qalmakka

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by qalmakka 5y ago
That's correct. Also see https://github.com/microsoft/GSL , which is a header-only C++ library that implements the Guidelines Support Library as specified by ISO C++. It's extremely useful (especially to get s
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Sorry but the source is closed sadly, so I can't share it. I would like to write a blog post someday about some of the patterns I've used though, I think they could be useful to someone.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Yesterday I finished a complex library in C++20, which I wrote "Rust style" by following the ISO C++ guidelines. I used 0 `new`, no smart pointers, all by-value returns, move semantics and STL containers. It literally took a mont
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The confusion created by operator overloading is easily solved by tooling. The compiler always knows what a given operator resolves to, and environments like Visual Studio Code with the right plugins can handily highlight what you are actua
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by qalmakka 5y ago
True that. On Linux _at least_ you almost always have a way out of issues, because you can pretty much forcefully change, update or modify everything. Windows has too much "magic" nobody outside of Redmond, WA truly understands, s
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Yeah, EPYC CPUs kicks ass while Xeons cost an arm and a leg, so I really don't understand how Intel could be selling more server CPUs than AMD right now, unless it is due to some OEM shenanigans (like on laptops)
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Thankfully BaconReader still works. It might be ugly, but it's still a thousand times more functional than that Reddit official crap.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP, so it doesn't really count.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I don't even understand why they included PHP in macOS to begin with. Perl? Python? I can understand, they are used by millions of projects and tools. But PHP? I've never seen a single CLI tool written in PHP, except the Phoronix
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by qalmakka 5y ago
It's not about people being selfish, at all. It's about basic human behaviour. People don't like when something is taken from them, while they do not feel the same amount of pain when they are forced give up on something they
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This isn't that weird. People will always prefer avoiding short-term money losses than a danger they perceive as being "in the future". No one will ever win a referendum about levying taxes, no matter how important or just th
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by qalmakka 5y ago
That plan only worked in the US though, and it spectacularly backfired everywhere else, where iMessage is mostly irrelevant. I know a guy that never set up iMessage on his iPhone - when I asked him why he didn't, he just told me he onl
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Because NPAPI was basically a backdoor in the browser which has been abused by malware for a decade, at least. It wasn't safe and it couldn't be upgraded easily. Also this standard refers to add-ons/extensions, and not "
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: in this day and age, comment sections under blog posts and especially YouTube videos tend to turn extremely toxic so fast it doesn't make any sense to keep them open at all. I haven't seen any comment different
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I honestly had issues with audio also on Windows, so I don't think what you are saying is completely true. Even on Windows you play the lottery every time you buy a motherboard or a laptop, and if you lose, you're stuck with a shi
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Also I think it's crucial to clarify that in my experience the vast majority of audio troubles on Linux are due to how buggy and shitty (and ubiquitous) Realtek soundcards are. Those integrated cards are junk, and they are buggy like h
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Pipewire is replacing PulseAudio and I can finally say, it works great. Pulse was a great idea for its time, but it was poorly written and it took 10 years for it to get to a point it didn't make you wish you could avoid using it.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
> 12 million terabytes So 12 Exabytes? ¹ ¹ or 11 Exbibytes
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Wow, that issue is older than OS X itself, which I assume it means it originally referred to Classic Mac OS. It's nice to see it tackled after all this time, AFAIK Mozilla doesn't even support XUL anymore.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
As I've said in my other post, a penal system that focuses on punishment and not on rehabilitation is not positive for a society, because it doesn't actually help reducing the causes behing crime (and thus stop it from happening),
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by qalmakka 5y ago
> The US executed 22 people, Egypt 32, Iran 251, Saudi Arabia 184, China over 1000, and Iraq over 100 in 2019 None of those countries are neither Western nor democracies. All western democracies have been pushed by the influence of the o
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The death penalty is plain hypocrisy, because it strips away any supposed appearance of justice being about re-education and not about plain punishment. It is not also about preventing dangerous individuals from causing harm on other people
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The BSD way of doing things is fine, see FreeBSD and how nice it is to use it (until you start X, at least). The issues are 100% due to Apple's lack of care for developer concerns.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I worked in the academic world for two years. What I saw was that lots of people are under a constant pressure to publish, and quantity is often put above quality. I've seen papers without any sort of value or reason to exist being bru
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Integer narrowing is dangerous and should always be explicit. The fact that it is still implicitly possible at assignment doesn't mean it should be tolerated at type construction - personally I have saved hundreds of hours of bug fixin
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The only difference is that now echo chambers and communication speeds are so fast and far reaching that every kind of lie can spread like wildfire in seconds, with basically no consequence of sort. Now you can close yourself in a bubble wi
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I don't understand why people keep feeling indignation from these kinds of news. Politics have entered the post-truth age wordwide, and thinking that trying to present the facts will amount to any sort of sensible change is either delu
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by qalmakka 5y ago
> a minor cosmetic change (which we can call an "improvement" for the sake of argument, though I think that's also dubious and the syntax is just ugly) that introduces pitfalls in the actual semantics of your program std::
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IMHO, the USA has made the mistake of privatizing too much of its crucial infrastructure, ignoring that certain things are inherently monopolistic in nature and do not benefit at all from being in private hands. Privatizing infrastructure i
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This exactly. One of the biggest reasons why UTF-32 doesn't make sense IMHO is not only its general overhead but the fact it reiterates on the broken concept of `char` == "glyph". That is never correct on Unicode, no matter t

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