smikims

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by smikims 11y ago
That's exactly what I said; however, when you introduce people to C++ that seems rather counter-intuitive and can lead to a lot of mistakes. Yes, you can tell people "Well, you don't understand what the standard says!" b
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by smikims 11y ago
I agree that const is overall a good thing; however, it is tricky even in what you might think are simple cases. Take this for example: include <iostream> void foo(const int& a, int& b) { std::cout <
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by smikims 12y ago
More like the way they think Linus acts. Yes, sometimes Linus has outbursts, and I think it's fair to criticize him for that. But 99% of the time he's listening to ideas from all sides and deferring to other people on the things
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by smikims 12y ago
Apparently I had tried messing with some other environment variables earlier, but this one didn't do it either. It shouldn't be this hard to tell a GPU to slow down when it draws things.
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by smikims 12y ago
That was one of the things I tried and somehow it still didn't do it. Setting it in the individual games' settings didn't to it either. I'll try one more time though.
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by smikims 12y ago
I don't know how it is on Macs (probably worse), but on my Lenovo Y50 I've had a lot of issues getting my nVidia card to work properly. First I tried Arch Linux, which I had been using on my previous machine for about 2 years now,
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by smikims 12y ago
One of Linus's key strengths is that he's good at listening to people and honestly evaluating new ideas based on their merits. Good code goes in, bad code stays out. He's not an ideologue like Jobs or Lucas. He's a pragm
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by smikims 12y ago
You can always opt out though. There's literally a check box you can change if you don't want it anymore. You don't uncheck that box without a lot of communication and deliberation generally, but it's there.
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by smikims 12y ago
The problem with modding, or really leadership roles in general, is that everyone says they want to do it, but very few of the people who say that will actually put in the necessary time, and even if they do, a large percentage of them will
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by smikims 12y ago
>Mod/admin censorship I'll admit that mods aren't always perfect, but they're (for the most part) regular users who are making communities the way they want to. I've very rarely seen people remove posts or ban us