roel_v

71 ms·

721.
by roel_v 7y ago
Sure, but those people don't want GC either. Not to say that all languages that are not C++ are garbage collected, but the people who complain about manual memory mgmt are not the ones who care about those things.
722.
by roel_v 7y ago
Me too. I've been writing pretty much only C++ for 20 years, and if I'd go back and count, I think I'd have maybe a dozen times where I used new/delete, none of those in the last 10 years. Like all languages that are act
723.
by roel_v 7y ago
Nobody cares what people think they want. In 5 years you'll be able to play AAA games on a $500 pc, pay by minute, and it'll be the only way to play them, and people will. Grudgingly, maybe, but they will. Everything on the server
724.
by roel_v 7y ago
What did you think was going to happen? German bombers flying to New York?
725.
by roel_v 7y ago
There is so much confusion in this thread as to what this is about, I think we should bring out our famously flawed tech analogies. Say the IEEE writes a standard for a networking protocol. It's full of arcane acronyms and technical de
726.
by roel_v 7y ago
I really like my automated curtains, get some benefits from being able to switch some lights on and off (make movement sensors work or not depending on the time the sun goes down/up and whether it's weekend or not, turn on outdoor
727.
by roel_v 7y ago
Well you got me wondering now on what I worked with, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw seems to say DirectDraw was hardware-accelerated too. I guess the point is that there are and have been for a long time
728.
by roel_v 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by '2D graphics package', so it may be a semantics thing here, but DirectDraw was a 2D graphics API on top of DirectX. I only used it a bit and didn't find that for my uses, the added complexit
729.
by roel_v 7y ago
"We are a group of scientists so it won’t be awkward or weird" Story of my life right there
730.
by roel_v 7y ago
My point was that severe, disproportionate punishment is the law-and-order crowd's wet dream (for moral reasons) but not effective policy.
731.
by roel_v 7y ago
"It would stop the practice dead in its tracks," Of course, because executing people when they have the tiniest amount of drugs on them has also worked so well across the world rolls eyes
732.
by roel_v 7y ago
No, the previous version is called ArcGIS 10, current version is called Arc Pro.
733.
by roel_v 7y ago
For those of us in the GIS space, 2.7 will be with us for a long time, as it's the only version that is supported by ArcGIS 10.x series. To say that people aren't rushing to ArcGIS Pro (which support 3.x) is quite an understatemen
734.
by roel_v 8y ago
"Why not work on becoming smart than telling people to eat pills?" Because that has worked about as well as the war on drugs for the past 30 years.
735.
by roel_v 8y ago
As a European who's done the math several times over the last decade, my impression is that Americans in desirable states pay about as much in taxes (when you account for everything) as Western Europeans. For some things the results ar
736.
by roel_v 8y ago
What is a "computer-enhanced podium"? Why would I ever plug a usb stick into a podium?
737.
by roel_v 8y ago
"Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight." Please tell me of one road/route in Germany where you can drive '200 km/h for hours straight". I'll settle for tiny values of '
738.
by roel_v 8y ago
"In the interests of pluralism (not relativism)" Honestly asking as I hadn't seen anyone side-stepping the moral absolutism/relativism question in this way before - where is the line between 'pluralism' and &#x
739.
by roel_v 8y ago
While there are no EU direct taxes, there are redistribution schemes in the EU. I don't know how their magnitude compares to that of American interstate redistribution though.
740.
by roel_v 8y ago
"Guess it’s a bit late to start using a pseudonym" Actually, no. It only takes 2-3 years to disappear from most casual google searches. I know people always say 'the internet is forever' and for some things it might be,
741.
by roel_v 8y ago
What more is there to explain? How is it not immediately obvious that the GP's approach is inferior the the OP's?
742.
by roel_v 8y ago
... what sort? Are talking about the same thing here?
743.
by roel_v 8y ago
How?
744.
by roel_v 8y ago
Too slow, too much hashing, too many copies.
745.
by roel_v 8y ago
Not disagreeing with you, just clarifying: I'm not even complaining so much about the Python 'development' community (i.e., those writing the interpreter and most of the people writing libraries); what irks me is the 'ev
746.
by roel_v 8y ago
Well that's exactly what I preempted and refuted in my second paragraph, and my third paragraph was about how, no, just making mass produced food internalize all their costs won't fix all the marketing and sales issues of 'lo
747.
by roel_v 8y ago
Those costs are tiny, compared to all other costs. 'Local' is not a goal in itself (except for geopolitical reasons, but that's another topic). For fun, try to do the back-of-a-napkin math on how many bananas you can fit in a
748.
by roel_v 8y ago
I have python 2 vs 3 issues if not every day, then at least 3 times a week, because of being stuck with a version of third party software that uses Python 2 (ArcGIS 10 series) for part of my code base. Of course Python apologists are now go
749.
by roel_v 8y ago
"in the middle of the dessert" This was probably a mistake but I love the way it sort of works both ways.
750.
by roel_v 8y ago
I've been trying to read Marcus Aureleus for a few years, but it feels like wading through a swamp and I generally give up after 10 pages. Any recommendations for an annotated version for today's readers?

More ›