com. If you get really stuck tell me what you've tried so far an
843.
by prewett 5y ago
It's Chinese, though, not Japanese, and the Japanese meanings borrowed in the Tang dynasty are no longer modern Chinese. (Common words like "to eat" is 食 in Japanese, but in Chinese now that means "foodstuff" and is
844.
by prewett 5y ago
"ānmóu kējì" https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=...
845.
by prewett 5y ago
These days it's a round plastic handle with a carved rubber bottom that pairs with a spongy red-ink filled bottom. There's a picture and an explanation at [1]. It basically functions the same way as the signature of an authorized
846.
by prewett 5y ago
I think it just enables you to collect damages of $3000/call if you are able to identify the entity robocalling you and you sue them.
847.
by prewett 5y ago
HN is pretty good at identifying trends. I generally read some comment here way before I hear about it somewhere else. Does HN accurately predict where the trend goes? Not necessarily. But if something actually does trend, I will have heard
848.
by prewett 5y ago
/dev/null is always hungry. It's best for it not to indulge: my /dev/null got into /dev/zero once and there was no sleep for that laptop...
849.
by prewett 5y ago
Think of spending $70k in Haiti (for example) as investing in the Society of Haiti, Inc.: what level of the problem would you like to address? Buying food will help people eat right now, but will not solve their long-term problem (unless it
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by prewett 5y ago
I don't think it was speculators thinking the oil price was too high. It was that nobody wanted to take delivery on a contract expiring that day, partly because there wasn't any space at the Oklahoma storage facility to take deliv
851.
by prewett 5y ago
"In 10 years time I will be on the chopping block daily" That's a pretty maximal-fear approach to take. In my 30s I was afraid of lack of steady income, but the idea that you'll be washed up without an income as a softwa
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by prewett 5y ago
I think what happened is that a combobox and dropdown-list merged, because basically the combobox is an editable dropdown list. Qt's QComboBox definitely combines them. Apple does not (NSComboBox is editable, NSPopupButton appears to n
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by prewett 5y ago
Why are you thankful? Do you need accessibility, and if so, what do you use? Inevitably someone complains about lack of accessibility of a custom UI toolkit, which is frustrating, because something that helps 99% of people is still an impro
854.
by prewett 5y ago
There was a company back in around 2014 that had an implementation of iOS libraries for Android that they used in porting games by recompiling. I can't remember the name, and last I checked they did not seem to be in business, but mayb
855.
by prewett 5y ago
That's the part where I stopped reading... That'd be fantastic, I hope it happens. But... Wine's been going for at least 20 years, and the last time I tried, it still had major problems. Unfortunately for Wine, Microsoft keep
856.
by prewett 5y ago
Mow the lawn, water the lawn, tend the flower bed, paint the house (or replace the siding), replace the shingles on the roof after the hailstorm, fix the A/C, replace the refrigerator, etc. Some of the those are more frequent that othe
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by prewett 5y ago
This is anecdotal quantification, but I lived in northern California for a few years and late June would usually be in the 100s or 110s. By August when California catches on fire, it cools down to 90s (when the smoke was blowing our way). B
858.
by prewett 5y ago
Having lived in a fairly rural area of the US, and having parents who live in a different, very rural area of the US, that the rural areas do not have much of a value for education. Particularly the type of Christians who are the 6-day crea
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by prewett 5y ago
Having driven through St. Louis (and Missouri) quite a number of times, I would be not be willing to relocate to the area. Maybe if the job paid really well AND was a really close match to what I wanted to do I might consider it. But for ju
860.
by prewett 5y ago
Well, with low yields, financial viability is the problem. It's already difficult to make a living farming, unless maybe you're in an area with lots of rain or where you can mine groundwater.
861.
by prewett 5y ago
Sounds more like Chinese-English to me, which would suggest that the development was outsourced to Chinese developers. I think a "Trumpy" social-network written by outsource Chinese developers would be the ultimate irony!
862.
by prewett 5y ago
Ph.D.'s are not just bachelor-level. A Ph.D. teaches you the ability to learn to become an expert. A bachelor's teaches you how the field thinks, which is not the same thing. I tried doing research for my Master's, it was (in
863.
by prewett 5y ago
What are the signs, in your opinion? I keep hearing people say that a group of elites wants to be in control. Seems pretty unlikely--elites have better things to do than control people, the control people are lower down, or narcissists like
864.
by prewett 5y ago
> I think a very useful skill in life is being able to read past slogans and actually understand what people are asking for I think a very useful skill in life is accurately communicating what you actually want to say so that the receive
865.
by prewett 5y ago
Then they should say "reform the police" not "defund the police". If you "defund the police", they will cease to exist, since nobody will be paying them. It might or might not be what the "defund" peo
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by prewett 5y ago
Recounting historical realities is sexist? How does one talk about history then, since history is chock-full of inequalities? And might there be some decent, non-sexist reasons why women cooked and men didn't, consistently, over large
867.
by prewett 5y ago
Wow, his graphics card's idle power (83W) takes up as much power as my 2018 15" MBP's maximum usage (the power supply is rated at 87W)!
868.
by prewett 5y ago
Events just get put into a queue, and somewhere in the guts of the application there will be a loop that does: while (stillRunning) { event = getEventOrWait(); // handle event } (In macOS this is done inside [NSAp
869.
by prewett 5y ago
I've been writing some UI widgets, and I bet this is caused by redrawing the widgets every time the mouse moves. I've not used Big Sur so I don't know if this is the case, but if they added highlights on mouseover, the easy w
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by prewett 5y ago
I think the thing with tourist visas is that you can’t work for a local company. (Also you might need to get paid in a non-local bank account.) To work for a local company you need a work visa. In some ways, a standard tourist is still wo

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